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Women's Voices: Kate Chopin and Luisa Valenzuela

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

Women in the Church: A Historical Overview

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

Role of Women and Male and Female Relationships in Poetry of Yeats, Hardy, Arnold, and Tennyson

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

The French Lieutenant's Woman, Christianity and Paganism

she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...

19th Century Literary Heroines The Woman in White and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...

Judith Walkowitz's City of Dreadful Delight and Gender History

in other arenas. On the other hand, a womans ponderous role germane to pregnancy, menstruation (considered a time of illness, debi...

Victorian England and the Differences Between Men's and Women's Roles

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

Victorian Age and Changing Women's Roles

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

Psychoanalysis Reading of 'The Lost Titian' by Christina Rossetti

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

Homosexuality and Oscar Wilde

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Male Protagonists in Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice Compared

In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...

Gender Perceptions and Prostitution During the Victorian Age

way that different people were seen. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the...

Gender and the The Victorian Age

In ten pages the gender roles and rules associated with the Victorian Age are considered in an analysis of A Room with a View by E...

Nineteenth Century Victorian England's Fallen Women

In eleven pages this paper discusses how women were marginalized in England's nineteenth century Victorian society. Four sources ...

Victorian Morality and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...

Hard Times and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Industrialism

In eight pages this paper examines how Dickens' critiqued Victorian industrialism in his novel and then evaluates his social contr...

Women in Three Hardy Novels

This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...

Robert Browning's Anti-Victorian Sentiments in Fra Lippo Lippi

In a paper consisting of 9 pages the anti Victorian sentiments that are expressed with great subtlety throughout the poem in terms...

Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Newman and Rousseau: Victorian and Romantic Ideas of Religion

support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

'The Three Strangers' by Thomas Hardy

are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

Victorian Era's Love Poetry

despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...

Technology and Theater of the Victorian Age

In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....