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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Austen, Jane"”.
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A Comparison of Jane Austen's Early and Late Characterization
… 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 Chapter One, I have shown that throughout the nineteenth century from the time of publication, …
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : the education of Catherine Morland.
This thesis argues for a view of Austen's Northanger Abbey as the story of Catherine Morland, a young woman in search of an education. While Catherine's formal training has been nominal before the novel's beginning, the heroine attains various types of education in a short span of time, thereafter. …
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„Án titils.“ Jöðrun og þöggun í Persuasion eftir Jane Austen
… skáldsöguna Persuasion sem var eitt síðasta verk Jane Austen með hliðsjón af kenningu Edwins Ardener um jöðrun og þöggun kvenna og kenningu Michel Foucaults um alsæi. Bókin fjallar um Anne Elliot 27 ára ógifta barónsdóttir sem er við það að pipra. Eftir að móðir hennar lést tók hún að sér flestar …
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Toxic Masculinity and Queerness in "Jane Eyre" and "Emma"
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"A thorough knowledge of human nature": An application of George Campbell's "Philosophy of Rhetoric" to selected novels of Jane Austen
… Abbey, one of her earliest written novels, Jane Austen withdraws from the narrative to confront readers with an impassioned defense of the novel. Although many readers and critics may gloss over this defense, it is one of the most important passages in all of Austen's works. In it, she …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… depict heroines wrestling with this dilemma. Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot approach their heroines' creation of the Self from vastly different perspectives. Focusing on Emma, Mary Barton, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, this dissertation explores the way the heroines expend their creative …
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Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse
… Edith Wharton, in The Age of Innocence, and Jane Austen, in Emma challenge this ideal picture by creating their respective heroines, May and Emma, to be the exact opposite of it. Though May constantly acts like the ideal woman mentioned earlier, she is actually a very shrewd, intuitive, and …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… of the most notable English 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 …