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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"governess"”.
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
This dissertation will examine the figure of the governess in the Victorian Sensation Novels of the 1860s in order to determine if sensation fiction in this period was inevitably concerned with portraying the ungovernable side of femininity. The primary focus will be on the female protagonist in …
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“The Monster of Her Own Creation”: Freud’s Seduction Theory and Algernon Blackwood’s Jimbo: A Fantasy
… overactive imagination who is traumatized by his governess before suffering an accident that places him into a coma. The coma results in Jimbo entering a bizarre fantasy world which he journeys through with a version of his governess. The resulting narrative becomes one of childhood trauma and …
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The spurn of the screw : Henry James's project of perversion management in three late supernatural tales
… idea of manhood, the precarious role of the governess, and the development of the urban American male of the early twentieth century. All three texts harbour concerns about male same-sex desire, especially about the imperative to control, segregate, and eradicate it. This erasure is effected …
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
<p>This essay focuses on the prevalent fears of governesses in nineteenth-century Britain: poverty and social isolation, uselessness/redundancy, and a life of loneliness. Through looking at <em>Emma, Jane Eyre, </em>and <em>The Turn of the Screw, </em>novels which span the century (their …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
… martyr to selfsacrifice; the injured wife; the governess; the religious heroine; the transgressor of sensation novels, and the assertive "Girl of the Period" in her various phases. Interrogating those texts and themes that preoccupied nineteenth-century women critics, the thesis retrieves a lost …
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Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction
… her fiction. By using her own experiences as a governess, Brontë constructs Agnes Grey's incongruent social status and a morally corrupt gentry and aristocracy through her depiction of not only Agnes's second employers, the Murrays, but also the morally debauched world that Helen enters upon her …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
… capricious, and foolhardy schemes as the Governess and Mrs. Grose in “The Turn of the Screw.” My study illuminates James's reliance on pun, parody, conscious narrative plagiarism, <em>double entendre</em>, and outright nonsense, to expose his characters’ gullibility. These comic devices …
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Teaching as Practice: Blending the Intellectual and Moral in Pursuit of Science Teachers' Practical Knowledge
… that emerged included: a disciplining governess, role model with missionary tendencies, and good employee with a mission. The concept of gap-closing (between interpretations and commitments) was used to explain development of teachers' practical knowledge. Nature of gap closing and its …
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Henry James and the moral will
… characters like Fleda Vetch, Maisie Farange, the governess of Bly, and Maggie Verver have been largely sparked by this inability either to understand or concur with James’s belief in such an entity as an emphatic yet moral will. Of course, even his most virtuous characters have constantly to guard …