Sökning: "Victorian"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Victorian.

1. 6. Victorian and Edwardian Travellers and the Mid-Nordic Region : A Study in Geographical Imagology and Tourism

   Författare :Pia Sillanpää; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jämtland; Tröndelag; Scandinavia; British tourists; travel; tourism; hunting; fishing; shooting; History subjects; Historieämnen; Other Germanic languages; Övriga germanska språk;

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3. 7. Portraits of women in selected novels by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster

   Författare :Kerstin Elert; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Forster; E.M.; Woolf; Virginia; Victorianism; Victorian women; female characters; Bloomsbury Group; woman in history; history of woman; woman in literature; mother-daughter relationship; Engelska romaner; historia; 1900-talet; Kvinnor i litteraturen;

   Sammanfattning : Female characters in novels by Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster are studied in their relationships as wives, mothers, daughters and prospective brides. The novels selected are those where the writers are concerned with families dominated by Victorian ideals. LÄS MER

4. 8. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

   Författare :Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

   Sammanfattning : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. LÄS MER

5. 9. Mrs. Humphry Ward : a study in late-Victorian feminine consciousness and creative expression

   Författare :Anne M. Bindslev; Stockholms universitet; []
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7. 10. Defining moments : a cultural biography of Jane Eyre

   Författare :Philip Grey; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; identity; production; representation; regulation; consumption; circuit of culture; discourse; publishing; biography; canonization; adaptation; education; moral panic; criticism; Charlotte Brontë; Victorian literature; National Curriculum; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the ways in which various practices, such as novel-writing, publishing, book-reviewing, reading for pleasure, adaptation and studying English literature, have produced Jane Eyre’s complex cultural profile. The organizing principle of the study is Paul du Gay, Stuart Hall et al’s ‘circuit of culture’, which identifies five key processes or ‘moments’ as being productive of the meanings that a cultural artefact or text comes to possess. LÄS MER