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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"English culture"”.
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"""Addicted to Pleasures"": Representing Commodities of Empire and Consumerism in Eighteenth -Century English Culture"
… caffeine and nicotine into eighteenth-century English culture deeply impacted not just British society but, in addition, the content and style of writing in the period---fiction, poetry and drama---as filtered through literary representations. It provides meaningful knowledge towards a richer …
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Isaac Watts and the Culture of Dissent
… showing how Watts’ hymns were impacted by the English culture in which he lived and how they impacted the religious culture to which he belonged and preached: the Dissenters. Watts’ hymns were not the only texts that had an impact on the Dissenters. The psalters were considered by many (Calvin, …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… composed the three history plays discussed here, English culture faced a shift in its dominant belief system from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that …
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Heritage Fictions: The Country-House Novel, Preservation, and the New Britain
… Child</italic> (2011), in revisiting the English country house, reveal the centrality of preservationism to twentieth-century British identity. According to most critics, this site grows increasingly anachronistic as the century progresses, a repository for that which is considered out of …
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An analysis of the role of culture in the tradition of Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions into English
… to translate the linguistic superiority into English without acculturation? This study adopts the qualitative research method to present a detailed descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural framework of the Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions. It adopts Nord’s (1997/2000) Functionalist …
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Pedagogies Of Power: Gender, Race, And Bridewell Hospital On The Early Modern Stage
… of poor women’s agency in early modern English culture. It examines the dramatic representation of women whose virtue was always in question: poor women, low-rank maidservants, sex workers, and “masterless women.” It argues that literary representations of poor women’s agency illuminate …
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Sixteenth-century dialogic discourse: an exploration of Protestant selfhood in the writings of Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries
… the heart of late sixteenth-century Protestant culture. These issues relate especially to the assurance of faith, the problem of temptation, and the struggle to express one’s spirituality. The above writers used the dialogue form to explore Protestant interiority and self-scrutiny – and did so, …
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Intersections of Race and Class in 1830s Othello Burlesques
… of patent theater productions and middle-class culture. Their carnivalesque spectacle and low humor turned topsy-turvy what was falsely revered or pretentious in English society. This study, however, explores the extent to which some burlesques responded conservatively to social and legislative …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… The communication technologies of medieval English culture such as codex, oral tradition, epigraphy, printed book, and dramatic performance not only transmit early English poetry but supply symbolic forms that shape it as well. Approaching poetics through the medium allows original insights …
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The influence of culture on pro-environmental activities : comparing English, French and Italian Canadians
… concerned with examining the behaviors of English, French and Italian Canadians towards the environment. Given the bi-cultural environment of Montreal, Italian Canadians in our sample were divided into three groups: strong Italians, Italians acculturated toward the English culture, and …
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John Donne'S Misogyny
… approach to gender roles in Early Modern English culture, this thesis aims to acquire an understanding of what has been called for the sake of inquiry John Donne's "misogyny." In other words, this thesis, through a remembrance of the fact that a twenty-first century feminist …
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
… influenced portrayals of Turks on early modern English commercial and university stages, thus prompting the emergence of an anti-crusading discourse. In order to fully appreciate the work of these three authors and the way they conceived their plays, and positioned their voices, in this …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… "polite" dairies, within the gardens of wealthy English estates arose during the latter half of the eighteenth century. These polite dairies were functional spaces in which aristocratic women engaged, to varying degrees, in bucolic tasks of skimming milk, churning and molding butter, and …
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Shelley and Peterloo : radical, nationalist and balladeer
… appropriation of the balladand the indigenous English culture from which it came by both radicals andconservatives. The subsequent chapters focus on the "popular songs"demonstrating how, through a myriad of textual dialogues, these ballads,songs, sonnets and odes unashamedly appropriate style …
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Ideal and practice : aspects of noble life in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England
… implementation of the educational ideas of English humanists, and presents a detailed examination of the education provided to the nobility and its cost. The third chapter deals with the tradition of reward and almsgiving as a realisation of the noble virtue of liberality. Scales showing the …
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Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature
<p>Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature</p> <p>Over the past several decades, material culture scholars working within the “Long 18<sup>th</sup> Century” have identified how the figure of the woman consumer became an ideological nodal point that registered new …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
… artefacts contributing to the study of material culture and social history. However, this thesis shows how heterogeneous inventories found in early modern Scottish sources resist quantification and aggregation. Instead, qualitative use of inventory evidence is advocated. Inventories can …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… in England had a significant impact on English culture, language and literature and changed attitudes to their own legendary past. The Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh-century also brought the insular and Scandinavian worlds closer together, and even after the Norman …
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Rede of Reeds: Land and Labour in Rural Norfolk
… But what are these meanings of "common sense" in English culture, and how do they influence the peoples of England, and landscapes in which they work? This thesis addresses these questions ethnographically; using academic and lay deployments of common sense as a route into the political economy of …
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