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T1 Double Morality and the Temperance Issue in Victorian Literature
A1 Valentinov Krastev, Stilian
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Templanza
K1 Moral práctica
K1 Literatura inglesa - Siglo XIX - Temas, motivos
AB After providing an analysis of the concept of double morality through examplesextracted from Oscar Wilde’s hilarious The Importance of Being Earnest and Robert L.Stevenson’s mysterious and adventurous The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydein order to illustrate how frequently Victorians pretended to live in a perfectly moralsociety and to behave according to the canons of that society, this dissertation examinesthe indirect representation and any possible effectiveness or influence of the Victoriantemperance movement through a literary and historical perspective, and eventually, paysattention to the role of the ecclesiastical movements in the drinking question.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22622
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22622
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-nov-2024