Double Morality and the Temperance Issue in Victorian Literature
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: After providing an analysis of the concept of double morality through examples \nextracted from Oscar Wilde’s hilarious The Importance of Being Earnest and Robert L. \nStevenson’s mysterious and adventurous The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde \nin order to illustrate how frequently Victorians pretended to live in a perfectly moral \nsociety and to behave according to the canons of that society, this dissertation examines \nthe indirect representation and any possible effectiveness or influence of the Victorian \ntemperance movement through a literary and historical perspective, and eventually, pays \nattention to the role of the ecclesiastical movements in the drinking question.
Author: Stilian Valentinov Krastev
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2596844409