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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"High Society"”.
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Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900
… Age economic extravagance, the women of New York High Society maintained an elite social identity by possessing, displaying, and cultivating cultural capital. Particularly, High Society women sought to exclude the Nouveaux Riches who, after amassing vast fortunes in industry or trade, came to New …
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She Will Be the Last of Us
… once a stronghold in Mexican politics and high society, now nearing extinction. The collection explores the idea of legacy and repeated history, and what matters and remains when a family line dies out. Other thematic focuses include notions of class, nationalism, womanhood, and motherhood …
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The body of letters in Proust's Albertine Disparue
… the lessons he learned from stepping out into high society. The large body of letters in "Albertine disparue" offers Marcel the opportunity to experience at first hand how written language functions. In effect, language and how it generates meaning in Proustian terms is one of the central …
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Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'
… snores and drools just as her husband does. The high-society protagonist in "Le Signe," Madame de Grangerie, is also disenchanted with her interest in imitating the gesture of a prostitute she notices across the street. When faced with a male client she frantically gives in to what she has …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… while still preoccupied with Parisian high society. During the First World War, he retired to the solitude of his cork-lined bedroom and wrote what many consider to be the best novel of the twentieth century. Proust's early works are fits and starts for his philosophy of communication …
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The political role of women in north-east Ulster, 1890-1940
… from entertaining Tory and unionist leaders in high society to membership of popular political associations, such as the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.<br/><br/>In spite of the variance of aims and levels of support which existed …
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
… Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English bourgeois audiences at the turn of the century, Tree filled his stage with scenery, props and supernumeraries that together testified to his wealth as a producer and his ability to consume. This study investigates …
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
… about the ‘nervous’ condition of Parisian high society. With a focus on Blanche’s depictions of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and the Comtesse de Castiglione (1837-1899), the thesis considers Blanche’s ‘neurasthenic portraits’ in relation to discourses on modern psychiatry, modernity, and …