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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Long nineteenth century"”.
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Facing The Animal : Physiognomy and Pathognomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
… human faces during the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries to investigate how animal faces inform, challenge, and extend representations and theories of animality, and of the human face. Two texts that greatly influenced theories of face-reading are Johann Casper Lavater’s Essays on …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century” examines depictions of black rebellion in American and African American literature spanning from the 1830s to the early 1900s. From enslaved uprisings and black armies to worker strikes and insurgent plots, black rebellion …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
In Britain’s long-nineteenth century (1789-1914), religious explanations of the world were challenged with the rise of science, leading to the question of how religion survived. Both fiction and non-fiction explored this issue, offering ‘thought experiments’ regarding religion’s role in society; …
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Blasphemous bodies: Transgressive morality as cultural interrogation in romance fiction of the long nineteenth century
The long nineteenth century was characterized by advances in medical, biological and technological knowledge that often complicated definitions of human life and blurred the lines between life and death. These changes impacted both beliefs and practices surrounding the human body and …
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"The Bower Yet Remains": Historical and Archaeological Technomic Analysis of Anchor Design Trends in The Long Nineteenth Century
… the scope of maritime commerce during the "long nineteenth century" (1789-1914) by focusing on technological change. Historical and archaeological anchor data pertaining to Anglo-American anchor design was collected from Washington, D.C., and North Carolina and analyzed in light of …
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The Age of Insects: Gender, Class, Race and the Experience of British Entomology in the Long Nineteenth Century
… well-known politician and man of science, the long nineteenth century was the Age of Insects, with unparalleled interest in insects across the British Isles and empire. Thus far, histories of British entomology have mostly been dominated by questions of professionalisation. But what happens if …
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"Of old Puritan stock" : shifting Catholic memory of the Puritans across the long nineteenth century, 1788–1920.
… rhetorical uses of Puritan memory across the long nineteenth century, this thesis argues that shifts in memory demonstrate how American Catholics negotiated their place in society using stories and ideas usually associated with Protestants. During the antebellum era, Catholics used "Puritan" …
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Place and displacement: the unsettling connection of women, property, and the law in British novels of the long nineteenth century
… examines how British novels produced during the long nineteenth century, the period from 1750 to 1919, represent thetenuous connection of women to property and place. A paradox of the era was that while women tended to be relegated to theconfines of the domestic realm as daughters, sisters, …
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
Shipwrecks in nineteenth-century literature have commonly been interpreted as metaphors for religious crisis or loss of faith. Yet by reading shipwreck as only a metaphor, I argue that we have lost a sense of the historical reality that shaped nineteenth century readers and writers' imaginative …
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
… the local reading culture of Cork city over the long nineteenth century, focusing on bookshops, libraries and reading rooms. It considers the question of the affordability of reading material and the ways it was accessed by the city’s population. It begins by looking at the city’s bookshops and …
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Gaming Like a State: Historical Strategy Game Victoria and "Keyboard Politics" in China
… to "game like a state" in its simulation of the long-nineteenth-century global history. By examining the game design and analyzing paratexts from the Chinese player community—including forum discussions, game reviews, video recordings, and user-created mods— this research investigates the …
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The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857)
… referred to as the <em>Orient</em> during the long nineteenth century. <em>Imaginative geography</em> refers to a subjective collection of associations that accumulate around a place about which positive knowledge is limited, such that the imaginative associations overpower and structure any …
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Modernist Orientalisms: Klee, Matisse, and North Africa, c. 1906-1930
… in the visual arts within the framework of the long nineteenth century. Until now, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse's separate exotic travels to Tunisia and Morocco just before World War I and their related works have been regarded as culminations of conservative academic nineteenth-century …
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… I study a range of texts written during the long nineteenth century by male and female authors, including Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (1806), The History of Mary Prince (1831), Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883). …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848--1914
… of nationalities in central Europe across the long nineteenth century. It shows how numbers and maps were used to transform the abstract and frustratingly plastic concept of nationality into a seemingly tangible entity, whose exact spatial dimensions could objectively be measured, classified …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914
… of nationalities in central Europe across the long nineteenth century. It shows how numbers and maps were used to transform the abstract and frustratingly plastic concept of nationality into a seemingly tangible entity, whose exact spatial dimensions could objectively be measured, classified …
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building
The heroic claims of twentieth-century architects notwithstanding, modern American architecture was built by general contractors. This new type of builder was unknown to US Americans before the Civil War, but by the turn of the twentieth century they commanded a powerful position in the widening …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… the relationship between race and nature in nineteenth-century America by analyzing texts that attempt to discover, create, or preserve a pure national identity. Historical events in the nineteenth-century U.S. - such as mass immigration, Native American displacement, industrialization, …
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The dream of a madman : constructing the male opera singer in nineteenth-century Britain
In the nineteenth century, British men who sang continental opera found themselves in a uniquely problematic position. This is because opera had long been entangled in a web of negative ideas about music, performance, national identity, and gender. It was an art form that was seen as both foreign …
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The pen and the sword: the development of military periodicals and military professionalisation, 1790-1914
… fitted into the wider publishing environment. Alongside that, it will investigate those people who were involved with these publications, the proprietors, publishers, printers, contributors and readers, including how they were purchased and where they were read. Finally it will look at the role …
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