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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Harriet Martineau."”.
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Controversies and contradictions: approaches to the study of Harriet Martineau 1802-76
This thesis is a reassessment of Harriet Martineau's place in feminist and mainstream scholarship. It focuses on Harriet Martineau, first, as a subject of research and, second, as an object of text. The importance of Harriet Martineau as a subject of research is explored through consideration of …
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Did Harriet Martineau's sociological methods influence Emile Durkheim's sociological methods?
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) published How to Observe Morals and Manners in 1838. The book was perhaps the first sociological methodology text. Emile Durkheim (1855-1917) published The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) 57 years later. Durkheim's book has traditionally been labeled as the first …
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Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot
… espouse them. In the fiction of Jane Austen, Harriet Martineau, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, matchmakers point to the competing doctrines of romantic fulfillment, personal liberty, domestic womanhood, and authorial prestige at play in the most prevalent genre of the Victorian era, the …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
… of critical work on Scott by, respectively, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Bagehot, John Ruskin, Leslie Stephen, Richard Hutton and Julia Wedgwood. The thesis concludes with an epilogic section covering critics of the late nineteenth century, including Frederic Harrison and Andrew …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
… I argue that autobiographical texts by Harriet Martineau, Fanny Kemble, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Townsend Warner manipulate their authors' celebrity status and relish the presence of their transatlantic public, shrewdly engaging hybrid, genre-specific narrative strategies aimed at …
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The Love of Learning in the Industrialized Age: Useful Knowledge, Imagination, and the Education of the Nineteenth-Century British Working Classes
… Priestley, Henry Brougham, Charles Knight, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Henry Huxley, and William Forster.</p><p>Recognizing “use” and “useful” to be situation–based terms whose meanings, at times, depend upon who will “use” the …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… led by Joshua Giddings, David Lee Child, and Harriet Martineau, themselves especially attuned to the rhythms of domination and subjugation, had the foresight to perceive the course of their nation: indeed the course of empire) and oppose the Second Seminole War for what it truly was. In 1835, …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
In this project, I argue that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, America became Britain's gothic double, making manifest some of Britain's most keenly felt anxieties. The increasing tensions in America, which finally erupted in civil war in 1861, unsettled the relationship between …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
In this project, I argue that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, America became Britain's gothic double, making manifest some of Britain's most keenly felt anxieties. The increasing tensions in America, which finally erupted in civil war in 1861, unsettled the relationship between …