Far more than a conventional Victorian woman whose premature widowhood and single-motherhood compelled her to seek employment as a sentimental journalist, Fanny Fern is a both a representative of typical nineteenth-century ...

English medieval morality plays such as Everyman and Mankind have found a voice in G. K. Chesterton's and Arthur Conan Doyle's crime literature. The moral vision that Chesterton and Doyle offer is based on medieval morality, ...

The genre of work known as the literature of the fallen woman adheres to a strict set of guidelines for its infamous female roles. Fault, misery, and death are the ideal circumstances under which these women lead their ...

Traditionally, women have been expected to live by male standards and to abdicate knowing who they are in order to fulfill the feminine roles of a patriarchal society. My creative writing thesis focuses on the particular ...