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Nixon, Laura Elizabeth. "The 'British' Carmen Sylva : recuperating a German-Romanian writer." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13946/.

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Carmen Sylva (1843-1916), a German princess and the first Queen of Romania, was a well-known royal figure and a prolific writer. Under this pseudonym, she published around fifty volumes in a wide variety of genres, including poetry, short stories and aphorisms. During her lifetime she was a regular feature in the British periodical press and visited Britain on numerous occasions. Widely reviewed – both celebrated and condemned for her ‘fatal fluency’ – Sylva’s work became marginalised after her death and has yet to be fully recovered. She has only recently received critical attention in her native Germany and has yet to be recuperated within British literary culture. This thesis will examine the reasons behind Sylva’s current obscurity as well as presenting the grounds for her reassessment. It will establish her connection to Britain, markers of which can still be found in its regional geography, as well as the scope of her literary presence in British periodicals. It will draw comparisons between Sylva and her contemporaries and will examine her contribution to fin-de-siècle British literary culture, analysing her short stories in order to detail her engagement with the ‘Woman Question’. This focus places Sylva at the centre of contemporary discussions and her often conflicting responses to such issues further our understanding of the complexity of nineteenth-century literary debates. In reassessing Sylva, this study will address broader notions surrounding the short story, popular fiction, and women’s writing, in order to question both current and contemporary attitudes to literature.

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Farkas, Zita. "The reception of Jeanette Winterson's work: The manufacture of a Contemporary British Writer." Thesis, University of York, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489192.

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This thesis examines the ways in which four different reception areas shape the reception of Jeanette Winterson's work. These reception areas are the academic, the writer's own view on her work and its reception, the mass media and university syllabi. The analyses of these areas explore how the reception of Winterson's work is influenced by readers' negotiation with interpretations of her work within and among these kinds of reception.

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Wright, Eamon David. "British women writers and race." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298874.

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Heywood, David. "British combatant writers of the Spanish civil war." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61706.

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Pérez, Fernández Irene. "In search of new spaces: contemporary black British and Asian British women writers." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Oviedo, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/83470.

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La tesis doctoral es un estudio de la obra literaria de novelistas contemporáneas británicas pertenecientes a la diáspora africana, caribeña y asiática que emigró al Reino Unido en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El corpus literario bajo análisis engloba las siguientes autoras y obras: Andrea Levy, Small Island (2005), Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2001), Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000), Diana Evans, 26ª (2006) y Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1999). La tesis analiza la representación y codificación espacial en la obra de dichas autoras partiendo de los postulados teóricos que consideran el espacio como constructo social que esconde implicaciones de clase, raza y género (Lefebvre, 2005, Soja 1996, Massey, 1996, 2005). La tesis estudia el espacio en los tres niveles en los que se encuentra operativa la relación cuerpo-identidad-espacio (Keith and Pile, 1993). Estos tres niveles son, por un lado, el espacio individual de cuerpo, por otro, la familia y la comunidad y, por último la sociedad. El estudio de estas obras literarias da cuenta de la necesidad de negociar nuevas formas de entender la identidad y la realidad espacial británica, a la vez que pone de manifiesto su carácter multicultural.

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Hadley, Mary. "New directions in crime : innovative British female detective writers." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394125.

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Furneaux, Clare L. "Master's level study in a British context : developing writers." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020002/.

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This thesis study followed six MA in English Language Teaching/Applied Linguistics students as they started out on their one-year programmes at the University of Reading, UK. They came from various academic, professional and national backgrounds. One was a native speaker of English; the other five were not. The study takes an ethnographic approach in exploring how these mature students learned to meet writing requirements in this context (which were within the essayist tradition of academic literacy), both as individual case studies and as a group. The focus was on three Terml writing assignments which all students had in common. However, the research sought to contextualise first term experiences in the framework of the whole year of study. I therefore interviewed these students about their writing five times in the year, including after submission of their year-end dissertations, and contacted them again a year later for post-course insights. The study explored how they responded to pre-submission advice from tutors and their reactions to and use of summative feedback provided. It also examined assignment briefings and documentation, students' meetings with personal tutors and my interviews with module tutors, as well as feedback on outlines and on the three assignments, and the assignments themselves. Although the students were, of course, six unique individual cases, themes emerged from this study of their development as academic writers in this context. These include the influence of background (such as academic, professional, discipline, linguistic), personal characteristics (eg expectations and approach to learning), and the role of literacy brokers.

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Smith, Tania S. "The rhetorical education of eighteenth-century British women writers." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303136879.

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Smith, Tania Sona. "The rhetorical education of eighteenth-century British women writers /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486463321626562.

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McKenzie-Stearns, Precious. "Venturesome women : nineteenth-century British women travel writers and sport." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001901.

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Bracco, Rosa Maria. "British middlebrow writers and the First World War, 1919-39." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276615.

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Turner, Katherine S. H. "The politics of narrative singularity in British travel writing, 1750-1800." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296251.

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Raza, Rosemary. "British women writers on India between mid-eighteenth century and 1857." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285448.

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Chung, Wing-yu, and 鍾詠儒. "British women writers and the city in the early twentieth century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2702409X.

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Raza, Rosemary. "In their own words : British women writers and India, 1740-1857 /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40989385w.

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Pohli, Carol M. "The feminization of wit : satire by British women writers, 1660-1800 /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299006501.

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Jabboury, Huda Albert. "Constance Garnett, Alymer Maude, S.S. Koteliansky : Russian literature in England 1900-1930." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1992. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6015/.

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This thesis is concerned with the lives and works of three translators who made Russian literature available for the British public. It is an attempt to account for the role these translators played in arousing interest in the classics of Russia. The translations of Constance Garnett, Aylmer Maude and S. S. Koteliansky were responsible for making Russian literature feature in the intellectual life of the British culture during the first decades of this century. The relation of my work to these initiatives is described in the Introduction. Chapter One deals with England's discovery of the Russian novel through translations and its consequences that led to the spread of the "Russian cult. " This took place during the first two decades of the twentieth century which witnessed great interest in Russian literature. The British public was introduced to the major treasures of the Russian classics, and what is more, to a handful of the new generation of Russian authors. In registering the response of the literary figures of the day on reading these translations and a survey of serious periodicals, evidence is established for the cult status of Russian writing. Chapter Two throws light on the life and work of one of the most eminent of translators, Constance Garnett. The chapter surveys the wide range of Russian authors she presented, with particular emphasis on her translation of Chekhov, and the impact of her translations in the establishment of the writer's reputation in England. Chapter Three focuses on Maude's career as a translator and accounts for his greatest achievement, the accomplishment of the Centenary Edition of Tolstoy's works. Other aspects of Maude's activities are drawn upon, particularly, the fact that he was a disciple of Tolstoy. Attention is also paid to his status as an authority on Tolstoy. Chapter Four is devoted to S. S. Koteliansky and his achievements. Koteliansky's prestigious position in the English literary life, in addition to his being a supplier of new material in the field of Russian translations are stressed. The collaboration of a handful of the literary figures in the production of his translations is looked upon as further proof to the presence of the Russian cult. The thesis concludes with an account of archive materials relevant to its field.

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Abousnnouga, Naiema Gillian. "Visual and written discourses of British commemorative war monuments." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/29737/.

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This thesis analyses commemorative war monuments using a social semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects, considering their design alongside contextual information. Taking a social semiotic approach to the study of commemorative war monuments, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design.

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Chubbuck, Katherine. "Empire of the spirit : the east, religion and romanticism in the works of some nineteenth-century travel writers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266629.

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Xu, Xi, and 徐曦. "British left-wing writers and China: Harold Laski, W.H. Auden and Joseph Needham." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50434275.

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This thesis explores cross-cultural encounters between China and three British left-wing writers – Harold Laski, W. H. Auden and Joseph Needham. The motivations underlying this study are the diversity and intensiveness of the British left’s engagements with China’s search for modernization in the twentieth century. Laski, Auden and Needham were all prominent British left-wing intellectuals, and each exerted a remarkable influence on the Chinese pursuit of modern democracy, literature, and science, the three important pillars of China’s modernization since the May Fourth period. Grouping them together, the thesis makes a contribution to the study of the international impacts of the British left in general and the study of Sino-British cultural exchanges in particular. The conventional view emphasizes Western influences on China in modern times as unilateral knowledge transplantation from the advanced West to the backward East, thus the important role of the Chinese intelligentsia as cultural agency is often marginalized. This thesis, by contrast, interprets the British left’s encounters with China as a process of interactive, dynamic, even dialectical transformation, from which both sides derived intellectual benefits. It not only demonstrates the initiative taken by the Chinese intellectuals in translating, interpreting, and applying Western knowledge to address their own particular problems, but also attempts to show the inspirations the British left-wing writers took from China in their own humanitarian struggle for a more liberal, equitable and peaceful world. The thesis is organized in chronological order with the earliest encounter discussed first. Chapter One examines Laski’s impact on Chinese liberals’ imagination and construction of an equitable and democratic China. It shows that the Chinese applications of Laski’s political theory to their local concerns were highly selective, and it was difficult for Chinese liberals to fully embrace Laski’s thought because of the inner conflict between the liberal and Marxist aspects of Laski. Chapter Two discusses Auden and Isherwood’s co-authored book Journey to a War (1939) in the critical tradition of travel writing. It argues that their ironic self-consciousness of the travel book genre itself makes the book unique in Western representations of China, but exposes them to the critical charge of immature frivolity. It also shows that Auden worked towards a symbolic solution for the conflicting demands of the public and private worlds by interpreting the China war into a global human history in his sonnets. Chapter Three focuses on the reception of Auden’s poetry in China. Exposing the limitations of the prevailing formalist-aesthetic approach, it unearths Zhu Weiji’s Marxist interpretation of Auden and proposes an ideological criticism to re-examine Auden’s influences on Chinese modernist poets. Chapter Four explores Needham’s conversion to Chinese culture and his influences on China’s understanding of its own science. By tracing various Chinese responses to the Needham Question, it argues that although Needham’s research boosted the confidence of Chinese in their scientific tradition, the Chinese hunger for modern science is closely associated with nationalism, which is contradictory to the socialist universalism that behind Needham’s intellectual project.<br>published_or_final_version<br>English<br>Doctoral<br>Doctor of Philosophy

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Ford, Anna Jane. "Endangered bodies : woman and nature in the contemporary British novel by women writers." Thesis, Brunel University, 2004. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5793.

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Criticism that involves the linkage of the terms ‘environment’ and ‘literature’, or ‘ecocriticism’, has focused largely on texts such as nature writing or on fiction that is set in rural or wilderness settings. This project attempts to widen the scope of ecocriticism by analysing the contemporary British novel, in which nature conceived in such stereotypical ways is largely absent. However, in my analysis of the fifteen texts selected here, I demonstrate that British women writers employ new discursive constructions of nature in order to contest deterministic formulations that subjugate both women and nature. My focus on female textual bodies enables me to explore representations of the fluid interfaces of nature and culture. In my analysis of novels from an environmental standpoint, `environment' is reconceived to refer to `where we live, work, and play' and may include not only the countryside and urban nature, but also the female body itself. Thus, the nature of my title is an inclusive term that includes contemporary discourses of nature employed by the sciences of biomedicine, genetics and technology. This project examines the ecofeminist premise that discourses of mastery not only affect subjugated others such as women, animals and others, but also influence the treatment of the natural environment. Analysing novels that employ forms of embodiment that foreground extreme bodily conditions such as pregnancy, monstrosity and death, I employ the theoretical constructs of Mikhail Bakhtin (the grotesque body, carnivalisation and dialogism) and Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection as tools of analysis to provide a new conception of ecological bodies. Novelists such as Jeanette Winterson, Fay Weldon, Penelope Lively, Zadie Smith, Margaret Drabble, Kathy Lette and Eva Figes provide a wide range of viewpoints from which to gather evidence of the insistence of the recurring trope of the endangered body within the troubled landscape of contemporary Britain.

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Butler, Rebecca. "Resurgence and insurgence : British women travel writers and the Italian Risorgimento, 1844-1858." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/resurgence-and-insurgence-british-women-travel-writers-and-the-italian-risorgimento-18441858(c207e708-49cd-44ad-83ea-4c2abc1b0c50).html.

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This study examines the evolution of British women travel writers’ engagement with the Risorgimento during a decisive period preceding Italian reunification, from the infamous letter-opening incident of 1844 to the eve of the Second Italian War of Independence (1859-1861). Despite being outwardly denied a political voice back home, British women were conspicuous in their engagement with the Italian question. Italy’s allegorical personification lent itself well to female-oriented interpretations of the Risorgimento, with many women seeing Italy’s political oppression under Austria as analogous to their own disenfranchised condition in Britain. The rise of mass tourism on the Continent made Italy increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers, not only as a locus of culture, but also of political enquiry. The generic hybridity of travel writing further enabled Victorian women’s political engagement by granting a degree of fluidity between traditionally feminine and masculine genres. In turn, Italy played a foundational - albeit somewhat equivocal - role in British women’s literary professionalization as travel writers. My research focusses on the intersections between political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity, and literary authority in women’s travel accounts of Italy. It contributes to current literary scholarship on the Risorgimento by providing a sustained analysis of Victorian women’s non-fiction travel writing as an under-represented genre in Anglo-Italian studies. Encompassing both published and unpublished travel writing across a variety of media, it aims to represent a broader diversity of literary responses to the Italian question. Through a comparative framework, I position prominent figures like Mary Shelley, Florence Nightingale and Fanny Kemble alongside marginalized writers such as Clotilda Stisted, Selina Bunbury, Mary Charlton Pasqualino, Maria Dunbar, Janet Robertson and Frances Dickinson, with fruitful intersections. My findings identify a number of shared discourses across these women’s travel accounts in response to discrete political moments 3 within the process of Italian reunification. By attending to such moments as unique discursive events, this study interrogates teleological narratives of British writers’ engagement with the Risorgimento. My analysis shows such discourses to be temporally contingent, being shaped not only by the episodes themselves, but also by extrinsic political and commercial considerations. Personal factors also differentiate individual responses to Italy, with many women travellers parallelling their autobiographical journeys with the peninsula’s political travails. However, my findings equally undercut a mutually reinforcing, proto-feminist narrative of women travellers’ liberal engagement with the Risorgimento. Instead, this study delineates the tensions as well as the synchronicities between representations of the female travelling self and Italy, revealing them to be often competing sites of authority.

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Hartmann, Laura. "Say That We Saw Spain Die: British and American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32267.

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All of the writers who went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War had to cope with the differentness of Spain, with the fact that it was a foreign experience. How they handled that foreign experience, whether or not they found an entry point where they could cross the border between being an outsider to being an insider, why some writers were able to cross over and others halted: these are aspects of the outside/inside duality that this paper will bring to the surface in some of the writing of the period. The focus will be on the following women writers: Florence Farmborough, Helen Nicholson, Martha Gellhorn, Josephine Herbst, Frances Davis, Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner. This paper will argue that these women writers, although they came to Spain with different purposes â because they identified with Republican ideology, or to warn their home countries of the dangers of Red Spain, or to spur their home countries into action â shared a common struggle in attempting to become insiders to the war in Spain, and succeeded in varying and revealing degrees.<br>Master of Arts

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Anderton, Marja Arendina Louise. "The power to destroy false images : eight British women writers and society 1945-1968." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1994. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4409/.

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This dissertation aims to oppose the assumption underlying many studies that the immediate post-war period was a `silent' time in which there were no signs that women were not generally content to follow the ideal of femininity, and that the feminist movement started suddenly in 1968. This thesis focuses on the dissenting voices which could be heard both in society and literature before 1968. Part I deals with the position of women in society between 1945 and 1968. It concentrates particularly on women at work and in the family. The fact that more married women than ever before entered the labour market after World War II contradicts the idea that British women in the '50s were mostly housewives. Furthermore, in spite of the apparent coming into existence of the so-called `affluent society', women had many reasons to feel dissatisfied. Women were mainly found in low-status and low-paid jobs, and in the family women had very little power, especially sexually and financially. This part of the thesis also deals with women in society who were expressing the discontent they felt. First of all, there were middle-class journalists (e.g. Stott) and sociologists (e.g. Gavron, Klein) who were registering women's dissatisfaction in their publications. Secondly, an outlet for grievances for women was formed by The Guardian's women's page (especially the letters section) which discussed many controversial issues. Part II deals with another group of middle-class women who turned to the problematic position of women in society in their publications, eight British women novelists who started writing in this period. This part discusses the lives of Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, Penelope Mortimer, A.S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Edna O'Brien and Beryl Bainbridge, with particular reference to their emergence as writers. The biographical section refers to interviews as well as to letters to the author. The final part of the dissertation discusses several novels by each writer. There are three main themes which recur again and again in these novels, the search for an identity (a female form of the Bildungsroman is very popular), the restrictive influence of the family on the heroines, and the importance of work for the self-esteem of many of the female characters.

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Salisbury, Derek. "Growing up with Vertigo: British Writers, DC, and the Maturation of American Comic Books." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2013. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/209.

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At just under thirty years the serious academic study of American comic books is relatively young. Over the course of three decades most historians familiar with the medium have recognized that American comics, since becoming a mass-cultural product in 1939, have matured beyond their humble beginnings as a monthly publication for children. However, historians are not yet in agreement as to when the medium became mature. This thesis proposes that the medium’s maturity was cemented between 1985 and 2000, a much later point in time than existing texts postulate. The project involves the analysis of how an American mass medium, in this case the comic book, matured in the last two decades of the twentieth century. The goal is to show the interconnected relationships and factors that facilitated the maturation of the American sequential art, specifically a focus on a group of British writers working at DC Comics and Vertigo, an alternative imprint under the financial control of DC. The project consulted the major works of British comic scriptwriters, Alan Moore, Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, and Garth Ennis. These works include Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Shade: the Changing Man, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Animal Man, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Preacher and several other important works. Following a chronological organization, the work tracks major changes taking place in the American comic book industry in the commercial, corporate, and creative sectors to show the processes through which the medium matured in this time period. This is accomplished by combining textual analysis of the comics with industry specific records and a focus on major cultural shifts in US society and culture

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Jenkins, Christopher D. "From unwritten to written : transformation in the British Common-Law constitution." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32807.

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This thesis proposes that the United Kingdom's constitution is changing so as to incorporate written principles that restrain Parliament through judicial review. This model originates in the common law as well as the orthodox theories of Blackstone and Dicey. It is supported by the ultra vires doctrine and provides a basis for judicial review of Parliament itself. As constitutions may accommodate written and unwritten elements, along with various means of enforcement and change, they are defined by how strongly they reflect underlying norms. This expressive function, with a shift in the rule of recognition endorsing judicial review, democratically legitimizes constitutional texts as positivist expressions of popular will binding Parliament. Furthermore, through common-law adjudication, courts may constitutionalize statutes or treaties coming over time to represent shifting norms. This "quasi-written" common-law constitution is already emerging in the United Kingdom, as illustrated through cases based upon the Human Rights Act and the European Communities Act.

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Clayton, Jeffrey Scott Keirstead Christopher M. "Discourses of race and disease in British and American travel writing about the South Seas 1870-1915." Auburn, Ala., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1996.

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Kirkpatrick, Christabel Pamela. "Making modernism pay : conflict, creativity and cooperation between British writers and commercial publishers 1910-1930." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500017.

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This dissertation looks at the changing relationship between modernist writers and commercial publishers during the high modernist period. It explores the ways in which commercial publishers became involved in modernism, the reasons they did so, and how some managed to make money from a movement that their readers knew to be difficult. It does this with a view to finding out more about modernism's relationship with the mainstream - commercial publishers and their readers. Why is there a need for this type of study? A significant amount of research has looked at the ways in which modernist writers reached elite readerships. More recently, a number of studies have focused on modernist writers' relationship with mass culture, showing that they interacted with it in a number of ways, including borrowing publicity strategies, entering into dialogue with popular writers through the pages of literary magazines and interacting with new media. However, there has not yet been a broad review on the way in which modernism was developed and disseminated for that mainstream audience. This dissertation considers how the strategies and business decisions of mainstream commercial publishers impeded or accelerated the development of modernism in the . context of the rapidly changing economic, social and cultural conditions during the period of high modernism. It shows how the Great War dramatically changed publishing conditions, leading a wide range of writers, publishers, translators and readers to collaborate and co-operate to help bring modernism to the mainstream. It also explores how commercial publishers found ways of making the movement pay - as well as how, and if, these commercial aims could be reconciled with modernist writers' literary ideals. The dissertation is divided into two parts.

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Agorni, Mirella. "Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : British women novelists, translators and travel writers 1739-1797." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287087.

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Georginis, Emmanuel-Gabriel. "Variations of experience : Expatriate British writers in the Middle East during the second world war." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328852.

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Davies, Ben. "Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.

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This thesis provides a theory of exceptional sex through close readings of contemporary novels by male British and American writers. I take as my overriding methodological approach Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, which is a juridico-political state in which the law has been suspended and the difference between rule and transgression is indistinguishable. Within this state, the spatiotemporal markers inside and outside also become indeterminable, making it impossible to tell whether one is inside or outside time and space. Using this framework, I work through narratives of sexual interaction – On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, Sabbath’s Theater, and The Act of Love – to conceptualise categories of sexual exceptionality. My study is not a survey, and the texts have been chosen as they focus on different sexual behaviours, thereby opening up a variety of sexual exceptionalities. I concentrate on male writers and narratives of heterosexual sex as most work on sex, time and space is comprised of feminist readings of literature by women and queer work on gay, lesbian or trans writers and narratives. However, in the Coda I expand my argument by turning to Emma Donoghue’s Room, which, as the protagonist has been trapped for the first five years of his life, provides a tabula rasa’s perspective of exceptionality. Through my analysis of exceptionality, I provide spatiotemporal readings of the hymen, incest, adultery, sexual listening and the arranged affair. I also conceptualise textual exceptionalities – the incestuous prequel, auricular reading and the positionality of the narrator, the reader and literary characters. Exceptional sex challenges the assumption in recent queer theory that to be out of time is ‘queer’ and to be in time is ‘straight’. Furthermore, exceptionality complicates the concepts of perversion and transgression as the norm and its transgression become indistinct in the state of exception. In contrast, exceptionality offers a new, more determinate way to analyse narratives of sex.

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Kent, Eddy. "The company man: colonial agents and the idea of the virtuous empire, 1786-1901." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/411.

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The Company Man argues that corporate ways of organising communities permeated British imperial culture. My point of departure is the obsession shared between Anglo-Indian writers and imperial policymakers with the threat of unmanageable agency, the employee who will not follow orders. By taking up Giambattista Vico's claim that human subjects and human institutions condition each other reciprocally, I argue that Anglo-Indian literature is properly understood as one of a series of disciplinary apparatuses which were developed in response to that persistent logistical problem: how best to convince plenipotentiary agents to work in the interest of a mercantile employer, the East India Company. The Company Man reconsiders the way we think and write about Victorian imperial culture by taking this institutional approach. For one thing, the dominant position of the Company highlights the limitation of our continuing dependence on the nation as a critical hermeneutic. Additionally, I show how the prevalence of ideas like duty, service, and sacrifice in colonial literature is more than simply the natural output of a nation looking to sacralise everyday practice in the wake of their famous "Victorian loss of faith." Rather, I place these ideas among a structure of feeling, which I call aristocratic virtue, that was developed by imperial policymakers looking to militate against the threat of rogue agents. The subject material under consideration includes novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, personal correspondence, and parliamentary speeches. These texts span a century but are clustered around four nodal points, which illustrate moments of innovation in the technologies of regulation and control. My opening chapter examines how the idea of an overseas empire first acquired virtue in the minds of the British public. The second explores how the Company grafted this virtue onto its corporate structure in its training colleges and competition exams. The third shows how Anglo-Indian literature continued to disseminate the rhetoric of self-sacrifice and noble suffering long after the Company ceded control to the Crown. The final chapter shows how this corporate culture reflects in that most canonical of imperial novels, Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901).

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Adler, Michelle. "Skirting the edges of civilisation : British women travellers and travel writers in South Africa, 1797-1899." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320150.

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Priebe, Anna C. ""May I disturb you?" British women writers, imperial identities, and the late imperial period, 1880-1940 /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1054329059.

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LeStage, Gregory. "Forces in the development of the British short story, 1930-1970 : some writers, editors, and periodicals." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670227.

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Maloul, Linda Fawzi. "From immigrant narratives to ethnic literature : the contemporary fiction of Arab British and Arab American women writers." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.647377.

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The purpose of this thesis is to firmly situate the fictions of contemporary Arab British and Arab American women writers who write in English within the corpus of ethnic and mainstream literary criticism. I aim to position these fictions within their historical and sociopolitical contexts. I also aim to shift the focus from the texts’ female protagonists to male and minor characters in order to explore how the writers construct both political Islam and Islam as a private faith; how they construct Palestinian Muslim masculinities; and how they respond to the events of 9/11 and the ensuing war on terror. I argue that these fictions offer some of the most astute reactions to the events of 9/11 and their repercussions. I also argue that Arab American literature in general and Arab American women’s literature in particular is more canny than its Arab British counterpart. Thus, I aim to show how Arab American literary productions refract a development from the literature of self-exploration to that of transformation allowing them a well-deserved spot in Ethnic-American literary studies and in time, mainstream American literary studies. Another of my aims is to investigate how Arab American and Arab British writers highlight the diversity of Arabs, Muslims and Islam, thus addressing essentialist reductions of Arabs and Muslims as a monolithic group. In chapter one, I investigate how Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun and Leila Aboulela’s Minaret negotiate issues such as Islamic clothing. I also question anew Arab women writers’ perceived role as “cultural commentators.” In chapter two, I explore how Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan and Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home construct Palestinian Muslim masculinities, and how they challenge the Anglo-American stereotypical representations of Arab Muslim masculinity. In chapter three, I analyse how Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land, Frances Khirallah Noble’s The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy and Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter negotiate cultural, political and social views of America. I aim to examine whether Halaby, Noble and Yunis’ ambiguous position, as legally ‘white’ citizens who are also members of a marginalized and religiously racialized minority, offers them a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between ‘East’ and ‘West.’ In the conclusion, I offer some suggestions for future research.

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Starck, Nigel. "Writes of passage a comparative study of newspaper obituary practice in Australia, Britain and the United States /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20051205.171130/index.html.

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Johnson, Lesley Anne. "Commemorating the past : a critical study of the shaping of British and Arthurian history in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie, Wace's Roman de Brut, Lazamon's Brut and the alliterative Morte Arthure." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1990. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/commemorating-the-past--a-critical-study-of-the-shaping-of-british-and-arthurian-history-in-geoffrey-of-monmouths-historia-regum-britannie-waces-roman-de-brut-lazamons-brut-and-the-alliterative-morte-arthure(69e29fce-4401-4b4f-a58f-3b33f5656c19).html.

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Bagchi, B. "Female education and self-construction in the fiction of five conservative British women writers, c.1778-c.1814." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596244.

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My thesis examines fictions focusing on female education and development by five representative conservative British women writers who flourished between 1778 and 1814 - Lady Mary Hamilton, Clara Reeve, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton, and the early Jane Austen. In a climate in which female education is a subject of anxiety in print culture, in which fiction is also a site of contestation, and in which women are emerging as major producers both of educational writing and of heroine-centred, ostensibly didactic fiction, such writers as the ones I focus on produce fictions of female education which are pioneering <I>Bildungsromans. </I>Highly gendered, these fictions explore key tensions generated by the theme of education - including a dialectic between formal and experiential education, between the pliable, receptive pupil obedient to pedagogical authority-figures and the more autonomous, self-sufficient auto-didact, and between a desire for greater institutionalisation of education and a recognition of the flexibility or freedom that distancing from established structures gives. Such fictions, I argue, are compendious and miscellaneous, encompassing diverse domains of knowledge, such as philosophy (particularly the science of the mind), politics, and history. There is a congruence between the ambulatory, tension-ridden patterns of female education found in these fictions, and the kind of distinctive, miscellaneous fictional knowledge they represent - and their creators, I argue, all grapple with the epistemological and ethical status of fiction, which they connect with female experience. These works seek to go beyond circumscribed ideas about female development, such as the notion that marriage ought to be the purpose or end of female education. The courtship novel is by no means the dominant sub-genre of the female-authored novel in the period - an important sub-genre that I analyse is fiction describing communities reformed by educative women (in the line of Mary Astell's <I>A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, </I>1694, and Sarah Scott's <I>Millenium Hall, </I>1762), such as Mary Hamilton's <I>Munster Village </I>(1778), Clara Reeve's <I>Plans of Education </I>(1792), and <I>The Cottagers of Glenburnie </I>(1808).

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Mukherjee, Srilata. "Truncated transgressions : fictions of female authorship by British women writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004346.

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Baker, Laci J. "Motherless Women Writers: The Affect on Plot and Character in the Brontë Sisters’ Novels." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/187.

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Through the use of biographical materials, and three selected works from Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte, parallels were found between their lives, character design, and the plot of their works. The lack of a mother figure in the lives of the Bronte sisters caused their upbringing to differ from that of other children, and as a result influenced their perspective of the world. Motherless female characters were found in each of the three novels by the Bronte sisters and in each instance commonalities were shared with the author of the work, to a degree that indicates that the lives that the sisters led, was the inspiration for the stories they created. After investigating whether or not the novels created by the Bronte sisters were influenced by the lack of a mother figure, the conclusion reached, is that this absence had an immense influence throughout their lives, and based on more than one account, helped shape the design of each of their respective works.

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Smith, Bradon T. L. ""It is written" : representations of determinism in contemporary popular science writing and contemporary British fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/229765.

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This thesis examines the representation of two broad fields of science – the new physics (relativity and quantum mechanics) and the modern biological synthesis (genetics and evolutionary theory) – in two genres of writing – popular science writing and narrative fiction. Specifically, I consider the representations of determinism in recent works by a number of writers from both genres, concentrating on the literary techniques employed by popular science writers, and the scientific concepts incorporated by contemporary authors. I argue that there is a tendency in popular science books on the new physics to emphasise the indeterminacy supposedly implied by those theories, and that a number of recurrent metaphors are integral to this representation. Similarly, I find that the novelists and playwrights drawing on ideas from this field of science (such as Amis, Stoppard, Frayn and McEwan) also emphasise this indeterminacy, but in addition that they use these concepts borrowed from physics to question the adequacy of science as a monistic epistemological system. Popular science writing on genetics has a propensity, even while acknowledging the importance of environmental factors, to present a ‘gene-centric’ view, prioritising the effect of the genes in the development of an organism. Although these writers would (and do) deny the validity of genetic determinism, the emphasis on the role of genes and our evolutionary development gives support to the idea of the determining function of our biology. The metaphors and narratives used by popular science writers are again central to this representation. I go on to show how contemporary fiction writers (particularly McEwan and Byatt), in appropriating ideas from these scientific fields, critique this idea of biological determinism, and furthermore that they raise doubts about an exclusively scientific understanding of the world. I conclude this thesis by offering some thoughts on the epistemological role that literature might play in the face of this apparent dominance of a scientific conception of knowledge.

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Sandy-Smith, Kathryn L. "Early Modern Women Writers and Humility as Rhetoric: Aemilia Lanyer's Table-Turning Use of Modesty." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375221341.

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Hurwitz, Benjamin Joseph. "An Outsider's View: British Travel Writers and Representations of Slavery in South Africa and the West Indies: 1795-1838." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626592.

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Golubov, Nattie Liliana. "British women writers and the public sphere between the Wars : Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1408.

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This thesis examines how Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison and Rebecca West appropriated the political ideas of the interwar period into their fiction and sought to transform abstract ideals into values with which to judge and improve social life. For all four writers, this pursuit takes the form of showing the complex relations between theory and practice as experienced by particular individuals. My premise here is the idea that political ideals are based upon the moral principles used by persons to guide their conduct in the pursuit of individual and collective happiness. Chapter One discusses the socialist concepts of loyalty, equality and fraternity as the values upon which the good society should be constructed and the self-appointed role of writers as public intellectuals whose task was to counteract political apathy and encourage the practice of active citizenship. Chapter Two examines Holtby's Eutychus or the Future of the Pulpit, Jameson's No Time Like the Present and Rebecca West's "The Strange Necessity" to demonstrate how literature was intended as a tool in the defence against the atomisation effected by the impact of modern life on culture, and a bulwark against the concomitant subjectivism which resulted from the extensive retreat into private life. Chapters Three and Four examine the practice of politics itself, with particular emphasis on the social bonds proposed to replace the instrumentality of interpersonal relationships in capitalist societies. The texts examined are Mitchison's We Have Been Warned, Holtby's South Riding, Jameson's In the Second Year and Mirror in Darkness, as well as West's Harriet Hume. Chapter Five focuses on Jameson's That Was Yesterday and West's The Thinking Reed and discusses the difficulties faced by women unable to negotiate the boundaries between the domestic and the public sphere of sociability as a result of the irreconciliability of self-determination and social demands.

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Saunders, Rebecca. "The politics of exile : links between feminism and imperialism (British and American women writers in India -- Sara Jeannette Duncan, Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, Margaret Wilson) /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 1990.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1990.<br>Adviser: Martin Green. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [263]-273). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

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Awad, Yousef Moh'd Ibrahim. "Cartographies of identities : resistance, diaspora, and trans-cultural dialogue in the works of Arab British and Arab American women writers." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/cartographies-of-identities-resistance-diaspora-and-transculturaldialogue-in-the-works-of-arab-british-and-arab-american-women-writers(80ca96ea-1ce5-4e2a-a6d2-019adc1a6036).html.

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The purpose of this thesis is to compare the works of contemporary Arab British and Arab American women novelists with a view toward delineating a poetics of the more nascent Arab British literature. I argue that there is a tendency among Arab British women novelists to foreground and advocate trans-cultural dialogue and cross-ethnic identification strategies in a more pronounced approach than their Arab American counterparts who tend, in turn, to employ literary strategies to resist stereotypes and misconceptions about Arab communities in American popular culture. I argue that these differences result from two diverse racialized Arab immigration and settlement patterns on both sides of the Atlantic. Chapter One looks at how Arab British novelist Fadia Faqir's My Name is Salma and Arab American novelist Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz define Arabness differently in the light of the precarious position Arabs occupy in ethnic and racial discourses in Britain and in the United States. Chapter Two examines how Arab British women writers Ahdaf Soueif and Leila Aboulela valorize trans-cultural and cross-ethnic dialogues and alliances in their novels The Map of Love and Minaret respectively through engaging with the two (interlocking) strands of feminism in the Arab world: secular and Islamic feminisms. In Chapter Three, I demonstrate how the two novels of Arab American women writers Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent and Laila Halaby's West of the Jordan explore the contradictions of Arab American communities from within and employ strategies of intertextuality and storytelling to subvert stereotypes about Arabs. As this study is interested in exploring the historical and socio-political contexts in which Arab women writers on both sides of the Atlantic produce their work, the conclusion investigates how the two sets of authors have represented, from an Arab perspective, the events of 9/11 and the ensuing war on terror in their novels.

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Issa, Samer. "EAP Tutor's approaches to giving written feedback on academic writing in British and Syrian ELT centres." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529538.

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Bennett, Joe. "A critical social semiotic study of the word chav in British written public discourse, 2004-8." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1485/.

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This thesis explores the use of the word chav in written discourse in Britain published between 2004 and 2008. Taking a critical social semiotic approach, it discusses how chav as a semiotic resource contributes to particular ways of using language to represent the world – Discourses – and to particular ways of using language to act on the world – Genres – suggesting that, though the word is far from homogenous in its use, it is consistently used to identify the public differences of Britain as a class society in terms of personal dispositions and choices, and in taking an ironic, stereotyped stance towards such differences. It is suggested that these tendencies can be viewed as ideological, as contributing to social domination and inequality. Chav is also found to be subject to a great deal of metalinguistic discussion, some of which serves to critique the above tendencies, but much of which does not.

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Hattaway, Meghan Burke. "Fallen Bodies and Discursive Recoveries in British Women's Writing of the Long Nineteenth Century." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339280314.

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