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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Print culture"”.
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Oliver Cromwell and the Print Culture of the Interregnum
… within the numerous political tracts that were printed in the 1650s. The kingship crisis sparked the creation of many pamphlets and petitions that sought to sway Cromwell one way or the other. Three prominent groups that wrote regarding the possibility of King Oliver I were monarchists, sects, …
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Print Culture and Responses to Crime in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
… divide in order to assess the impact of print upon perceptions of, and responses to, crime. With a huge increase in the output of printed crime literature and significant developments in responses to crime, metropolitan London in the period 1747-1755 represents an excellent case study for …
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Transatlantic intimacies: The homoerotic affect worlds of nineteenth-century print culture
<p>The thesis argues that during the late-nineteenth century, an alternative means of same-sex erotic communication was conceived of in transatlantically published American and British künstlerroman novels written by female authors. This alternative discourse was communicated affectively to …
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Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican China
In this dissertation I argue that print culture acted as a catalyst for change among Buddhists in modern China. Through examining major publication institutions, publishing projects, and their managers and contributors from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, I show that the expansion of the …
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Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
"""Reading the Middle: US Women Novelists and Print Culture, 1930-1960"" is about feminist protest as a core value of the American bourgeoisie, bringing gender studies, digital humanities, and American literature and print culture together in analyses of a collection of thirty-plus novels of …
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VISUALIZING MASCULINITY: MEN, FAMILY, AND COUNTRY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH PRINT CULTURE
Focusing on satirical prints from illustrated newspapers, this thesis examines nineteenth-century French notions of masculinity in a culture that linked its reputation for success to the productivity of its male citizens. I will focus on man’s connection to marriage and family life, as these …
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Associational Life, Print Culture and Political Thought in Najaf, 1905-c.1941
… debates, specifically the city’s majālis, its print culture and political parties. The principal argument of the thesis is that the full-scale transformation of the Najafi public sphere during this period created the political conditions for a number of locally produced ideologies and modernity …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde to contemporaneous print media, including illustration, print series, and photography. Against the backdrop of modernizing shifts in popular visual culture, these novelists depict the past as a realm of precarious reality that fiction can uphold, query, or verify by …
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Circuits of imperial citizenship: Indian print culture and the politics of race, 1890-1914
… of imperial citizenship across a wide range of print culture sources, I show how imperial citizenship, although ostensibly race-blind, was an implicitly racialized discourse. Based on research from archives in Ottawa, Vancouver, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria, and London, I map how the …
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Missionary Print Culture and Medical Knowledge in the South Pacific and Britain, ca. 1795-1850
… was circulated across Evangelical and imperial print networks between Britain and the South Pacific in the first half of the nineteenth century (ca. 1795-1850). It focuses on the London Missionary Society and draws upon a wide range of sources, including missionary letters, journals, …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as “the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier. This research examines the pivotal role that American print culture played in constructing dubious stereotypes of Comanche …
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"For the continuance of their favours": Women, the public sphere and the print culture in England, 1750-1760
… historically examines women's use of the growing print culture in England from 1750 to 1760. Notions that women overwhelmingly accepted and articulated the "domestic sphere" ideology at this time are contradicted by historical evidence. Despite the constraints imposed by prescriptive literature, …
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"If It Is Sincere, It Will Rouse Hostility": The Freewoman, Feminisms, and Print Culture in Early Twentieth-Century England
… role in the journal. It examines periodical culture and feminisms, and the possibilities that periodicals open up for feminist thought and politics through the characteristics of this publishing genre. These include a focus on the emotional community created in and through The Freewoman, as …
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Art in India's 'Age of Reform': Amateurs, Print Culture, and the Transformation of the East India Company, c.1813-1858
… the production and consumption of illustrated print culture to the demographic shifts that occurred as a result of the repeal of the Company’s monopolistic privileges in 1813 and 1833, focusing specifically on several costume albums published by artists such as John Gantz (1772-1853) and …
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A Study of the Early American Author Judith Sargent Murray, Her Role in Early American Print Culture and Her Misappropriation by Twentieth-Century Feminism
… and manipulation of pseudonyms in the print-hungry post-Revolutionary America create a unique place for her in the history of American letters. However, in the twentieth century, modern feminism has attempted to claim Murray as one of their own, choosing between one and four examples of …
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Wide open spaces: place, empire, and U.S.-indigenous relations, 1816-1907
… who and what to include within its borders. Print culture narrated these moments of particular geopolitical and cultural flux and operated (often on both sides of the colonial divide) to establish a narrative cartography of place.
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
This study examines how manuscript and print culture functioned as a site of memory and commemoration in early modern England, creating ‘textual monuments’ to individuals, families, and communities. This dissertation shifts scholarly attention from genre and the structures of texts to the …
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POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888
… traces the connections among geography writing, print culture, and nationalism. It challenges the conventional historiographical paradigm that understands antebellum and postbellum periods in United States history as fundamentally discontinuous. The study suggests that the published geographies …
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