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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Victorian literature"”.
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Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature
“Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature” argues that Victorian authors use the readable sign system of the body and pain to emphasize their characters’ physical features to the reader. As characters physically manifest emotions or experience violence, their appearances change, and these …
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The Complete Bentham: Rationality's Afterlife in Victorian Literature
… Complete Bentham: Rationality’s Afterlife in Victorian Literature,” focuses on one of the nineteenth century’s most contentious attempts to imagine the social good in quantitative terms: Jeremy Bentham’s proposal to measure and manage “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” The last …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… is about transnational aspects of the Victorian era from the vantage point of what Paul Gilroy described more than two decades ago as the “black Atlantic.” Looking at various ways in which the black Atlantic was at times a British Atlantic, my dissertation aims to complicate a flow of …
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"Trifles of value": Craft as communication in Victorian literature
<p>This thesis argues that craft functions in the nineteenth century as a form of communication that expresses female identity in Elizabeth Gaskell's <em>Cranford</em> and Margaret Oliphant's <em>Miss Marjoribanks</em>. By looking at the novels through the lens of Talia Schaffer's craft paradigm in …
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Objective Poetics: Victorian Literature and the Science of Aesthetics
… I attempt to demonstrate how both Romantic and Victorian literature and science came together to produce the idea of “objectivity.” Whereas prior naturalists had tended to embrace an epistemic ideal of what they called “truth to nature”—which involved manipulating observed phenomena to capture …
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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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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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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… imperial presence. This dissertation, ""Victorian Literature and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after Walter Scott,"" examines how Victorian writers experimented with literary form to create narrative temporalities capable of negotiating these changes. Georg Lukács famously …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
The profuse illness and nursing narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide variety of texts ranging from social reform writing to autobiographies, from novels to poetry, physical suffering was often closely …
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Antipodal England: Emigration, gender, and portable domesticity in Victorian literature and culture
This dissertation explores representations of nineteenth-century middle-class emigration from Britain to Australia, with particular attention to the gendered dynamics of displacement Building on the work of scholars who have theorized the performative aspects of national identity, I focus on …
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… to include music, a rarely studied yet vital Victorian artform. I argue that Victorians concurrently idealized music as a transcendent corrective to social ills and feared it as a subversive context for these ills. In Chapter One, I examine Victorian constructions of music to promote …
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… order to interrogate the ethics of reading neo-Victorian literature. I present neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its contemporary exploitation of, and experimentation with, ‘empathetic narrative’ (Sylvia Adamson, 2001) and, in contrast with the historical preoccupation of much …
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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
… and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes beyond these works, with the theme …
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
… investigates the lively interchange between Victorian literature, the science of language, and liberal politics. I argue that Victorian authors used language-science, the study of the origins and nature of human speech, as a powerful model for engaging the diminishing status of hereditary …
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From pretending to supposing: redeeming the madwoman in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
… demonstrates how 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 …
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An ideal woman : literary, parliamentary, and sexual representations of model femininity in mid-Victorian England.
The manner in which middle-class women of the Victorian era were excluded from various aspects of the outside world, in favor of the "woman's sphere," was due to the masculine desire to protect the virtues of domesticity. This ideal of femininity is revealed in selections of Victorian literature, …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… pervasive influence of evolutionary theory on Victorian literature encourages a reading of vampires as a posthuman species. Charles Darwin’s <em>On the Origin of Species</em> (1859) and <em>The Descent of Man </em>(1871) challenged and troubled the Victorians, who now had to consider humans as …
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Julia Kavanagh In Her Times: Novelist And Biographer, 1824-1877.
… of Julia Kavanagh within early and mid-Victorian literature and as a contributor to the concept of the contribution of a women's tradition to the developemnt of French and English arts and culture. It examines her progress as a popular novelist to changing tastes during her working …
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Victorians and the Underground
<p>The Victorian Age created a revolution in technology that defined the age and has fostered its social ideologies. In every civilization, the technologies of the time reflect the social issues of the culture. For instance, the development of the printing press in the fifteenth-century revealed …
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