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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Victorian History"”.
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Infanticide in Victorian England, 1856-1878: Thirty legal cases (England)
… a crisis of infanticide actually occurred in Victorian England, it is necessary to examine several areas of Victorian history--gender roles and the legal, economic, and social inequities women faced. While a profile of murdering mothers can be drawn from secondary material, this examination of …
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Fiction as history: an examination of the ideological content of the 19th century novel of manners, with a case study of the portrayal of the ruling class in Anthony Trollope's novels
… production and reproduction. The example of mid-Victorian Britain is used to illustrate this assertion. The place of reading and writing within sections of this society are examined. They are seen to be the context of a literary culture based around the periodical press: fictions are examined as …
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“To Happily Lay the Foundation of Patriotism in One Single Englishman”: Women, History Texts, and the Construction of English National Identity, 1820-1870
… texts. This dissertation argues that school history texts authored by women in Romantic and Victorian England imbued an intentional brand of English national identity based on Protestant moralism in their readers. It specifically focuses on conversational histories, or texts structured around …