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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Pride and Prejudice"”.
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Pride and prejudice : the socialisation of nurse educators
… education institution in the Northwest of England. Built upon the assumption that nurse educators‘ practices and dispositions are shaped and affected by the sociocultural field in which they occur, attention is paid to identifying these influences reflected through an understanding of their …
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Pride and prejudice in the twenty-first century
In this thesis, I have examined the novel, Pride and Prejudice in the twenty-first century. As a lecturer of English literature I have found that many students are reluctant to engage with this novel because of their pre-conceived idea s of the novel' s trivial storyline and their assumptions about …
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed …
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Marital love in Jane Austen: a Peircean analysis of Lady Susan and Pride and Prejudice
… is as an exploration of her ideals for love and marriage, at least her conception of their possibilities within the culture of which she was a part. Because her stories generally present a series of married or courting character couples, they lend themselves well to analysis as a set of …
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Feminism by proxy: Jane Austen’s critique of patriarchal society in Pride and Prejudice and Emma
<p>Reading Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma from a feminist perspective reveals Austen’s desire for progressive marriages built on equality and love. Comparing the characteristics and eventual marriages of Austen’s heroines, Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse, to other women and relationships …
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They Blush Because They Understand: The Performative Power of Women's Humor and Embarrassment in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma
… women's humor in three of Jane Austen's novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Using speech-act theory, I specifically examine Elizabeth's, Emma's, and Mary's utterances to demonstrate that in order for humorous utterances to be subversive, they must challenge societal or …
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A Comparison of Jane Austen's Early and Late Characterization
… well-developed heroine, Elizabeth Bennet in <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>, with a late well-developed heroine, Anne Elliot in <em>Persuasion</em>, in Jane Austen's novels to see if there are any changes in characterization and techniques of characterization and to evaluate these techniques.</p> …
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The Romance of Social Problems in Austen and Gaskell
… aims to investigate the use of the classical and modern romance plots and their interactions with the social problem-novel plots in Jane Austen's <italic>Pride and Prejudice</italic> and Elizabeth Gaskell's <italic>North and South</italic>. After a discussion of classical romance conventions …
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The changing role and portrayal of 'the individual' in historical context in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
… century, the thesis examines the changing role and portrayal of the 'individual' in Victorian fiction. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876), and Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the …
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The Significance of Maintaining Character Integrity in Literary Retellings
… become a prevalent form of storytelling in media and literature. This paper explores the background of the genre and the drive for creators to reimagine older stories, while also considering the “why” behind retellings. The claim is that maintaining the integrity of the characters from the …
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Subversive Liminality and Ideological Warfare: The Zombie Mash-Up as Resistance to Hypermasculine Revenge Narratives Post-9/11
… the coincidence of the "zombie renaissance" and system-justifying nationalist rhetoric post-9/11. The project discusses this cultural cross-section with zombie mash-up fiction, using masculinity and trauma theories, in an attempt to illuminate the motives of "us vs. them" rhetoric and …
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The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977
<p>Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Amado have often been accused of making their heroines too beautiful. But these heroines are also accomplished in ways that demonstrate that their personalities are important. The ambiguous character of the novels by these authors has …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
… mythologizing women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private dichotomy, this project argues that women …
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Communities of Gossip in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction
… such as the ladies Jennings, Gardiner, Bates and Norris, who are known for their chatter. Less recognized in eighteenth-century studies of gossip have been Eliza Haywood's <i>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</i> and Frances Burney's <i>Evelina</i>, despite the fact that each of these …
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Romancing the Reader: An Analysis of Tropes in the Romance Genre
<p>This thesis looks at the endurance and steady popularity of the romance genre through literary history through the lens of three of the most used tropes: forbidden lovers, slow burn, and enemies to lovers. Through comparative literary analysis, this work examines how these tropes are used in …
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"A thorough knowledge of human nature": An application of George Campbell's "Philosophy of Rhetoric" to selected novels of Jane Austen
… defense of the novel. Although many readers and critics may gloss over this defense, it is one of the most important passages in all of Austen's works. In it, she argues that novels display the "greatest powers of the human mind," exhibit "a thorough knowledge of human nature," contain the …
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“Lizzie’s Story Felt Like Home:” Meaning-Making and Narratively-Constructed Digital Intimacy in Literary Web Series
… of classic literature from the Western canon and arise from the rapid development of the convergent media environment and the evolution of social media platforms. Literary web series draw on a variety of storytelling methods to create interactive, immersive, and emotionally resonant narrative …
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The Classic-Novel Adaptation from 1995 to 2009
… 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 dramas’, whilst the often …
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Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century
<p>The 1800 Act of Union incorporating Ireland into Great Britain changed what it meant to be a citizen of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Authors responded to this shifting sense of nationality by putting forth new models of conduct in an effort to determine how citizens should act as …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… a patriarchal literary tradition. The public and private contexts of the female redactor become imperative to the text that she creates, for the final narrative product is not only a public revision but also a series of private, gendered negotiations that define the woman writer and determine …
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