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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Nineteenth-Century Fiction"”.
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Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how the organizing force of the Anglican Church and the figure of the Anglican clergyman were used to interrogate social, legal, and historical developments in nineteenth-century fiction. The project outlines how …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
"This project claims the term ""cognitive fictions"" to describe an overlooked epistemology of race and gender in the late-19 th and early-20th century U.S., one that challenges inherited assumptions about the relationships among aesthetics, science, and embodied identity. Histories of …
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Monomania: The Life and Death of a Psychiatric Idea in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1836-1860
This thesis is about the nineteenth-century psychiatric idea, monomania, in medical, literary and popular discourse from 1836-1860. I examine patient case-notes from the Bethlem, York Retreat and Surrey County Pauper Asylum to establish that the experiential or ‘real’ narratives of monomaniacs …
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
… representations of nervous shock and trauma in nineteenth-century Russian literature, with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is often retrospectively …
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The vampire as eugenic examiner, 1880-1896.
… figure of the vampire is used by some authors of nineteenth century fiction to eugenically test their victims: killing and sterilizing where they find degenerate behaviours that would harm society were the victims allowed to breed. This occurred not only in texts by well-known authors such as Sir …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
… agency in the mediation and reception of mid nineteenth-century fiction from the end of the 1840s until the beginning of the 1870s. It demonstrates how women participated in shaping an ideology of the feminine by utilising the platform of periodical reviewing to monitor constructions of …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… Gubar's ideas on madness and confinement in nineteenth-century fiction are applied to five plays from the 1970s and 1980s. And from feminist film theory, Laura Mulvey's early ideas on the representation of women from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" are applied to four plays from the …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… is largely hidden or ignored by other genres of nineteenth-century fiction. The immediacy of non-human threats to the protagonists forces reader and author alike to confront the independent will not only of wild animals but also of the trees, rocks, and rivers covering the surface of the "New …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship. Friendship also became integral to continental philosophy’s exploration of the ontology of democracy, and, in a different guise, to histories of sexuality. Across these disciplines, friendship has …
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‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… invoked concept of ‘violent emotion’ in nineteenth-century literature, seeking to articulate what a poetics of violent emotion looks like in the novel between 1847 and 1895. It shows that for novelists such as Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the problem of …
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"A ""Greater Britain"": colonial kin in fictions of settlement, 1850-1890"
This dissertation traces the ways in which nineteenth-century fictional narratives of white settlement represent “family” as, on the one hand, an abstract theoretical model for a unified and relatively homogenous British settler empire and on the other, a fundamental challenge to ideas about …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… of incorporating regional dialects into the nineteenth-century English novel form. After roughly 1850, there is a distinct expansion of publications written in dialect in England. This is owing to both a peak in academic interest in comparative philology and publishers’ recognition of the …
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… the madman as a crazed oracle in the sixteenth century to the perception of the madman as a criminal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the nineteenth-century madman was even more difficult to define. Because insanity was deemed the inverse of bourgeois normativity and conservative …