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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"nineteenth-century literature"”.
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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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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
<p>Through four novelists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Haywood, Defoe, Austen, and Chopin-this work examines the way the mother's importance evolves throughout literature. In Haywood's works, motherhood is seen as a dominant force in her child's life, but not a dominant force in …
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Writing an alternative Australia : women and national discourse in nineteenth-century literature
… and oppressed. After exemplifying how the literature of the 1890s and its subsequent criticism constructed the itinerant worker as “the” Australian, literary productions by women will be singled out to counteract the dominant version by presenting different opinions on the state of colonial …
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"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized, exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, in its most basic sense it refers to people raised in colonial territories and …
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
Shipwrecks in nineteenth-century literature have commonly been interpreted as metaphors for religious crisis or loss of faith. Yet by reading shipwreck as only a metaphor, I argue that we have lost a sense of the historical reality that shaped nineteenth century readers and writers' imaginative …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… morbid attraction to death." An examination of nineteenth-century literature reveals a gradual change in relationships between the living and the dead, culminating in the sexualized representation of corpses at the close of the century. The works examined for necrophilic content are: Mary …
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Completing the Circle: A Study of the Archetypal Male and Female in Nathaniel Hawthorne's <em>The Scarlet Letter</em>.
… are explored in the characters. The context is nineteenth-century culture of which Hawthorne is a product. The characters in The Scarlet Letter search for a complete existence, an integration of the unconscious and the conscious. Through a mythological study of Hawthorne’s work, we draw closer …
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From pretending to supposing: redeeming the madwoman in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
… demonstrates how the emergent genre of girls’ literature in the Victorian period served to destabilize and challenge contemporary restrictive depictions of women. It revises the theory of Gilbert and Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic, which posits that in nineteenth-century literature, women …
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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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Rails and ties : a comparison of late nineteenth-century images of western railways in Canada and the United States
This thesis is a comparative examination of late nineteenth-century (c. 1869 to 1900) images of railways in the Canadian and American Western landscapes, focusing on differences in how transcontinental railways were depicted in the mountainous Western terrain of each country. It pits Frederick …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer and George Levine have …
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
… authors from the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries who wrote novels and plays that responded quite explicitly to texts written earlier in the eighteenth century by major male writers. The choice of texts by Karoline von Gunderrode (Mahomed), Ellis Cornelia Knight (Dinarbas), …
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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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In the Age of Obsession
… main character.</p> <p>The author chose the late nineteenth century as the setting because the period was one of dynamic and often revolutionary change. Within such a time period as this, when an old era is passing away and a new era is beginning, we are able to witness phenomena which can only be …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… history of ecological thinking on addiction in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dickens, Frank J. Webb, and Lydia Sigourney countered traditional moral conceptions of intemperance by materially linking mental and …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
… us an opportunity to see how authors in the nineteenth century viewed the social dimensions of memory as constructed by communities that envision their pasts in relation to prevailing ideologies and dominant authorities. Specifically, literary representations of social memory are important in …
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A comparative study of London and Paris in the works of Henry James and Emile Zola: with special reference to "the Princess Casamassima" and "L'Assommoir"
The role of the city in nineteenth-century literature has been seen as a crucial factor in the development of a literature of social concern. This thesis examines the ways in which two major nineteenth-century authors, Henry James and Emile Zola, utilised their respectively-chosen cities of London …
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‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… invoked concept of ‘violent emotion’ in nineteenth-century literature, seeking to articulate what a poetics of violent emotion looks like in the novel between 1847 and 1895. It shows that for novelists such as Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the problem of …
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
Nineteenth-century French novels are replete with prostitutes. These fictionalized versions of Paris’ real population of venal women and men usually possess an exceptional spirit; yet over the course of the narrative, they are consistently removed from public circulation in society. Literary …
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