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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"nineteenth-century British literature"”.
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The Counterfactual History Novel in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… between the slow decline of this form of literature as a consequence of the combined effect of the rise of historical studies as a serious academic discipline during the 1830s, and the growing trend for the realist novel throughout the following decades. My dissertation explores how …
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Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… focuses on portrayals of music in 19th century British literature and culture, and the way that it reveals expectations and assumptions regarding gender roles and behavior. Through this study of accounts of musical performance, in sources such as fictional representations, performance …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… scholars have written on women and marriage in nineteenth-century British history and fiction, this dissertation, The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, is the first to apply consent theory to those unions. Modern consent theory dictates that for …
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The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… that a new paradigm of selfhood emerged in nineteenth-century British literature, one that recognized the individual will and environmental influence not as antithetical but as dialectical forces in the formation of the self. The concept of an externally negotiated subject challenges both …
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… I study a range of texts written during the long nineteenth century by male and female authors, including Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (1806), The History of Mary Prince (1831), Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883). Despite …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… on the representation of Belgium in Victorian literature, but also those of more positive associations, particularly in the literature that more closely followed Belgium's independence. The study focuses on works by Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Florence …
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From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond
In general, developments in English literature of the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century tend to place increasing attention on individual experience and greater variety in characters' aims, motives, and desires. Along with this tendency, the literature reflects alterations in …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… ways in which the black Atlantic was at times a British Atlantic, my dissertation aims to complicate a flow of discussion that Gilroy’s Americanist successors have interpreted largely in light of U.S. slavery and its discursive contexts. Specifically, I explore how some nineteenth-century British …
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"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940
… have long been common in the field of children's literature, yet they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this study, I consider three sets of maps from children's books in relation to their depiction of the British Empire. I begin with geography primers of the early nineteenth …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
… why beauty became so much more important in nineteenth-century Britain, especially for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected in the …