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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation"”.
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A Comparison of Jane Austen's Early and Late Characterization
… heroine, Elizabeth Bennet in <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>, with a late well-developed heroine, Anne Elliot in <em>Persuasion</em>, in Jane Austen's novels to see if there are any changes in characterization and techniques of characterization and to evaluate these techniques.</p> <p>In …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
Contemporary feminist criticism, which focuses on recovering lost texts by women and rereading women's texts traditionally absorbed in and obscured by the male canon, bears broadening to incorporate insights into the female psyche that come from research in other disciplines. Anthropological …
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Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse
<p>The ideal woman of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the "Angel in the House"-a woman who was sweet, shy, and modest. She lived to please the men in her life. She was also the child-woman who was sheltered from the knowledge of the world because it would be too painful and heavy for …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… women authors, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, explore similar themes of the individual, particularly the young woman, in relation to a hierarchical, patriarchal society, more specifically a crumbling paternalist society. My focus is on three Victorian novels' representations …