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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Nineteenth-century Culture"”.
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Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in the Gilded-Age United States
This dissertation examines a group of late nineteenth-century scientists, surveyors, foresters, and settlers interested in human-induced climate change and its implications. Uncertainty, science, and nature had many different meanings for these climate theorists. Some viewed climate and nature as …
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Completing the Circle: A Study of the Archetypal Male and Female in Nathaniel Hawthorne's <em>The Scarlet Letter</em>.
… are explored in the characters. The context is nineteenth-century culture of which Hawthorne is a product. The characters in The Scarlet Letter search for a complete existence, an integration of the unconscious and the conscious. Through a mythological study of Hawthorne’s work, we draw closer …
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861
… considerable success in other aspects of reform. Nineteenth-century Russians, simultaneously struggling with their own system of bonded labor, offer excellent counterpoints to reorient the role of antebellum southern reformers. Through their shared commitment to reforming liberalism, a preference …
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"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized, exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, in its most basic sense it refers to people raised in colonial territories and …
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Lord Byron and women's writing
… significant impact of female authors on Romantic culture more generally. By investigating their literary interlocutors and intertextual interactions, particularly those involving authors who have traditionally been overlooked, we shed light on the intellectual and artistic underpinnings of …
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The dream of a madman : constructing the male opera singer in nineteenth-century Britain
In the nineteenth century, British men who sang continental opera found themselves in a uniquely problematic position. This is because opera had long been entangled in a web of negative ideas about music, performance, national identity, and gender. It was an art form that was seen as both foreign …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
… flowed through individuals, toward the mid-century, this model left its place to formulations of sympathy as an alignment of affect between clearly separated subjects that could be achieved through sympathetic imagination. This epistemological and cultural shift is strongly apparent in both …
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“The most popular humorist who ever lived” : Mark Twain and the transformation of American culture
… cultural category that included high culture literary figures, such as James Russell Lowell and Bret Harte; literary comedians, such as Artemus Ward and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby; and clowns and minstrels, who were placed at the bottom of the hierarchy. I argue that Mark Twain muddied …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Voces, Silencios, Ambigüedades y Fantasmagorías en el Espacio Transafricano de la Narrativa de Viajes del Siglo XIX
… of the image of the afrodiasporic communities in Nineteenth Century travel narratives accounts for the implementation of certain ideological practices when they were intended to be narrated. This thesis argues that the depiction of the afrodiasporic experience functions as a dual and ambiguous …
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A Market for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America
… for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America" examines the rise of grave robbing for the procurement of human bodies for educational and entertainment purposes. In the late eighteenth century, new medical schools sought cadavers for dissection and anatomical study, …