Search for dissertations about: "Victorian fiction"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words Victorian fiction.
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1. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction
Abstract : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. READ MORE
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2. The Victorian Governess Novel
Abstract : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. READ MORE
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3. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Abstract : Abstract This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. READ MORE
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4. Biblical Allusion in Three Charles Dickens Condition-of-England Novels
Abstract : This study investigates how Charles Dickens employs biblical allusion in three Condition-of-England novels: Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57). Drawing on the concepts of dialogism and stratification defined by M. M. Bakhtin and rhetorical situation by Lloyd F. READ MORE
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5. The birthright and the blessing : narrative as exegesis in three of Thackeray's later novels
Abstract : This dissertation argues that the many narrative repetitions and allusions in Thackeray's fiction can be read as comments on and interpretations of each other and of biblical texts. Especially Henry Esmond, The Virginians, and Philip make use of reiterative strategies that have a close affinity with both midrash, classical Jewish narrative exegesis, and Christian typology. READ MORE