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Essays 331 - 360
do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...
In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...
The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...
In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...
of literature which, although derived from the centre, must be constituted as peripheral since they do not follow in a direct line...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
in the Gilded Age. In the presentation we will argue that the predominance of the Victorian Culture helped to shape racial relatio...
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...
in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...
In ten pages English melodrama during the Victorian Age is analyzed in terms of message and tone of style in a comparison and cont...
as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...
of Empire" (pp. 19- 20). The second wave of the British Empire expansion and the development of photography coincided, and as a n...
is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...
poor. "This specialisation and - by implication - individualisation of labour was in marked contrast to the rural means of product...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
was a time of free trade. This was a theory of self regulation; this can be seen as an optimistic idea. The invisible hand was t...
original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...
suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...