Masculinities from the Libertine to the Dandy in the Comedy of Manners: GeorgeEtherege’s The Man of Mode, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquerand Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan

The aim of this study is to examine the historical evolution of the British aristocratic and upper-class masculinities from the Restoration period to the late-Victorian era with respect to the theories of men and masculinities and to make an analysis of the transformation of these masculinities in such representative comedies of manners as George Etherege’s The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676), Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night (1773) and Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, or a Play about a Good Woman (1892). These plays reflect the specific representations and manners of masculinities of their ages. For this reason, at the beginning of the thesis, concepts in the theories of men and masculinities are introduced in order to provide a theoretical background for the analysis of these male characters.Bu çalışmanın amacı, Restorasyon döneminden geç Viktorya devrine kadar İngiliz soylu sınıf ve üst sınıf erkekliklerinin tarihsel evrimini temsili töre komedileri olan George Etherege’ın The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676, Moda Adamı ya da Sör Fopling Flutter), Oliver Goldsmith’in She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night (1772, Fethetmeye Tenezzül Eden Kadın ya da Yanlışlıklar Gecesi) ve Oscar Wilde’ın Lady Windermere’s Fan, a Play about a Good Woman (1892, Lady Windermere’ın Yelpazesi, İyi Bir Kadın Üstüne Bir Oyun) adlı oyunlarda, erkek ve erkeklik kuramları bağlamında incelemektir. Bu oyunlar, erkek karakterler aracılığıyla dönemlerinin erkeklikle ilişkilendirilen belli başlı davranış biçimlerini ve görgü kurallarını yansıtmaktadır. Bu sebeple, tezin başlangıcında, oyunlardaki erkek karakterlerin incelenmesine zemin hazırlamak için erkek ve erkeklik kuramlarında yer alan kavramlar açıklanmaktadır

Representations of Diasporic Identities in Britain

The word “diaspora” is derived from the Greek words diaspeirō, meaning “I disperse”, “I scatter,” and diaspore meaning “dispersion” (“diaspeirō,” “diaspore”). Hence, diaspora refers to a scattered population and their descendants sharing a history, language and culture, living dispersed and outside of their original geographical locales, that is their ancestral lands. Such displacement of mass numbers of people is at times of a voluntary and at times of an involuntary nature, and encompasses a variety of reasons which can be grouped as natural, colonial, slave trade, indentured labour, political, religious and economic, although some of the headings can obviously overlap

Happiness Optimism Anti-Utopia Loneliness Paradise UTOPIAS Civilisation Anger DYSTOPIAS Horror Dream Ideal Safety Order Peace Urban Pollution Decay Bleak Stability Hope Destruction Unsettling

I would like to extend my gratitude to the President of Hacettepe University Prof. Dr. A. Haluk ÖZEN and his team for their kind support towards the realisation of the second of the graduate conferences, “Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English,” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies and held on 15-16 March 2016, and the publication of this book. I also convey my heartfelt thanks to the speakers at the conference for sharing with us their noteworthy research honouring the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. Furthermore, I owe special thanks to the members of the administrative board of the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies for their unequivocal support towards the publication of selected papers presented at the conference. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Burçin EROL, the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, for her invaluable support. I am also truly grateful to the referees, Prof. Dr. Burçin EROL, Prof. Dr. Huriye REİS, Prof. Dr. Aytül ÖZÜM, Prof. Dr. Hande SEBER, Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan AKILLI, Dr. Pınar TAŞDELEN, Dr. Jason M. WARD and Dr. Aslı DEĞİRMENCİ for their meticulous efforts in reviewing the papers. I also express my gratitude to Res. Assist. Şafak HORZUM and Res. Assist. Zümre Gizem YILMAZ for their assistance towards the organisation of the conference and the publication of this book. I am also thankful to Res. Assist. Özden DERE, Res. Assist. Merve DİKİCİLER, Res. Assist. Selim ERDEM, Res. Assist. Ulaş ÖZGÜN and Res. Assist. Kübra VURAL who have helped with the proof reading. Moreover, I am thankful to the personnel at Hacettepe Basımevi for their diligent wor

İngiliz Edebiyatında Toplumsal Cinsiyet

Bu kitabın oluşmasında özveriyle ve titizlikle çalışan katılımcı genç akademisyen arkadaşlara, baskıya hazırlayan Hacettepe Üniversitesi Basımevine ve kitabın yayımlanmasına izin ve destek veren Hacettepe Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne teşekkürlerimizi sunarız

Innovative Representations of Sexualities in Studies in English

This book comprises the papers presented by graduate students at the conference entitled “Innovative Representations of ‘Sexualities’ in Studies in English” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, on 11 March 2015. These papers were not only reviewed by referees but were further revised extensively and edited by myself. The objective in the organisation of the first graduate conference held by the Centre and the publication of the papers presented at the conference was to provide graduate students with an academic platform to present their current research and discuss their ideas with their peers and professors. The papers published in the book deal with different aspects of sexuality in literature and non-literary media. The papers provide readings of sexuality, which is a complex and multidisciplinary topic, not just through poetry, fiction and drama but also as represented in feature films, animations and TV series because of the dominance of visual culture in today’s societies. Drawing on relevant theoretical material, mainly feminist and queer theories, these papers explore and question how sexuality is represented in a variety of mediums and how it functions. In addition, the ways in which sexuality is conceptualised and constructed is interrogated mostly with the intention of deconstructing essentialist notions of sexuality and identity formation. In this postmodernist era in which sexual and gender identities are no longer limited to two binary sexes, the papers invite the readers to reconsider their understanding of sexuality. Along with non-binary understandings of both sex (male, female, or intersex) and gender (man, woman, transgender, third gender and so forth) even non-human sexualities are taken into consideration. Furthermore, how sexualities are linked to hegemonic categories of identity, such as nationality, race, class and gender is discussed