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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Mary Elizabeth"”.
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Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
… for audiences with several theatrical rivals. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, the best-selling author of Lady Audley's Secret and co-creator of the ""sensation"" novel, was a favorite with dramatists. By reading twelve of her novels in conjunction with the twenty-seven plays based upon them, this study …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… With a specific focus on Geraldine Jewsbury, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, I closely examine the ways in which these female redactors invoke and challenge male-authored texts within an established patriarchal literary tradition in order to create for themselves a …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… As I examine the work of Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, my project traces what I suggest is a particularly Victorian desire to empirically account for the material facts of the world and a simultaneous reluctance to abandon a sense of moral …
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Privately deviant, publicly disciplined: the violent seizure of female narratives in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, and Lady Audley’s Secret
… society. What Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon emphasize and “sensationalize” is the subjugated marriage relationship, violently portraying men forcing their wives into submission. Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Collin’s The Woman in White, and Braddon’s Lady Audley’s …
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
… novel, <em>Lady Audley’s Secret</em> by Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the boundaries of both crime and insanity. As the main character, Robert Audley, investigates the mysterious disappearance of his close friend, he begins to suspect that his uncle’s new wife, Lucy Audley, may be …
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… the ungovernable side of femininity. The primary focus will be on the female protagonist in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Wilkie Collins Armadale, Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask,’ and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne.1 The effects of the moral and social climate of the nineteenth …
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… novels and argues that Lady Audley’s actions in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret can be attributed to her role as someone that affects the wrong way. Readers cannot entirely sympathize with Lady Audley or Isabel Vane, but they can recognize themselves within the frustrations and …
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The vampire as eugenic examiner, 1880-1896.
… Cowles', Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla' and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Good Lady Ducayne' but also in the fiction of less familiar authors such as Count Eric Stenbock's 'A True Story of a Vampire'. I argue that the victims that feature in these tales can all be considered a danger to society …
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The laws of verse : the poetry of Alice Meynell and its literary contexts, 1875-1923
… hand, of Victorians like Coventry Patmore and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to, on the other hand, major architects of Modernism like Pound and Eliot, generating, ultimately, a new and alternative perspective for interpreting poetry as a cultural practice in one of its most contested historical …
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Antipodal England: Emigration, gender, and portable domesticity in Victorian literature and culture
… in novels by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Catherine Helen Spence, and in cultural artifacts such as emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, and a narrative painting. My first chapter considers the centrality of domestic practices aboard emigrant ships, where family …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… of Sigmund Freud. Then I trace the effects of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's incompletely accomplished erasure of the asexual possibility in Lady Audley's Secret. I both extend and depart from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's arguments in Epistemology of the Closet as I show how asexuality's defiance of the …
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The Limits of Good Intentions: A Historical Analysis of Pioneering Progressive Educators In Upstate South Carolina (1910-1920)
… now as part of Spartanburg Methodist College. Mary Elizabeth Frayser (1868-1968) engaged in early extension work in the mill villages sponsored by a collaborative effort between Clemson and Winthrop colleges. This study examines their individual educational philosophies, unique curricula, and …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… examines texts by many authors, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Dinah Mulock Craik, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Mrs. Henry Wood.
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… to the traditionally silenced, objectified dead. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge employs negative capability in Fancy's Following, where she fluidly combines religious and gothic discourse to demonstrate the necessity of tempering faith with a healthy sense of questioning and doubt, as humans are …
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Not Just the Facts: Victorian Detective Fiction's Critique of Information
… I consider, this becomes less of a problem. For Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), abstract information is a deeply problematic idea, and the text sets a trap for us into which we might fall if we fail to understand the alienated nature of such information. Bracebridge Hemyng’s …
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
… in depth--Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry James, and Arnold Bennett--each expressed an active interest in the technical elements of fiction, and each addressed the assumption that writers who were truly talented didn't need technique. In viewing these writers' …
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Tuning of the middle ear in túngara frogs ( Engystomops pustulosus)
<p>To effectively communicate using sound, animals have to hear well in the frequency range of their calls. In frogs, body size is a major predictor of both the dominant frequency of the mating call, and the frequency of best sensitivity of the ear, which tend to match each other. Various pathways …
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The Influence of National Standards for Early Childhood Programs on Selected Rural Settings of the Education Service Centers in East Texas
This study addressed the current status of early childhood curriculum design and implementation in the Texas Education Service Centers Seven and Eight. No Previous research about the characteristics of the preschool programs had been completed in those areas. This research established if preschool …
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Hand-Wrist Bone Age in Children Treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
<p>Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is the most common malignancy of childhood, constituting 31 percent of all childhood malignancies. Treatment strategies to target ALL include chemotherapeutic agents, irradiation of the neck and/or spine, and bone marrow transplantation. The aggressive nature …
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