Sökning: "Victorian women"
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1. Fängslad skönhet : En ikonografisk/ikonologisk analys av Julia Margaret Camerons fotografi The Rosebud Garden of Girls
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för musik och bild (MB)Sammanfattning : This study aims to analyze the motif of Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph The Rosebud Garden of Girls from 1868 regarding its literary sources, codes and how the women are depicted. The purpose is to find out whether the photograph romanticize or challenge the Victorian conventions. 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. 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
4. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. LÄS MER
5. Stereotypical images of women in Dickens’ Great Expectations and Wood’s East Lynne
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : The purpose of this essay was to analyze the stereotypical images of women in Great Expectation by Charles Dickens and East Lynne by Ellen Wood, using feminist literary criticism as a theoretical perspective. The stereotypical images that were found were Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s sentimental stereotype, virtuous woman, the sensuous woman, and liberated woman; and Ferguson’s woman alone, submissive wife and the bitch. LÄS MER