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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Mary Hays"”.
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Models of Claim, Resistance, and Activism in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Frances Burney
… usage and construction of the term “claim” in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Francis Burney’s The Wanderer. By tracking the frequency of “claim” and its collocates through corpora, this thesis explicates each author’s distinct construction …
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… 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 of the 1790s as …
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The spirit of cleavage : pedagogy, gender, and reform in early nineteenth-century British women's fiction
… British women novelists--Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Amelia Opie, Hannah More, Sydney Owenson, and Mary Brunton--attempt to reconstruct culturally dominant gender representations through their discourse on education. More pointedly, I measure the possible efficacy of these reformist efforts …
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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 …