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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Victorian England"”.
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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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The rhetoric of work in Victorian England: A discourse analysis
… the discourse of the rhetoric of work in Victorian England by primarily examining the primary documents of newspapers, autobiography, poetry, and the Blue Book deliberations of Parliament. My purpose is to show how the underrepresented and “silenced” groups of the working man, the child, …
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Infanticide in Victorian England, 1856-1878: Thirty legal cases (England)
The crime of infanticide plagued England throughout the nineteenth century, but by the 1860s it seemed to experts and laymen alike that incidences of the crime had reached crisis proportions. The publicity that newspapers gave to the problem sparked public concern; such publicity brought the crime …
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Formulating Fantasies: Marriage in Victorian England and George Eliot's Middlemarch
… each other for the rest of their lives. In Victorian England, however, many men and women questioned traditional expectations concerning marriage. Society's norms in Britain dictated that marriage was the ultimate goal in the nineteenth century, and, according to Barbara Weiss, "there has …
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Observation, Surveillance, Voyeurism, and the Making of the Middle Class in Victorian England
… enclosure of farmable land combined to drive England's rural population into rapidly growing urban centers. London, in particular, was ill-equipped to deal with the resulting population boom, and laborers and vagrants were forced into the twisting alleyways and hidden courtyards of the slums, …
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Bureaucratic mercy: The Home Office and the treatment of capital cases in Victorian England
… and mitigating powers of the Crown--in the Victorian criminal justice system. Its principal source has been the hitherto confidential collection of files in the Home Office 144 and 45 Series at the British Public Record Office. These files not only review the process of trial and conviction …
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The social and cultural value of the apple and the orchard in Victorian England
… the orchard were of greater significance to the Victorians than has been previously realised. This thesis brings together an investigation into the economic value of the apple crop and its associated goods and services, with an exploration of how the apple and the orchard were represented and …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act led to the first national system of education for approximately 50,000 indoor pauper children each year in a decade of early initiatives on working class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, …
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An ideal woman : literary, parliamentary, and sexual representations of model femininity in mid-Victorian England.
The manner in which middle-class women of the Victorian era were excluded from various aspects of the outside world, in favor of the "woman's sphere," was due to the masculine desire to protect the virtues of domesticity. This ideal of femininity is revealed in selections of Victorian literature, …
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Constraints on the mother foundresses : contrasts in Anglican and Roman Catholic religious headship in Victorian England
… and Roman Catholic religious communities in Victorian England. It begins by considering how, reestablishing and establishing active, female, religious foundations, these societies offered single women of the time an unusually useful and dedicated life. It demonstrates that the foundresses …
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THE GENEALOGY OF THE PROSTITUTE: DEFINING AND DISCIPLINING PROSTITUTION THROUGH JOURNALISM IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1809-1886
This dissertation is an exploration into the changing definition of a prostitute during the nineteenth century in Britain and the actions taken in response to that changing definition. I argue that different definitions of "prostitute" that emerge during this time correspond to the various means of …
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The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England
An important anomaly in transatlantic criticism is the contrast between transatlantic theory and the applied criticism of literature through a transatlantic lens. While most transatlantic scholars assert the value of individual strands of thought throughout the globe and stress the importance of …
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The Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: the interaction of Romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England
<p>Near the end of the twentieth century, various and even contradictory literary criticisms are available. Which one is best for interpretation? Specifically, which one is best for interpreting <em>Jane Eyre</em>? The answers vary. Terry Eagleton, for example, declares that "there are indeed …
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The reform of urban policing in Victorian England : a study of Kingston upon Hull from 1836 to 1866
Chapter 1 introduces the economy, society and politics of Hull in the nineteenth century, concentrating on the middle decades of the century. The characteristics of the old police system in the early 1830s are analysed in chapter 2, along with the proposals which were made for its reform in 1836 …
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The Fallen Woman: An Exploration of the Voiceless Women in Victorian England through Three Plays of Oscar Wilde
… gender politics that he fought against in the Victorian era. Through Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband I will prove the Christological myth that each play adopts and establish Wilde’s ability to make the religion “transformational.” Wilde’s productions of characters like …
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The Political Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Conservative Statement on the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of Victorian England
… imperialism they reveal attitudes typical of the Victorian Age. They are important in a study of the poet because they verify his often compromising position. Also the fact that poetry which is pure propaganda and blatant chauvinism was written at this time is interesting in light of the literary …
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
… bodies in the evolving medical marketplace of Victorian England at the hands of male medical professionals and argues the ability of women to be trusted as medical authorities—even as they were prevented from receiving professionalized medical training—through golden-haired sisters Laura and …
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