Sökning: "Victorian Period"

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  1. 1. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Författare :Maja Loberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. LÄS MER

  3. 2. "For the pleasure of your company" : En adaptionsstudie av TV-serien Raffles

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Författare :Toni M. Nilsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :E. W. Hornung; A. J. Raffles; Philip Mackie; archival studies; adaptation theory; British television; aestheticism; queer theory; E. W. Hornung; A. J. Raffles; Philip Mackie; arkivstudier; adaptionsteori; brittisk television; esteticism; queerteori;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how the aesthetic and queer themes in E. W. Hornung’s Raffles stories have been transmediated in the TV-series Raffles. Hornung’s Raffles stories were not only immensely popular in their time, but were also a reflection of the fin-de-siècle and of the cultural role aestheticism played in the late Victorian society. LÄS MER

  4. 3. ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ Revalued : A Significant and Singular Fairy Tale in Oscar Wilde’s Work

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Quentin CAIZERGUES; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Oscar Wilde; The Fisherman and his Soul; fairy-tales studies; aestheticism; social critique; Victorian studies; Hans Christian Andersen; The Little Mermaid;

    Sammanfattning : The period 1889-1891 has been regarded as crucial in Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) career. Having been somewhat unsuccessful as a writer during the 1880s, and turning to journalism to earn a living, Wilde in this period saw the publication of his dialogues which led to his sole novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (hereafter, Dorian), serialised in 1890 before being republished as a novel in 1891. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Outcome of Ultrasound Guided Sclerosis in Treatment of Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa

    Författare :Maimun Abdi Poljarevic; [2021]
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    Sammanfattning : Introduction: Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy (CAT) is a common sports injury that affects a substantial portion of the population. One of the clinical treatments of CAT is ultrasound guided sclerosis (UGS), the efficacy of which is both supported and contested in a numberof previous reports. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gothic Masculinity: An Exploration of Masculinity in The Mysteries of Udolpho and Uncle Silas

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Tobias Norén; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Gothic; Masculinity; Female Gothic; Ann Radcliffe; The Mysteries of Udolpho; Sheridan Le Fanu; Uncle Silas; Sensibility; Fatherhood; Villainy; Fallenness; Fallen Man; Early Gothic; Victorian Gothic; 18th-century; 19th-century; Hegemonic Masculinity; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : By analysing two different Female Gothic novels, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which masculinity is portrayed within the Female Gothic literary tradition, more specifically the Early Gothic and Victorian Gothic due to constraints in scope. The novels chosen, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and Uncle Silas (1864), are in many ways representative and serve as typical Female Gothic narratives but differ in when they were written and how they utilise gothic tropes to discuss and critique the society within which they were written. LÄS MER