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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Victorian London"”.
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Irish Celtic folklore in The picture of Dorian Gray
… culmination of Irish folklore placed in a Victorian London setting. questions lie in Wilde's Irish background. By looking at the mythology and folklore of Wilde's native Ireland, the “mysteries” become part of a natural, even inevitable culmination of Irish folklore placed in a Victorian …
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The Queer Gothic Hero's Journey in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
… the queer Gothic hero’s interrogation of Victorian London and its conception of heroism along untenable gender norms.</p>
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Tom Taylor's Ticket-of-Leave Man: His Detective Model and Financial Commentary
Because of their popular appeal, Victorian melodramas can reveal new aspects of nineteenth-century London culture. My investigation focuses on three tropes within <italic>The Ticket-of-Leave Man</italic>: the character of the detective, of the ticket-of-leave man (a paroled criminal), and Victorian …
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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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Building a Secret House of Words. On Writing Come with Me: The Coyote Has Been Howling All Night
… Once the search for freedom has led her to Late Victorian London, where she initially experiences great disappointments, the secret language of her childhood becomes a shelter for her soul and as she grows stronger it continues to enrich her life, while being influenced by a poetic language …
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… and the Madonna exhibited 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 …
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Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
… investigates anxieties about urban life in late Victorian and Edwardian culture, and examines emotional responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely and …