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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"British Novel"”.
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… examines the manner in which nineteenth-century British novels use a Semitic discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear that they might pass …
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Novel Properties: Communication, Copyright, and the British Novel, 1710-1774
… have generally taken a retrospective view of British eighteenth-century copyright law. Influenced by the assumptions and methods of historical materialism, and aiming to critique romantic notions of authorship, such projects have sought in the eighteenth century a narrative of the 'rise of the …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… to character by calling attention to how novels concisely render the rich interior fullness of even very minor figures. While literary critics associate representations of consciousness with major characters, I demonstrate that, through the application of narrative techniques such as …
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Subject Matters: The Discourses and Aesthetics of the British Novel, 1900-1939
… and conditions of modernity, and how select British modernists take up such discourses in their novels. I argue that the subject matter of their work projects distinct paradigms of human consciousness which become the property of modernist aesthetics. Consequently, this thesis links the …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… and other visual phenomena in nineteenth-century British novels often illustrate the otherwise invisible past. As new media technologies expanded the mass production of images during the nineteenth century, representing earlier time as visible helped novelists to affirm its reality, power, and …
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The Contemporary British Novel and Conspiracy Theories: Hinges, Certainty, and Trust in Narrative Fiction
… theories as they appear in contemporary British fiction. Proposing an epistemic spectrum of conspiracy theories from the reasonable to the extreme, and focusing upon the centre of this spectrum, this thesis seeks to bring to literary representations of conspiracy theory a rigorous …
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Breaking Through Walls and Pages: Female Reading and Education in the 18th Century British Novel
… information surrounding the rise of the novel in England as well as the conversations regarding female education in the 18th century. I show how Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, Frances Burney’s Evelina, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey depict education and reading in the novels. …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
Established approaches to contemporary British literature frequently focus on how novelists from the UK have engaged with the complex account of culture that was developed on the Left during the 1980s as a response to Thatcherism. Freedom and the City shifts the terms of this debate in a new …
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History and Ambiguity: Graham Greene's <em>The Third Man</em> and <em>The Quiet American</em> in Print and on Screen.
… Graham Greene’s place in criticism of the British novel by focusing on <em>The Third Man</em> and <em>The Quiet American</em>. In terms of theoretical approach, I shall focus on a close, critical reading of the texts employing elements of cultural, historical, psychological, and genre …
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Being Talked About: Gossip and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… between gossip and the development of the British novel over the course of the nineteenth century. Drawing on reevaluations of gossip by sociologists, as well as queer and feminist literary critics, I argue that nineteenth-century novelists rely on gossip in order to convey narrative …
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Taming a Monstrous Genre: Vexed Author-Figures and their Lethal Texts: 1719 to 1824
… the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed conventions of various prose genres and was accused of morally corrupting its readers. To escape cultural disparagement, novelists tried to impose a didactic framework on their novels. However, such didacticism was undermined because the …
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Food in Agatha Christie
… and drink can convey in Agatha Christie's two novels (And Then There Were None; Ordeal by Innocence) and in the BBC's visual representations.
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Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy.
… of the evolution of the eighteenth-century British novel by reading it as a response to contemporary interest in, and self-consciousness about, print communication. During the eighteenth century, print went from being a marginal technology to being one with an increasingly wide circulation …
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"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826
… visual and literary representations of gout in British literature and popular culture during the period 1744-1826 evince anxieties regarding over-consumption, particularly in relation to imperial expansion. I argue that the prevalence of gout in graphic satire indicates a common cultural …
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Samuel Richardson's Revisions to Pamela (1740, 1801)
… climb more believable to readers outside the novel and to "readers" inside the novel. Pamela alters her language, her actions, and her role in the household by the end of the first edition; in the fourteenth edition, however, she changes in little more than her title. Pamela might begin as a …
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God and the Novel in India
The novel especially the realist novel has been generally understood as a secular, disenchanted form, but the history of the Indian novel complicates this view. A seminal trajectory of realist novels situated in India, by native and non-resident writers alike, presents a perception of God in the …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… is unknown.” My dissertation explores how the novel’s attempts to represent this inherently intimate and estranging “virgin forest” also test its formal limitations. From free indirect discourse to stream of consciousness, the development of the novel is marked by different modes of reproducing …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
… women, how this social shift is reflected in the novel, and how authors respond to the issue of plainer women and issues of their marriageability. I look at how these authorial attitudes shifted over the century, observing that the issue of plain women and their marriageability was dramatized by …