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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Nineteenth-century novel"”.
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Being Talked About: Gossip and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… gossip and the development of the British novel over the course of the nineteenth century. Drawing on reevaluations of gossip by sociologists, as well as queer and feminist literary critics, I argue that nineteenth-century novelists rely on gossip in order to convey narrative information …
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The Waif as a Literary Type in The Nineteenth-Century Novel
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political …
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The Novelty of Rights: Advocacy for the Marginalized Subject in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… the way ‘rights language’ influenced how mid-nineteenth-century novelists advocated for marginalized subjects – namely, women, children, and slaves – in Victorian Britain. Debates about rights, sparked by the Revolutions in America and France, centred on the act of declaring them publicly. The …
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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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William Makepeace Thackeray's Use of the Parenthesis
… risen to the test, for anyone who studies the nineteenth century novel is acutely aware of the shift in Thackeray*s popularity from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Thackeray is viewed by the modern critic with dissatisfaction, and anyone who writes on Thackeray immediately finds …
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
… midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed popular culture. The monster mashup fuses well-known classical literature with traditional horror monsters. In PPZ, the nineteenth-century novel of manners …
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… following study examines the manner in which nineteenth-century British novels use a Semitic discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear …
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TRAUMATIZED WIVES AND THE TRANSATLANTIC NOVEL: UNVEILING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARITAL SUFFERING
My dissertation charts the transatlantic nineteenth-century novel's subtle revisions to the traditional marriage plot, in terms of both narrative and form, identifying a gradual shift in the way marriage was fictionalized. I argue that incremental revisions to the marriage plot reconstruct positive …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer and George Levine have …
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The Classic-Novel Adaptation from 1995 to 2009
… explores the dynamic relationship between the nineteenth-century novel and the screen, interrogating evolving trends in film and television adaptation from the mid-1990s to 2009. In contrast to many other studies in this field, such productions are understood as both adaptations and ‘costume …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… ruins, paintings, and other visual phenomena in nineteenth-century British novels often illustrate the otherwise invisible past. As new media technologies expanded the mass production of images during the nineteenth century, representing earlier time as visible helped novelists to affirm its …
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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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Conspiracy in Balzac and Sand's July Monarchy Fiction
… of conspiracy and cultural production in nineteenth–century France, it situates the novel within wider discourses on European political history in the years leading up to the upheaval of 1848. Through close readings of Balzac and Sand’s common investment in conspiracist modes of …
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Wallpapering the novel: economics, aesthetics, and the realist home
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… the world as depicted in popular Victorian novels. These narratives attempt to assimilate alternate modes of understanding; however, the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and intuition speaks to larger cultural tensions about the possibility of reconciling fact and feeling in …
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Writing the New Life: Literary Form in the Spiritual Imagination of Middle-Class Ethical Socialism, 1880–1900
… and literary forms integral to the late-nineteenth century ‘socialist revival’ in Britain (1881–ca. 1906), widely marked by a belief that educationalism and propaganda, or ‘making socialists’, would be sufficient to realise social transformation. Within the ideological tendency usually …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
My dissertation, “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period …