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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Maria Edgeworth"”.
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Ancestral voices: Maria Edgeworth and other orphans of British literature.
Ancestral voices: Maria Edgeworth and other orphans of British literature.
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Irish Life and Character in Anglo-Irish and English Fiction During the Career of Maria Edgeworth
<p>In the Introduction to this work I have already set forth its scope and purpose. By examining in the light of Ireland's history the Irish characters and scenes in the Anglo-Irish and English fiction of the early nineteenth century, I have found that the abnormal times were productive of many of …
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Systems of Power, Systems of Space: Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats in Romantic Greater London
… structures in two elite suburbs depicted in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline, Or the Orphan of the Castle. The second chapter interprets the role of Hampstead in John Keats’ later poems. In works like “Ode to a Nightingale,” Lamia, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” a …
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Rational Creatures: Using Vector Space Models to Examine Independence in the Novels of Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson (1800–1820)
… and semantic networks) to the novels of Austen, Edgeworth, and Owenson. This study, therefore, seeks to evaluate the use of vector space models when applied to these novels. This research first defines a theoretical framework - enhanced reading - which combines the use of close and distant …
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BEGINNING A TRADITION: IRISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1800-1984 (EDGEWORTH, JOHNSTONE, KEANE, IRELAND).
… examines the fiction of Irish women writers from Maria Edgeworth in 1800 to Jennifer Johnston in 1984. Contemporary anthropological, psychoanalytical, and literary theory suggests that women, even those of different cultures, excluded from public life and limited to the domestic sphere, would …
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Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre
… and history. The works of William Butler Yeats, Maria Edgeworth, and Edith Somerville and Martin Ross are also employed to show evidence of the connection of Gone with the Wind to Irish Big House literature. This comparison results in a new approach to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind that …
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… received and adapted in the educative writing of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin. Focusing primarily on Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1798), and Godwin’s Fleetwood (1805), this thesis examines how Rousseau’s educational model was adapted towards the end …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… recognized importance of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith as commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' work, …
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… Semitism, and Victorian anthropology in works by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Tonna, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot and H. Rider Haggard.</p>
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… Two authors of national tales in particular, Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson, are critical of the travel narratives produced by British travellers to Ireland, and their resistance to these narratives is woven into their works. Edgeworth attaches great importance to eastward travel to …
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Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century
… <p>At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen attempted to define Britishness within an empire that was still establishing itself. The values and behaviors they chose to promote stemmed from a need to create a sense of a united Britain. Moreover, they were …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… Emma Courtney (1796) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James Fordyce's Sermons to Young …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
Contributing to our understanding of self-development in literature, Object Lessons: Technologies of Education in British Literature: 1762-1851, examines Romantic-era and Victorian writers who represent education as an embodied experience, with learning and literacy grounded in what they called …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
My thesis explores why beauty became so much more important in nineteenth-century Britain, especially for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected …