Sökning: "The Victorian era"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 21 uppsatser innehållade orden The Victorian era.

  1. 11. Love as Seen in selected poems of  Robert Browning

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Jihad Khalil; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Victorian age; Browning; Love; Victorian Female;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the concept of love in some of Browning`s poems during the Victorian era in which he tried to discuss love from his own perspective. Thus the study explains the concept of love which has been a main theme in some of Browning`s poems.  My study will illustrate using the feminist theory. LÄS MER

  3. 12. "The air smelt queer" : En queerteoretisk närläsning av Sarah Waters Fingersmith

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Litteraturvetenskap

    Författare :Sarah Ingren-Ahlman; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Fingersmith; Sarah Waters; Multisexualitet; Queerteori; Neo-viktorianism; Heteronormativitet; Litterär pornografi; Flerkönat begär;

    Sammanfattning : Fingersmith is a historical novel with a clear, non-heteronormative agenda. It was published in 2002 by Sarah Waters, and it challenges the way the Victorian era viewed and oppressed non-heteronormative sexuality. LÄS MER

  4. 13. "A passionate adaptation of a classic novel" : Jane Eyre: From a politically charged novel, to a passionate love story

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Författare :Therese Kruse; [2016]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, is very appreciated and famous. It has been adapted several times into different media, such as films, musicals and theatres. In this essay I will compare the novel with Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film adaption from 2011. I will compare the characters Jane Eyre and Mr. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Re-Imagining the Victorian Woman: Female Representations in Four Neo-Victorian Novels from 1990 to 2010

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Författare :Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir; [2015]
    Nyckelord :optimism.; nostalgia; authorship; fictional autobiography; Women s writing; Sexuality; Morgan; Starling; Byatt; Waters; Women in fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction; Neo-Victorianism; Neo-Victorian; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Neo-Victorian literature is a subgenre of historical fiction that is set during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 until 1901. There are divergent opinions on the emergence of the genre; however, the time frame established in this dissertation spans from 1990 until the present moment. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Transgression and Tradition : Redefining Gender Roles in Elizabeth Gaskell´s North and South

    Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Anna Algotsson; [2015]
    Nyckelord :North and South; Elizabeth Gaskell; Victorian women; gender norms; transgression; gender spheres;

    Sammanfattning : This essay argues that Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the limiting gender roles of the Victorian era through giving her heroine, Margaret Hale in North and South, both the traditionally female qualities of virtue and selflessness and the traditionally masculine qualities of independence and action. The essay also argues that Gaskell’s heroine balances between the feminine and the masculine world as to not appear “unwomanly”, but rather subtly influencing the readers and calls for changing gender norms. LÄS MER