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| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 21 |
| Release | : 2021-12-24 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 3346561887 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Institute of Engilsh Studies), language: English, abstract: Women are part of almost every Sherlock Holmes story. But in how far are women presented in the stories of Sherlock Holmes and does the portrayal allow inferences regarding the Victorian Era? This paper tries to find overlaps between the women in Sherlock Holmes and women in Victorian England. For reasons of the limited text size of this paper, only the original texts from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be dealt with. The various adaptations, that appeared later, will not be covered. The leading question of this term paper is: To what degree do Sherlock Holmes women conform to the gender roles in the Victorian Era? To find answers on that question, the structure of the paper is as follows. First, a contextual overview about the Victorian Era will be given. The Era will be classified in time, such as historical developments. Secondly, gender roles in the Victorian Era will be discussed. The explanation will include roles of Victorian men for reasons of exemplification and comparison. However, this paper focus is in particular on the role of women in the Victorian Era. The roles of Victorian women will be structured into three sub-sections. One sub- section deals with the concept of separate spheres in the Victorian Era, another on the notion of love and marriage and lastly with the ideal image of women, sexual ethics and double standards in the Victorian Era. Afterwards, these sub-sections will be brought into context with the Sherlock Holmes stories. Therefore, the canon will be classified in the time context. Furthermore, exemplary women who appear in the canon will be analysed and their roles will be compared with the roles of Victorian women. The three sub-sections will be put in context with Sherlock Holmes., by trying to allow draw comparisons. Lastly, a conclusion will be made, and an outlook will be given towards possible further research.
| Author | : Annette Eileen Wren |
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| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Gender identity |
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My dissertation takes a selection of post-2010 Sherlock Holmes adaptations and appropriations and examines how they challenge, deconstruct, and transform gender and sexuality. I construct this investigation on the argument that, as works of popular culture, the Sherlock Holmes stories reflect and engage with popular understandings of gender and sexuality; the adaptations and appropriations, also works of popular culture, underscore recent, radical shifts and changes in twenty-first-century gender and sexuality. To explore these shifts, I employ a variety of methodologies. I begin with Annette Kolodny's "playful pluralism" to better contextualize gender in the Victorian Era and the characters and character dynamics of the Sherlock Holmes canon. I further emphasize the nuances in the canon and how its inclusion of "New Woman" characters reveal Conan Doyle's more progressive views of women's rights. After establishing these key contexts, I turn to my chosen adaptations and appropriations. I first focus on post-2010 secondary characters whose complex storylines emphasize negotiation rather than textual fidelity. I argue that these characters approach gender as a performed role defined through social norms; while a character's ability to denaturalize the gender apparatus varies, all characters embody challenges to the binary structures of "male" and "female." Next, I scrutinize adaptations that maintain the male-male relationship between Holmes and Watson; in short, the Victorian homosocial bond shifts to more emotive, affective bromance-like relationships. My fourth concentrates on two female authors who transform Sherlock Holmes into Charlotte Holmes. Sherry Thomas and Brittany Cavallaro appropriate Sherlock Holmes for the purpose of promoting and exploring feminism and women-centered stories. To frame this chapter analysis, I utilize feminism, gender studies, and adaptation studies. My conclusion is an appropriation of my own. This story takes place as a parallel to "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (December 1891). Rather than follow Sherlock Holmes and John Watson on a case, "The Adventure of the Elephant Figurine" follows Mary Watson, psychic detective, on a case regarding the vindictive spirit of a dead husband. I wrote "Elephant Figurine" as a contribution to the feminist appropriations of the Sherlock Holmes canon.
| Author | : Selina Schuster |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 18 |
| Release | : 2013-09-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3656494339 |
Download The Bachelor in Victorian Literature. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar: The Bachelor in British and American Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: ‘But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgement.’ With these words Sherlock Holmes comments rather derogatorily on the marriage plans of his close friend and fellow bachelor Dr. John Watson when the latter reveals his engagement to Mary Morstan to him. While Watson’s existence as a bachelor is about to end after the novel ‘The Sign of the Four’, Sherlock Holmes never had any intention to change his lifestyle from being a bachelor to become a husband and father. He never was married or engaged in any form and obviously didn’t miss it. It is due to that attitude that the character of Sherlock Holmes became one of the most famous and best known examples of the bachelor in Victorian literature. But what exactly is a bachelor and how was this term defined during the time when the Sherlock Holmes stories were written? In this term paper I will point out how the life of unmarried men was depicted in Victorian literature and which images and stereotypes arose when it came to the term ‘bachelor’ in general. In order to do this it is essential to take a closer look at the society during the time the fictional characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were invented – the end of the 19th century. Which characteristics were typical for a bachelor of that time except for being an unwed male? In order to show how the bachelors stood out and differed from their married fellows it is necessary to examine the role of Victorian men in general. Which moral values were associated with the life of a bachelor and did they differ from the generally accepted values of the time? What was their status in society? After this quite general examination I shall take a closer look at the two bachelors invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Were Sherlock and Watson typical bachelors of their time? What were their reasons for being unmarried and how were their attitudes and interactions towards women? Did they simply had no luck with the ladies or were there other reasons for them to be unwed? I will try to answer these questions on the basis of the Sherlock Holmes novels ‘A Study in Scarlet’, ‘The Sign of the Four’ and the short story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’.
| Author | : Resa Haile |
| Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2019-09-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1627347267 |
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Modern writers have reconsidered every subject under the sun through the lens of Sherlock Holmes. The overlooked subject is agency: the opportunities available to these women for independence and control. What we find all too often are the silences around them. And yet, these clients--villains, victims, and Violets--are pivotal in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps more enigmatic than Holmes’ methods is what Watson sees: the woman in the shadows. Whether lady or lady’s maid, if she does speak, it’s often not recorded in her words. That was life for half the population of Victorian England. A woman’s role was written before she was born; it merely required her to don the starched white apron of a maid, or the rough, stained skirts of a "char"--who did the dirtiest of household jobs—or the fine silk gowns of a lady. Enter Villains, Victims, and Violets to spy and report on these women in their darkest, most vulnerable moments. How does Irene Adler—pursued by a powerful king, and by Sherlock Holmes--outwit them both? Can Lady Hilda conceal the secret that only Holmes unravels? When Violet Hunter takes the last job offered before she loses everything, can Holmes free her and her doppelganger? To understand Holmes’ world is to gaze unsparingly into the lives of its women: the villains and what drives them astray; the victims Holmes races to rescue; and the Violets, who make up the strongest characters from Holmes’ unforgettable cases. The authors pull back the curtain on their private spaces, revealing their "proper" place in a man’s world at the dusk of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. Foreword by Nisi Shawl, noted Sherlockian and the James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning and Nebula-nominated author of the brilliant steampunk, feminist, Afrofuturist novel Everfair.
| Author | : Anja Dinter |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 2012-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3656208794 |
Download Victorian Gender Roles and Dickens's Image of Women As Represented in the Female Characters in Great Expectations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Great Expectations and Hard Times by Charles Dickens, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction The following work is an analysis of the female characters in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations especially with regard to Victorian gender constructions and Dickens's image of women. Dickens's biography and the depiction of very diverse female characters in his novels stimulated the idea of a closer analysis. First of all, a short summary of Great Expectations is provided. Then, the Victorian construction of gender will be discussed. As will be shown, a very strict ideology regarding gender roles existed during the Victorian age. Obviously, Dickens must have been influenced by the ideas of his contemporaries which should then be presented in the novel. Another focus will be on how his relationships to women influenced his image of women and also, consequently, the depiction of his female characters in Great Expectations. Finally the female characters, with reference to Victorian gender roles and Dickens's image of women, will be analyzed in greater detail. The focus is on four women who I believe to be the most important female characters in the novel and powerful representatives of the author's image of women and Victorian gender construction.
| Author | : Christopher Parker |
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| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
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Whilst recognizing and building upon the enormous importance of both Victorian and twentieth-century perceptions of women's roles and the way these relate to assumptions about women's sexuality, this book is also concerned with more recently developed interests in the creation of male gender roles and different concepts of masculinity, and consequently with relations between, and within, the sexes. The second half of the nineteenth century saw a mounting attack upon the middle class family ideal which had been painstakingly developed in the preceding era; but the radicals did not have it all their own way.
| Author | : Anja Dinter |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2007-06-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3638785254 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Great Expectations and Hard Times by Charles Dickens, language: English, abstract: Introduction The following work is an analysis of the female characters in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations especially with regard to Victorian gender constructions and Dickens’s image of women. Dickens’s biography and the depiction of very diverse female characters in his novels stimulated the idea of a closer analysis. First of all, a short summary of Great Expectations is provided. Then, the Victorian construction of gender will be discussed. As will be shown, a very strict ideology regarding gender roles existed during the Victorian age. Obviously, Dickens must have been influenced by the ideas of his contemporaries which should then be presented in the novel. Another focus will be on how his relationships to women influenced his image of women and also, consequently, the depiction of his female characters in Great Expectations. Finally the female characters, with reference to Victorian gender roles and Dickens’s image of women, will be analyzed in greater detail. The focus is on four women who I believe to be the most important female characters in the novel and powerful representatives of the author’s image of women and Victorian gender construction.
| Author | : Jeremy Strahan |
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| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, English |
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"In both present-day media and criticism, the character of Irene Adler looms over any other female figures within the Doyle canon, continuing into modern adaptations. However, the original stories, particularly the short story case files, contain a cast of female characters serving a wide array of roles as clients, assistants, witnesses, accomplices, and even vigilantes. While diverse in scope, the case files highlight the drama of middle and upper-class marriage, struggles centered around the reality of Victorian-era values on love, marriage, and masculinity; the stories' critique focuses on the abuse of these values for personal gain by male figures and the need for Sherlock Holmes to remedy the situation." -- Page 1.
| Author | : Nadine Farghaly |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2015-12-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476622817 |
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From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle's stories proves as interesting as the astute detective's constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow seems both superfluous and essential. While Conan Doyle does not depict Holmes and Watson as equals, he avoids presenting Watson as incompetent, as he was made to appear on screen for decades. A variety of reimagined Holmeses and Watsons in recent years have depicted their relationship as more nuanced and complementary. Focusing on the Guy Ritchie films, the BBC's Sherlock and CBS's Elementary, this collection of new essays explores the ideas and implications behind these adaptations.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2024-05-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004688358 |
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Bringing together neo-Victorian and medievalism scholars in dialogue with each other for the first time, this collection of essays foregrounds issues common to both fields. The Victorians reimagined the medieval era and post-Victorian medievalism repurposes received nineteenth century tropes, as do neo-Victorian texts. For example, aesthetic movements such as Arts and Crafts, which looked for inspiration in the medieval era, are echoed by steampunk in its return to Victorian dress and technology. Issues of gender identity, sexuality, imperialism and nostalgia arise in both neo-Victorianism and medievalism, and analysis of such texts is enriched and expanded by the interconnections between the two fields represented in this groundbreaking collection.
