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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"British literature"”.
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Politics in British Literature 1688-1885
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Scaffold Fiction: Execution and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… of the individual resulted in a new type of literature that I call scaffold fiction, a genre that persists to this day. Representations of execution in eighteenth-century tragedy, in Gothic narratives, and in novels of sensibility centered more and more on a hero’s scaffold anxiety as a means …
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
… 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 the truthfulness of nature as applied to …
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The Counterfactual History Novel in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… between the slow decline of this form of literature as a consequence of the combined effect of the rise of historical studies as a serious academic discipline during the 1830s, and the growing trend for the realist novel throughout the following decades. My dissertation explores how …
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Italian Unity as Leitmotiv in British Literature, 1820-1865
… Italy was the leitmotiv helped convince the British public that Italy should be an independent and unified nation. This work traces the progression of printed British works of poetry, periodical reviews, travel guides and serialized novels from 1820-1865 and shows that the consistent theme of …
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
Somewhat unexpectedly, saints' lives provided rich material for literary writing in the first half of the 20th century or modernist period. This study examines commonalities in how George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited …
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"Warfare, Trade, and ""Indians"" in British Literature, 1652--1711"
… and challenges postcolonial interpretations of British perceptions of East and West ""Indians"" in the long eighteenth century. I argue that extremely popular voyage narratives during this period reflected and shaped British people's tendency to view Mughal Indians as similar and in some ways …
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"Warfare, trade, and ""Indians"" in British literature, 1652-1711"
… and challenges postcolonial interpretations of British perceptions of East and West “Indians” in the long eighteenth century. I argue that extremely popular voyage narratives during this period reflected and shaped British people’s tendency to view Mughal Indians as similar and in some ways even …
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Urban Space in Postcolonial British Literature
… Along with tracking a historical progression of British legislation dealing with immigrant and minority communities, these three texts offer a map of the progression of aesthetic strategies available to authors, beginning with Emecheta’s narrative documentary, and then Rushdie’s unsettled …
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Ancestral voices: Maria Edgeworth and other orphans of British literature.
… voices: Maria Edgeworth and other orphans of British literature.
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… exotics, applying the narrative of invading British empire to the behavior of foreign plants. However, such accounts do not fully acknowledge the cultural work that images of foreign plants do. I opt instead for an ecocritical reappraisal of the idea of “invasive species,” one that …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… to our understanding of self-development in literature, Object Lessons: Technologies of Education in British Literature: 1762-1851, examines Romantic-era and Victorian writers who represent education as an embodied experience, with learning and literacy grounded in what they called “object …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… level? Literary scholars have read interwar literature as an attempt to work through war trauma, and they have focused on the transformative cultural changes the war brought about. The field has not, however, given sustained attention to the threat that the war posed to established models of …
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Contract and contradiction: Representations of women's labor in 18th century British literature.
… Representations of women's labor in 18th century British literature.
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Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… focuses on portrayals of music in 19th century British literature and culture, and the way that it reveals expectations and assumptions regarding gender roles and behavior. Through this study of accounts of musical performance, in sources such as fictional representations, performance reviews in …
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From borders to topographies: identities and expansion in British literature, 1620-1750
… on representations of borders in early modern literature—their permeability, their shifting configurations, and the ways in which they are reinforced. I analyze how the English became increasingly obsessed with borders because of travel, trade, and colonialism; these factors then delineate …
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Celibate pleasures: convents, asexuality, and women's agency in British literature, 1660-1760
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… on women and marriage in nineteenth-century British history and fiction, this dissertation, The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, is the first to apply consent theory to those unions. Modern consent theory dictates that for individuals to …
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The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… of selfhood emerged in nineteenth-century British literature, one that recognized the individual will and environmental influence not as antithetical but as dialectical forces in the formation of the self. The concept of an externally negotiated subject challenges both the inward and …
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Voicing imperial subjects in British literature : a corpus analysis of literary dialect, 1768-1929
… The works included in it were produced by British authors between 1768 and 1929 – a period marking the expansion and height of the British Empire. One of the project’s aims is to examine the connections among dialect representation and the imperial project, to investigate how …
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