Sökning: "The Victorian era"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 21 uppsatser innehållade orden The Victorian era.

  1. 16. Holmes och Watson – Ett Queerläsningsäventyr : En undersökning av maskulinitet och sexualitet i Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Josephine Åström; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Sherlock Holmes; Dr John Watson; masculinity; queer theory; queer reading; manliness; manly unmanly; character; Jørgen Lorentzen Claes Ekenstam; countertype; George L Mosse; homosexual panic; Eve Kososfsky Sedgwick; Judith Butler; focalization;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a queer masculinity reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). The analysis focuses on the dissonances, tensions and queerness that reside within the text itself. LÄS MER

  3. 17. With or Without the "Divine Spark": Animalised Humans and the Human-Animal Divide in Charles Dickens's Novels

    Master-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Katarina Graah-Hagelbäck; [2014]
    Nyckelord :animalisation; continuum; Darwin; Dickens; ecocriticism; hierarchy; human-animal divide;

    Sammanfattning : Animals appear in many guises in Charles Dickens’s novels, as wild animals, domestic animals, animals used in the service of humans, and, not least, as images and symbols. Based on a close reading of all of Dickens’s major novels, this thesis centres on the symbolic use of (both metaphorical and actual) animals in the depiction of human characters, the chief aim being to explore a phenomenon that Dickens frequently resorts to, namely, the animalisation of human characters. LÄS MER

  4. 18. The Fear of the Fall: Degeneration and Social Inequality in the Frame Narrative of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sissel Hanström; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Degeneration; time travel; H.G. Wells; frame narrative; social difference; The Time Machine; Victorian society;

    Sammanfattning : H. G Wells’s novel The Time Machine is a significant work of science fiction that dramatizes the themes of degeneration and social inequality, themes that were very relevant during the Victorian era in relation to the discovery of evolution. LÄS MER

  5. 19. The Leisured Class in 19th Century English Literature: An Examination of the Leisure Habits of the Characters in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Jakob Preston; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Leisure; Leisured Class; Upper Classes; Victorian Era 19th Century Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The Picture of Dorian Gray; Languages and Literatures; Social Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the leisure habits of the English upper classes portrayed in three 19th century novels, to determine whether gender, wealth, and the urban versus rural distinction, influence patterns of leisure participation within the leisured classes. The novels are Pride and Prejudice (1813), by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre (1847), by Charlotte Brontë, and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), by Oscar Wilde. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Att främmandegöra det välkända

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Författare :Liza Greczanik; [2007]
    Nyckelord :svenska; kulturstudier; kulturanalys; textanalys; Emily Brontë; Svindlande Höjder;

    Sammanfattning : Our modern swedish society is charactarized by peoples and cultures from all over the world. In this perspective I believe that young pupils of today need culture studies in school in order to understand themselves and further to recieve knowledge about different cultures, traditions and lifestyles. LÄS MER