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Guilt in Selected Victorian Novels
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The Neo-Victorian Novel, 1990-2010
… the twenty-first witnessed a surge of published novels with direct and indirect connection to the Victorian era, at a time when a focus on the new millenium might have been expected. This proliferation of what came to be termed 'neo-Victorian novels' shows no sign of abating and has now given …
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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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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… of knowing the world as depicted in popular Victorian novels. These narratives attempt to assimilate alternate modes of understanding; however, the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and intuition speaks to larger cultural tensions about the possibility of reconciling fact and …
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Objects, People, and Landscapes of Terror: Considering the Sublime through the Gothic Mode in Late 19th Century Novels
… theories of the sublime are negotiated in three Victorian novels and how they relate to issues of foreignness and gender in the nineteenth century. The introduction provides an overview of each chapter and outlines key theorists and theories of the sublime pertinent to my argument. My first …
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Forming Ideology: The Work of Narrative Form in the Victorian Novel
… British fiction. It reads a wide range of mostly Victorian novels to illustrate how narrative form acts as a determining, not just determined, component of ideological work, and to uncover the largely unrecognized work this type of reading brings to fight. It thereby differs from prevailing …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… paternalist society. My focus is on three Victorian novels' representations of society's transformation from a paternalistic nature to one of greater individualism; and in particular, I explore how women defined for themselves positions of power within these structures. So this study is …
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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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Taming a Monstrous Genre: Vexed Author-Figures and their Lethal Texts: 1719 to 1824
… tried to impose a didactic framework on their novels. However, such didacticism was undermined because the novel's generic hybridism opened it up to multiple interpretive lenses. I argue that working under such literary and cultural constraints, novelists were anxious about losing control over …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
… (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues that this subgenre of writing attempts to revise the fragmented historical record of queer history, and these texts hope for a liberated queer future by …
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Not Just the Facts: Victorian Detective Fiction's Critique of Information
This dissertation argues that mid-Victorian detective fiction critiques concurrent shifts in Victorian information culture. Detectives in fiction check alibis, investigate clues, and perform acts of detection and ratiocination which link their labor to social procedures of information management. …
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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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Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
How do Victorian novels, those detailed imaginative records of psychic interiority and social life, put into language the aspect of our interior lives that seems most stubbornly nonlinguistic: that is, the insistent claims and impulses of erotic desire? If Victorian culture valued reason and …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
<p>A great many Victorian novels were originally written, published, distributed, and read in parts over time—that is to say, serially. Yet today we rarely read those novels in serial format. Nor do we consider that format in any way equivalent to what we mean by the form of the novels in question. …