Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Author "Curtin, Antoinette"
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Beauty as a matter of course : the representation of the heroine in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
Curtin, Antoinette (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis analyses the development of the convention of the beautiful heroine in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel. The period inherited a profoundly dichotomised conception of beauty, beauty as a ...