Common Contracts
2 similar null contracts
INTRODUCTIONMarch 7th, 2011
This dissertation reads the poetry written by three British women, Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), Letitia Landon (1802-1838), and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), paying special attention to the ways they present, and recast, conventional stories of women. In many of the poems studied here, women suffer from disappointment in love: the heroine‟s love is unrequited, she is forsaken by her lover, or her lover dies. Hemans‟ and Landon‟s stories typically end with the heroine‟s death.1 Love and death in their poems serve as metaphors to convey women‟s difficult relations with society, telling of women‟s sense of alienation and displacement. Hemans and Landon use conventional stories about women, yet at the same time occasionally deconstruct them. Rossetti takes over their theme of love, and she works on it from the viewpoint of a poet with a Christian background. Her heroines also experience displacement and loss, and, in addition, tension with prevailing Christian views of women. Rossetti add
INTRODUCTIONMarch 7th, 2011
This dissertation reads the poetry written by three British women, Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), Letitia Landon (1802-1838), and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), paying special attention to the ways they present, and recast, conventional stories of women. In many of the poems studied here, women suffer from disappointment in love: the heroine‟s love is unrequited, she is forsaken by her lover, or her lover dies. Hemans‟ and Landon‟s stories typically end with the heroine‟s death.1 Love and death in their poems serve as metaphors to convey women‟s difficult relations with society, telling of women‟s sense of alienation and displacement. Hemans and Landon use conventional stories about women, yet at the same time occasionally deconstruct them. Rossetti takes over their theme of love, and she works on it from the viewpoint of a poet with a Christian background. Her heroines also experience displacement and loss, and, in addition, tension with prevailing Christian views of women. Rossetti add
