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Vampirism and Queerness in Nineteenth-Century Literature
ZEMANOVÁ, Eva
The aim of this thesis is the analysis of the connection between vampirism and queerness in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire. The Master's thesis is divided into three parts. The first part examines the relationship of Victorian England to sexuality and the connection between queerness and the 19th-century Gothic novel. We will pay attention to the different perceptions of male and female homosexuality and the portrayal of the so-called "Others" in contemporary literature. In the second part, we will focus on the interpretation of Dracula in terms of queerness, namely through Count Dracula and the role he plays in the novel, including his relations to the other male characters in the novel. The third part concentrates on the analysis of The Blood of the Vampire, describing the fate of female vampire Harriet Brandt. Finally, the thesis explores the aspects of Harriet's Otherness that Harriet threatens Victorian society with, as well as the ambiguous understanding of this work.
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The portrayal of class in Charles Dickens' works
RAISOVÁ, Eliška
Wealth and social status in Victorian England had a great influence on perceiving a person in nearly all directions. Charles Dickens grew up in this time period as a member of the lower class of people on which this perception of society had a huge impact. Thanks to his father's debts, he lived, together with his family, for quite a long time in a debtor's prison, and he lacked a sufficient amount of education because of his mother. In essence, he was never able to forgive them, which got portrayed, as well as many other factors, in his later works. The aim of my bachelor's degree thesis is a study of the depiction of social classes in Dickens' writings in the context of his life and period, whose opinions influenced his literary stories. With the help of the characters from his books, who represent each social class, I will try to picture Charles' conception and inclusion of the topics of social inequality in his work.
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Charles Dickens and the Portrait of Victorian England
ČÁSENSKÁ, Petra
The diploma thesis presents Charles Dickens not only as one of the most popular Victorian writers but it also concentrates on Dickens´ description and characterization of a place and surroundings in the novels Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. In the introductory part the thesis characterizes Victorian England and its social and cultural aspects. The core of the thesis is Dickens´ portrayal of London in contrast with the country environment in the selected novels. The diploma thesis tries to express Dickens´ literary evolution from the point of view of the description of the surroundings and landscape; alternatively it traces romantic features of his writings.
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