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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Charlotte Bronte"”.
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Charlotte Bronte and the Victorian Experience of Transcending
… emphasis to stress the "unresolved conflicts" in Charlotte Bronte's work (Reason vs. Imagination, passion vs. duty) and therefore to see her novels as evidence of the Victorian divided self.
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Charlotte Bronte and the uses of creative writing : a study in function and form
This study examines the functions of Bronte's "scribblemania" at each stage of her intellectual and emotional development, as well as the narrative forms, many originating in the exceptional visual qualities of her imagination, which she employed to shape her thoughts into fictional …
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The Art of Charlotte Bronte: A Study of Point of View in Her Fiction
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The Effects of the Evangelical Reformation Movement on Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte as Observed in Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre
… modern audiences often enjoy both authors, why Charlotte Bronte was unimpressed with Jane Austen. The thesis is an examination of the ways in which Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte interact with the Evangelical Reformation within the Anglican Church in their novels Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre, …
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… in works by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Tonna, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot and H. Rider Haggard.</p>
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… 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 Victorian novels' …
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Half-finished streets, Illimitable Horizons and Enclosed Intimacy: the landscapes of Elizabeth Gaskells writing.
… narratives. The major novels, the biography of Charlotte Brontë, and several short stories are used to illustrate the argument, although all her work is underpinned by a belief in the intimate connections between human beings and their environment. Chapter I offers an original landscape …
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The language of painting in nineteenth-century English fiction
… Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Henry James, mapping out their individual grasp and knowledge of pictorial art in their particular circumstances, their experience of the art world, and the extent to which their experience of art is mediated by …
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Texts between Two Cultures: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation in the Arabic Versions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
… two well-known texts of the period, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as case studies. The selection of the two texts emerges from the observation of the parallels between the values and conservatism of nineteenth-century English society and contemporary Arabic society …
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The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
… death, or through both. The writers examined are Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Virginia Woolf. The fourth chapter, devoted exclusively to American fiction written by men, examines works that contrast the territorial imperative, a preeminently American form of the desire to possess, to the …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… the biography of her fellow novelist The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). <br /><br /> In the introduction, I contextualize Gaskell as what modern critics deem “middle class” and provide a brief overview of the class issues that arise in Gaskell studies. In chapter one, I consider the notable …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… the biography of her fellow novelist The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). <br /><br /> In the introduction, I contextualize Gaskell as what modern critics deem “middle class” and provide a brief overview of the class issues that arise in Gaskell studies. In chapter one, I consider the notable …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… constructions of inner life.</p> <p>Using Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Woolf as case studies, my work identifies radical interiority in British novels of different periods—the Gothic underpinnings of the mid-Victorian marriage plot, the psychological verisimilitude of late …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
My thesis explores why beauty became so much more important in nineteenth-century Britain, especially for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected …