We Need To Talk: Prostitution in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Jenny” and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye
A Comparison of The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger and “Jenny” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Some Reflections Upon “Happily Ever After”
Disney’s line of princess-themed films have come a long way in terms of the portrayal of their leading female characters. Early films like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty feature damsels in distress who simply… Continue reading
A Historical Perspective of the Narrative of Mary Prince
Mary Prince, the first woman to write a personal slave narrative account. Mary Prince, a slave born in Bermuda, wrote one of the first slave narratives ever written by a woman. She details… Continue reading
Agency and Liberation in Haywood’s Fantomina
Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze takes a different approach to female agency namely in the method in which her protagonist attains her sense of freedom. By occupying various stages of… Continue reading
He’s a Man, Man: Hegemonic Masculinity in “Robinson Crusoe”
Daniel Defoe’s bestseller, Robinson Crusoe, marked the beginning of stories obsessed with the “survival of the fittest.” However, going beyond the concept of survival, Robinson Crusoe became influential by defining its title character,… Continue reading
Lady Montagu’s Two Cautions and Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
In Britain during the 1700’s, women were expected to act a certain a way. They were taught from a young age that marriage was their only option and the idea… Continue reading
Romanticizing Robinson Crusoe: The Role of Female Gender From Novel to Film
Whenever a novel is adapted to film or television, it would seem that change on some level is inevitable. Characters are cut, new characters are added to fit the adaptation, seasons and sometimes… Continue reading
The Disguise of Love
Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze, deals with the shenanigans of our female heroine’s (if one believes this the correct term for such a character) attempts to gain the love and… Continue reading