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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Victorian literature and culture"”.
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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
… of success, to retain their ties to Britain and the middle classes despite displacement. One such practice involves the performance of what I call "portable domesticity," or the transplantation of British national identity through the replication of British domestic values and practices …
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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts
<p>In <em>Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts</em>, I analyze moments of discursive dissonance that emerge through the juxtaposition of early-Victorian theories of criminality and representations of criminals in popular culture. In …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
This dissertation draws upon performance theory and new historicism to read Victorian literature and culture. By fusing the gender consciousness and social constructionist agenda of the former with the rigorous dedication to historical specificity of the latter, I am able both to ground potentially …
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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 …