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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Angel in the House"”.
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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse
<p>When Virginia Woolf discusses the struggles of women writers in <em>A Room of One’s Own</em> she points out that one of the greatest hindrances to women’s ability to write fiction, besides the criticism they will face, is the fact “that they had no tradition behind them, or one so short and …
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La revolución de la estrella polar. La evolución del ideal de feminidad ante el cambio de la mentalidad española en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX
This study aims to analyse the reformulation of 'The Angel in the House' model and female identity in the Spanish mentality of the second half of the 19th century. With this purpose in mind, it examines the changes in the perception of educational, political, occupational and prívate countermodels …
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"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague
… Frank Norris's Naturalistc text written in 1899, depicts the corruption of a California couple due to influences outside of their control. In positioning Trina McTeague as a woman unable to identify with either of the two major feminine ideologies of the day, the Angel in the House and …
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A Comparative Study of the Societal Norms of Nineteenth Century Women in the Elite Tier of Society with Particular Reference to Sarah Vivian, Lady Charlotte Guest and Amy Dillwyn
The events of the nineteenth century brought societal upheaval to the norms of the social class structure which had existed largely unchanged in Britain for many centuries. Urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution brought the working class together living in proximity, which had not been the …
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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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Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay
<p>This thesis explores under theorized questions of power, sexuality, and gender on the film set by analyzing the role of the Intimacy Coordinator (IC), a recent arrival in that space. A film set has its own culture, built from conventions, rituals, and hierarchies. The work of the IC occurs at …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
Despite being a prolific and well-decorated adapter and screenwriter, the screenplays of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are largely overlooked in adaptation studies. This is likely, in part, because her life and career are characterised by the paradox of being an outsider on the inside: whether that be as a …
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"Nothing New Under the Sun": Woolf and Joyce, the New Woman and the New Man
The answer to the first of the Sphinx's riddles — "which two sisters are born, the first to the second and the second to the first?"&#x2014; is also the title of Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day. The parallactic structure of the riddle is duplicated in the composition of the text …