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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Victorian Culture"”.
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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture
… life-like--are a direct inheritance of Victorian constructions of human and mechanical as categorically opposed, and of the resulting metaphor of the mechanized laboring body.</p>
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education
… scholarship. Numerous scholars have examined Victorian Hellenism as a masculine discourse, but the field has not considered how women of the Victorian era were exposed to, or interpreted ancient Greek culture. My work examines the writings of a conservative female that initially supported …
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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901
… that ancient Rome was rehabilitated in English culture during the mid-Victorian period, following a period of effective displacement that began during the late eighteenth century. Devalued through its appropriation by revolutionary polities on both sides of the Atlantic, Rome’s profile in …
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The Materiality of Family Identity: Archaeological Investigations of 19th Century Jewish Merchant Households
… to demonstrate the connections between material culture, individual and group identities, and social norms and beliefs from the Victorian Era. Identities are fluid and ever changing, as is material culture and the values and meanings assigned to them. Archaeological evidence from excavations in …
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Lucius R. O'Brien : a Victorian in North America : American influence on his early work, 1873-1880
… of nature that attest to his own upper-class Victorian background and the consequent firm belief in the rightness of Canada's position within the Commonwealth. Dependent on the British cultural presence, O'Brien nevertheless was substantially affected by contemporary American art. The Hudson …
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Evangelicalism, cultural influences and theological change: considered with special reference to the thought of Thomas Rawson Birks (1810-1883)
… have been a representative product of mainstream Victorian culture.
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
<p>Throughout Victorian Gothic horror fiction, vampires function as deviant figures, maneuvering within social confines of passing until their status quo-threatening identity is exposed. Of the popular vampires from this period, most gradually fail to maintain status as social insiders—as …
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Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century
… thought, to fit them into the matrix of Victorian culture as it conditioned and shaped the administrators' perceptions and responses touching the indigenous black population. A methodological pitfall opens here, of assimilating individual or local currents of ideas to more general …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
… phenomenon of Sir Walter Scott's extraordinary Victorian popularity. Focussing on criticism of his Waverley Novels between 1832 - the year of his death - and the end of the century, the thesis plots the development and terms of Scott's eminence. An introductory chapter sets out principal areas …
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Poetry and piety : the role of verse in mid-Victorian Sunday reading
Mid-Victorian poetry of piety is verse concerned to propagate and sustain simple faith in an age frequently characterised by doubt. The proliferation of 'Sunday verse' may itself be a response to doubt. Section I (Chapters 1-2) establishes the verse's context, and its role within the respectable …
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Popular Sunday Newspapers in Late -Victorian Britain
… Sunday newspapers, and concludes that the late-Victorian years constituted the high point in the sales and influence of independent Sunday newspapers. Second, the study looks at how popular Sunday newspapers were perceived by Victorian society, and what role they played in Victorian culture. …
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Influence, Agency, and the Women of England: Victorian Ideology and the Works of Sarah Stickney Ellis
… works of Sarah Stickney Ellis in the context of Victorian culture and argues that Elliss ideas about women, which have frequently been described as 'anti-feminist' by twentieth and twenty-first century scholars, were often progressive and even proto-feminist. The first chapter discusses Ellis's …
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Millais’ Modern Christ: Religion and Critical Responses to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Nineteenth Century England
… many fears that the new modern age brought to Victorian England. Catholic, Irish, and Protestant tensions had been mounting throughout the nineteenth century in England prior to the debut of the painting. Politics and law were beginning to relax restraints on Catholicism in addition to the …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… I examine the debate over women's place in Victorian society, particularly the constituency of unmarried women whose singleness fueled this debate. Mainstream rhetoric classified Victorian women as true, fallen, widowed, blue-stocking, married—any number of designations—with the facility …
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Dogs and Domesticity Reading the Dog in Victorian British Visual Culture
… examine the values associated with dogs in Victorian British art and visual culture. It studies the redefining and restructuring of the domestic dog as it was conceptualized in visual culture and the art market. It proposes that the dog was strongly associated with social values and moral …
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'Once Famous in an Odd Way': Curiosity and Queerness in Late 19th-Century American Male Impersonation
… a result and a function of the time period and culture in which they performed. An overlooked piece of this influence was the genre of curiosity exhibition as it had developed in the 17<sup>th</sup> to 19<sup>th</sup> centuries.</p> <p>I will discuss the way in which the <em>curio </em>lens …
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A Reevaluation of the Literary Works of Edward Alexander [Aleister] Crowley
… If modern critics still used the mores of Victorian culture as a yardstick to judge the "worth" of a piece of writing, then perhaps this would not be necessary. That this measure is not still in use is evidenced by the recent trends in Yeats scholarship. This being the case, it is obvious …
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Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
How do Victorian novels, those detailed imaginative records of psychic interiority and social life, put into language the aspect of our interior lives that seems most stubbornly nonlinguistic: that is, the insistent claims and impulses of erotic desire? If Victorian culture valued reason and …
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… hierarchy at the root of the patriarchal British Victorian culture in which she had grown up. She saw in the community theatre a gathering place that could foster moments of transcendent unity, intellectual freedom, and imaginative inspiration, and in drama an art form resilient enough to …
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‘The Road to Learning’: Re-evaluating the Mechanics’ Institute Movement
… of public exhibition and public spaces, visual culture, print culture, popular literacy and literature (including literature generated by the Institutes themselves, such as poetry and prose composed by members), financial services, education in cultural and aesthetic judgement, Institutes as …
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