Women's writing in English

in England, and writing about Romania. Dracula inhabits Transylvania, in a castle like this (*castle on screen*). It is clear that Stoker has given certain characteristics to his Dracula with the intention to scare. Dracula, consistently sinister and evil throughout, represents the unknown in the form of a foreigner, and the dangers that come with it. The death of Dracula and the specifications of the way he was killed, would have provided a comfort of sorts to the early English society,…

The 18th century Enlightenment period was undeniably a historical viewpoint that advocated for greater decency in society. During its beginnings, many intellectuals referred as the “philosophes” emerged in France, and used the ideas of the Scientific Revolution to reconsider all aspects of society. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as “a man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity” (What Is Enlightenment?). Kant even proclaimed as the maxim of the Enlightenment: “Dare…

this era, the terms women’s rights and women’s freedom were widely used to refer to what we today would call feminism.…

reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government emanated from European and American colonial writings and were reformulated…

hardships along the way. Moore’s early poetry was written during a period of profound political and social upheaval. The women’s suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries culminated in the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote. The women’s rights movement continued to advocate of gender equality, influencing women’s writing. From 1914 to 1918, the First World War redefined military conquest. Though the United States did not enter the…

human population growth. Their solution was to coercively sterilized women of Mexican origin. While waiting for an emergency cesarean section, these women were asked to sign an inform consent for sterilization. These women did not know how to read English, so they were clueless of the sterilization procedure.…

alcoholic and his mother as possessive and callous. In 1920, he began attending Cheltenham College, soon switching to the university of Cambridge as there were problems with violence at his origional college. At the university of Cambridge he studied English literature. After graduating he worked as a professor and several books, including England Have My Bones, his first book to find real acclaim. This is what spurred him to move on from his six years of teaching into being a full time author.…

In the essay “The Dog Ate My Disk, an Other Tales of Woe” Professor Carolyn Foster Segal explains that even after lengthy syllabus warnings and a humorous cartoon of a cat explaining to its teacher that a dog ate its homework, students still came up with multiple excuses for being tardy, absent or turning in assigned work late. She categorized the excuses into these five categories, the family, the best friend, the evils in dorm life, the evils in technology, and the totally bizarre. For…

with laws framed by Men and with judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view” So his play Hedda Gabler is innovative work in the history of English literature because in it he has reversed the traditional submissive role of woman through the bold protagonist Hedda. His purpose in writing this play was to break the conventional stereotypical roles…

of the Transcendental Movement. Since Margaret Fuller was a very successful and active feminist reformer out of all the Transcendentalists, she focused on women in literature, education, mythology and philosophy. Fuller tried to enrich and dignify women’s place in society. Like Thoreau and Emerson, she calls for intervals of withdrawal from a society whose members are in various states of “distraction” and a return only after “the renovation fountains” of distinction…