The Victorian era was a period of dramatic change that brought England to its highest point of development as a world power. However, the inequalities between man and woman were still as they had always been; very severe. It would take women in Britain a longer time to convince society of...
Poignant examples such as Liz’s attempts to fend of Jim and the image of Frau Brechenmacher waiting for inevitable rape, reveal the damage believing in the active male/passive female dichotomy can cause. Examining the contextualization has illuminate...
Famous works of narrative non-fiction, realist fiction, sensation fiction, detective fiction, neo-gothic fiction, sentimental fiction, and melodrama were produced during this era. The era is also known for important works of poetry by the likes of Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, and great ...
few could have predicted the extraordinary changes that would follow. By the end of the Victorian era, Paris would boast some of the most magnificent railway terminals in the world: the Gare du Nord, Gare de l’Est, Gare Saint-Lazare, Gare de Lyon, and others. Each of these stations...
Children can and do love to listen to classical music, read classic literature, learn about the great heroes and events of history, recite beautiful poetry and take joy in exploring nature. I have seen it in my own home. Mason also points out that even if children do not love something ...
As the voice of the Victorian Age, reflecting its thought or feeling or culture, its intellectual quest, its moral endeavor, its passion for social justice, he represents to us the spirit of modern poetry; that is, poetry which comes close to our own life, to the aims, hopes, endeavors ...
This essay establishes the Christian myth within Wilde's three plays, calling attention to the gender politics that he fought against in the Victorian era. Through Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband I will prove the Christological myth that each play adopts and establish ...
as withThe Poetry and Varieties of Berrow’s Worcester Journal for the Year 1828. However, such anthologies were less common in Britain than in the United States. These volumes challenge the alleged ephemerality of newspaper poetry, and exemplify how newspapers were part of the ecology of publishi...
C. Roscoe regretted that Thackeray failed at “the highest distinguishing prerogative of poetry or fiction … the power of delineating the actual interior life and individual character of a living soul.” Marian Evans (as she then was) made a similar objection to Dickens, couched in celebration ...
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