Bc. Katarína Hvojníková

Master's thesis

Victorian and Domestic Ideology in Maria S. Cummins’s The Lamplighter, Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

Victorian and Domestic Ideology in Maria S. Cummins’s The Lamplighter, Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth
Abstract:
Tato práce je studií tří významných postav americké literatury devatenáctého a počátku dvacátého století: Gertrude Flintové (Lampář a jeho schovanka od Marie Cumminsové), Daisy Millerové (Daisy Millerová od Henryho Jamese) a Lily Bartové (Dům radovánek od Edith Whartonové). Jejím cílem je porovnat je s viktoriánským ženským ideálem, stejně jako s modelovou hrdinkou sentimentální literatury. Za tímto …more
Abstract:
This MA diploma thesis provides a study of three notable characters of the American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century: Gertrude Flint (Maria S. Cumminsʼs The Lamplighter), Daisy Miller (Henry Jamesʼs Daisy Miller) and Lily Bart (Edith Whartonʼs The House of Mirth). Its aim is to compare them to the Victorian feminine ideal of the period, as well as to the model heroine of domestic …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 13. 5. 2014

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 11. 6. 2014
  • Supervisor: Bonita Rhoads
  • Reader: M.A. Jeffrey Alan Smith, Ph.D.

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Philology / English Language and Literature