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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
This thesis is about a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the …
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Victorian Children's Book Illustrations
In the nineteenth century, as society in Victorian Britain adjusted to the effects of urbanization and industrialization, social roles began to shift, changes that were reflected in the children’s book illustrations of Randolph Caldecott, Henry J. Ford, and Beatrix Potter. This time period was …
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Formalism in the Victorian garden.
… to formalism in the English garden during the Victorian period. It begins with the decades dominated by Loudon and concludes with what might be termed the triumph of formalism in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The area chosen as a case study is the county of Derbyshire and its …
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Prizefighting in mid-Victorian Britain.
… Exploring how broader social changes in mid-Victorian Britain, such as industrialisation, urbanisation, and migration, influenced the reception and perception of prizefighting while addressing key themes such as its relationship with class, social control, patronage, and masculine, local, and …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
During the mid to late Victorian period, Euripides’ tale of Medea was given new life by the suffragette movement. As Victorians began to question women’s rights and capabilities, Medea’s story resurfaced as a cautionary tale showing the damage that occurs when women repress and shape their …
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
… the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. <br/><br/>Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as discussions on his …
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Guilt in Selected Victorian Novels
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The Neo-Victorian Novel, 1990-2010
… with direct and indirect connection to the Victorian era, at a time when a focus on the new millenium might have been expected. This proliferation of what came to be termed 'neo-Victorian novels' shows no sign of abating and has now given rise to scholarly research on the subject. The …
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MID-VICTORIAN PLYMOUTH: A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY
… population density was higher than that of mid-Victorian London and Liverpool, and the consequences for local public health and on the morphology of the urban area were substantial. Deprivation and poverty occurred not only in the older, cramped parts of Plymouth but also i n newly-built housing …
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Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature
“Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature” argues that Victorian authors use the readable sign system of the body and pain to emphasize their characters’ physical features to the reader. As characters physically manifest emotions or experience violence, their appearances change, and these …
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Fighting spirit: Victorian women's ghost stories
Abstract available: p. i-ii
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Modern Victorian
… gentle, self-effacing poet who lived during the Victorian age, but who was of it in no other sense. Katherine Bregy asserts that "to examine his few and scattered poems is to be convinced that the divine fire burned upon his brow, once and until the end. . . ." Another critic unqualifyingly …
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Audit committee effectiveness in Victorian local government
… research question is: ‘Do audit committees in Victorian local government function effectively?’ The secondary research question is: ‘Do the investigations into local government maladministration and malfeasance enhance governance and the audit committee’s effectiveness?’ Qualitative and …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… performance theory and new historicism to read Victorian literature and culture. By fusing the gender consciousness and social constructionist agenda of the former with the rigorous dedication to historical specificity of the latter, I am able both to ground potentially amorphous theoretical …
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… at seven well-known London venues during the Victorian era (1838-1901). The subjects of Eve and the Madonna are here selected for detailed analysis from the broader context of Victorian religious subject pictures, a category of Victorian art that remains arguably under-researched. …
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