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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Victorian ideals"”.
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Cognition in the Christian reformulation of Tonga: Motivation, internalization, and schemas
… transforming Tongan society to fit with European-Victorian ideals. The missionaries were successful in their conversion efforts. However, traditional Tongan society was not merely replaced: cultural ideals blended. How this occurred, and the degree to which cultural features were affected, was …
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“Man-Cub They Call Me”: Mowgli’s Constructed Childhood in Kipling’s Jungle Books
… such as child and animal, as well as traditional Victorian ideals about childhood. Victorian-era childhood is often identified as the time when the ideology of children as innocent and pure figures gained widespread popularity; however, Mowgli’s hybridity also reflects a convergence of multiple …
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Investigating the built environment of Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington: a historic archaeological approach
… environment of Fort George Wright reflected late Victorian ideals of social division, a spatial analysis of the fort’s plan at different periods was conducted using Visibility Graph Analysis. The results of this analysis were compared to similar studies of contemporary fortifications in Washington …
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The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature
… Heroine"--was not only an embodiment of Victorian ideals of domesticity; she was also a literary descendant of the same spirited heroine featured in the adult genre of domestic fiction, from the early half of the nineteenth-century. This paper will examine common traits and circumstances …
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The Last Victorian Knight: A Study of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
… death in 1935. Lawrence's upbringing in the late Victorian era shaped his outlook on life as it did for many men of his generation, but Lawrence saw the contradictions of Victorian society and pushed the boundaries of acceptable behavior for men of his class. Lawrence was not a masculine paradigm …
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Feminism, psychology and the work of Charlotte Mew
… very apparent in society at the time, between Victorian ideals of womanhood and emerging Modernist aspirations.
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Daily life support : building a collective neighborhood
… 2) have we been perpetuating outdated Victorian ideals about the separation of work and home based on roles related to gender? If so, couldn't housing design be more progressive in supporting the way women and men actually live today rather than the way one's great-grandparents lived?;
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Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… but to distance themselves from the older Victorian cultural ideals of “charity” that were being dramatically challenged by the development of “scientific” standards and state-based authority in humanitarian endeavors. This study compares and contrasts the rhetorical efforts of Evangeline …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… in exposing several social problems present in Victorian England, which include the treatment of London's poor and the corruption of London's courts. As these social problems evolve with time, this dissertation argues that the presentation of social commentary in novels also change. Terry …