University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rite of Association: The Figure of the Secret Society and Victorian Democratic Debate
Abstract
dc:description"Individual chapters focus on the contextually-specific role that the figure of the secret society was made to play in England during several key moments of democratic stress, including the passage of the Catholic Relief Act (1829), the trial of the Glasgow Spinners (1838), the controversy over Tractarian reserve (1838), the so-called ""papal aggression"" (1850), the Indian Mutiny (1857--58), and the unification of Italy (1859--70). These events and the democratic debates surrounding them serve as the context for close readings of literary texts like Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833--34), Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1860) and The Woman in White (1868), Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1841), and Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil (1845) and Lothair (1870)."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Pionke, Albert David
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Anderson, Amanda
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9990107
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81516