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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Edwardian"”.
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Lawrence and the Edwardian realist theatre
… such an ordering principle.The sense of form in Edwardian drama tended to emanate from two different but linked sources: formal construction, plays with a beginning, a middle and an end; and a structure of received ideas, an overt ideology which informs the plays with a cohesive intellectual …
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The Last Laugh: Selected Edwardian Punch Cartoons of Edward Linley Sambourne
… myriad of political topics prevalent during the Edwardian period in British history. This thesis examines two of those topics - Women's Suffrage and Socialism - through their artistic treatment by one of Britain's most influential periodicals. Through a study of the historical context and …
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Robert Hugh Benson and the Catholic Literary Revival in Edwardian England
… Hugh Benson was a popular religious author in Edwardian England; however, he has been all but forgotten by posterity. This study re-examines Benson's contribution to the Catholic Literary Revival, a movement rooted in Romanticism. Benson utilized a "ministerial approach" to spread his message …
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Leading Ladies: A Study of Eight Late Victorian and Edwardian Political Wives
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
This thesis offers an assessment of the Edwardian Reformation and its significance for the wider development of English Protestantism by examining the liturgical reforms of the period. The central question that this thesis grapples with is, how did Edwardian reformers apply their theological …
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Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
… anxieties about urban life in late Victorian and Edwardian culture, and examines emotional responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely and permanently urbanised …
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The lives and works of the women artists at the Della Robbia Pottery Birkenhead in late Victorian and Edwardian England
… in the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian England. The findings are analysed in the light of interpretative models employed by feminist historians, particularly the view that women's professional involvement and access to training was shaped and constrained by ideologies of …
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Henry Lucy and the world of parliamentary journalism, 1872-1916
… parliament and the press in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The focus of the study is the life and career of Henry Lucy, widely regarded as the foremost parliamentary journalist of his time.
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
… West End Department Stores, and the enveloping Edwardian metropolis of London. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the 1906 historical melodrama Nero by Stephen Phillips to reveal the commodity-based mechanisms of Tree's production style, to describe the subject of its representation--not only the Emperor …
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Disclosure : the development of a classification system describing the historical design elements of women's corsets (1870-1911) in the absence of an exhibition : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Design (Fashion), Massey University
The Victorian and Edwardian corset is a significant historical design object. It is unique for its sophistication of the cut, the design, the combination of materials, complex construction techniques, elaborate and purposeful decoration and the integrated used of typography. This research develops …
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'There was never man handled as I am' : the legacy and significance of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 1558-1660
… for and adherence to the doctrine of the Edwardian reformers. Thus, this examination reveals the construction of Cranmer as a universally approved Protestant hero during the Elizabethan era, lasting into the 1630s. This came undone in the mid-seventeenth century, however, as debates over …
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The political socialisation of schoolgirls in England, 1870-1914
… political socialisation in late Victorian and Edwardian England. It challenges conventional interpretations of the gendering of politics in the period by showcasing schoolgirls’ active participation in parliamentary, electoral, suffrage, and imperial politics. Educational histories have either …
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
… sciences and their impact in Britain through the Edwardian and interwar eras. Using a variety of published and archival sources, the thesis makes three main contributions to scholarship. Firstly, it identifies tensions between narratives of naturalisation and narratives of eugenic manipulation …
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
… the world's largest collection of Victorian and Edwardian colonial architecture. Years of active neglect by the military government have preserved these aging structures, but this era is coming to an end amid with often conflicting pressures to modernize and campaigns to actively restore the …
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Constructions Of Anarchism In British Fiction, 1885-1914
… of anarchism within late-Victorian and Edwardian media, popular and literary culture. It also makes use, particularly in its first two chapters, of the work of M. M. Bakhtin, through whom it understands the novel as dialogizing these cultural ideologies.;Chapter One documents the …
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H. G. Wells: Prophet With Honor (Britain)
… journalism and much of is nonfiction. After the Edwardian period Wells's reputation as a novelist began to deteriorate. He continued to produce novels, but he turned more to the writing of journalism and nonfiction. Dismissed as "hack work," his journalism and much of his nonfiction is seen as …
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The Dominion Express Building : a cultural investigation
… size, a fine example of what has been called the Edwardian Commercial Style. Though traditional architectural history would minimize the importance of the Dominion Express Building, this study intends to reassert, through method developed by Cultural Studies, the building's significance in …
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Painting by Mouth: Art, Modernity and Disability. Bartram Hiles (1872-1927)
… Hiles’ disability within the late Victorian and Edwardian period in which he was active as a professional artist. Hiles is little known today and the study has been driven by primary archival research into his formal art education and professional career as a mouth-painting artist. Employing an …
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