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The explorer in English fiction
… that many conventions which are recurrent in the fiction inhere in the actual business of coming to grips with the unknown, I begin with a theoretical introduction illustrated chiefly from the writings of explorers. Travelogues reveal how large a part projection plays in every rendering of …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… that many conventions which are recurrent in the fiction inhere in the actual business of coming to grips with the unknown, I begin with a theoretical introduction illustrated chiefly from the writings of explorers. Travelogues reveal how large a part projection plays in every rendering of …
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The language of painting in nineteenth-century English fiction
… material is appropriated in these novelists' fiction and whether the fiction draws structural support and meaning from pictorial concepts. The thesis furthermore investigates the inverse question of how the fiction itself becomes a context which not only reflects, but also shapes and alters …
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The effect of the Catholic revival on English fiction (1850-1900)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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The Diffusion of Religious Doubt in Late Nineteenth Century English Fiction
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… cannibal metaphors in early twentieth-century English fiction, exploring how one of the most powerfully enduring colonial tropes about the savage Other seeped into the literary imagination of English-language authors and informed much of their imagery. I read cannibalism as a complicated trope: …
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Irish Life and Character in Anglo-Irish and English Fiction During the Career of Maria Edgeworth
… characters and scenes in the Anglo-Irish and English fiction of the early nineteenth century, I have found that the abnormal times were productive of many of the strange types portrayed by the novelists. Reference to the traditions, social customs, and well-known characteristics of the Irish …
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The Picaresque Tradition in English Fiction to 1770: A Study of Popular Backgrounds, With Particular Attention to Fielding and Smollett
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… outside the class system and yet inside the English social framework, it provides writers a pivotal location in which people across the social spectrum interact. In part, the anonymity afforded at inns also provides a foreign, almost exotic, atmosphere that begs for romance, intrigue, and …
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The Realism of George Moore
… was something more than an imitator of French fiction and whether he contributed something new to the English realist tradition has not been studied. Procedure. The multifarious literary currents in England during the Nineties were examined. Then George Moore's realist novels were studied with …
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LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS
This thesis comprises an original work of fiction, entitled Liberty Horses, and a commentary which explores and compares postmodern English and American fiction, locating my own creative writing practice in that field of contemporary writing. My original work of fiction, Liberty Horses, is divided …
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‘Paul Scott’s Hippie’ and Hanging On
… the evolution of genre and aesthetic in English fiction about South Asia, and a novel about a family of Sri Lankans settled in England. In the essay I question how a contemporary English novelist can place himself amongst the cohort of those earlier writers who have written about South …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
… conservative poetics (thought to be peculiar to English fiction) and assimilated to a humanistic moral branch of existentialism. My own method, then, is to attempt to look more closely at what I call the "reflexive positions" of each of the three novels under discussion and to account for their …
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Rewriting the nation: a comparative study of Welsh and Scottish women's fiction from the wilderness years to post-devolution
… both Welsh and Scottish women’s writing in English, and their preoccupations with gendered inequalities and language during the pre- and post-devolutionary period. The third chapter examines Welsh and Scottish women’s writing from the first failed referendum (1979) to the second successful …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
This thesis examines the fictional works of Magaret Oliphant’s Chronicles of Carlingford in order to explain her understanding of the significance of Church and Chapel communities and their clergymen within an insular and atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
The changing role of women was arguably the most fundamental area of concern and crisis in the Victorian era. Recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the evolving role of women, particularly in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type …
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