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Showing 1 to 20 of 1348 for “"The Nineteenth Century"”.
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Maltese emigration in the nineteenth century
This essay deals with Maltese emigration during the nineteenth century. Maltese emigration can be said to have had its first impetus with the first depression following the Napoleonic Wars. Prior to the coming of British Rule, there was never a strong need to emigrate, since Malta lived under the …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
This dissertation considers the politics and practices of incorporating regional dialects into the nineteenth-century English novel form. After roughly 1850, there is a distinct expansion of publications written in dialect in England. This is owing to both a peak in academic interest in comparative …
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Handling Bibles in the Nineteenth Century
… syllabus, unprocessed data, or a notebook. This thesis examines bibles under all these guises—bibles read or handled, mostly by evangelicals, in nineteenth-century Britain and the British Empire. In the nineteenth century, bible-reading was shaped by evangelical enthusiasm for bible distribution, …
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Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century
Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century argues that Native American historians responded to the disciplinary emergence of settler-colonial history by challenging the belief that writing afforded exclusive access to the past. As the study of history developed in the nineteenth century, the …
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The nineteenth century discourse on Indian architecture
The thesis deals with the subject of the marginalization of Indian architecture. The particular issue that it takes up is the tendency in the current criticism to attribute this marginalization to the "Orientalist " biases of the scholars who first attempted to study it. Key amongst these is James …
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Masculinity in the nineteenth-century Paris opéra ballet
Beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century, ballerinas overtook male dancers on the stage of the Paris Opéra Ballet and in critical writings about the ballet. At the same time, there was tremendous growth in bourgeois male subscribership to the Opéra. Subscribers engaged in backstage …
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Photography and the body in the nineteenth century
"The dissertation draws on Michel Foucault's genealogical account of the relations of power, knowledge and the body in order to examine the particular role photography played within discourses and practices on the body occurring at different levels of the social formation in nineteenth century …
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Being Talked About: Gossip and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
<p>This dissertation explores the connections between 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 …
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Unpublished diaries of the nineteenth century: An annotated list
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Revolution, tradition, and order: the Nineteenth Century anarchist experience
<p>A comparative study of the historical philosophies of five anarchists, with a special emphasis on their attitudes regarding the role of social traditions in the process of historical change. The five men so studied are William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael [Mikhail] Bakunin, Peter …
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Eugene Scribe and French Opera of the Nineteenth Century
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
<p>In "The Late-Victorian Romance Revival" (2008) Anna Vaninskaya questions if "one [can] even speak of the mixing or hybridization of genres in a particular work if the genres themselves had not yet been conclusively defined" (60). This question serves as a warning to genre studies scholars …
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
<p>The 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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The Decline of Indian Tribal Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
<p>The artificial air of the Nineteenth Century was filled with such pious asininities as "the white man's burden" and "saving the heathen form hell". To our cynical generation this jargon of concealed desires seems the ultimate in hypocrisy but it should be remembered that such an attitude was not …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… "center of consciousness," to E. M. Forster's theory of "round" and "flat," to Deidre Lynch's "pragmatics of character," to Alex Woloch's influential "one versus many," scaled distinctions between "major" and "minor" characters have remained unchallenged since the Poetics. Yet such …
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