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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Late-Victorian Period"”.
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Staging an Empire: How Late Victorian Theatre Represents Public Perceptions of the British Empire
ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: STAGING AN EMPIRE: HOW LATE VICTORIAN THEATRE REPRESENTS PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Nicholas Appleton, Master of Arts, 2019 Thesis Directed By: Mircea Raianu PhD, Assistant Professor of History This thesis denotes the changing perception of the British empire …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
During the mid to late Victorian period, Euripides’ tale of Medea was given new life by the suffragette movement. As Victorians began to question women’s rights and capabilities, Medea’s story resurfaced as a cautionary tale showing the damage that occurs when women repress and shape their …
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The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity
… firmly in the social and cultural context of late-nineteenth-century Britain and its empire. Using sources such as letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, published and unpublished accounts, graphical representations, and a range of representations of the campaign as portrayed in popular British …
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"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940
… I look at three boys' adventure books from the late Victorian period and the early twentieth century: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, R. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Though critics have often suggested that these works, each of which is …
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Socialisation and subversion : the development of the Victorian children's literary fairy tale
… into two sections, fairy tales of the early Victorian period and those of the middle and late Victorian period. It is argued that the fairy tales present in England during the first time period were mostly imported translations from other European countries while the fairy tales of the second …
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Working-Class Capitalists; The development and financing of worker-owned companies, in the Irwell Valley, 1849-1875.
… and controlled companies were created in the period from 1850 to the onset of the Cotton Famine in 1861, with shares sold to other local people through pubs and shops. A database of these shares forms the basis of this thesis and their analysis provides much of the raw material. Following the …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
In this project, I argue that during the late-Victorian period a revived form of paganism developed in response to an emerging kind of secularity. My first chapter engages post-secularism as a framework for understanding how paganism responds to this new sense of secularity, which I demonstrate …
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The Representation of Association Football in Fine Art in England From its Origins to the Present Day
… of football in English art from the late Victorian period up to 2010. In general terms, with minor but notable exceptions, the analysis will centre on the work of fine artists working in 2D, whose work has length and width much like a football pitch. The thesis will look at how …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
From the late Victorian period to the early twentieth century, Arthur Machen's life and his writing provide what Deleuze and Guattari argue to be the value of the minor author: Contemporary historical streams combine in Machen's fiction and non-fiction. The concerns and anxieties in the writing …
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British Orientalist Painting in the Victorian Art World
… paintings in relation to the four agents of the Victorian art world: the artist, dealer, press, and patron. With a particular focus on the 1880s, a decade in which there was a notable rise in the production and display of Orientalist subjects at the Royal Academy, I examine the reception and …