Sökning: "Victorian Era"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 uppsatser innehållade orden Victorian Era.
1. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. LÄS MER
2. Beardsleys Salome : En studie i esteticismen och den viktorianska sexualiteten
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : The collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley would come to define a briefbut significant part of art history, the aesthetic movement. Its adherents subscribed to thetheory of art for art’s sake and believed in beauty over meaning. LÄS MER
3. A Remote Kinship : Using Heart of Darkness to Promote an Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Racist Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in the EFL Classroom
Kandidat-uppsats,Sammanfattning : Heart of Darkness does raise several issues when used in a teaching context. For instance, the novella depicts the Congolese as primitive, animalistic, ignorant, and superstitious. Thus, it perpetuates racist tropes about Africans that unfortunately still exist today. LÄS MER
4. Where is the "New Woman"? A study of women characters in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : Detective stories are a common part of our society today through literature and television, and the most famous detective of all is undoubtedly Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories narrate several mysteries set in the late 19th to mid 20th century, and through the mysteries a large number of men and women are presented. LÄS MER
5. Den primitiva kelten Den rasistiska bilden av den irländska kelten inom den viktorianska antropologin under 1850- och 1860-talen
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : This thesis explores the racist assumptions pertaining to the Irish Celts during the Victorian era as it is expressed within the anthropological thought of the age. These assumptions are explored in The Races of Men (1850) by Robert Knox and in five essays published in the journals of the Anthropological Society of London during the 1860s. LÄS MER
