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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Jane Eyre"”.
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"Reader" in Jane Eyre
… to show the development of feminist power of Jane Eyre, the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, by examining how her reader is addressed in the totality of this novel. The main body of this thesis will follow the four parts of Jane Eyre’s different period of her life: in childhood, …
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Toxic Masculinity and Queerness in "Jane Eyre" and "Emma"
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… published during the fifty-year period from <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) to <em>Dracula</em> (1897). This inquisitiveness foreshadows modern medical sleep science and immerses the reading public in a body of popular literature that subverts the concept of "normal" sleep. My dissertation explores the …
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Jane Eyre as an Independent Cinderella. Parallels between the Fairy Tale and the Novel
… tale Cinderella and Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847). At first, the Cinderella motif is examined in detail and its elements explained. The versions referred to are Cendrillon (1697) by Charles Perrault and Cinderella (1812) by Brothers Grimm. Common themes are then compared between …
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Passionate craftsmanship: the artistry of Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>
… but few contain them to the extent that <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> do, and even fewer employ them as the main vehicle of their structure and theme.</p> <p>For in <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> it is the imagery, symbolism, and the other techniques of poetry—as …
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An invisible main character : divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
… the centrality of divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deepens our understanding of the role of religion in these texts. I also want to build on feminist criticism that notices the ways in which the heroines' faith empowers them and argue that their faith in …
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>JANE EYRE AND HER TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY DESCENDANTS: THE HEROIC FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY</p> <p>by</p> <p>ABIGAIL RUTH HEINIGER</p> <p>May 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Anca Vlasopolos</p> <p>Major: English</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> …
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Texts between Two Cultures: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation in the Arabic Versions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
… of 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 …
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The Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: the interaction of Romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England
… which one is best for interpreting <em>Jane Eyre</em>? The answers vary. Terry Eagleton, for example, declares that "there are indeed Marxist and feminist theories of literature which ... are more valuable" since his hypothesis ts that "literature . . . is vitally engaged with the living …
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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
… 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, respectively. Both authors, as …
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Amongst Books
In Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights the function of books is manifold. Both authors use the recurring motif of books and reading as a tool of characterisation, for the advancement of the plot, or for cohesive device in the narrative structure. In my thesis I will pay special attention to the role of …
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
… life of loneliness. Through looking at <em>Emma, Jane Eyre, </em>and <em>The Turn of the Screw, </em>novels which span the century (their publication dates ranging from 1814-1898), and comparing them to the historical reality of many middle class women at the time, these fears are revealed to be …
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
… In the third chapter, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847) is read as an important intertext. The chapter studies the representation of Bertha, a character often portrayed in cannibalistic terms, in Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and three relatively recent neo-Victorian …
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… empathic readers. Charlotte Brontë's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette, Flora Tristan's memoir from her travels to Peru, Pérégrinations d'une paria, and Toru Dutt's novella, Le journal de Mlle d'Arvers are the focus of this study. Brontë's heroines, Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe, Tristan's champion of …
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Symbol and theme : a study of natural imagery in selected novels of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë
… Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette, and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wild fell Hall, examining each sister's individual use of nature, and its related symbols and images. This thesis will show how the natural world provides the structural …
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The Brontë inheritance : some Brontë progeny
… and Emily Bronte and to Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. These texts and the more fluid "Bronte legend" are examined as hypotext for Heathcliff (Jeffrey Caine), Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights (Lin Haire-Sargeant) and Return to Wuthering Heights (Anna L'Estrange). The modern texts …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… examination of North and South, Hard Times, and Jane Eyre will show how the larger conversation about the cultural shift away from Anglicanism was manifesting itself on the literary page.
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