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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"English fiction 19th century History and criticism"”.
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… 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 that exists between …
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : the education of Catherine Morland.
… Northanger Abbey as the story of Catherine Morland, a young woman in search of an education. While Catherine's formal training has been nominal before the novel's beginning, the heroine attains various types of education in a short span of time, thereafter. First, a consideration of Catherine's …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
… identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and …
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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 …