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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Nineteenth Century England"”.
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Engagement in Nineteenth-Century England
… current social and cultural historiography of nineteenth-century England. It does so by expanding and nuancing the study of romantic culture from the current narrative of ‘courtship and marriage’ to include the crucial period of engagement. Making a suitable, compatible marriage was, for most …
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Suicide, lunacy and the asylum in nineteenth-century England
… proportion of the annual admissions to nineteenth-century public lunatic asylums. They formed a distinct patient category that required treatment and management strategies that were capable of frustrating their suicidal propensity and alleviating their mental affliction. Yet despite …
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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… was to reassert the authority of the Church of England by re-awakening it to its own inherited catholicity – that is, its apostolic roots, its liturgical continuity with the ancient and medieval Christian Church, and its adherence to the traditionally and universally accepted doctrines of the …
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Information in nineteenth century England : exploring contemporary socio-cultural perceptions and understandings
… of `modern' information. The focus is on nineteenth century England and how contemporary society thought of and understood information. As a consequence of this, this work also investigates the role and manifestation of information according to these perceptions. The research explores …
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
<p>The starting point for my analysis of nineteenth-century criticism is the recognition that the word "aesthetic" was not commonly used in English until the early 1800s. For the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, English criticism still relied on an eighteenth-century vocabulary of …
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Rethinking Crime: Changing Attitudes Towards Law-Breakers in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England
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Neoclassic and romantic painting in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England and France
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Art, 1964
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The village shop and rural life in nineteenth-century England: cultural representations and lived experience
… and shopkeeper within village life during the nineteenth century, in terms of supplying goods and services, integrating and representing community as a place and a network of people, and projecting images of the rural into the wider national consciousness. It adopts an innovative …
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The image of idiocy in nineteenth-century England : a history of cultural representations of intellectual disability
Over the nineteenth century, the popular and the scientific understanding of idiocy changed in conjunction with shifts in social concerns and the emergence of new discourses. An examination of representations of idiocy over the century foregrounds the manner in which the condition was given shape …
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Millais’ Modern Christ: Religion and Critical Responses to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Nineteenth Century England
… that the new modern age brought to Victorian England. Catholic, Irish, and Protestant tensions had been mounting throughout the nineteenth century in England prior to the debut of the painting. Politics and law were beginning to relax restraints on Catholicism in addition to the increased …
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Divine providence and epidemic cholera : a contribution to the study of secularization of thought in nineteenth century England
… importance, and upon momentous occasions in nineteenthcentury England. Perceptions of divine involvement and purpose in human affairs embodied in the notion of providence seemed to be at the heart of a religious world view in the Christian tradition, and thus essential elements for study in …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
… insular and atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing on a variety of examples in the novels and in real life, the thesis argues that Oliphant was a serious commentator on religious matters and controversies and not just a teller of tales. The thesis will address …
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“To Happily Lay the Foundation of Patriotism in One Single Englishman”: Women, History Texts, and the Construction of English National Identity, 1820-1870
… historiography on nationalist pedagogy in nineteenth century England has not focused on women as major contributors to this process through their authorship of historical texts. This dissertation argues that school history texts authored by women in Romantic and Victorian England imbued an …
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Later Nineteenth Century Marriage And Divorce Law: The Changing Historiography Of The Law And British Women's History
… history and legal history with regard to later nineteenth century England have failed to interact in an appreciable way. In failing to do so a gap has gradually emerged between these two related but separate areas of historical inquiry. Women's and later gender history has tended to focus more …
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