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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Victorian Period"”.
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Grief, Mourning and Motherhood: Cultural experiences of child and infant deaths across different social classes in the Victorian period
… a considerably more prominent part of life in Victorian England, across all social classes, particularly the deaths of infants and children. 1 in 4 children died before the age of 5 consistently throughout the Victorian period. The Victorian fascination with death has been explored extensively …
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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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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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Staging an Empire: How Late Victorian Theatre Represents Public Perceptions of the British Empire
… Title of Thesis: STAGING AN EMPIRE: HOW LATE VICTORIAN THEATRE REPRESENTS PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Nicholas Appleton, Master of Arts, 2019 Thesis Directed By: Mircea Raianu PhD, Assistant Professor of History This thesis denotes the changing perception of the British empire …
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
… ideological landscapes that characterized the Victorian period. This study challenges the contemporary critical vocabulary of Ecocriticism and its focus on wilderness through a detailed study of the Victorian response to humanly shaped landscapes. Encompassing the major genres of Victorian …
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Socialisation and subversion : the development of the Victorian children's literary fairy tale
… into two sections, fairy tales of the early Victorian period and those of the middle and late Victorian period. It is argued that the fairy tales present in England during the first time period were mostly imported translations from other European countries while the fairy tales of the second …
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Shopping for Pleasure: The Fashion Lover in Victorian Fiction
"For much of the Victorian period, the love of fashion was dismissed as a distinctly feminine vice, an unworthy distraction from domestic responsibilities. This dissertation uncovers the ways in which several nineteenth-century female novelists advocated for personal happiness (specifically, the …
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From pretending to supposing: redeeming the madwoman in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
… the emergent genre of girls’ literature in the Victorian period served to destabilize and challenge contemporary restrictive depictions of women. It revises the theory of Gilbert and Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic, which posits that in nineteenth-century literature, women could only function …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
During the height of the Victorian Period and the development of the sensation novel, the public eagerly consumed the writings of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the author was a household name. In the current age, however, scholarly criticism often focuses on “Carmilla” (1872) and other texts in …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
This study of Victorian elegies examines elegies that divide the voice of the mourner not only as to express utterances of sorrow, but also to assert poetic authority, to navigate collective loss, and respond to historical changes in poetic reception over the nineteenth century. Bringing together …
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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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“Sugar-Baited Words": Diabetic Themes in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
… fruits, through a diabetic framework because Victorian medicine did acknowledge diabetes as an illness. In Victorian physician Henri Bell’s work, <em>An Essay on Diabetes</em> (1842), he provides the working definition of diabetes, stating that diabetes is “a disease characterized by an …
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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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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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Spirited Measures and Victorian Hangovers: Public Attitudes to Alcohol, the Law and Moral Regulation.
… be assessed. Particular attention is paid to the Victorian temperance movement which, drawing especially on the ideas of Hunt and Ruonavaara, is characterised as a moral regulation project. It is argued that, although the temperance movement itself declined in the early twentieth century, the …
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The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity
… and anti-slavery sentiment intersected in this period of high imperialism. In recovering these attitudes, some of the main points of thinking about race, empire and British national identity during the late-Victorian period are highlighted.
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction” explores the interactions between the shock of reading sensation fiction and the affective potential of the genre using Sara Ahmed’s definition of the killjoy and the affect alien. The sensation genre, as explained in …
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A grammar of sentiment thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss.
… English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through complex narratives relating to its exchange. These artefacts …
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Amateur brass and wind bands in Southern England between the late eighteenth century and circa 1900
… church bands and civilian secular bands in the period from the late eighteenth century up to about Queen Victoria's accession. The second part of this study attempts to explain the expansion of banding in the. Victorian period, paying particular attention to the importance of middleclass …
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"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940
… at three boys' adventure books from the late Victorian period and the early twentieth century: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, R. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Though critics have often suggested that these works, each of which is …
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