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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"British fiction"”.
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Constructions Of Anarchism In British Fiction, 1885-1914
… examines constructions of anarchism in selected fiction published in Britain between 1885 and 1914. It does so in the larger context of ideological constructions of anarchism within late-Victorian and Edwardian media, popular and literary culture. It also makes use, particularly in its first two …
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Material factors affecting the publication of black British fiction
… factors affecting the publication of black British fiction during the last three decades of the twentieth century. It argues that a study of the publishing history of black British fiction in this period must take into account wider political and cultural issues, as well as the internal …
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… unfamiliar form to most readers and writers of fiction. Yet, as this thesis will argue, fictional sermons are still successfully used by novelists. The thesis examines sermons in three genres, and representing three Christian traditions, the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Free Church. The genres …
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… function within eighteenth-century English fiction.
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The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in Thirties British Fiction
… analyzes the appeal of things in thirties British literature. I argue that in a time in which a catastrophic and world-changing war seemed to be on the way, many writers saw seemingly unshakable material things as a source of comfort. Drawing on thing theory, I explore thirties writers' …
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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… it shapes everyday life. When eighteenth-century fiction and philosophy first began to link selfhood to the ability to manage risk, the dangers an individual faced were all potentially lethal threats to the body: shipwreck, cannibalism, plague, kidnapping, rape. As the notion of individuality as a …
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Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 73155 Lift date: 2017-01-21T19:56:18Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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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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Fending off feminization : erecting gender/ed boundaries and preserving masculinity in 1930s British fiction
… networks of gender anxieties resonate in 1930s British fiction through the establishment and erosion of rhetorical gender/ed boundaries. Although fears regarding the political landscape, social unrest, and war were instrumental in shaping the literary responses of the decade, those fears were …
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Stretched Out on Her Grave: Pathological Attitudes Toward Death in British Fiction 1788-1909
Nineteenth-century British fiction is often dismissed as necrophillic or obsessed with death. While the label of necrophilia is an apt description of the fetishistic representations of dead women prevalent at the end of the century, it is too narrow to fit literature produced earlier in the …
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
Repeatedly in eighteenth-century fiction, the widow embodies a narrative agency that has as its actual counterpart the directive relation to property granted to widows by English law: unlike a wife, a widow had a separate legal identity and could hold real property as could a man. Common law dower …
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"It is written": representations of determinism in contemporary popular science writing and contemporary British fiction
… writing – popular science writing and narrative fiction. Specifically, I consider the representations of determinism in recent works by a number of writers from both genres, concentrating on the literary techniques employed by popular science writers, and the scientific concepts incorporated by …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… of interior space in twentieth-century British and Irish texts, where the question of “home” has an urgency that is particular to a century in which personal and national spaces underwent extraordinary transformation. I examine national change at the level of the interior room, where …
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Forming Ideology: The Work of Narrative Form in the Victorian Novel
… the social via the formal in nineteenth-century British fiction. It reads a wide range of mostly Victorian novels to illustrate how narrative form acts as a determining, not just determined, component of ideological work, and to uncover the largely unrecognized work this type of reading brings to …
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Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
… position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it. Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the source of a conflict between postmodernism and postcolonialism. I suggest that each writer engages with postmodemist …
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Generating Newness: The Third Space Modality in The Buddha Of Suburbia, Fruit of the Lemon and White Teeth
… in relation to the identity crises of four fictional second-generation immigrants of colour – Karim Amir in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Faith Jackson in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon and Irie Jones and Millat Iqbal in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth – I show how the medium of late …
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Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel: Studies in Form and Meaning from James Joyce to Anne Enright
… of death that lends modern Irish narrative fiction much of its interest. The story of death and dying in the Irish novel is not simply one of declining Catholicism and rising secularism. This study shows that while Irish Catholic notions of death and dying were always challenged by …
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
… is not a feature unique to mid-twentieth century British fiction. What has been overlooked by scholarship, however, is the significance of the connection drawn by a range of novelists in the twentieth century between the long-term psychological effects of aberrations like world war and genocide, …
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