XIII * The Nineteenth Century: The Victorian Period

The Status of Women in the Nineteenth Century Victorian England

The aim of this study is to examine Charlotte Bronte‘s contribution to the feminist question in her selected novel Jane Eyre. The study shows how Bronte‘s novel examines the suffering of women and how they could overcome difficulties and achieve success.It is clear that Charlotte ideology in her portrayal of her heroine based on her real world, established herself as a distinguished feminist wo...

Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics

In an influenTial 1985 essay, fRedRic Jameson aRgues ThaT The nineteenth-­century poems of Charles Baudelaire foreshadow de-­ velopments in twentieth-­century styles, anticipating not only a high modernist “dissolution of the referent” but also a postmodernist “world of the image, of textual free-­play, the world of consumer so-­ ciety and its simulacra” (255–56). Jameson’s reading necessitate...

Victorian lunacy. Richard M. Bucke and the practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry

objected to the operation being performed on him'. Hunt suggested that every surgeon committing dissection should give an undertaking to allow his body to be dissected after death." Without any reference to Richardson, Knott writes in 1985 that Hunt "spoke of the fear of dissection as one of the 'natural feelings of mankind', and cited the case of Dr William Hunter, the eminent eighteenth centu...

The Nineteenth Psalm in the Criticism of the Nineteenth Century

2 The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament showeth his handiwork. 3 Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. 4 There is no speech nor language, Their voice is unheard. 5 Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 6 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamb...

The nineteenth-century quarantine narrative.