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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Cranford."”.
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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
… subversive performances in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. Referencing studies of nineteenth-century performance theory, I will argue that Gaskell, aware of her contemporaries' obsession with theatricality, created works that are ultimately concerned with …
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"Trifles of value": Craft as communication in Victorian literature
… female identity in Elizabeth Gaskell's <em>Cranford</em> and Margaret Oliphant's <em>Miss Marjoribanks</em>. By looking at the novels through the lens of Talia Schaffer's craft paradigm in connection with Thing theory, it is possible to make connections between the role of craft and …
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Sustainable landfill leachate treatment using a willow vegetation filter
… willow plots (25x50 m2) were installed at Cranford landfill, Northamptonshire, UK, and irrigated with landfill leachate between June 2001 and October 2005. During the growing season, leachate volume was often reduced to zero. On other occasions, maximum removal efficiencies of between 33 % …
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Contextualizing Value: Market Stories in Mid-Victorian Periodicals
… income. Chapter Three moves to Gaskell’s “Cranford Papers” to argue that their diligent tracing of the careful consumption of small wholes and cultivation of irregular habits constitutes an insistence on the plurality of appropriate models of consumption and value. Shifting the discussion …
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Teacher Perceptions of Mandated Collaboration Through Professional Learning Communities
<p>Georgia Rule 505-2-.36, implemented in July of 2017, revised teacher recertification policy to include administrative evaluations of professional growth resulting from teachers’ engagement in professional learning communities (PLCs). The rule represented the convergence of two possibly …
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Nanomechanical coupling of mechanomutable polyelectrolytes
Nanotechnology has advanced to the point where almost any molecular functional group can be introduced into a composite material system. However, emergent properties attained via the combination of arbitrary components - e.g., the complexation of two weak polyelectrolytes - is not yet predictive, …
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Impact of sire PTA<SUB>SCS</SUB> on mastitis resistance and measures of daughter performance
Research to determine the impact of PTA<SUB>SCS</SUB> on incidence of mastitis, daughter response to infection, and other measures of daughter performance was conducted using data on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lactation Holsteins obtained from the Virginia Tech herd and from VA DHI herds. Overall …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
… (1836-37), The Yellowplush Papers (1837-38), Cranford (1851-53), In a Glass Darkly (1872), and The Three Impostors (1895) make up an archive that articulates the still-prevalent view that marriage is static and hence refuses to accept it as plot. These works instead can be read not merely as …
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The European Influence Upon a Typical American: Mark Twain
As a reader fingers the pages of a hook, his mind searches for the definite purpose for which the work was written. One may not always realize that behind this purpose lies a field of influence which prompted the author to write, and which shaped the type of the literature in which he would express …