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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Victorian fiction"”.
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
Female Ensembles is a study of lesbian historical fiction set in the nineteenth century. This project takes a reparative approach as Eve Sedgwick defines it (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… is a study of recognition scenes in the Victorian novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often show a hero's self-discovery as a retrospective identification with things. When, for example, in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… the male gaze and male surveillance of the Victorian art world. These authors utilize the symbiotic relationship between vision and art to contest binary societal definitions that insisted men were creative and women imitative. This study is arranged by forms of vision adopted by the …
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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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Epistolary Encounters : Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction.
… the significance of a ubiquitous presence of fictional letters and diaries in neo-Victorian fiction. It investigates how intercalated documents fashion pastiche narrative structures to organise conflicting viewpoints invoked in diaries, letters, and other addressed accounts as epistolary …
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
This thesis is about a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the …
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The Ambivalent Attitude Toward The Orphan in The Early Victorian Novel
In early Victorian fiction, orphans are seen as nurturing angels and as depraved beasts. This study analyzes why orphans are treated so ambivalently. It also explains how angelic waifs give serious-minded Victorians a way of contending with destructive change and moral breakdown and why depraved …
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Disabled Subjects: Disability Gender and Ethical Agency in Victorian Realism
"While many previous studies of Victorian disability have focused on non-literary works and melodramatic forms, the specific focus on realist fiction offers a fresh perspective on disability's ethical function. Realism's investment in interiority disrupts the often cliched association between …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… I examine the debate over women's place in Victorian society, particularly the constituency of unmarried women whose singleness fueled this debate. Mainstream rhetoric classified Victorian women as true, fallen, widowed, blue-stocking, married—any number of designations—with the facility …
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Sinister Spaces: Liminality and the Southern Ontario Gothic in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
… by her academic training in Gothic and Victorian fiction. However, she also incorporates the influences of Southern Ontario – her backyard – and its regional subgenre of Southern Ontario Gothic. While traditional Gothic certainly incorporates binaries, Michael Hurley, the scholar at the …
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Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist
… the presence and absence of female scientists in Victorian fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is considered in addition to …
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The Last Will and Testament in The Victorian Novel
… will and testament is especially prominent in Victorian fiction: in such masterpieces as Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, and Our Mutual Friend, and in such lesser works as Henry Kingsley's Ravenshoe and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will. The dissertation focuses on those fictional wills for which we …
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Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… argues that Christian theology informs how Victorian realist novelists understood narrative perspective and the formal strategies used to communicate a narrator’s knowledge. Although the Victorian realist novel has typically been considered a secular form, I challenge this assumption by …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
<p>Victorian inquisitiveness about sleep and dysfunctions of sleep is exemplified in novels published during the fifty-year period from <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) to <em>Dracula</em> (1897). This inquisitiveness foreshadows modern medical sleep science and immerses the reading public in a body of …
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Humankindness: Illness, Animality, and the Limits of the Human in the Victorian Novel
… animality and representations of illness in the Victorian novel, and examines the narrative uses and ideological consequences of such representations. Figurations of animality and illness in Victorian fiction have been examined extensively as distinct phenomena, but examining their connection …
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The changing role and portrayal of 'the individual' in historical context in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
… role and portrayal of the 'individual' in Victorian fiction. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876), and Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) are analysed in depth. The …
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“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature
… of this thesis shares the key stages of the fictional female detective‘s investigation: the identification of evidence, consideration of its significance and meaning, and deduction based thereon. I read three collections of short stories, each featuring a professional female detective, …
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