L'elaborato mira ad analizzare la reazione di Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau e Charles Dickens a contatto con il paesaggio Americano del fiume Mississippi e delle cascate del Niagara. Essi guardarono l'America da ...

In my dissertation I aim at providing an overview of the intertwinement of political, cultural and Orientalist motives in British travel and travel writing in the Middle East between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ...

The English writer Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925) was born into a Unitarian family but embraced Catholicism in 1864. Her father, Joseph Parkes, was an election agent and reformer. Her mother, Elizabeth Rayner Priestley, ...

La tesi tratterà dell'infanzia nel periodo Vittoriano, prenderà in cosiderazione il ruolo del bambino in particolare nei lavori di Charles Dickens

My thesis is centred on the analysis of the mother-bond in Anita Brookner's novels. Especially, I focus on the first three novels written by the author: A Start in Life, Providence and Look at Me, and the second-last novel ...

La tesi analizzerà in una prima parte la vita e le influenze filosofiche e letterie riguardanti l'autrice. Si proseguirà poi ad un'analisi del pensiero estestico di George Eliot, con un'analisi relativa al realismo letterario ...

George Eliot’s “Felix Holt, the Radical” is set in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act of 1832 and investigates the consequences of the great changes that Britain was experiencing, both from a private and from a public ...

In the last decade of the 18th century and through the 19th century, Britain registered one of the highest birth rates ever, but it was not because large families were desired. On the contrary, most of these children were ...

The conversation about insanity has a long history, as the existence of Ancient Greek documents on the theme of derangement attests. In the 18th and 19th century insanity came to be perceived, in Europe, as a major problem ...

Margaret Oliphant presents some of her most compelling female characters in her famous domestic novels’ series Chronicles of Carlingford. Although they safely remain inside the female Victorian conventions, her characters ...