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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Victorians"”.
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Victorians and the Underground
… or enclose the sexual power of women. For the Victorians, tunnels represent not only the thriving age of industrialization, but they also symbolically suggest the social confinement of nineteenth-century women.</p> <p>For the Victorians, change was occurring everywhere. From Darwinian evolution …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century literature anticipated the vibrant interdisciplinary debates that now center on the meanings of secularism. For decades, modernity has been associated with the decline of religion, ignoring the many ways that modern institutions adapted religious …
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A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë
Critics from Virginia Woolf and David Cecil to Lyn Pykett and U. C. Knoepflmacher, among others, have been mesmerized by the eccentric but transcendent world of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Gondal poems. Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel …
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Cannibalizing the Victorians: Racial and Cultural Hybridity in the Brontes and Their Caribbean Rewritings
This is not to say, however, that my project discusses Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as paradigms of a colonialist perspective awaiting overhaul by timely postcolonial revisions. Rather, I offer historically grounded textual analyses of individual Bronte novels in order to challenge the dominant …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
In this dissertation, I scrutinize the formation of female identity in the nineteenth century, which internalized a division between celibate and conjugal life. Additionally, I examine the debate over women's place in Victorian society, particularly the constituency of unmarried women whose …
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The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians
<p>This thesis, using Jungian analysis, investigates how the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield reflect the interdependent spheres of gender relationships that affected societal perceptions of English national identity and stability for …
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The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
… in common, both were thought to be real by many Victorians. Most people are unaware that in addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what he considered a non-fiction book expressing his belief in supernatural fairies. His father, Charles Doyle, shared in this belief and …
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The Ambivalent Attitude Toward The Orphan in The Early Victorian Novel
… explains how angelic waifs give serious-minded Victorians a way of contending with destructive change and moral breakdown and why depraved orphans served as scapegoats for authority figures.
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… to comment upon the constructedness of what the Victorians fought to maintain as "natural" aspects of character. The focus on gender that defines so much work in performance theory is a prominent concern here, but it is not the organizing principle of the dissertation; rather, following the lead …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
The relationship that the Victorians had with their God(s) was not an easy one. Despite the age's oft mocked attachment to religiosity, many individuals underwent profound re-evaluations of their faith, spurred by the combined forces of legislation that challenged the monolithic Anglican Church and …
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Toward an understanding of medieval bookmaking: the case for Guy of Warwick
… textual principles upheld by his fellow Victorians. Unfortunately few of these Victorians produced texts which would today be considered acceptable. Though Victorian productions of many works have been replaced by modern editions, Zupitza' s Guy is the only available text of the romance. …
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The social and cultural value of the apple and the orchard in Victorian England
… the orchard were of greater significance to the Victorians than has been previously realised. This thesis brings together an investigation into the economic value of the apple crop and its associated goods and services, with an exploration of how the apple and the orchard were represented and …
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… 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 patriotism, Christianity, culture, and …
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Drought assessment and forecasting using a nonlinear aggregated drought index
… catchment has great importance to majority of Victorians. To achieve the objectives of this study, an evaluation of existing DIs was first conducted in terms of their suitability for the assessment of drought conditions in the study catchment. Based on the findings of the evaluation study, a …
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Anxious Records: Race, Imperial Belonging, and the Black Literary Imagination, 1900 - 1946
… pamphlets and autobiographies, black Victorians hoped to write themselves into the culture of empire. These recovered texts read uncannily, unsettling the construction of official archives as well as contemporary canons of South African, African and diasporic African literatures. By …
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“The First of the Modern English Novelists”: Engagements with Jane Austen in the Early Twentieth-Century English Novel
… and more precise than those they perceived their Victorians predecessors as having used: in purported contrast to the Victorians, they found in Austen’s works a model for the dramatic dialogue, precise characterization, and narrative economy to which they aspired in their quest for a new style. …
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Formalism in the Victorian garden.
… gardens, this thesis demonstrates how the Victorians resolved the problem of the co-existence of 'Art' and 'Nature' in the design of the formal garden and its relationship to the house. The prolonged debate about formalism and its varying interpretations, is explored both in terms of …
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“THIS UNHALLOWED SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT” ; CARNIVAL INFECTION IN THE MOUNTEBANK’S CHILDREN AND “THE NEW MOTHER”
… 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 carnivals, which influenced people …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… selling. The amount of critical attention the Victorians paid to pawnbroking demonstrates that it was, for them, a distinctive and puzzling trade, and it is important for literary scholars to understand how its practices, adapted in fiction, served to represent new social realties and problems. …
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