Sample Topics
Literature and Culture: Great Britain [Prof. Feldmann]
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Topics for Bachelor and Master theses
1. The following is a list of titles chosen for Bachelor or Master theses. It is meant as a guideline for finding a suitable topic of your own:
Beetons Book of Household Management as Self-Help Manual for the Victorian Housewife
Blurring Identity Boundaries: The Liminality of Gender and Race in Jackie Kays Trumpet and Why Dont You Stop Talking
Lost in Austen as a Post-Modern Re-Creation of Pride and Prejudice
Commercial Aesthetics: Representations the Female Body in Victorian Advertisements
Domestic Spaces in Stevensons Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde [1886] and Stokers Dracula [1897]
Transcending the Eyes: Marginalised Discourses of Perception in Mayhews London Labour and the London Poor
The Representation and Function of the Female Body and Motherhood in Richard III
Negotiating Irishness in Transnational Spaces between an [Imagined] Homeland and the Diaspora
Negotiating Identity in Brontës Wuthering Heights and its 1992 Film Adaptation
Travelling the Slum: Voyeurism and the Sensational in Mayhews London Labour and the London Poor
Gothic Fiction and Representations of Science: Stevensons Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hydeand H.G. WellsThe Time Machine
A brave mans blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble: Types of Masculinity in Bram Stokers Dracula
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown: Zur Darstellung englischer Königinnen in zeitgenössischen Spielfilmen
Chick Lit zwischen Tradition und Innovation ein Vergleich von Erzählerinnen, Protagonistinnen und Milieus am Beispiel von Helen Fielding und Janet Evanovich
Tedious virtue, fascinating evil? Forms and Functions of the Villain in Gothic Melodrama
Detecting the Neo-Victorian: The Detective as an Element in the Intertextuality in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Crime Writing
Kulturelle Differenzen und Identitäten in zeitgenössischer britischer Literatur und Film
Konstruktionen städtischer Armut in der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Neue Helden braucht das Land? Zur Darstellung von Arbeiterklasse und Männlichkeit im Kontext der Neuformulierung eines Mythos im Britischen Film der 1990er Jahre
Konzepte der Liebe in William Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew und in filmischen Adaptionen
2. Here are some additional fields you might want to consider when choosing a topic:
Popular culture and popular myths
Popular cultural practices, such as tourism
Forms of canonization and popularization
The cultural work of texts and their ideological functions
The intersections of categories of difference [e.g. gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age]
The interplay of discourses in texts [e.g. scientific, economic, political]
Discourses of gender and sexuality