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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"nineteenth-century British novel"”.
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… following study examines the manner in which nineteenth-century British novels use a Semitic discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… to character by calling attention to how novels concisely render the rich interior fullness of even very minor figures. While literary critics associate representations of consciousness with major characters, I demonstrate that, through the application of narrative techniques such as …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… ruins, paintings, and other visual phenomena in nineteenth-century British novels often illustrate the otherwise invisible past. As new media technologies expanded the mass production of images during the nineteenth century, representing earlier time as visible helped novelists to affirm its …
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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 …