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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"19th century history"”.
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A Plan for Managing the Alexander Graham Bell-Joseph Henry Rare Book Collection in the Smithsonian’s Dibner Library
… <p>The prominence of both Bell and Henry in the 19th century history of science and the close professional connection between the two figures underlines the importance of making the collection accessible to the public.</p> <p>This project focuses on three major collections management …
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Cree (Nêhiyawak) Mobility, Diplomacy, and Resistance in the Canada-US Borderlands, 1885 - 1917
This thesis examines the borderlands history of the Cree (nêhiyawak; primarily under Chief Little Bear) from 1885 to 1917. It combines archival research, digital mapping (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track Indigenous movements and to analyze how the Cree navigated their status as …
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The Antislavery Movement in Iowa, 1833-1860
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
The changing role of women was arguably the most fundamental area of concern and crisis in the Victorian era. Recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the evolving role of women, particularly in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type …
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
<p>It has been the object of the writer, in preparing this thesis, to emphasize the influence of British literature upon the Pre-Rapheelite Brotherhood of painters who lived and worked during the reign of Queen Victoria. It is the hope of the writer to show, in treating these artists who revived …
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : the education of Catherine Morland.
This thesis argues for a view of Austen's Northanger Abbey as the story of Catherine Morland, a young woman in search of an education. While Catherine's formal training has been nominal before the novel's beginning, the heroine attains various types of education in a short span of time, thereafter. …
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Tendencies of the generation of '98 as exhibited in the dramatic works of Jacinto Benavente and Gregorio Martinez Sierra
… War proved to be the final humiliation of a century of political and economic decline in Spain.</p><p>A group of young men decided that something must be done to save Spain from crumbling to pieces before their very eyes. They loved their country, and its decline made them heart-sick. They …
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the Vanishing American' Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… formation of female identity in the nineteenth century, which internalized a division between celibate and conjugal life. Additionally, I examine the debate over women's place in Victorian society, particularly the constituency of unmarried women whose singleness fueled this debate. Mainstream …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
… identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
The reduction of the power of the Church of England during the Victorian era was inevitably reflected in the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Brontë. In this paper, I will examine one novel from each writer to explore how each responded to the decline of the Church of …
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Influence, Agency, and the Women of England: Victorian Ideology and the Works of Sarah Stickney Ellis
… as 'anti-feminist' by twentieth and twenty-first century scholars, were often progressive and even proto-feminist. The first chapter discusses Ellis's writings on education, where she argues that girls require moral, physical, and intellectual training. This chapter demonstrates that Ellis, though …
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The Nineteenth Century Oboe Concertino: An Overview of its Structure with Two Performance Guides
… written for oboe and orchestra in the nineteenth century falls into three categories: Classical Concerto, Opera Fantasy, and Concertino. The classical, or standard, three movement, sonata-ritornello format was only sparingly used. Instead, composers chose more the experimental forms of the Opera …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
… atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing on a variety of examples in the novels and in real life, the thesis argues that Oliphant was a serious commentator on religious matters and controversies and not just a teller of tales. The thesis will address the …
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Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard
… study of the travel writings of three nineteenth-century American authors, Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard. I argue that these writers evinced a rebellion encompassing literary as well as political and social subversion. In order to succeed in their rebellion, they …
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Publishing Swinburne; the poet, his publishers and critics
This thesis examines the publishing history of Algernon Charles Swinburne during his lifetime (1837-1909). The first chapter presents a detailed narrative from his first book in 1860 to the mid 1870s: it includes the scandal of 'Poems and Ballads' in 1866; his subsequent relations with the somewhat …
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… of texts written during the long nineteenth century by male and female authors, including Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (1806), The History of Mary Prince (1831), Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883). Despite the rich …
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