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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Victorian era"”.
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Women and bodily separation in literature from the Victorian era until today
… many forms throughout the centuries. In the Victorian era, female characters were often presented as dual natured; oftentimes this division was represented through the use of a madwoman and a heroine. In the early 20th century, however, this motif was picked up by female poets, who used …
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Benchmarking authorship attribution techniques using over a thousand books by fifty Victorian era novelists
… be seen as a classification problem. In the literature, there are a lot of classification methods for which feature extraction techniques are conducted. In this thesis, we explore information retrieval techniques such as Word2Vec, paragraph2vec, and other useful feature selection and extraction …
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The Epitome And Portrait Of Modern Society: Ouida As Social Barometer Of The Victorian Era
The Victorian Era was one of great social flux; tremendous advances in science and technology called into question deeply held religious beliefs while the changing legal status of women threatened to undermine traditional views of gender roles. Industrialization and the driving economic force of …
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Mental Illness and Psychiatry in the Victorian Era: An Analysis of the Prevailing Power Dynamics Between Women and Male Authority Figures Through Gilman and Freud.
… especially male physicians, towards women in the Victorian era. I intend to demonstrate how the Victorian social system placed women in a subordinate position through patriarchal ideals of femininity and unapologetically labeled them “insane” if their behavior and personality dared deviate from …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… of the power of the Church of England during the Victorian era was inevitably reflected in the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Brontë. In this paper, I will examine one novel from each writer to explore how each responded to the decline of the Church of England and the …
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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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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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Little Bodies, Little People: Conflating the Child and the Dwarf in The History of Sir Thomas Thumb
<p>Despite Victorian and disability studies scholars’ recent interest in Charlotte M. Yonge, little scholarship focuses on her children’s fiction or the ways it engages with disability. This thesis brings a disability studies reading to Yonge’s under-studied novel, <em>The History of Sir Thomas …
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"Indigenous" -- "Vernacular" : negotiating an American history for modernism through the lens of the architectural exhibition
… in the nineteenth century, on American soil. Victorian-era revivalism complicated this thread, but it also served as the impetus for a revision of history. The possibilities of interpretation offered by the architectural exhibition, and its key evidence, the photograph, were critical to this …
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The Police and the Periodical: Policing and Detection in Victorian Journalism and the Rise of Detective Fiction, c. 1840-1900
… 1840 and 1900. It argues that these two Victorian developments were closely interrelated, and that each had significant impacts on the other which has hitherto gone underexplored in academic scholarship. The thesis argues that the relationship between the police and the periodical press …
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The Legacy of Anglo-American Textualism
… propounded by a small group of US federal court judges, including the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Whilst the doctrine has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, few have considered its historical development. In this dissertation, textualism is analysed in order to uncover the …
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The Materiality of Family Identity: Archaeological Investigations of 19th Century Jewish Merchant Households
… 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 Aurora, Nevada seeks to demonstrate the fluidity and interpretative power …
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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
… around the gender roles present during the Victorian era and how George Eliot examined these roles in Mill on the Floss. She did so through her representations of Tom and Maggie Tulliver and by examining how each of these characters deal with the respective roles for his or her gender while …
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"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres
The theatre of the Victorian era is often ignored in literary studies or denigrated when it is discussed. This project, however, seeks to provide a framework within which we can explore the power of Victorian theatre as it responded to and shaped ideas in London between 1848 and 1882. Looking …
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Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America
… Although butlers and valets have existed for several centuries, the Victorian era molded the butler into a marginal existence, trapping this servant into a liminal, and therefore unlikable, sphere. Comedic writers in the Victorian era played the anxiety up—presenting butlers and valets as pompous …
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… 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 under-researched. …
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The "Illustrated London News," 1842-52
… News was one of the most popular journals of the Victorian era. Its wide circulation was due primarily to its innovation in illustrated journalism; it was Britain’s, and the world’s, first illustrated newspaper. Illustrations from woodcuts had for many years appeared in newspapers and journals on …
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W.M. Thackeray : nostalgic satirist : a reappraisal of some aspects of his style
… various critical issues raised by Thackeray's style, which seem to me unavoidable and which for convenience I have divided into these subjects: "Authorial Voice", "Satiric Method"'• "Stereotyping", "Time" and "Cynicism and Distance". I hope that the title: "Nostalgic Satirist" will be …
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