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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Nineteenth-century Women"”.
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A Comparative Study of the Societal Norms of Nineteenth Century Women in the Elite Tier of Society with Particular Reference to Sarah Vivian, Lady Charlotte Guest and Amy Dillwyn
The events of the nineteenth century brought societal upheaval to the norms of the social class structure which had existed largely unchanged in Britain for many centuries. Urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution brought the working class together living in proximity, which had not been the …
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… re-examines the purpose and value of New England women's local color fiction, asserting that local color functions as the groundwork on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. …
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Creating the Appalachian Woman: An Anthology of Appalachian Women Writers, 1865-1884.
<p>This anthology of nineteenth-century women’s regional fiction, written in the mode of canon revision, explores how persistent stereotypes of Appalachian women originated. These stereotypes are not merely identified but are also considered in the context of women’s studies. Works by the following …
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Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature
… genre that evokes, imitates, and re-imagines the nineteenth century and favors the Industrial Revolution ideals of science and technology. In a historical framework, it mixes nineteenth-century conventions and retrofuturistic machinery with science fiction and fantasy elements. Steampunk authors …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
In my dissertation, “A Vindication of Fallen Women: Victorian Women Writers Reconceiving Gender,” I argue that nineteenth-century women writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
<p>"Sowing Seeds of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use of Fairy Tales and Folklore" focuses on the fictional works of nineteenth-century British women authors, analyzing their use of fairy-tale and folklore motifs to criticize social mores, in particular those …
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Grief (w)rites: Composing loss in the composition classroom
… these kinds of dialogues and elegies written by nineteenth century women, which invite reciprocation and response rather than definitive closure. The author suggests that these dialogues are essential to not just writing, but also to grieving and healing, and argues that engaging and encouraging …
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
… academic interest in the lives and writings of nineteenth-century women poets, many of whom had been forgotten or ignored for the greater part of the twentieth century. From the 1970s onwards there has been a steady increase of articles, monographs and critical editions which have sought to …
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… in the political and social campaigns of nineteenth century women, Helen Taylor has remained a marginal figure of historical enquiry, referenced mainly in terms of her relationships with her contemporary English feminists and step-father, John Stuart Mill. Divisions in the women’s suffrage …
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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
At the turn of the twentieth century, young women began to see themselves and to been seen as a distinct social group for the first time in the history of the United States. This recognition was fostered by historical factors ranging from the expansion of secondary education to new conceptions of …
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Victorians and the Underground
… of the printing press in the fifteenth-century revealed desires for higher literacy rates; the invention of the cotton gin incited the social injustices of American slavery; the progress of the Internet embodies this century's attachment to fast-food, fast-money, and fast-information. …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
Abstract This thesis addresses women's 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 …
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Questioning Voices: Dissention and Dialogue in the Poetry of Emily and Anne Brontë
… examines the roles of Emily and Anne Brontë as nineteenth-century women poets, composing in a literary form dominated by androcentric language and metaphor. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly concerning spoken and implied dialogue, and feminists who have pioneered an exploration of …
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American women saxophonists from 1870-1930 : their careers and repertoire
The late nineteenth century was a time of great change for women's roles in music. Whereas in 1870, women played primarily harp or piano, by 1900 there were all-woman orchestras. During the late nineteenth century, women began to perform on instruments that were not standard for them, such as …
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An Enlarging Influence: Women of New Orleans, Julia Ward Howe, and the Woman's Department at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-1885
… and the reassessments that post-bellum women made during the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, the region's foremost but atypical city. It traces local women's resistance to the appointment of northern abolitionist and suffragist, Julia Ward Howe, for …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… which focuses on recovering lost texts by women and rereading women's texts traditionally absorbed in and obscured by the male canon, bears broadening to incorporate insights into the female psyche that come from research in other disciplines. Anthropological studies of primitive cultures …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… Alicia Ostriker suggests that the project of women writers should be to rewrite the mythology of patriarchy and, in doing so, take from men their sole possession of the fire of culture, an ownership which empowers them in the same way as it did Zeus, the tyrannical father-god. In her words, …
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Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century Institutions
… in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the nineteenth century, I have discovered that close to 8,000 were made by women, representing a significant contribution to the V&A’s nineteenth-century institutional photographic collection. This number includes photographs made in the museum’s …
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Living clean and shopping green: Environmental domesticity and the nineteenth-century roots of ecoconsumption
… Green: Environmental Domesticity and the Nineteenth- Century Roots of Ecoconsumption,” traces current ideas of green capitalism—specifically “eco” or “green” consumption—back to nineteenth-century domestic manuals and domestic fiction. Emerging alongside the Market Revolution, these …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
In the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, the construct of race became fixed in the collective consciousness of Europeans, in large part due to the efforts of Enlightenment-age scientists who sought to classify and define all species. Much of their research is eventually used to justify …
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