Victorian Gender Roles And Dickens S Image Of Women As Represented In The Female Characters In Great Expectations

Author : Anja Dinter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638785259

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Victorian gender roles and Dickens’s image of women as represented in the female characters in "Great Expectations" by Anja Dinter Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Great Expectations and Hard Times by Charles Dickens, language: English, abstract: Introduction The following work is an analysis of the female characters in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations especially with regard to Victorian gender constructions and Dickens’s image of women. Dickens’s biography and the depiction of very diverse female characters in his novels stimulated the idea of a closer analysis. First of all, a short summary of Great Expectations is provided. Then, the Victorian construction of gender will be discussed. As will be shown, a very strict ideology regarding gender roles existed during the Victorian age. Obviously, Dickens must have been influenced by the ideas of his contemporaries which should then be presented in the novel. Another focus will be on how his relationships to women influenced his image of women and also, consequently, the depiction of his female characters in Great Expectations. Finally the female characters, with reference to Victorian gender roles and Dickens’s image of women, will be analyzed in greater detail. The focus is on four women who I believe to be the most important female characters in the novel and powerful representatives of the author’s image of women and Victorian gender construction.

Author : Anja Dinter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783656208792

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Victorian Gender Roles and Dickens's Image of Women As Represented in the Female Characters in Great Expectations by Anja Dinter Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Great Expectations and Hard Times by Charles Dickens, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction The following work is an analysis of the female characters in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations especially with regard to Victorian gender constructions and Dickens's image of women. Dickens's biography and the depiction of very diverse female characters in his novels stimulated the idea of a closer analysis. First of all, a short summary of Great Expectations is provided. Then, the Victorian construction of gender will be discussed. As will be shown, a very strict ideology regarding gender roles existed during the Victorian age. Obviously, Dickens must have been influenced by the ideas of his contemporaries which should then be presented in the novel. Another focus will be on how his relationships to women influenced his image of women and also, consequently, the depiction of his female characters in Great Expectations. Finally the female characters, with reference to Victorian gender roles and Dickens's image of women, will be analyzed in greater detail. The focus is on four women who I believe to be the most important female characters in the novel and powerful representatives of the author's image of women and Victorian gender construction.

Author : R. Bansal
Publisher : SBPD Publishing House
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Classical Literature & History of English Literature For B.A. (Sem.-5) According to NEP-2020 by R. Bansal Pdf

Contents: 1. Important Concepts In English Literature 2. The Republic (By Plato) 3. Iliad (By Homer) 4. Oedipus Rex (By Sophocles) 5. Shakuntala (By Kalidasa) 6. Chaucer To Renaissance (14th To 16th Century) 7. Neoclassicism And Growth Of Romantic Literature (17th And 18th Century) 8. Flourishing Victorian Era (Romantic Age And 19th Century) 9. Modernist Experimentation (20th Century). Additional Information: The author of this book is R. Bansal.

Author : David Holbrook
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814734834

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Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman by David Holbrook Pdf

Holbrook (English, Cambridge U.) explains how Dickens dealt with the Victorian English problem of merging the ideal and the libidinous woman, by delighting in father-daughter and other non- sexual relationships between genders; and how his dread of sexual intercourse deformed his dealings with all his female characters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anne Isba
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441193278

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Dickens's Women by Anne Isba Pdf

On the bicentenary of his birth, this short account of the emotional life of Charles Dickens examines his relationships with some of the women to whom he was closest. They include the mother who failed to recognise his early promise; the young woman who spurned him before he was famous; the wife he cast aside in middle age; the benefactress for whom he managed a house for 'fallen women'; and the actress, less than half his age, with whom he spent his final years. Each woman casts light on a different aspect of Dickens's personality. But they were united by a common theme: whatever they gave him, it was rarely enough to satisfy Dickens's sense of entitlement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042027152

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Semiotic Encounters by Anonim Pdf

Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies. Commencing with three theoretical contributions, which work towards the creation of frameworks under which intertextuality can be (re)viewed today, the volume then explores textual and visual encounters in a number of case studies. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. by Genette) and (b) the widening of the concept towards visual and digital culture govern the structure of the volume, questions of the transnational and/or postcolonial form a recurrent subtext. The volume’s combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, which predominantly deal with ‘English classics’ and their rewritings, film adaptations and/or rereadings, will mainly attract graduate students and scholars working on contemporary literary theory, visual culture and postcolonial literatures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028425267

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640906338

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Flora Finching: the Only Free Woman in "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar ), course: Dickens' Little Dorrit, language: English, abstract: Dickens' Little Dorrit is known as a novel of physical and metaphorical imprisonment. Almost every character and especially all the main characters, such as Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam, suffer under some kind of inner or/ and outer imprisonment.1 Therefore it is hard to find a truly free female character in Little Dorrit. However, in this paper I will argue that Flora Finching is the only free female character in Little Dorrit, who pursues her own longings and needs regardless of conventions or other people's opinions and is therefore not as imprisoned as everyone else.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123008729

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Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Wynne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134772407

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Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel by Deborah Wynne Pdf

How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing culture' in literary texts.

Author : Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cycles in literature
ISBN : 9780821415146

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Fortune's Wheel by Elizabeth A. Campbell Pdf

This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.

Author : Matthew J. McGuire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106014340902

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The Role of Women in the Novels of Charles Dickens by Matthew J. McGuire Pdf

Author : Lillian Nayder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351944380

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Dickens, Sexuality and Gender by Lillian Nayder Pdf

This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences over the course of his literary career, from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays approach gender issues in Dickens's writing by focusing on a number of topics: his treatment of gender ideals and transgressions; the intersections and displacements among gender, class and race; the ties between gender and the body, and among gender, voice and language; his depiction of the homosocial and the homoerotic; and the relation between gender and the law. The essays provide an introduction to the most recent approaches to Dickens's fiction in addition to those now considered classic, draw on queer theory and also feature a variety of methodologies, ranging across feminist, historicist and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation. The collection represents the best of previously published research by Dickens's scholars and illuminates for students and scholars alike the meaning of gender in such novels as The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friend.

Author : Michael Slater
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804711801

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Dickens and Women by Michael Slater Pdf

This brilliant, classic and scholarly study provides the fullest treatment of a key subject. It is one of the essential works on Dickens's work and life. Dickens's treatment of women is a central aspect of his artistic achievement. Professor Slater examines the novelist's experience of women - as son, brother, lover, husband, and father, and as it affected the deepest emotional currents in his life. His perception of female nature and his conception of women's role in the home and outside it - and the ways in which these found expression in his art - are pivotal topics. Professor Slater has sifted the mass of legends and doubtful traditions about Dickens's private life to present a close examination of his relations with women, and of his views of woman's nature and the womanly ideal.

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015045698811

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Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels by Brenda Ayres Pdf

Given their pedagogical nature, many Victorian novels are highly politicized; their narratives are filtered through the value schemes, social views, and conscious purposes of their authors. Victorian women were largely expected to dedicate themselves to the social and moral betterment of their families. Women were expected to be soft, meek, quiet, modest, submissive, gentle, patient, and spiritual; men were supposed to be aggressive, assertive, resilient, disciplined, and competitive. These expectations were repeatedly endorsed through the conduct books of the period, which encouraged people to adhere to proper behavior. The Victorian era also viewed fiction as a didactic tool and as a means to propagate morality. Thus novels of the period typically present women as subordinate to men and as angels of the home. Women who conform to the social norms are usually rewarded in these fictitious worlds, whereas women who violate society's standards are often penalized. Certainly the novels of Charles Dickens fall into the larger didactic trend of Victorian fiction, and like other works of the period, his novels overtly support the conventional values of Victorian society. Dickens typically uses descriptive detail to register approval or disapproval of certain women, and these women are rewarded or chastized through his plots. But on a less obvious level, Dickens also challenges the prevailing Victorian attitude toward women. A close look at his works shows that patriarchs do not automatically deserve the respect they command from their privileged social positions. Women—however virtuous—are unable to produce moral or social change, and many women succeed outside the constraints of domesticity. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how Dickens' novels ultimately fail to promote the conventional Victorian behavioral ideal for women and discusses how his works subvert the domestic ideology of the nineteenth century.