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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Victorian society"”.
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
… the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. <br/><br/>Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as discussions on his …
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The Role of Woman in Victorian Society: A Controversy Explored in Six Utopias, 1871-1895
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
… in detail the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, a mid-Victorian English author. It establishes that she was significantly influenced in her writing by the Unitarian social milieu to which she belonged during her lifetime, and by a wide range of other dominant influences, such as Romanticism and the …
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Who is Paying for God: A thematic analysis of Henry Arthur Jones's religious plays in relation to the modernist trend
… religious and fiscal tensions in the surrounding Victorian society. The critical commentary in Jones’s plays is then used to draw a connection between Jones’s work and his fight for dramatists to have greater freedom in the topics they sought to portray onstage, demonstrating that Jones used his …
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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901
… rehabilitated in English culture during the mid-Victorian period, following a period of effective displacement that began during the late eighteenth century. Devalued through its appropriation by revolutionary polities on both sides of the Atlantic, Rome’s profile in England was eclipsed by the …
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Samuel Butler’s Way of All Flesh as a Sociological Novel
<p>To scholars of Victorian literature, Samuel Butler has always been a rebel who strikes out at society with wide-ranging criticism. After years of studying subjects as varied as music, art, biology, literature, and theology, Butler felt (like many Victorian writers) that he could make valuable …
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An investigation into the effects of the Victorian notions of duty and obedience on the domestic novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge.
… thesis. They accurately portray contemporary Victorian middle-class life and attempt, by means of lessons in moral behaviour, to instruct the reader in the importance of duty and obedience. These notions were given particular religious emphasis by Evangelicals and Tractarians respectively and …
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Socialisation and subversion : the development of the Victorian children's literary fairy tale
… into two sections, fairy tales of the early Victorian period and those of the middle and late Victorian period. It is argued that the fairy tales present in England during the first time period were mostly imported translations from other European countries while the fairy tales of the second …
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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
… around the gender roles present during the Victorian era and how George Eliot examined these roles in Mill on the Floss. She did so through her representations of Tom and Maggie Tulliver and by examining how each of these characters deal with the respective roles for his or her gender while …
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The Victorian Woman in Mary Barton and Mill on the Floss: What Causes the Angel to Fall
The role of the fallen woman intrigued Victorian society. Like much literature, this character reflected the time period she was a part of, but what signals did popular authors provide to show that a character was fallen? And did those authors argue against modern mindsets that a fallen woman could …
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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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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
… and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and focuses on six primary categories: the visual depiction of the criminal, the criminal class, the jewelry heist, the colonial subject, …
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Julia Margaret Cameron, and the Arthurian Legends: Re-writing and Re-envisioning Women’s Roles in 19th Century England
… face the consequences of causing the downfall of society. Victorian society was in a precarious situation as women were expected to behave in certain ways, but at the same time they were finding their voices and beginning to speak out about patriarchal society and their own displeasure at how they …
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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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“THIS UNHALLOWED SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT” ; CARNIVAL INFECTION IN THE MOUNTEBANK’S CHILDREN AND “THE NEW MOTHER”
… and disease transmission were major anxieties in Victorian society. This influenced Victorians to assign terms such as “poverty,” “dirty,” and “corrupt” to people who they believed were more inclined to contract an infection. “Poverty,” “dirty,” and “corrupt” were terms also associated with …
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The Girls Who Had to Grow Up: Reflections on Motherhood and Dual Identity in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Neverland
… of the "mundane" experienced by the typical Victorian housewife and mother. Both are intimately connected within the texts, primarily in the characters' dual roles as dictated by the gendered expectations of Victorian society. While in the imaginary world, both Alice and Wendy experience …
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FEMALE NEUROSIS : A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF WOMEN IN HARDY'S NOVELS
… female characters who 'deviate' from the ideal Victorian woman, Is sensitive to the psychological predicament experienced by these women. In Hardy's novels these women attain a significance which redefines them as circumstancial products of the female freedom movement, rather than irrational, or …
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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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