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19th Century Literature, 2003.
A discussion of various novels from the 19th century, focusing on the role of the main female character in each.
2,555 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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A comparison of the characters in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility", Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" and Fanny Burney's "Evelina". The paper begins by reviewing the literature that preceeded the 19th century and the changes evident in the 19th century. The writer then explores the roles of the main characters of each of the novels, as a part of their society and times.
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"The eighteenth century was a very important time for the development of a new literary form known as the novel. As this literary form progressed, characterizations of femininity changed, reflecting changes in society. Samuel Richardson?s Pamela (1741) is a self-consciously moral antidote to the immoral novels of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood. The full title is: Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded, and the latter part of the title forms the main theme of the novel. Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility in 1811, nearly a half century later, and her female characters reflect a difference in attitude towards sentiment."
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19th Century American Literature, 2002.
Explores Southwestern humor in 19th Century American Literature, using Thomas Bangs Thorpe's "The Big Bear of Arkansas" as an example.
1,731 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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During the period of 1830-1860, a new genre in America literature emerged, called the Southwestern Humor genre. This new form of literature illustrates and discusses issues and themes that are depicted effectively through humor and exaggeration. Southwestern humor is also remarkable in its ability to effectively mirror the social landscape of the Southwestern region of the United States. In the study and analysis of Southwestern Humor genre, important themes that can be found are the social, political and psychological illustrations and portrayals in the story, all of which are reflections of the writer?s perception of his or her society. This paper uses as an example the work of Thomas Bangs Thorpe, entitled, ?The Big Bear of Arkansas.? This short story focuses on Jim Doggett, who earned the title of ?The Big Bear of Arkansas? because of his extraordinary skill in hunting bears. The story tackles the themes of the protagonist?s affinity with nature, the rural and natural life and Arkansas, as well as the conflict between nature and civilization. This paper discusses these three themes in accordance to its social, political and psychological perspectives. The paper also shows that the short story illustrates the social issues of rural life and conflict between civilization and development and nature; the political orientation of Arkansas as a rural society; and the character portrayal of Jim Doggett as an individual who has close affinity with nature.
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"Hunting and planting are both symbols of the social progress that human civilization has undergone for many years. Hunting is a symbol for man?s primitive nature, while planting is equated with progress (as man learned to live a sedentary life). Thus, Thorpe illustrates Arkansas as a place where nature takes control instead of human civilization and wherein hunting and leading a ?primitive life? with nature is still evident through Jim Doggett?s character. Doggett?s failure to plant crops in his place illustrates how progress did not develop in Arkansas. In effect, because of the underdevelopment of urbanism, the state remained one of the ?primitive? regions in America where humans are one with nature."
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Women in 18th and 19th Century American Literature, 2004.
This paper discusses two popular works of American literature illustrating the position of women during the 18th and 19th century, "The Hidden Hand" by E.D.E.N. Southworth (1888) and "The Coquette" by Hannah Foster (1797).
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper relates the way the main characters, Capitola Black, in "The Hidden Hand" by E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Eliza Wharton, in "The Coquette" by Hannah Foster, portray, in diverse ways,the progression of women in American society. The author points out that these literary works depict the struggles and victories of women as they fought their way towards progress and eventual liberation in the society. The paper states that, in Southworth's and Foster?s novels, the role of women progressed by adopting masculine characteristics while maintaining their femininity.
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"Capitola Black, or Cap, in the novel The Hidden Hand is an example of a 19th century-woman who adopts a masculine personality in order to initiate progress in the society. This is a practical decision to make on her part, since she has been aware that opportunities, especially job offers, are limited for women and abundant for men. The development of Cap?s character in the novel is best embodies by a comparative analyses of the characters of Cap, Clara Day, and Mrs. Le Noir, which all embody the kinds of women existing during Southworth?s time. Cap, as mentioned earlier, is illustrated as a feisty woman, working her way up in the economic ladder by disguising herself as a young man: ?? And so because I was a girl there seemed to be nothing but starvation or beggary before me!... I felt bitter against Fate for not making me a boy? Yes, sir, and the only thing that made me feel sorry was to see what a fool I had been not to turn to a boy before, when it was so easy! And from that day forth I was happy and prosperous!? "
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Women in 19th Century Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses the short stories, ?The Yellow Wallpaper? by Charlotte Gilman, ?The Storm" by Kate Chopin, and ?Eveline? by James Joyce, which depict women's lives in the 19th century society.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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The paper describes and analyzes each of these short stories. The author feels that all of the three woman protagonists in the short stories represented women empowerment in their own manner, who achieved liberty to become themselves by going against the norms of the society, and by defying the people and the society that continue to repress them as free women in their respective societies.
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"?The Storm? also is a story that talks about women empowerment through freedom to express repressed love and longing for one?s true love. Calixta, the protagonist in the story, is a hardworking housewife, who experienced her ?life-changing? experience one day, when a storm has occurred in their place. The storm in the story signifies the ?turbulent? events that happened between Calixta and her old love, Alcee, when both experienced freedom for once in their lives and were able to release their love for each other, after they made love during the storm. Calixta?s old lover represents the wrong decisions and regrets that she had made in her life. The fact that both Calixta and Alcee were married when they had committed themselves to make love is a radical expression and defiance to the society?s norms about fidelity and trust to one?s spouse. Instead of looking at Calixta somewhat condemningly after she had committed ?adultery? by making love with a married man like Alcee, what the readers will feel is that their brief encounter with each other, their brief expression of love for each other is justified."
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Women in 19th-century Literature, 2005.
An analysis of the portrayal of women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and William Dean Howells' "Editha".
1,543 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper analyzes literary portrayals of women in the 19th century. It particularly focuses on two contrasting examples in literature: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work, "The Yellow Wallpaper" and William Dean Howells' work, "Editha." It discusses the portrayal and oppression of the women in the novels and discusses how this portrayal was relevant to understanding the lives of women at the time. It also looks how these particular women dealt with their feelings of oppression.
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"The roles of women have changed throughout history, but perhaps never so drastically as during the 19th century. Literature from the times gives good insight as to the lives of women, how they lived and what was expected of them. Popular 19th century literature is full of advice about proper house keeping, the piousness of housework, as well as what a woman's daily duties should be. Women were expected to keep their home clean, bake, provide three meals a day, mend clothing, raise children, and keep up gardens and farms, as well as keeping their homes presentable and pleasant to their husbands. These were only a few of the many duties and tasks assigned to the majority of women in the 19th century. Although it has been shown that the majority of women were very unhappy in this lifestyle, many were powerless to do anything about it. There were however some women writers who wrote about the different situations these women were faced with, in an attempt to bring on change, equality, and equal opportunities in all arenas."
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19th Century Literature, 2007.
An analysis of "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert and how they portray the society at the time they were written.
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This paper analyzes three 19th century works, "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. It analyzes how each work portrays the values of the time. Specifically, the paper discusses how the works portray the protagonists whose personalities are not able to cope with the artificial and shallow values of their society and, as a result, must seek the final escape.
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"Madame Bovary was similarly a misfit in society. Like Hedda, she grows bored with conventional life and seeks a more interesting life. Also, like Hedda, she is torn between two worlds--the one that offers her romance and adventure and the other in a boring and conventional home environment. She wants her affairs to give her a release, but she is afraid of what would happen if Charles finds out the truth. Also, both Hedda and Emma are relegated to having a sexual affair as the only other release available. Such affairs are controlled by men, just as the rest of society. Thus, they are under the same constraints."
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Women in 19th Century Literature, 2002.
A discussion of the depiction of women in Nathaniel Hawthorne?s ?Rapaccini?s Daughter? and "The Scarlet Letter" and Edgar Allen Poe?s ?Ligeia?.
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This paper examines how in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe, both authors depict women who struggle and suffer at the hands of masculine stereotypes. Using examples from Hawthorne?s ?Rapaccini?s Daughter? and "The Scarlet Letter" and Poe?s ?Ligeia?, their depiction of women characters illustrates each authors sensitivity to the plight of women in the 19th century.
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"In Rappaccini?s Daughter? Hawthorne tells a stark tale of a woman manipulated by her father?s selfish ambitions. Her father, Rappaccini, is ?not restrained by natural affection from offering up his child in this horrible manner as the victim of his insane zeal for science?. Beatrice is described at the end of the story as ?a poor victim of man?s ingenuity,? destroyed by the unwieldy hand of man, her father?s as well as Giovanni?s. Both men thrust upon her their notions of femininity. Giovanni?s desire for a woman of beauty is the catalyst for Beatrice?s downfall. "
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Mother Figures in 19th Century English Literature, 2005.
Examines the presence of mother figures in works by Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell.
1,617 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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During the nineteenth century, especially toward its conclusion, women were beginning to break out from their usual molds, and perceptive authors used that fact to create some outstanding dramas and novels. Thomas Hardy was one, having written "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and Elizabeth Gaskell wrote "Ruth". There are many ways to look at these two novels; however, one interesting link makes them worth investigating. The paper shows that this link is the presence and the absence of a mother figure that might have changed the denouement of both women - a happy, peaceful conclusion for Ruth in her passing, and a tragic one for Tess, hounded by men seeking revenge for her stabbing of her seducer.
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"Hardy, a male in the Victorian age where sex was all done behind closed doors and shuttered windows, as if it never existed at all, took umbrage at the mores of men and women whose lives would be shattered by revelations of premarital sex. Ruth had no mother to comfort her during her distress, having been forcibly removed from Mr. Bellingham. There was no mother to run to when it was time for the baby to be born. And yet, near the end of "Tess", when she might have needed her mother more than a bland Alec, her mother was distant, and not at all communicative with those who wanted information about Tess' whereabouts."
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Criticism of 19th Century Culture through Literature, 2003.
A look at how Harriet Beecher's Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" criticized the institution of slavery and sought to abolish it and how the utopian "Looking Backwards: 2000-1887", by Edward Bellamy, criticized the rapidly emerging capitalists of the time.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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How literature not only reflects the time it is written in, but criticizes it and tries to remedy its ills. A discussion of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on how the sale of Tom by Mr. Shelby reflects the attitudes of the slave trade held in the American South prior to the Civil War and how Stowe denounces the practice as not being Christian. Furthermore, it discusses such points as the role of Tom Looker and how he serves as a criticism of the Fugitive Slave Act and of Mr. Bird and the inaction of the U.S. government on the abolition of slavery. "Looking Backwards: 2000-1887", by Edward Bellamy, is also discussed, pointing out the deeds of the "robber barons" of Bellamy's time, such as Rockefeller and Morgan, criticizing these men and their greed. Includes a discussion on how the author sought to remedy the rapidly growing gap in American between the rich and poor with a socialist state.
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"Great literature is able to reflect upon its surrounding times. Truly great literature, however, is able to do that and more. Its is able to reflect upon it and criticize its? wrongs. Two classic American novels have done this. Harriet Beecher Stowe?s Uncle Tom?s Cabin or: Life among the lowly and Edward Bellamy?s Looking Backwards:2000-1887 were both works on American literature that reflected upon common notions and practices of their time and sought to criticize them."
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Industry & Labor in 19th Century English Literature, 1996.
Examines work, socioeconomics, success, class conflict, gender issues in novels by Charlotte Bronte, Dickens and George Eliot.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 18 sources, $ 119.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the world of industry and labor as treated by various nineteenth-century British writers. The plan of the research will be to set forth the social and historical context in which such themes emerged in literary works of the period, and then to discuss in detail the manner in which they surfaced.
The decisive historical and social event shaping the literary and political landscape of Britain in the nineteenth century was the Industrial Revolution. Certain aspects of the Industrial Revolution are now familiar, such as urbanization, the rise of industrial capitalism in a country previously dominated by agriculture and the landed aristocracy, and the rise of the middle class. The widespread and growing influence of machine-oriented life had effects that persist into the modern period. In this..."
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American Literature of Late 19th Century, 1997.
Examines realistic and naturalistic elements in fiction of Mark Twain, Henry James & Stephen Crane. Looking at their themes, plots, characters and world views.
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"he Gilded Age was the name given to the period around 1870 when considerable cynicism set in about politics and other aspects of society. Mark Twain used the term as the title for a book, an attack on the materialism, speculation, and corruption seen in the era after the Civil War (Howard 200). In literary terms, the period as marked by a growing sense of realism. The beginnings of Naturalism as a literary movement came in the 1890s and extended realism with a new emphasis. The realists had insisted on detailing the world in a realistic fashion and to do so by creating reality: "Art's task was not to record but to make life; reality was a constructed, not a recorded, thing" (Bradbury 8). Naturalism took a different view in its origins, and now the task of the novelist was to undertake a scientific study by recording facts, living conditions, and behavior:"
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19th and 20th Century Women in American Literature, 2004.
Examines the societal evolution of American women through works by Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Nella Larsen.
875 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 31.95
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Nineteenth and 20th century American women have, through the years, evolved from being simple mothers, wives, and daughters to being women of true substance; that is, women who gained autonomy despite the stereotypes and stigmas given them by their society. This paper discusses how the novels, "Quicksand" by Nella Larsen, "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, and "My Antonia" by Willa Cather, explore the issue on how womanhood and motherhood are confronted by the lead female characters and how their chosen lives led either to their downfall or success in life. The analyses of women characters in the novels show how Larsen, Chopin, and Cather have differing perspectives in confronting issues about women during their time. Larsen equates freedom among women with freedom from the responsibilities of motherhood, while Cather presents a contradicting view, asserting happiness within the individual as the true measure of a woman?s freedom in the 20th century American society.
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"While advocating for women empowerment and freedom, Cather takes into account the value and importance of family and social interaction of women with society. Choosing the life of a mother, wife, and pioneer woman, Antonia embodies the woman of her period in a more realistic setting and situation, where contentment is achieved not through detachment from the family and society, but by integrating oneself and attaining harmonious relationships among people."
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Rape In Britain In The Late 18th Century and Early 19th Century, 1997.
Examines legal, social, marital, literary, theoretical, moral, class and feminist issues, focusing on the views of women as possessions of men.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the issue of rape in Great Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The plan of the research will be to set forth the social and cultural context in which the issue achieves significance and then to discuss patterns of activity within the culture that appear to show an evolution of consciousness and priorities in the understanding of the phenomenon.
The conceptualization of rape in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appears to have been very much a social construction that dominated the whole of Western society, whether in England and the Empire, on the continent, or in the U.S. Thus however rape might have been perceived or experienced at the personal level, the principal social fact about the phenomenon was that it was subsidiary to more widely held views of social ..."
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African-American Female Social Reformers Of The 19th Century-20th Century, 1995.
Describes the lives and careers of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Fanie Lou Hamer.
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"The role of individual personalities in a social movement is often recorded in disproportion to the individual's achievement. Minorities have received short shrift in the past. Women in particular are apt to be slighted by historians who, until recently, were generally composed of educated white males viewing the past through a perspective that was sorely limited by lack of imagination and empathy. Needless to say, women of African-American heritage have been more likely lost in the shuffle of such opinion than white women and black men. As Arican-Americans in America moved from slavery to freedom, from segregated minority to still-being-attempted integration into the mainstream society, there has been a none-too-subtle discount of the black woman's accomplishments in the field of social reform. Nevertheless, there has been a strong spine of African-American ..."
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Late 19th Century Working Class Women, 2008.
This paper discuses literature about research describing working class women in the late 19th century, especially in Montreal and Paris, Ontario.
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This paper explains that, in Bettina Bradbury's research, between 1861 and 1891, mainly French-Canadian women are found living and working in a harsh way, which demanded general resourcefulness to maintain their families' survivals. The author points out that, in contrast, Joy Parr's study of Ontario's industrial towns after 1880 reveals women's closer connections to the waged labor economy. The paper stresses that Bradbury's depiction of working class women in Montreal is convincing and speaks to Canadian women in terms beyond economics or feminism. The author found that, despite much theory referring to positions of gender as somehow unitary, there are dangers in presuming the realities of working class women in the later 19th century. The paper concludes that this literature helps interpret a contemporary Canadian society, which still tends to disadvantage women.
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Introduction
Situation versus Culture
Reflection
Last Remarks
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"Few widows received pension incomes for their husbands had often not had pensions in the forms of employment available to them. A predictable aspect of law so disadvantageous to women was the woman to turn to prostitution for survival or those running brothels or taverns. Joy Parr's work refers to Paris, Ontario and the demand for mainly British factory hands, often women, who were already skilled contributors to factory life before emigration. The idea of women working beyond the home as losing their reputations prevailed in much attention to 'protecting' women in Paris Ontario, as in the Penmans company's payment of quite low wages but also providing recreational and health care services."
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