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Journal articles on the topic "19th-century novel"
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Bence, Erika. "21TH CENTURY INTERPRETATION OF „A 19TH CENTURY” HUNGARIAN CRIME NOVEL." Годишњак Филозофског факултета у Новом Саду 47, no. 1 (2022): 315–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/gff.2022.1.315-332.
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Roman Roberta Milbahera Léleknyavalyák [Duševne boljke] – Ili o prirodi samoubistva i drugih sredstava usmrćivanja, objavljen 2018. godine, sebe definiše kao kriminalistički roman napisan krajem 1860-ih, u formi tog doba. Prihvatajući ovu samorefleksiju, istraživanje prikazano u ovoj studiji predstavlja savremeni mađarski književni poduhvat za naknadnu rekonstrukciju žanrova i načina govora prethodnih vekova, upoređujući tako Milbaherov roman u kontekstu romana nastalih pod tim uticajima (Trilogija Testvériség [Bratstvo] Lasla Martona, istorijski roman Marije Vasađi Pokolkerék [Pakleni točak]). Uz sve ovo, postavlja nekoliko modela svoje interpretacije: ispituje i mogućnosti da se tumači referencijalno, kao psihološki i kao kriminalistički roman.Komparativna istraživanja daju odgovore ne samo na pitanja žanrovske konstrukcije interpretiranog romana, već i na razumevanje mađarske detektivske priče 19. veka i njenog uticaja na druge žanrove, kao i promišljanje prisustva ovog žanra u savremenoj nastavi književnosti.
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Mahlberg, Michaela, Viola Wiegand, Peter Stockwell, and Anthony Hennessey. "Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 28, no. 4 (2019): 326–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947019886754.
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We propose a lexico-grammatical approach to speech in fiction based on the centrality of ‘fictional speech-bundles’ as the key element of fictional talk. To identify fictional speech-bundles, we use three corpora of 19th-century fiction that are available through the corpus stylistic web application CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context). We focus on the ‘quotes’ subsets of the corpora, i.e. text within quotation marks, which is mostly equivalent to direct speech. These quotes subsets are compared across the fiction corpora and with the spoken component of the British National Corpus 1994. The comparisons illustrate how fictional speech-bundles can be described on a continuum from lexical bundles in real spoken language to repeated sequences of words that are specific to individual fictional characters. Typical functions of fictional speech-bundles are the description of interactions and interpersonal relationships of fictional characters. While our approach crucially depends on an innovative corpus linguistic methodology, it also draws on theoretical insights into spoken grammar and characterisation in fiction in order to question traditional notions of realism and authenticity in fictional speech.
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Paul, Robin. "English Society in the 19th Century." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 5 (2021): 204–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11059.
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Prior to examining an artistic work, it is important to make an examination about the period and society in which the essayist lived just as its people and their method for living, custom and laws so as to comprehend the author's reality view and prepare for a however investigation of his work. At that point in this theme we survey the authentic, social and true to life foundations of the novel under investigation as to look at the ways by which these might have affected the substance and type of the novel .We will manage English society in the nineteenth century concentrating on the public activity, economy and the situation of women in England, additionally, we will audit the essayist's life and works and talk about the hypothesis to be utilized for the examination study which is Feminism. The eighteenth and nineteenth century can be portrayed by the quantities of uprisings which were brought about by a social and political circumstance. These occasions began to decide individuals' emotions, their requirements and needs. Composing style turned out to be progressively enthusiastic and instinctual. It implies that the nineteenth century essayists re-established the Elizabethan's style in writing which was depicted by the ethical shows and love issues. Moreover, their imagination concentrated on the composition guns of medieval occasions. In this research paper, it is all about the English society, how about their social life and the treatment of women. It is from very ancient times that women are not respected and there are many instances for that as well.
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Rozsnyai, Bálint. "Narrative strategies in the mid-19th century American novel." Neohelicon 15, no. 2 (1988): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02129080.
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Kronenberg, Christoph. "A New Measure of 19th Century US Suicides." Social Indicators Research 157, no. 2 (2021): 803–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02674-y.
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AbstractSuicides hurt families and the US economy with an annual cost of $69 billion. However, little is known about what determined suicide rates in the past. This is likely due to the lack of consistent data prior to the 20th century. In this article, I propose using newspaper suicide mentions for the period 1840–1910 as a proxy measure for suicide and perform several validation exercises. I show that the stylized facts like suicides drop during wars holds for suicide mentions. I also validate the newspaper suicide mentions against sparse suicide mortality data and a novel valence measure. This new measure can be used to assess the relationship between suicides and numerous policy changes happening in the 19th century that previously could not be explored. It thus offers a new research avenue for quantitative historical analyses, which can inform current policy via novel historical insights.
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Nosek, Anna. "„Wspomnienia wygnanki” Pauliny Krakowowej – powieść dla dziewcząt i pierwsza polska „robinsonada”." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 56, no. 3 (2022): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.718.
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The aim of this dissertation is to present the forgotten novel Wspomnienia wygnanki from 1844 by Paulina Krakowowa. The author draws attention to its readability and literary values, which made it a bestseller in the 19th century. The dissertation also offers an analysis and interpretation of Wspomnieniawygnanki in the context of nineteenth-century novels for girls, as well as in the context of adventure novels, the so-called “robinsonada”. This is because Krakowowa’s novel is saturated with sensational, adventure and travel themes. Therefore, it should be placed within and outside the circle of nineteenth-century novels for girls. Wspomnienia wygnanki is an innovative novel,going beyond the usual conventions of moral prose and novels of manners towards an adventure novel (“robinsonade”), which, in the nineteenth century, was reserved almost exclusively for boys.
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Hellystia, Devi. "Edna Pontellier's endeavors as the main character in Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening" in the nineteenth-century liberal feminism." English Education Journal 12, no. 4 (2021): 642–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/eej.v12i4.20437.
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This study analyzed the struggle of Edna Pontellier in the 19th-century liberal feminism in the novel entitled The Awakening written by Kate Chopin. Liberal feminism assumes that the main problem of gender inequality is the domination of institutions by men. Men control the economic sphere, political sphere, along with other things. 19th-century liberal feminism put its focus on women's equal liberty. In general, the novel is about Edna Pontellier, the woman who was trapped in the figure of a mother and wife. She struggled as a woman in the 19th-century to get equal liberty and follow her desires. The researcher used the qualitative method in analyzing the struggle of Edna Pontellier. The results of this study show Edna’s struggles to pursue her desires through Mill and Taylor’s 19th-century liberal feminism theory. She wanted to get the same political rights, economic opportunities, and education that men get. The results also showed the two things that lead Edna to become a figure of liberal feminism: an unhappy married life and her desire to free herself.
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Ashrafli, Nazifa. "The gender problem in the 19th century summary." Scientific Bulletin 1, no. 1 (2021): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54414/porv2035.
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This article addresses the gender issue of the 19th century. XIX century in England. This century is generally considered Victorian, although this is not quite the correct idea. The Victorian era refers to the period from 1837 to 1901, when Great Britain was ruled by Queen Victoria. So Queen Victoria began her reign only in 1837. In the Victorian era (1837-1901), it was the novel that became the leading literary genre in English. Women played an important role in this growth in the popularity of both authors and readers. Circulating libraries that allowed books to be borrowed for annual subscriptions were another factor in the novel's popularity. The 1830s and 1840s saw the rise of the social novel. It was a lot of things response to rapid industrialization, as well as social, political, and economic challenges associated with it and was a means of commenting on the abuses of government and industry and the suffering of the poor who did not profit from the English economy. Stories about the working-class poor were aimed at the middle class to help create sympathy and foster change. The greatness of the novelists of this period is not only in their veracity description of modern life, but also in their deep humanism. They believed in the good qualities of the human heart and expressed their hopes for a better future. At the end of the eighteenth century, two young poets, W. Wordsworth and S. Coleridge, published a volume of poems called "Lyric ballads". From this moment began the period of romanticism in England, although it did not last long, only three decades, but it was truly bright and memorable for English literature. It was this time that gave us many great novels. Even in the Middle ages, clear and distinct gender boundaries were drawn and stereotypes of gender behavior were defined. Everyone was assigned their own specific roles and their violation caused public hatred. A Victorian married woman was her husband's "chattel"; she had no right property and personal wealth; legal recourse in any question, if it was not confirmed by her husband. Socio-economic changes in the middle of the XIX century lead to changes in the status of women middle and lower strata: gaining material independence and sustainable development socio-economic status, women acquire a social status equal to that of men. Women are beginning to fight against double standards in relation to the sexes, for reforms in the field of property rights, divorce, for ability to work. The next step was to raise the issue of women's voting rights as a means to ensure legislative reform. Women they sought independence from men.
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Bikulčius, Vytautas. "Michel Houellebecq’s Submission – a novel of decadence." Literatūra 61, no. 4 (2019): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/litera.2019.4.7.
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Michel Houellebecq’s Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loűys, Jean Lorrain and others produced at the end of the 19th century but also at subsequent periods. Such characteristics of decadent writing as the threat of catastrophe, fundamental changes in society, nostalgia can be found in the analysed novel.François, the main character of the novel, an expert on Huysmans and a professor at Sorbonne University, supports Huysmans’ ideas to some extent trying to find the link between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century by comparing processes in society. Huysmans sought an ideal in the Middle Ages, while François travels to Rocamadour, famous for the statue of the Black Madonna, with a hope to find a spiritual revelation but becomes aware that the world of the past has gone forever. Changes in society made Huysmans leave the monastery, similarly, François gets frustrated as he loses his job when the Muslim Fraternity comes into power.Using the dystopian genre, Houellebecq depicts unbelievable changes in society – the new government proclaims Islam an official religion of France. Society is governed by new rules, the authority is concerned about two things – demography and education. Those, who refuse to convert to Islam, lose their jobs. Changes in society are even linked with geopolitical changes. Meanwhile Houellebecq reveals significant differences between the decadence of the end of the 19th and of the 21st century. Huysmans’ decadence results in neuroses, a desire to seal himself off from the world in alcohol, drugs, etc., to surround himself with works of art, while François in Submission enjoys erotic pleasures, gradually becomes an alcoholic, he does not suffer like Huysmans’ protagonist Des Esseintes. It can be stated that Submission is a decadent novel only at thematic level since aesthetic values, characteristic of the decadence of the 19th century, are left in the background. The only justification of François is that he speaks about his conversion to Islam hypothetically, it shows that he has not made up his mind to take this step.
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Civantos, Christina. "The Pliable Page: Turn-of-the-21st-Century Reworkings of Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés." Latin American Literary Review 49, no. 99 (2022): 2–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.26824/lalr.334.
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This essay examines turn-of-the-21st-century responses to the foundational 19th-century novel by Villaverde, Cecilia Valdés, pointing to the ambivalence toward textual authority and migration as key elements in Cubans’ relationship to historical memory. The analysis of two plays, a puppet show, a novel, and works of visual and performance art, all of which have a textual element and were produced between 1994 and 2006, demonstrates the ongoing use of the Cecilia story to question key elements of Cuban historical memory. While contesting the legacy of the colonial and nation-building era, these contemporary works open a dialogue regarding narratives about Cuban migration, from the 19th century into the present. They unpack the established narratives about Cuba’s colonial period—slavery, race, socioeconomic class, and sexuality, and also contribute to new narratives about migration. The relationship between movement, authority, and textuality in these responses to Villaverde’s novel points to how 19th-century historical memory, and intertwined with that migration, are central to the ongoing renegotiation of Cuban identity. By re-working Villaverde’s novel—figuratively or literally manipulating the pages of Cecilia Valdés—Cuban writers and artists participate in a ritual of resignification that redefines lo cubano.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "19th-century novel"
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Abraham, Adam. "Spurious Victorians : imitation and the nineteenth-century novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cbf24b85-cc63-42be-ba84-2f065942c4d8.
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In 'A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism', Jerome J. McGann writes, '[A]n author's work possesses autonomy only when it remains an unheard melody'. For the published and successful writer in the nineteenth century, such autonomy was often unattainable. Publications such as The Pickwick Papers inspired an array of opportunistic successors, including stage plays, unauthorized sequels, jest books, song books, and shilling and penny imitations. Despite the proliferation, this strain of writing is rarely studied. This thesis recovers ephemeral, scurrilous texts, often anonymous or pseudonymous, and reads them in the context of their canonical sources. Retrieving bibliographical environments, it demonstrates how plagiaristic, parodic, and willfully unoriginal works impacted on the careers of three novelists: Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton, and George Eliot. The thesis argues that formal distinctions among modes of Victorian writing - criticism, parody, and plagiarism - often blur. Further, it argues that our understanding of a particular novelist's work must be broadened to include sequels, spinoffs, and imitations: to know a particular author means to know the spurious and oftentimes bad (morally or aesthetically) works that the author inspired. The Spurious Victorians of the title form something of countercanon to the 'major' writers of the period. Thomas Peckett Prest, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, and Joseph Liggins, among many others, informed and influenced the literary history that has in turn denied them admission. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote, 'If only men of genius were to write, Lord help us! how many books would there be?' Of course, Victorian print culture found room for the genius and the subgenius, Boz as well as Bos. 'Spurious Victorians' recovers works that have been lost from view in order to better understand the process by which an individual authorial voice emerged amid an echo chamber of competing, imitative voices.
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Moctezuma, Linda. "The Singularity of the Single Heroine in the Victorian Novel." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22244.
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This thesis studies the emergence of an empowered single heroine in western literature from the 1860s to the 1890s, an emergence which marks a significant development in the novel. The single woman has conventionally been depicted as powerless and pitiful until, in the context of the marriage plot, she is rescued by a man. This depiction persisted in spite of many single women being relatively successful and independent. Towards the end of the century, authors begin to experiment with the heroine’s journey, and the single heroine is offered alternatives to marriage by her authors, thus challenging the traditional marriage plot. Included in this thesis is a close study of three novels by authors who experimented successfully with a single female protagonist: Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope (England), 1865. The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (South Africa), 1883. Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai (Hungary), 1889. I choose these three culturally diverse novels in order to explore how marriage was so broadly expected of women in life and literature and also to demonstrate how the novel of the time reflects the broad dissatisfaction of women having little choice other than to marry. The novels break the conventional marriage plot in three different ways: Miss Mackenzie through deep introspection; Lyndal in African Farm through sociological and political enlightenment; and Bessy in Eyes like the Sea, through a determination not to be abused and also through a fervour for adventure. These three heroines offer three literary breaks from the traditional marriage plot, and reflect the broad dissatisfactions that existed amongst women who were often forced into marriage. These literary breaks were indicative of a change which was emerging in the novel at the fin de siècle, a change where heroines were breaking stereotypes with a diversity of unprecedented behaviours.
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Jones, D. Michael. "The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/1476662282/.
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From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male: devoted husband, sexual revolutionary and weaponized servant of the state. His silhouette can be traced through the works of authors like Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. More than a literary genealogy, this history of the Byronic hero and his heirs follows the changes that masculinity has undergone in response to industrial upheaval, the rise of the middle class and the demands of global competition, from the Victorian period through the early 20th century.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1121/thumbnail.jpg
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Tam, Ho-leung Adrian, and 譚灝樑. "Realism, death and the novel: policing and doctoring in the nineteenth century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41757828.
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Bhattacharya, Sunayani. "Dear Reader, Good Sir: Birth of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22792.
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My dissertation traces the formation and growth of the reader of the Bengali novel in nineteenth century Bengal through a close study of the writings by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay that comment on—and respond to—both the reader and the newly emergent genre of the Bengali novel. In particular, I focus on the following texts: two novels written by Bankim, Durgeśnandinī (The Lady of the Castle) (1865) and Bishabṛksha (The Poison Tree) (1872), literary essays published in nineteenth century Bengali periodicals, personal letters written by Bankim and his contemporaries, and reviews of the novels, often written and published anonymously. I suggest that by examining the reader of the Bengali novel it becomes possible to understand how the individual Bengali negotiates the changes occurring in nineteenth century Bengal—an era in which traditional beliefs collide with the intellectual and technological innovations brought on by colonial modernity. As my dissertation shows colonialism is far from being a disembodied institution operating at the level of governments and ideologies. Instead, it becomes evident that with the novel, colonial modernity enters the Bengali home in the form of changing moral paradigms. What the Bengali reader chooses to read, and how she performs her reading come to have a real import in her quotidian life.
The three sites of reading I examine—the reader as a textual event in the novels, the reader as imagined in the literary essays, and the anthropological reader writing and responding to the reviews of the novels—revitalises the overdetermined field of the postcolonial novel by shifting the focus from the novel as a stable literary object being consumed by a relatively passive reader, to an active reader whose reading practice shapes both the genre and the subject reading it.
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Rontree, Mary Elizabeth. "Satire and parody in the fiction of Thomas Love Peacock and the early writings of William Makepeace Thackeray, 1815-1850." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2004. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3130/.
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This thesis examines the works of Peacock and the early periodical contributions of Thackeray in the light of recent twentieth-century critical interpretations of satire. In particular, attention to Peacock's use of elements of the Menippean sub-genre in his satirical fiction offers a reassessment of his place in the literary tradition. While Thackeray's early writings demonstrate some characteristics of Menippean satire, a review of his work from the broader perspective of Bakhtin's exposition of carnival influences in serio-comic literature provides a new understanding of the origins and uses of his narratorial devices. A comparison of the work of the two authors, within the time constraint of the first half of the nineteenth century, illustrates how nineteenth-century publishing innovations shaped literary perception of satire. Although the high status of the genre in the predominant culture of the previous century was challenged by the growth of the reading public, satire found new energy and modes of expression in the popular magazines of the period. In addition, writers facing the increasing heterogeneity of new reading audiences, were forced to reconsider their personal ideals of authorship and literature, while renegotiating their position in the literary marketplace. Organized in six chapters, the discussion opens with an account of traditional interpretations of satire, and goes on to examine recent analyses of the genre. The second chapter focuses on the relevance of these new interpretations to the work of Peacock and Thackeray and the extent to which the use of Menippean forms of satire enabled each to challenge the established opinions of their period. Changes in concepts of reading and writing and innovations in modes of publication form the substance of the third chapter and this is followed by an analysis of the work of both writers, using Bakhtin's interpretation of the Menippean sub-genre in the broader context of serio-comic discourse and the carnival tradition, Chapter five is a comparative study of the attitudes of both writers towards contemporary literature and the final section places their work in the political context of the period. Both Peacock and Thackeray made extensive use of elements of Menippean satire in their fiction. The content of their work, however, and their modes of writing were highly individual, to some extent shaped by the different markets they supplied. Collectively, their writings illustrate two aspects of the cultural watershed of the early nineteenth century, Peacock reflecting traditional notions of authorship and Thackeray representing a new industry, regulated by the commercial considerations of supply and demand. As satirists,each succeeded in adapting the genre to satisfy both his own authorial integrity and the expectations of his readers.
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Cosgrave, Isabelle Marie. "'White lies' : Amelia Opie, fiction, and the Quakers." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18686.
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This thesis offers a reconsideration of Amelia Opie’s career as a novelist in the light of her developing religious allegiances over the period 1814-1825 in particular. In twentieth-century scholarship, Opie (1769-1853) was often treated primarily as the author of Adeline Mowbray (1805) and discussed in terms of that novel’s relationship with the ideas of Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Recent scholarship (Clive Jones, Roxanne Eberle, Shelley King and John B. Pierce) has begun a fuller assessment of her significance, but there is still a need for a thorough discussion of the relationship between her long journey towards the Quakers and her commitment to the novel as a moral and entertaining medium. Many scholars (Gary Kelly, Patricia Michaelson, Anne McWhir and others), following Opie’s first biographer Cecilia Lucy Brightwell (1854), have represented Opie as giving up her glittering literary career and relinquishing fiction-writing completely: this relinquishment has been linked to Quaker prohibitions of fiction as lying. My thesis shows that Quaker attitudes to fiction were more complicated, and that the relationship between Opie’s religious and literary life is, in turn, more complex than has been thought. This project brings evidence from a number of sources which have been overlooked or under-utilised, including a large, under-examined archive of Opie correspondence at the Huntington Library, Opie’s last novel Much to Blame (1824), given critical analysis here for the first time, and the republications which Opie undertook in the 1840s. These sources show that Opie never abandoned her commitment to fiction; that her move to the Quakers was a long and fraught process, but that she retained a place in the fashionable world in spite of her conversion. My Introduction gives a nuanced understanding of Quaker attitudes to fiction, and the first chapter exposes the ‘white lies’ of Opie’s first biographer, Brightwell, and their legacy. I then move on to examine Opie’s early works – Dangers of Coquetry (1790), “The Nun” (1795) and The Father and Daughter (1801) – as she flirts with radicalism in the 1790s, and Adeline Mowbray is explored through a Quaker lens in chapter 3. I juxtapose Opie’s correspondence with her Quaker mentor Joseph John Gurney and the celebrated writer William Hayley with her developing use of the moral-evangelical novel – Temper (1812), Valentine’s Eve (1816) and Madeline (1822) – as Opie was increasingly attracted to the Quakers. Chapter 5 analyses Opie’s anonymous novels – The Only Child (1821) and Much to Blame (1824) – alongside her Quaker works (especially Detraction Displayed (1828)) around the time of her official acceptance to the Quakers (1825). The final chapter investigates how Opie balanced her Quaker belonging with her ongoing commitment to fiction, exemplified in her 1840s republications, which I present in the context of her correspondence with publisher friends Josiah Fletcher and Simon Wilkin, and with Gurney. Opie’s ‘white lies’ of social negotiation reveal her difficulties in maintaining a literary career from the 1790s to the 1840s, but her concerted effort to do so in spite of such struggles provides a highly significant insight into the changing religious and literary climates of this long period.
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TRIVINOS-ARANEDA, SEGUNDO GILBERTO. "GALDOS EN LA JAULA DE LA EPOPEYA: PRIMERA SERIE DE "EPISODIOS NACIONALES." (SPAIN, NOVEL, 19TH CENTURY, EPIC, HISTORY)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187918.
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Esta disertación estudia la Primera Serie de Episodios Nacionales con el propósito de refutar la tesis sobre el carácter esencialmente épico de este grupo novelístico, particularmente la afirmación según la cual determinados Episodios tienen todas las características propias de la epopeya. El estudio en el nivel de la historia y del discurso de la serie muestra que Galdós no escribió relatos con las características de la epopeya sino novelas singularizadas por el triunfo de los protagonistas y los narradores sobre la fascinación ejercida por la "épica militar" y sobre el discurso que la exalta. El desengaño de la identificación de la guerra con la fiesta (Capítulo 2); la metamorfosis de los combatientes en monstruos o demonios; la tensión voces del individuo-voces de la familia-voces de la humanidad; los motivos del naufragio y del niño abandonado; el sistema analógico que equipara los horrores de la guerra con los horrores del infierno o de la pesadilla (Capítulo 4); el contraste entre el discurso militarista y el discurso pacifista o el predominio de las historias de hombres anónimos y célebres que sueñan con la paz y no con la guerra (Capítulo 5) son las principales constantes que muestran la distancia irreductible entre el Episodio y la Epopeya. Es posible hablar de una épica galdosiana únicamente en el caso de comprenderse por tal la escritura del martirio de los hombres y naciones en la época de la "guerra nacional" sobre la "guerra caballeresca" (Capítulo 6). Este estudio no evidencia sólo el rechazo del Episodio a la represión ejercida en la Epopeya contra las voces amorosas, pacifistas o antiheroicas. Reducir la Primera Serie a su dimensión liberadora sería, sin duda, mistificador, pues ella tiene también un reverso represivo. El análisis de las ceremonias de expulsión o censura de los deseos guerreros, libertinos, románticos o revolucionarios (Capítulo 7) permite concluir que las novelas de guerra escritas por Galdós están regidas por la característica tal vez más distintiva de la novela realista del siglo XIX: el miedo a los deseos socialmente perturbadores o peligrosos.
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Prince, John S. "Utopia Victoriana : the utopian novel in late Victorian Britain, 1871-1905." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259302.
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This study focuses on three significant issues addressed by utopian literature of the late Victorian period: the class struggle and the resulting debate about capitalism and socialism, the nature and significance of language, and the influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on attitudes toward human existence. The utopian reaction to each of these three issues reflects the increasingly scientific investigation and analysis of specialized fields of knowledge that developed throughout the nineteenth century. Within the context of major scientific advancements in biology, geology, linguistics, and technology, utopian literature of the late-Victorian period, c. 1871-1905, responds primarily to two opposing nineteenth-century attitudes, the complacent optimism of laissez-faire individualism and the resigned pessimism of naturalistic determinism. Literary utopianism of the late nineteenth century is an attempt to resolve the philosophical and epistemological conflict between the impersonal and seemingly unalterable natural laws of science and the indomitable human will. I contend that the utopian novel re-emerges in the last third of the nineteenth century at the intersection of scientific discourse and literary discourse. I further argue that the late Victorian utopia marks a critical transition between the classic utopia the modern utopia.<br>Department of English
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Vasavada, Megan. "Novel Gifts: The Form and Function of Gift Exchange in Nineteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13240.
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This dissertation draws on studies of gift exchange by cultural anthropologists and social theorists to examine representations of gifts and gift giving in nineteenth-century British novels. While most studies of the economic imagination of nineteenth-century literature rely on and respond to a framework formulated by classical political economy and consequently overlook nonmarket forms of social exchange, I draw on gift theory in order to make visible the alternate, everyday exchanges shaping social relations and identity within the English novel. By analyzing formal and thematic representations of gifting over the course of the nineteenth century, in novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, I consider the way that gift exchange relates and responds to the emergence of capitalism and consumer culture. I trace two distinct developments in nineteenth-century gift culture: the first, the emergence of an idealized view of the gift as purely disinterested, spontaneous, and free, and the second, the emergence of a view of charity as demoralizing to the poor. These developments, I contend, were distinct ideological formations of liberal economic society and reveal a desire to make the gift conform to individualism. However, I suggest further that these transformations of the gift proceeded unevenly, for in their attention to the logic and practice of giving, nineteenth-century writers both give voice to and subvert these cultural formations. Alongside the figure of the benevolent philanthropist, the demoralized pauper, and the quintessential image of altruism, the selflessly giving domestic woman, nineteenth-century novels present another view of gift exchange, one that sees the gift as a mix of interest and disinterest, freedom and obligation, and persons and things. Ultimately, by reading the gift relations animating nineteenth-century novels, I draw attention to the competing conceptions of selfhood underlying gift and market forms of exchange in order to offer a broader history of exchange and personhood. In its recognition of expansive conceptions of the self and obligatory gifts, this dissertation recovers a history of the gift that calls into question the ascendency of the autonomous individual and the view of exchange as an anonymous, self-interested transaction.
Books on the topic "19th-century novel"
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CORPORATION, BRITISH BROADCASTING. Screening Middlemarch: 19th century novel to 90's television. B.B.C. Educational Developments, 1994.
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The Shogun's gold: A novel of 19th century financial intrigue. Kodansha International, 1991.
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Doctor Darwin's Waterloo pigeon: A novel of 19th century Shrewsbury. Henry Quinn, 2010.
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Arnold, Eugene. Big Water: Flight to Okeechobee, a novel of 19th century Florida. Prospector Press, 1993.
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Sauer, Tilman. "Modeling Parallel Transport." In Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97833-4_5.
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AbstractIn 1918, the Dutch geometer Jan Arnoldus Schouten used plaster models of standard curved surfaces to illustrate a novel geometric concept of the geodesic transport of reference frames in curved spaces. This paper discusses Schouten’s use of material modeling in the context of an emerging abstract geometric concept of parallel transport.
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Barisonzi, Michela. "Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola”." In Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna. Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.09.
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This contribution discusses the representation of rape and violence against women in late 19th century Italian literature. In doing so, I focus on a short story, La Vergine Orsola, initially written by Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1884 as part of a short story collection titled Il Libro delle Vergini, later re-published in 1902 in Le Novelle della Pescara. This contribution looks at how the idea of rape is used in this short story as a narrative escamotage to bring to the attention of the reader the question of female entitlement to sexual desire as part of a social critique that D’Annunzio brings forward in his fin-de-siècle novels and short stories.
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Capra, Andrea. "A 19th-Century ‘Milesian Tale’:." In Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set. Barkhuis, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvggx289.7.
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"The Novel Machine: Narration in the 19th Century." In The Science of Literature. De Gruyter, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110324341-012.
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"Fiction: 18th Century see Novel: 18th Century Fiction: British—19th Century see Novel: Romantic Era , Novel: Victorian Fiction: British—20th Century." In Reader's Guide to Literature in English. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203303290-26.
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"The Rebellion in a 19th-century Indo-Portuguese Novel." In Insurgent Sepoys. Routledge India, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203151808-24.
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Kudryavtseva, Tamara V. "The Novel The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Academical and Critical Reflection in German-Speaking Countries (19th–21st Centuries)." In Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent: Current State of Research. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0677-2-765-824.
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The article analyzes the scientific and critical reception of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent in German-speaking countries. The review covers the period from the first translations of the novel into German (1886, 1905, 1915, 1921) and the first responses to the work by writers such as Nietzsche, Hesse, Kafka, and Mann, critics, and researchers of the last third of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century (Hofmann, Müller, Natorp, etc.) to the present day (Gerigk, Neuhäuser, Garstka, etc.). The analyzed reviews, essays, prefaces to publications, and numerous reprints of the novel throughout the 20th century, scientific articles, monographs devoted to The Adolescent, indicate a fairly stable interest of German intellectuals in this work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The available material shows that the recipients were somehow interested in all aspects of the novel, from its themes and problems (socio-political atmosphere in society, problems of generational change, family education, growing up, etc.) to the peculiarities of poetics (plot composition, typology of images, novel polyphony etc.). The analysis and evaluation of the novel are usually carried out in direct connection with the realities of the writer’s life, with his worldview, religious, aesthetic views, taking into account the cultural context of the era. The article shows the differences in the reception of the novel at different times, as well as in connection with ideological and purely individual ones, due to the specific task that each recipient sets himself. The common denominator may be found in the recognition of The Adolescent as one of the most famous novels of Dostoevsky, as it is shown by the fact that it is always considered as one of Dostoevsky’s five great novels, or “Pentateuch”; however, it is also true that The Adolescent presents less value and popularity than Dostoevsky’s other novels, as it is proved by the smaller quantity of research about it. Nevertheless, The Adolescent receives well-deserved recognition to this day not only as a relevant work of the famous Russian author but also for the experimental, modernist nature of its artistic structure, thereby consolidating the canonical significance of the novel in the European literary process of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Kahn, Andrew. "1. The rise of the short story." In The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198754633.003.0001.
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‘The rise of the short story’ discusses the rise of the short story from the Industrial Age, which occurred largely in the context of British and American print culture. That development traces a long arc from the establishment of the genre as a staple of 19th-century newspapers and magazines to its autonomy as a mode of literature viewed on the same level as the novel. In the 19th century, the short story catered to the taste of growing readerships for entertainment. Moreover, its brevity and easy supply appealed to editors. Ultimately, the form was shaped critically by the literary marketplace.
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Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka. "Podziwiane, pożądane, pogardzane – portret tawaif na tle epoki w pseudopamiętnikarskiej powieści "Umrao Dźan Ada" Mirzy Ruswy." In Rzeczywistość i zapis. Problemy badania tekstów w naukach społecznych i humanistycznych. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/7969-659-8.06.
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The pseudo-memoir novel “Umrao Jaan Ada”, created in the late 19th century by the North Indian writer Mirza Muhammad Hadi Rusva was an extraordinary phenomenon against the background of the then literature of the subcontinent – not only because of its undeniable artistic qualities, but also thanks to the fact that it offers several different possibilities of interpretation to the readers and researchers. “Umrao Jaan Ada” can be classified, among others, as a combination of autobiographical and biographical novel, a classical “Bildungsroman”, a novel focused on the gender perspective, or the first realistic novel written in Urdu – and interpreted in a manner appropriate to each of these types, using the methods developed in such fields as sociology, psychology, history, literary science or gender studies. However, regardless of whether we treat the text of the novel as a historical source, an extensive interview, a memoir or a case study – it provides us with enormous factual material on the life and functioning of an exceptional social group, comprised of well educated and very influential courtesans (“tawaifs”), in 19th century North India . For decades their activities constituted the cultural foundations of the Islamicate elites in South Asia. On the basis of colourful and faithful descriptions and information provided by Ruswa on the pages of his novel, we can now reconstruct this unique cultural tradition in its spiritual, material and social aspects.
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Podosokorsky, Nikolay N. "The Legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of Finance” in Dostoevsky’s Works." In Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent: Current State of Research. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0677-2-257-274.
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The paper analyses the legend of the mighty financial dynasty of Rothschilds who exerted great influence on business life, politics, and culture in 19th-century Europe. Dostoevsky considered the motif of the power of money and Mammon’s greatness as one of the severest problems of his time, “a cruel time, a time of business and money, a calculating time, full of tables, numbers, and zeros of all kinds and types”. From his earliest works, Dostoevsky relates the Napoleonic idea with the idea of monetary enrichment (“Mr. Prokharchin”, “Uncle’s dream”, Crime and Punishment, and others). However, in his early works, the names of Rothschild and Napoleon evolved in parallel, and finally merged only in his novels The Idiot and The Adolescent.
Conference papers on the topic "19th-century novel"
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Kuksa, P. V. "Psychologism of the French novel of the 17th-19th centuries and Russian literature of the 20th century." In SCIENCE OF RUSSIA: GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. "Science of Russia", 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/sr-10-06-2020-76.
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Roelofs, Michelle B. "Mass Timber: 19 Century to Today." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.0634.
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<p>New mass timber technologies are entering the US market allowing for innovative, sustainable, and affordable designs. As the market embraces mass timber it is important to reflect on the history of mass timber and to learn best practices to ensure sustainable growth of this sector. This paper will discuss the evolution of mass timber in three parts:</p><p>19th Century: Large sawn timbers were used to construct impressive warehouse structures that still remain functional and beautiful in our cities today. Logging practices of this era led to deforestation in parts of the Americas before the rise of steel and concrete as dominant building materials.</p><p>20th Century: Mass timber using adhesives emerged in the 20th century. The novel idea of adhering small dimensioned lumber together to create massive elements is the genesis of all modern mass timber technology. This practice allows for timber to be sustainably harvested for structural applications.</p><p>21st Century: Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) has quickly shifted from a bespoke building material to an affordable system being used to address the pressing need for affordable housing. 475 W. 18<span>th</span> St is a model project that was used to compare the carbon impact of building a multi-family residential building as compared to conventional reinforced concrete.</p>
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Moncla, Ludovic, Mauro Gaio, Thierry Joliveau, and Yves-François Le Lay. "Automated Geoparsing of Paris Street Names in 19th Century Novels." In SIGSPATIAL'17: 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3149858.3149859.
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Finlay, Fiona, and Tracy Brain. "650 Concealed pregnancy: from 18th- and 19th- Century Novels and Scientific Texts to 21st- Century Medicine." In Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Abstracts of the RCPCH Conference, Liverpool, 28–30 June 2022. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-rcpch.428.
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Lee, Jonghyun, and Debjyoti Banerjee. "Review of Optical Techniques for Studying Interfacial Dynamics in Multiphase Flows and Phase Change Heat Transfer." In ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2022-97051.
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Abstract Optical techniques are widely used in a variety of applications that are related to biology, physics, and material science due to their inherent advantages (e.g., non-intrusive, fast data processing, and high resolution). Even though optical techniques were initially developed in 19th century, advanced optical techniques have recently been used in multiphase flows and phase change heat transfer studies (e.g., boiling, evaporation, and condensation). In this review, the optical techniques that are used in micro/nanoscale heat transfer, (e.g., phase change, dropwise condensation and evaporation and thin film measurements), as well as characterization of profiles (e.g., for micro-droplets) are explored. The scope of optical techniques reviewed in this study is limited to surface plasmon resonance, fringe equal chromatic order interferometry, ultrathin film interferometry, total internal reflection (A-TIR) and shadowgraph techniques. The efficacy and advantages of optical techniques were explored for various applications. These optical techniques can be leveraged for illuminating the complicated physics governing different types of multi-phase flows (e.g. during dropwise condensation). The potential deployment of these novel optical techniques in various types of multi-phase flow configurations are also explored in this study (e.g., thin-film evaporation, boiling, etc.).
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Cano, Jefferson, and Louise HÉlene Pavan. "Readers of novels: The reception of Les Mystères de Paris in the 19th century." In XXIII Congresso de Iniciação Científica da Unicamp. Galoá, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.19146/pibic-2015-37528.
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Katterbauer, Klemens, Alberto Marsala, and Abdulaziz Al Qasim. "A Deep Learning Wag Injection Method for Co2 Recovery Optimization." In SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/204711-ms.
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Abstract CO2 has some critical technical and economic reasons for its use as an injection gas for oil recovery. CO2 is very soluble in crude oil at reservoir pressures; it contributes to sweep efficiency enhancement as it swells the oil and significantly reduces its viscosity. Although the mechanism of CO2 flooding is the same as that for other gases, CO2 is easier to handle, it is cheaper, and it is an environmentally better candidate than other gases. Formation evaluation and reservoir engineering have been major areas in the oil and gas industry that are heavily influenced by technology advances, to increase efficiency, improve hydrocarbon recovery and allow real-time reservoir monitoring. Water flooding for increasing oil recovery has been amongst the oldest production mechanisms widely utilized since the end of the 19th century to maintain pressure levels in the reservoir and push hydrocarbons accumulations towards the producing wellbore locations (Satter, Iqbal, & Buchwalter, 2008). Produced water from the reservoir formation was reinjected in order to maintain pressure levels, as well as seawater and aquifer water injection have also taken a strong mandate. With the advent of technology and processing plants this injection process was further refined, allowing salinity control of the injected water as well as monitor the injection and distribution of the water levels in near real time (Boussa, Bencherif, Hamza, & Khodja, 2005). Formation evaluation has seen an even greater penetration of technology in its area with the quest to achieve real-time formation evaluation during the drilling process. Conventional formation evaluation is conducted utilizing wireline logging technology, which is deployed after the drilling of the well and allows to analyze the reservoir formation. Given the significant advancement of logging technologies, acquiring the measurements during the drilling process (LWD) has been at the forefront of interest, allowing improved well placement and geosteering as well as real-time formation evaluation to optimize well completion strategies (Hill, 2017). Amongst the technologies recently deployed, surfaced logging and advanced mud and logging allow to determine on cuttings in real time mostly any of the properties previously possible only on direct measurements on cores (Santarelli, Marsala, Brignoli, Rossi, & Bona, 1998; Katterbauer & Marsala, A Novel Sparsity Deploying Reinforcement Deep Learning Algorithm for Saturation Mapping of Oil and Gas Reservoirs, 2021; Katterbauer, Marsala, Schoepf, & Donzier, 2021). With advances in AI, reservoir characterization is now moving towards real-time or near real-time analysis at the rig site. For near real-time analysis, the main physical source of data is drill cuttings as it guides the drilling operation by determining important depth point such as formation tops, coring intervals. Traditionally, the description of these cuttings is done manually by geologists at the well site. The accuracy of these descriptions can be variable depending on the geologist's experience and indeed their mental state and tiredness level. Cores is another source of data. New techniques and older techniques imbued with AI components new allow for greater automation, efficiency, and consistency. The use of AI on traditional images are of great interest in the oil and gas community as they are: 1) fast to acquire, and 2) do not typically require expensive hardware. For example, Arnesen and Wade used convolutional neural networks; specifically, an inception-v3 inspired architecture, to predict lithological variations in cuttings (Arnesen & Wade, 2018). In their study, each sample is related to one lithology. Buscombe used a customized convolutional neural network to predict the granulometry of sediments, specifically the grain size distribution (Buscombe, 2019). Similarly, automated core description systems (e.g., (Kanagandran; de Lima, Bonar, Coronado, Marfurt, & Nicholson, 2019; de Lima, Marfurt, Coronado, & Bonar, 2019) and microfossil identification systems (e.g., (de Lima, Bonar, Coronado, Marfurt, & Nicholson, 2019)) are also being explored using neural networks with varying degree of success. A comprehensive review on the state of usage of rock images for reservoir characterization presented by de Lima et al. (de Lima, Marfurt, Coronado, & Bonar, 2019). In addition, the community is also recognizing the potential of improving older techniques by integrating artificial intelligence into their workflow. In reservoir characterization, chemostratigraphic analysis X-ray fluorescence is a prime example for this especially with the difficulties encountered when analyzing mudrocks in shale plays using traditional methods. The rise of XRF measurement was also fueled by the introduction of highly portable XRF devices that take 10s of seconds to measure one sample. The use of artificial intelligence techniques is being studied. For example, fully connected neural networks are applied on XRF data to predict total organic carbon (Lawal, Mahmoud, Alade, & Abdulraheem, 2019; Alnahwi & Loucks, 2019). In addition to the traditional elemental to mineralogical inversion methods such as constrained optimization, neural networks are being utilized (Alnahwi & Loucks, 2019). The integration between XRF, X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements (Marsala, Loermans, Shen, Scheibe, & Zereik, 2012), and well logs using traditional statistical methods and neural network methods is also being explored (Al Ibrahim, Mukerji, & Hosford Scheirer, 2019). The integration between artificial intelligence systems and automated robotic scanning systems (e.g., (Croudace, Rindby, & Rothwell, 2006)) is key in introducing these technologies into the daily rig operations. The low density of CO2 relative to the reservoir fluid (oil and water) results in gravity override whereby the injected CO2 gravitates towards the top of the reservoir, leaving the bulk of the reservoir uncontacted. This may lead to poor sweep efficiency and poor oil recovery; this criticality can be minimized by alternating CO2 injection with water or similar chase fluids. This process is known as Water Alternating Gas (WAG). A major challenge in the optimization of the WAG process is to determine the cycle periods and the injection levels to optimize recovery and production ranges. In this work we present a data-driven approach to optimizing the WAG process for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). The framework integrates a deep learning technique for estimating the producer wells’ output levels from the injection parameters set at the injector wells. The deep learning technique is incorporated into a stochastic nonlinear optimization framework for optimizing the overall oil production over various WAG cycle patterns and injection levels. The framework was examined on a realistic synthetic field test case with several producer and injection wells. The results were promising, allowing to efficiently optimize various injection scenarios. The results outline a process to optimize CO2-EOR from the reservoir formation via the utilization of CO2 as compared to sole water injection. The novel framework presents a data-driven approach to the WAG injection cycle optimization for CO2-EOR. The framework can be easily implemented and assists in the pre-selection of various injection scenarios to validate their impact with a full feature reservoir simulation. A similar process may be tailored for other Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) mechanisms.
Reports on the topic "19th-century novel"
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Flandreau, Marc. Pari Passu Lost and Found: The Origins of Sovereign Bankruptcy 1798-1873. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp186.
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Verdicts returned by modern courts of justice in the context of sovereign debt lawsuits have upheld a ratable (proportional) interpretation of so-called “pari passu” clauses in debt contracts which, literally, promise creditors they will be dealt with equitably. Such verdicts have given individual creditors the right to interfere with payments to others, in situation where the sovereign had failed to make proportional payments. Contract originalists argue that this interpretation of pari passu clauses has no historical foundation. Historically, they claim, pari passu clauses never granted individual creditors a unilateral right to block payments to other bondholders assenting to a government debt restructuring proposal. This article shows this claim is incorrect. Drawing on novel archival research, it argues that pari passu clauses find one potent historical origin in the operation of a now forgotten sovereign bankruptcy tribunal, the London stock exchange. Under the law of the stock exchange, departure from ratable payments did create a unilateral right for individual creditors to interfere with sovereign debt discharges. In fact, ratable distributions provided the touchstone for the stock exchange sanctioned sovereign debt discharge system. What is more, sophisticated contract drafters availed themselves of the logic. The result was a weaponization of pari passu clauses, and their inscription into sovereign debt covenants in the 19th century. The article concludes that the modern debate on the role of clauses in sovereign debt contracts cannot be held without thorough reconsideration of the history of sovereign bankruptcy.