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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Leslie Stephen"”.
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"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory
… Woolf and one memoir written by her father, Leslie Stephen, along with Woolf's novel, <em>To the Lighthouse</em>, I will investigate the memoir genre, particularly in the context of understanding a shared history. These four texts provide a means of analyzing how texts form a discourse and …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
… 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 Lang. In each instance the context of each critic's wider work …
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Virtue, God and necessity: a study of the metaphysical background of Shaftesbury's ethical thought
… in Britain than any other writer he knew. Leslie Stephen claimed that Shaftesbury is one of those writers whose reputation is scarcely commensurate with the influence which he once exerted. Herder called Shaftesbury the Plato of Europe. These and many other similar remarks are enough to …
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Learning disabilities in Britain 1780-1880: perceptions and practice
… from the aristocracy, while Laura, daughter of Leslie Stephen of DNB fame, is from the middle class intelligentsia. This makes the similarity of responses to an intellectually impaired child the more interesting. For the most part, a child's difficulty was conceptualised as an educational, …
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Structure, Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin and Tsunamigenic Hazards in the Western Caribbean and the South China Sea
The Colombian Caribbean Margin extends for ~850 km, southwest to northeast, from the Panama to Venezuela. Along the margin, the subduction of the Caribbean plate has formed an accretionary prism defining the edge of the overriding South American plate. This dissertation focusses on the late …