Depictions of Women in Victorian Literature: Precursors of Social Change or Stereotypical

Authors

  • Dorothy Irene Hermary MacEwan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31542/j.muse.214

Abstract

England’s Victorian Age was pregnant with the seeds of social change, inter-sown with the nutrients of personal and national introspection. Within this upheaval, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dicken’s Hard Times expose concerns about the position and value of Victorian females. This stereotypical portrayal of their characters can be transplanted to the current, twenty-first century struggle with gender equality. Exploration of our past can light our present as well as illuminate our gendered/non-gendered future.

Author Biography

  • Dorothy Irene Hermary, MacEwan University
    Student: English major and Sociology minor
MUSe 2015, Issue Number 1

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Published

2015-10-04

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015)

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Arts

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Depictions of Women in Victorian Literature: Precursors of Social Change or Stereotypical. (2015). MacEwan University Student EJournal, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.31542/j.muse.214