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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"reading public"”.
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The Social Views of Ruskin
… in England. Scoffed at and rejected by the reading public, clamored for and listened to breathlessly by people of intellectual leisure, as well as by students, he stands - a challenge and an appeal - the "Eminent Victorian".
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Goethe in China: A Study of Reception and Influence
… were enthusiastically devoured by the reading public, while articles and books were published dealing with Goethe's amorous life, personality, scientific achievements, and literary works. Magazines and newspapers brought out special issues celebrating his birthday or commemorating his …
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The Dublin Library Society and its founding members: associational activity and cultural patriotism in late-eighteenth-century Dublin.
… Dublin, options were limited for an expanding reading public who wished to consult quality printed works. During this period of the Anglican Ascendancy, membership to institutional libraries or participation in associational activities was largely limited to elites and those from the …
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Kitsch in the prose works of Theodor Storm.
… of Storm's awareness of and relationship to his reading public and to his publishers, and the effect on his work of the demands of family finances. Three chapters are devoted specifically to Storm's wide—ranging techniques for appealing to his reading public, and four to one of the most important …
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SAMUEL JOHNSON AND AUGUSTANISM
… range of concerns and was aimed at the entire reading public of his time. This paper contextualizes Johnson within Augustanism as a defining framework of the age in which he lived and a movement of which he was a leading figure. Such contextualizing complicates our understanding of Johnson when …
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"To go on Doing Babbitts": Recontextualizing Twilight Sleep as Lewisian Satire
… wrote the novel to the tastes of the American reading public solely for money. This project attempts to dismantle both critiques by arguing for a recontextualization of Twilight Sleep in light of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel, Babbitt. Through an examination of the novels' respective forms of …
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The Convent: A Place of Refuge in Les Misérables and Histoire de ma vie
… served as a persuasive medium to influence the reading public. Anti-clerical sentiment was conveyed in various forms of text, often depicting the Catholic convent as a place of sinister confinement. This thesis offers an alternative representation of the French nineteenth-century convent. …
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The Novels of Mark Aldanov as Representative of the Genres of Bildungsromane, Historical and Philosophical Novels
… European, American and later Soviet and Russian reading public and critics, many aspects of his literary work still remain insufficiently-researched, and the personal archives of the writer were largely ignored. One such aspect which escaped attention of the literary scholars is the peculiar …
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How to connect : applying Martha Nussbaum's literary ethical theory to E. M. Forster's Howards end
Ethics in literature, that is, an ethical reading of works of fiction, is seen by some critics today as a valuable supplement to traditional philosophical, analytical discourse on ethics. In examining issues such as correct choice or action in the face of uncontrolled happenings ethical discourse …
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William Styron: three studies of compositional method
… of the author, his fictions, and his reading public.
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Conjecture on the Failure of Henry James as a Dramatist
… of these facets, however, are familiar to the reading public; and among these brightly shining points of this literary star is one which glimmers but faintly--his attempt to write drama.|There were those who acclaimed Henry James in his own day; and in the present century ever-increasing …
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Faith, fatherland and the politics of exile: the Irish press in mid-Victorian Britain
… meant that there was now, potentially, a large reading public. It was a public which was defined to a great extent by two ideas, nationality and religion-in the parlance of the time, faith and fatherland. These two elements crucially shaped the responses of both the migrants and of the wider …
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Italian Unity as Leitmotiv in British Literature, 1820-1865
… captivated the interest of the rapidly expanding reading public. The commercial success of published works in which Italy was the leitmotiv helped convince the British public that Italy should be an independent and unified nation. This work traces the progression of printed British works of …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… act of publishing, putting one's work into the public sphere for consumption as well as critique, created an acute sensitivity to issues of honor because publishing automatically broadcast insults or accusations of dishonorable conduct to the reading public. This study requires a grounded …
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
… domain of fiction, informing the international reading public‟s views of British society and culture, even after the historical demise of that social class.
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California Opinion on Lincoln to 1864
… are being revealed more and more to the American reading public. These human traits which are listed as little known facts have popularized Abraham Lincoln in the hearts of the American people. The judgment of his contemporaries, that he was one of the truly great Presidents of the United States, …
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Science and the press: nascent institutions in colonial America
… how the Gazette served the interests of the public and of those doing science, and how this history influenced science and the press. Public acceptance of scientific method and results made the newspaper critical for a developing colonial American science tied to commercial interests. The …
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Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Politics of Adab: knowledge, journalism and policing public sociability in 19th century Egypt
… context in 19th century Egypt, based on a close-reading of his newspaper articles. I argue that ʿAbduh’s reform project, in terms of what was at stake in his job as Director of Publications for the Egyptian state from 1880-1882, is best understood as a bureaucratic publishing project or politics …
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Speech, Voice and Parable: Reading and Writing through Auden (Letters to Auden, a Reading of His Poems, and a Serial Poem of Barack Hussein Obama)
… comprises three main components: firstly, close readings and critical analyses of four major poetical works by W.H. Auden—“The Watershed”, The Sea and the Mirror, “New Year Letter”, and “In Time of War”; secondly, ten semi-informal letters addressed to W.H. Auden; and thirdly, a serial poem …
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Motifs, l'art et les moyens, Les: la reussite des contes de fee de Perrault et des freres Grimm
… the level of literacy and access to free, public education for males. Second, the study explores the social attitudes of the French nobility toward the absolutist regime of Louis XIV and of the German populace toward the French occupation of Germany by Napoleon I. Third, this study looks at …
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