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Thackeray and Bohemia
… attempts to define the English Bohemianism of Thackeray‘s era have been somewhat reductive, revolving around London establishments such as the Garrick Club and disparate groupings such as the metropolitan novelists, journalists, and playwrights who are sometimes pigeonholed as 'Dickens‘s Young …
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Treatment of foreign characters in Thackeray
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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Thackeray's Moral Landscape: The Aesthetic Principles of William Makepeace Thackeray
Although Thackeray was somewhat ambivalent about his aesthetic of mediocrity, he nonetheless applied its tenets to his fiction, turning a visual aesthetic into a moral philosophy. Thackeray's male protagonists such as Henry Esmond, Clive Newcome, Pendennis, and, in a rougher form, George Osborne …
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W.M. Thackeray : nostalgic satirist : a reappraisal of some aspects of his style
… to re-examine various critical issues raised by Thackeray's style, which seem to me unavoidable and which for convenience I have divided into these subjects: "Authorial Voice", "Satiric Method"'• "Stereotyping", "Time" and "Cynicism and Distance". I hope that the title: "Nostalgic Satirist" will …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… agents, and punish the undeserving. William Thackeray's Vanity Fair shows how social economies can be impacted by speculative bubbles, when some commodities are temporarily given more value than they really hold. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth portrays a society which has gone off the …
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William Makepeace Thackeray's Use of the Parenthesis
… would appear that the works of William Makepeace Thackeray have not 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 …
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‘ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF — FIRST, NEGATIVELY’: CHARLES DICKENS, ANTHONY TROLLOPE, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY AND FIRST-PERSON JOURNALISM IN THE 1860S FAMILY MAGAZINE
… examines the editorial contributions of W.M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope to the Cornhill Magazine, All the Year Round and Saint Pauls Magazine, analyzing their cultivation of a familiar or personal style of journalism in the context of the 1860s family magazine and its …
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Anthony Trollope the Art of Illusion in His Fiction
… to his favorite chair in the Garrick Club, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and other literary friends might well expect to hear a roaring discourse on the effect that art trends, continental divisions, and general world conditions can have on a writer’s popularity. For Anthony Trollope’s literary …
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Hope for Vanity Fair: Love as a Solution in Thackeray's Novels
Although William Makepeace Thackeray is praised by critics for the realism of such characters as Becky Sharp, his novels also prompt complaints about their moral bleakness. It is felt that Thackeray's view departs from the "middle ground" of realism to a depiction of an always-selfish and corrupt …
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From the Insipid to the Inspired: Women in Thackeray's Fiction
Women are central to the meaning of Thackeray's fiction, and an examination of their roles and characterization reveals that with time Thackeray acquired some remarkably forward-looking views on women. Writing at the leading edge of the great wave of nineteenth-century feminist reform, he seems to …
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Collapsing the Secret Self: Thackeray's The History of Pendennis as a Performative Parody
… interiority as yet another performance, Thackeray’s <em>The History of Pendennis</em> undercuts disciplinary individualism, so that performances are not the product of social regulation but rather are as genuine as any presumed private thoughts or feelings. <em>Pendennis</em> actively …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… focuses on works by Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Florence Marryat and reveals that, while these authors have sometimes been described as a-political by some critics or biographers, they all show a surprisingly acute knowledge of Belgian affairs. This study …
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Impact of Glycemic Therapy on Myocardial Sympathetic Neuronal Integrity and Left Ventricular Function in Insulin Resistant Diabetic Rats: Serial Evaluation by 11C-meta-Hydroxyephedrine Positron Emission Tomography
Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, presence of hyperglycemia, and/or insulin resistance confer cardiovascular risk, particularly for diastolic dysfunction. Diabetes is associated with elevated myocardial norepinephrine (NE) content, enhanced sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity, altered resting …
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A new conceptual framework for the evaluation of L&D programmes
The evaluation of learning and development programmes is one of the most important processes for the L&D function as it determines functional credibility by the creation of value from the L&D budget. The Kirkpatrick (1954) framework has primacy in the world of evaluation along with a small number …
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The language of painting in nineteenth-century English fiction
… novelists, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Henry James, mapping out their individual grasp and knowledge of pictorial art in their particular circumstances, their experience of the art world, and the extent to which their experience of art is …
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Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century
… force. Writers like William Makepeace Thackeray didn't need to invent a new national identity. Instead, they used humor to adapt what had become conventional British attitudes and behaviors to reflect Britain's new status as a world power. Yet, as the century progressed and the Empire …
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How affect influences judgement processes
That mood affects judgment has been well documented, but exactly how mood affects judgment is still unclear. Two experiments help to clarify the influence of mood on judgment processes. In the first, subjects' likelihood judgments are shown to be influenced by mood, such that there is an …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… and <italic>The Virginians</italic>, shows how Thackeray also associates pawnbroking with characters in social transition, adjusting their values and identities, like pledges, for mercenary ends. Frequent but furtive pledgers and social climbers Barry Lyndon, Becky Sharp, and Harry Warrington …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… arguing is that writers such as Sterne, Brontë, Thackeray, and Melville were not mere freaks, “sports” who were born decades or centuries ahead of their time and who consequently wrote with a brilliance and complexity that only contemporary readers can recognize and appreciate. To suggest this is …
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