Bc. Julie Tomešová

Master's thesis

Jane Eyre and The Lamplighter: A Comparison between British and American Ideals of Domestic Womanhood

Jane Eyre and The Lamplighter: A Comparison between British and American Ideals of Domestic Womanhood
Abstract:
Diplomová práce popisuje viktoriánský ideál dokonalé ženy, která se měla stát „domácím andělem,“ jak v zemi jeho vzniku, Velké Británii, tak i ve Spojených Státech Amerických, kam se tento ideál rozšířil. Práce srovnává přístup k ženskému ideálu ve dvou populárních románech devatenáctého století. Charlotte Brontë se svým známým románem Jane Eyre zastupuje viktoriánskou Británii a Susanna Maria Cummins …more
Abstract:
This thesis describes the female ideal of domestic womanhood in the Anglo-American Victorian community. It compares its depiction in two popular nineteenth-century domestic novels. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a representative of British domestic fiction and The Lamplighter, a once famous, but now forgotten novel by Susanna Maria Cummins, stands for its American counterpart.
 

Keywords

Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Maria Susanna Cummins The Lamplighter domestic womanhood domesticity Angel in the House Victorian domestic fiction
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 10. 5. 2013
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/hsuu0/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 13. 6. 2013
  • Supervisor: Bonita Rhoads
  • Reader: Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.

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