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Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Literature
<p>The theatre in the nineteenth century was a source of entertainment similar in popularity to today's film culture, but critics, of both that age and today, often look down on nineteenth-century theatre as lacking in aesthetic merit. Just as many of the films now being produced in Hollywood are …
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Engagement in Nineteenth-Century England
… current social and cultural historiography of nineteenth-century England. It does so by expanding and nuancing the study of romantic culture from the current narrative of ‘courtship and marriage’ to include the crucial period of engagement. Making a suitable, compatible marriage was, for most …
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Maltese emigration in the nineteenth century
… essay deals with Maltese emigration during the nineteenth century. Maltese emigration can be said to have had its first impetus with the first depression following the Napoleonic Wars. Prior to the coming of British Rule, there was never a strong need to emigrate, since Malta lived under the …
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Microfinance institutions in nineteenth century Ireland
… of microfinance institutions that operated in nineteenth century Ireland: loan funds, savings banks (TSB and POSB), joint stock banks, Monts-de-Piété, Raiffeisen banks, state-funded land purchase, and emigrant remittances. It utilises financial and microfinancial history as a prism to analyse …
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Occidentalism in Late Nineteenth Century Egypt
… discourses of three intellectual leaders of late nineteenth century Egypt, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Qasim Amin, and Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi. It highlights four main factors that shaped the three writers' views of the West. These factors are: the way each writer saw reform as a process, the way …
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Nineteenth-century textbooks and international law
… on international law written mainly in the 19th century. So the chief source' materials are the textbooks themselves. The study is not an exhaustive account of the work of each textbook writer, but only of his attempt to consider the law as a system. Nor does it cover every book written. …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… of incorporating regional dialects into the nineteenth-century English novel form. After roughly 1850, there is a distinct expansion of publications written in dialect in England. This is owing to both a peak in academic interest in comparative philology and publishers’ recognition of the …
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Handling Bibles in the Nineteenth Century
… read or handled, mostly by evangelicals, in nineteenth-century Britain and the British Empire. In the nineteenth century, bible-reading was shaped by evangelical enthusiasm for bible distribution, developing printing technologies, and the entwined histories of mission and empire. Bibles …
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Sin and Sanity in Nineteenth-century America
Sin and Sanity in Nineteenth-Century America is an intellectual and cultural history of moral insanity in America. It argues that moral insanity functioned as a naturalized description of the bound will, as a negotition between theology and the scientific 'study of man', and as a critique of the …
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Women and fashion in Australia's nineteenth century
… burgeoning fashion culture of late-eighteenth century Europe. Yet little work has been conducted on their clothing lives. In this thesis, I speculate as to the appearance of the convict women. I do not disparage them as the discarded, unwanted and unattractive ones as some historians as well as …
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Women and Madness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
… experience of women regarding mental disorder in nineteenth-century Ireland. The central argument of this thesis is based on two claims. First, that mental disorder was socially constructed in nineteenth-century Ireland, and second, that the social construction of mental disorder was permeated by …
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Women and Crime in Nineteenth Century Ireland
… aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nineteenth century. Contemporary writing on the subject was very limited despite the great interest in the whole area of criminology.1 Much of the reason for this, surely lies in the fact that crimes by women constituted only a small fraction of …
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Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century
Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century argues that Native American historians responded to the disciplinary emergence of settler-colonial history by challenging the belief that writing afforded exclusive access to the past. As the study of history developed in the nineteenth century, the …
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e.p. Whipple, Nineteenth Century American Literary Critic
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
My dissertation, “Entangled Mobility in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” refocuses studies of nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and expansion on impaired mobility and bodies. As I show, both pro-imperial and anti-imperial writers as diverse as Robert Montgomery Bird, Herman Melville, Harriet …
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