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Mutch, Deborah. "INTEMPERATE NARRATIVES: TORY TIPPLERS, LIBERAL ABSTAINERS, AND VICTORIAN BRITISH SOCIALIST FICTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no. 2 (2008): 471–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080297.

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Attitudes toward the consumption of alcohol by the British working class had begun to shift during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, as the environment and working conditions were gradually recognised as being a major contributory factor in drunkenness. Friedrich Engels had raised the environmental issue in 1845 in The Conditions of the Working Class in England, arguing that cramped, uncomfortable living conditions and harsh working practices drove the worker to drink. Engels states of the worker, “His enfeebled frame, weakened by bad air and bad food, loudly demands some extern

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Chyrak, Iryna. "Robert Owen: businessman, economist-theorist and science fiction writer (to the 350th anniversary of his birth)." Herald of Economics, no. 2 (August 10, 2021): 176. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/visnyk2021.02.176.

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Introduction. Robert Owen is a very prominent figure in the history of economic thought in England in the early XIX century. His talent was evident as an economist-theorist and in his organizational skills, which allowed Owen to make significant improvements in the textile industry.Purpose is to generalize the economic views of a prominent economist in conjunction with his experimental and reformist activities in production in order to create an «ideal labor community» that will improve the world of capitalism, provide high profits for entrepreneurs and prosperous lives of employees. Analyze t

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Jasmine Fachrunnisa, Adinda, Agus Salim Mansyur, and Agry Pramita. "Reflection of Post-World War II History in the Novel An English Murder By Cyril Hare." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 8, no. 1 (2025): 61–69. https://doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v8i1.43210.

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World War II was a major event that occurred in the past that had many impacts on human life, both in terms of economy, social, and culture. In addition, World War II also had an impact on literary works. Many writers criticized and expressed their emotions through literary works. One of them is the novel An English Murder by Cyril Hare which is set in the post-World War II era. This study aims to analyze how the novel An English Murder reflects what happened in Britain at that time using a qualitative descriptive method. Using Lucien Goldmann's theory of human facts, which emphasizes that lit

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Alkon, Paul. "Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century." Science Fiction Studies 12, Part 2 (1985): 184–201. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.12.2.0184.

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The first work of prose fiction set in a chronologically specified future, Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733), is satire, not SF, but nevertheless provides excellent evidence about the origins of SF. Although Madden’s satire fails, the framework of his narrative—documents transported backwards in time from the 20th to the 18th century—is in many ways better for futuristic fiction than the idea of transporting a narrator forward to the future, a device first used in Louis Sébastien Mercier’s more influential utopia L’An 2440 (1771). Memoirs of the Twentieth Century suggests

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Olivier, ABODOHOUI Orerien, and DIKPO Toliton Telesphore. "In-depth appreciation of social inequalities in Charles Dickens’s Oliver twist." Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology 8, no. 6 (2024): 6974–82. https://doi.org/10.55214/25768484.v8i6.3511.

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This study intends to appreciate the issues of social inequalities that the world is facing as disclosed in Charles Dickens’s Oliver twist in the Victorian period. Understanding the historical, social, political and economic contexts in the Victorian Period that paved a way to social inequalities in England is crucial for an in-depth appreciation of the matter. In exploring social realism in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1837), it becomes obvious that the novel serves as a powerful lens into the harsh realities of Victorian London's social inequalities that the author experienced during his lifetime

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DR., LAXMIKANT KARAL. "ECHOES OF INJUSTICE: CHARLES DICKENS' CRITIQUE OF POVERTY AND EXPLOITATION IN DAVID COPPERFIELD." International Educational Scientific Research Journal 11, no. 4 (2025): 28–35. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15198854.

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It aims to examine how Charles Dickens' most powerful critique of social injustice is revealed in his novel David Copperfield by opening up a world of poverty and exploitation in Victorian England. Dickens uses David's eyes to discover the bitters of the poor, especially to the neglect and mistreatment of children condemned to labor. In his own life, for example, Dickens shows how these cycles of poverty repeat themselves systemically in characters such as David and Micawbers, who fight for emancipation from a soulless legal and social system. As a compelling narrative, a sharp indictment of V

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MAKEIEV, SERHII. "The concept of classes in early work of F. Engels." Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, Stmm. 2021 (4) (December 2021): 73–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/sociology2021.04.073.

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In 2020 the scientific community celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels with numerous publications, conferences, and meetings. But as if by tradition representatives of various social and humanitarian disciplines, including sociologists, were and remain to this day, surprisingly inattentive (or indifferent) to the concepts of classes and class analysis presented by the founder of Marxism in his first book «The Condition of the Working Class in England», published in 1845. Modern life writers of F. Engels usually rank the work as a genre of high-quality journalistic i

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Clarke, Patricia. "The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction." Queensland Review 9, no. 1 (2002): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600002750.

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Novelist Rosa Praed's portrayal of colonial Queensland in her fiction was influenced by her social position as the daughter of a squatter and conservative Cabinet Minister, Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, and limited by the fact that she lived in Australia for much less than one-third of her life. After she left Australia in 1876, she recharged her imagination, during her long novel-writing career in England, by seeking specific information through family letters and reminiscences, copies of Hansard and newspapers. As the decades went by and she remained in England, the social and political dynamic

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Sharma, Ms Shikha. "Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 7 (2020): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10673.

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Doris Lessing, the Nobel Laureate (1919-2007), a British novelist, poet, a writer of epic scope, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was the “most fearless woman novelist in the world, unabashed ex-communist and uncompromising feminist”. Doris has earned the great reputation as a distinguished and outstanding writer. She raised local and private problems of England in post-war period with emphasis on man-woman relationship, feminist movement, welfare state, socio-economic and political ethos, population explosion, terrorism and social conflicts in her novels.

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Milosavljević, Ilija. "THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SCIENCE FICTIONGENRE." PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES 19, no. 2 (2021): 131–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1857-6060-2021-19-2-131-147.

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The science fiction genre in all types of media is often neglected in the serious discussion of the scientific public. According to the established opinion, its origin is connected with the writings of Jules Verne and Herbert George Wells at the end of the19th century, and it is often not seriously analyzed from the perspective of social influence. However, the science fiction genre arisesas a response to the great social changes of industrialization and the development of new technologies, showing the possibilities of development ass well asthe new moral, psychological and social problems tha

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Pikhnovsky, V. V., E. A. Yevstifeeva, and D. D. Grigoryeva. "Deception as a Sociocultural Code. Fiction and Fairy Tale." Contemporary Philosophical Research, no. 2 (May 26, 2025): 110–18. https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2025-2-110-118.

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Aim. Assessment of the fiction as a kind of deception, taken in its negative connotations and as a phenomenon of opposition to truth as a value universality of social life.Methodology. The article presents a socio-philosophical analysis of deception in the series of relevant concepts (truth, lie, fiction, trickster) and as constants of social relations. Using phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches, it is shown that fiction as one of the practices of deception, on its own scale, is found in the society of mass culture.Results. The study of the mechanisms of fiction as a form of deception h

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Armstrong, Nancy. "History in the House of Culture: Social Disorder and Domestic Fiction in Early Victorian England." Poetics Today 7, no. 4 (1986): 641. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772933.

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Reiter, Barret. "A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England." Past & Present 257, Supplement_16 (2022): 201–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac034.

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Abstract This chapter examines the conceptualization of Catholic liturgical practices within the Protestant anti-Catholic polemics of early modern England. I argue that, insofar as Protestants typically glossed such practices as ‘idolatry’, and thus, as the worship of a false god, Protestants explicitly accused Catholics of falling victim to the deceptive tendencies of their imaginations. Hence, for English Protestants, Catholics were responsible for transforming the good news of the Gospel into a mere fiction of their own making. More than a mere rhetorical posture — though of course it was a

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Ball, Emily, Elaine Batty, and John Flint. "Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’." Social Policy and Society 15, no. 2 (2015): 263–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746415000469.

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This article examines how intensive family interventions in England since 1997, including the Coalition government's Troubled Families programme, are situated in a contemporary problem figuration of ‘anti-social’ or ‘troubled’ families that frames and justifies the utilisation of different models of intensive family intervention. The article explores how techniques of classification and estimation, combined with the controversial use of ‘research’ evidence in policy making, are situated within a ‘rational fiction’ that constructs ‘anti-social’ families in particular ways. The article illustrat

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Akmal, Muhammad Shahbaz, Munawar Amin, Imtiaz Hussain Baloch, and Anna Mariam. "Social Values in Muhammad Hameed Shahid’s Fiction: An Analytical Study." Journal of Languages, Culture and Civilization 5, no. 2 (2023): 195–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/jlcc.v5i2.178.

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Muhammad Hameed Shahid is a unique fiction writer. He looks at the common people of the society with the eyes of the heart. This article attempts to analyze his short stories in the perspective of social values. He has chosen a very simple and natural technique to reveal the social truth that he has decided to describe. The beauty of his fiction is that the reader feels himself a part or character of his fiction. His main attitude in his stories is to look into the depths of the individual is existence. He seems to search for the motives of human actions in the darkness of the unconscious. He

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Beloshapko, Anna, and Anna Chernysheva. "Pragmatic text adaptation in ironic fiction discourse." TERRITORY OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES OPENS FOR INVESTMENT PROJECTS OF THE FUTURE 17, no. 1 (2025): 134–45. https://doi.org/10.29039/2949-1258/2025-1/134-145.

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The term "artistic ironic discourse" describes a multifaceted phenomenon in linguistics and literary studies, where irony functions not merely as a stylistic device but as a means of constructing complex meanings within literary texts. The object of this research is artistic ironic discourse, while the subject is the pragmatic adaptation of irony in literary translation. The study aims to identify key strategies for the pragmatic adaptation of humorous texts when translating from English to Russian. Translating humor presents a significant challenge, requiring careful consideration of linguist

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Hyvärinen, Matti. "Sameness, difference, or continuity?" Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5, no. 1 (2019): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2019-0005.

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AbstractThree claims are advocated in this article. Firstly, the article suggests that there is no relevant “sameness approach,” which would advise reading fiction and non-fiction similarly. Secondly, it argues that both fiction and non-fiction exhibit multiple functions and cannot be reduced to the binary setting of informing or entertaining. Thirdly, it suggests that the continuity thesis does not imply sameness. By applying the fundamental logical distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions, one can accept major similarities between the resources of reading fiction and non-ficti

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Woolham, John, Caroline Norrie, Kritika Samsi, and Jill Manthorpe. "The employment conditions of social care personal assistants in England." Journal of Adult Protection 21, no. 6 (2019): 296–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-06-2019-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the employment conditions of social care personal assistants (PAs) in England. In England, disabled adults have been able to directly employ people to meet their care or support needs for a number of years, little is known about the employment conditions of people who are directly employed. Design/methodology/approach PAs were recruited mainly through third sector and user led organisations. A total of 105 social care PAs took part in a semi-structured telephone interview, which on average was an hour long. Interviews were fully transcribed. Qua

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BORSHEVSKAYA, ANASTASIA YU, and SVETLANA I. KARPOVA. "ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR FORMATION OF READER INTEREST IN FICTION AMONG OLDER PRESCHOOLERS." Psychological-Pedagogical Journal GAUDEAMUS 21, no. 1 (2022): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-231x-2022-21-1-66-77.

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The issue of reading interest formation among older preschoolers is relevant due to the general decline in reading culture in modern society, the underestimation of the fiction role by parents and the introduction of children to reading for their intellectual, social, artistic, aesthetic and psycho-emotional development. Parents stopped reading books to their children, using electronic audiovisual products as a means of children's knowledge of the world around them; as a result, modern preschoolers develop outside the context of book culture, which negatively affects their mental development.

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Ogundipe, Stephen T. "Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction." Utafiti 13, no. 2 (2018): 133–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-01302008.

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Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak’s After They Left and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.

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SIRKOVIĆ, Nina. "VIRGINIA WOOLF: ESSAYS ON WOMEN WRITERS." Lingua Montenegrina 8, no. 2 (2011): 295–307. https://doi.org/10.46584/lm.v8i2.249.

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The aim of this paper is to reaffirm the somewhat forgotten essays of Virginia Woolf about individual women writers and to emphasize the link be-tween the historical and social approach to tradition within the context of individual works of fiction. An important part of essay-writing by Virginia Woolf is dedicated to the study of fiction written by women, as well as to historical, social, material and psychological conditions in which women lived and created art at the time. By analyzing specific creating conditions of individual women writers, Woolf came to general conclusions about the infer

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Hasegawa, Masayo. "“Fact” versus “Fancy” among Victorian Professionals in Hard Times." Dickens Quarterly 40, no. 3 (2023): 301–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904840.

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Abstract: Mid-19th-century England saw the expansion and growth of professionalism. Read in this context, Hard Times (1854) can be construed as a critique of both Victorian professionals in general and literary professionals in particular, specifically novelists. Thomas Gradgrind emerges as a representative of contemporary fact-oriented professionals, and fiction writers turn out to be their antithesis. The novel defines fiction writers as both agents of morality and informants of essential facts necessary to the social reform of Victorian society, while disqualifying other factualist professi

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Mahoney, Ian, and Tony Kearon. "Social Quality and Brexit in Stoke-on-Trent, England." International Journal of Social Quality 8, no. 1 (2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ijsq.2018.080102.

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In this article, we seek to provide a social quality–led analysis of some of the conditions that led to the UK population’s collective decision to leave the European Union in June 2016. We draw on interview data collected between 2010 and 2012 to argue that while not predictable, the seeds of the Brexit vote are well rooted in the conditions experienced by many of the working classes in Britain’s most deprived postindustrial communities. We argue that the ongoing decline in economic security, effective enfranchisement, social inclusion, and social empowerment have all had profound consequences

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Vlasova, Ekaterina V., and Irina A. Tislenkova. "Means of simile actualization in the language of modern social groups in England." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 2, no. 25 (2021): 156–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2021-2-25-156-163.

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The purpose of the article is to reveal the means of expressing simile in the speech of characters belonging to modern upper, middle and lower classes, based on the texts of contemporary English fiction: Caryl Churchill «Top Girls», Patrick Marber «Dealer’s Choice» and India Knight «Comfort and Joy». Conducting speech analysis, the authors use the sociolinguistic approach, allowing to take into account the social class of the speaker. The article demonstrates that the choice of different language means for conveying simile is dictated by such specific characteristics of the social layer to whi

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Kennedy, Meegan. "TONO-BUNGAY AND BURROUGHS WELLCOME: BRANDING IMPERIAL POPULAR MEDICINE." Victorian Literature and Culture 45, no. 1 (2017): 137–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150316000474.

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H. G. Wells's 1908 novel Tono-Bungay is a remarkable concoction, binding together characters and setting out of Dickens, sparkling imitations of fin-de-siécle commodity culture and new media, bitter social satire inflected by Wells's socialism, fascination with invention and flight, and murderous imperial adventure. Readers, though often seduced by the wit and precision of Wells's depiction of patent medicines and their advertisements, have not known whether to read the narrative as anti-Bildungsroman, Condition of England novel, science fiction, or imperial romance. It is no wonder that many

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ATTIA, Nesrine, and Kantaoui MOHAMED. "CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE FICTION WRITING SOCIAL AND HOMELAND ISSUES." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 07 (2021): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.7-3.2.

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The narrative story has evolved from its precursor, when the old myths are shattered, in which the new novel has become a text with numerous cultural formats within its contents. Fragmentation and separation have been two of the most significant aspects of modern creative writing. In order to grasp the evolving reality, novelists must assume new creative forms in which the reader joins the realms of secrecy and marginalization. Those looking for the positions of the novelist critics will notice that contemporary writing has occupied a distinguished position due to the issues it raises regardin

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Berman, Anna A. "The Family Novel (and Its Curious Disappearance)." Comparative Literature 72, no. 1 (2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7909939.

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Abstract What is a family novel? Russian literary scholars—who use the term frequently—claim that it is originally an English genre, yet in English scholarship the term has virtually disappeared. This article recovers the lost history of the family novel, tracing two separate strands: usage of the term and form/content of the novels. The genre began in England with Richardsonian domestic fiction and spread to Russia, where it evolved along different lines, shaped by the different social and political context. In England, the fate of the term turns out to be tied up with the fate of women write

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Breton, Rob. "Women and Children First: Appropriated Fiction in the Ten Hours’ Advocate." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 3, no. 2 (2021): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/fsmi1264.

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This article examines interclass strategies to bring about reform in mid-nineteenth century England. It specifically explores the way the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a paper written for the working classes, looked to present itself as a middle-class periodical in order to further the argument for factory reform. In reproducing fiction filched from middle-class periodicals, the Advocate performed its argument for the Factory Bill: that the Bill would ease social tensions, dissipate the Chartist or radical threat, and ensure a “return” to traditional gender roles. The appropriated fiction is mild, rath

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Setecka, Agnieszka. "“Gold … Was Certainly Very Attractive; But He Did Not Like New South Wales as a Country in Which to Live.” The Representation of Australian Society in Trollope’s John Caldigate." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52, no. 4 (2017): 395–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0017.

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Abstract Australia features in numerous Victorian novels either as a place of exile or a land of new opportunities, perhaps the most memorable image of the country having been presented in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861). Anthony Trollope’s writing, however, offers a much more extensive and complex presentation of Australian life as seen by a Victorian English gentleman. In his Australian fictions, including Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874), Catherine Carmichael (1878), and John Caldigate (1879), he presents Australia both as a land of new opportunities and as a place where social

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Lester, Stan. "Creating conditions for sustainable degree apprenticeships in England." Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning 10, no. 5 (2020): 701–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-04-2020-0062.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on a study funded by the Edge Foundation, an independent educational charity, to investigate what is needed in order for English higher education to operate degree apprenticeships (DAs) on a sustainable basis.Design/methodology/approachThe study, conducted in 2019–2020, took the form of a literature review, semi-structured interviews with employers, institutional staff members and apprentices in three fields, and an open online survey.FindingsThis study illustrates a high level of support for DAs amongst those who are involved in them, whether as e

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NANDHAKUMARI. "Reconstruction of History in Lawrence Norfolk's John Saturnall's Feast." SHODHA PRABHA 47, no. 3 (2022): 86–90. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14787715.

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Can a novel reconstruct history? 📜 In <em>John Saturnall’s Feast</em>, Lawrence Norfolk blends <strong>myth, war, and culture</strong> to reimagine 17th-century England. Using <strong>New Historicism</strong>, the novel intertwines <strong>Roman mythology, Puritan ideals, and political upheaval</strong>, offering a fresh perspective on <strong>food, power, and survival</strong>. From <strong>Saturn’s mythical feast</strong> to the harsh realities of <strong>civil war</strong>, Norfolk crafts a narrative that questions: <strong>Is history what truly happened, or simply the way we ch

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Al-zubi, Hasan. "The Genteel Realist James as a Pessimistic Naturalist in The Princess Casamassima." International Journal of Literature Studies 3, no. 1 (2023): 09–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2023.3.1.2.

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This paper highlights James as a naturalistic pessimist in his late fiction and, more specifically, in his late novel The Princess Casamassima (1986). Although James was identified as a pioneer genteel idealistic realist in his early fiction, his mode of writing shifted in his late fiction to cope with the new environmental settings in Europe and post-civil war American conditions. This dynamic change in his writing modes renders James as an experimental writer responsive to the drastic social, economic and intellectual changes in the late nineteenth century. To fictionalize the historical cha

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Cornum, Lou. "Seizing the Alterity of Futures." History of the Present 13, no. 2 (2023): 166–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10630116.

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Abstract This article contextualizes growing interest in futurity and minoritarian futures as connected to movements in speculative fiction, particularly Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism, and the ways in which this genre reimagines both history and futures. These developments are read through two groundbreaking anthologies—Dark Matter, a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds, a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against the notion of progress

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Warde, Alan. "Conditions of Dependence." International Review of Social History 35, no. 1 (1990): 71–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002085900000972x.

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SUMMARYThis paper examines a town in northwest England and a particular set of conditions that inhibited the growth of working-class politics during the twentieth century. The paradox of class politics in Lancaster is that despite a proletarian population, the labour movement locally remained extremely weak. Ironically, it was only upon the deindustrialisation of the town in the later 1960s that labour showed any collective strength. Explanation of quiescence in terms of paternalism and deference is rejected. Rather an account is given in terms of powerlessness. Local structural conditions ren

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Zelinska, Anastasiia. "The Ukrainian Non-Fiction Book Market Development Peculiarities In The Context Of A Full-Scale War." Obraz 47, no. 1 (2025): 117–25. https://doi.org/10.21272/obraz.2025.1(47)-117-125.

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Introduction. Russia’s full-scale military aggression against Ukraine, which began in February 2022, has become a determining factor in the transformation of all spheres of public life, including Ukrainian book publishing. It is important to study the development of the non-fiction book market in these conditions, as changes in demand for non-fiction literature may reflect current social needs to analyse historical events, understand current challenges, and find ways to overcome crisis phenomena. Relevance of the study. The relevance of the study is due to the need for a comprehensive analysis

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Dudley, Michael. "Images of Psychiatry in Recent Australian and New Zealand Fiction." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 28, no. 4 (1994): 574–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048679409080781.

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Psychiatry is variously portrayed in Australian and New Zealand fiction. This paper describes mental health professionals, settings, conditions, treatments, and social themes essayed in 128 works by 103 authors, published between 1957 and 1992. The predominant images are negative or markedly ambivalent: possible reasons for this are discussed. The perception of psychiatry by the culture in which it is formed and located, as mediated by its creative artists, has important implications for psychiatrist's understanding and explication of their social role, and has an impact on patient's expectati

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Charles, Nicolas. "Are Income Contingent Loans for Students Importable into France ?" Revue française de sociologie (English) Vol. 53, no. 2 (2012): 210–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rfsen.532.0210.

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French students often have difficulty paying for their education, the real cost of which greatly exceeds tuition fees alone. A comparative analysis of student funding in France, England and Sweden indicates that income contingent loan (ICL) systems are relatively efficient and equitable. It would, therefore, seem socially just and legitimate to import such systems into France. However, in addition to the question of how to integrate an arrangement of this sort into the French student funding system, the equity of such arrangements depends on a set of specific social conditions, conditions that

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Kucała, Bożena. "The Uses of Formulaic Language in Graham Swift’s England and Other Stories." American, British and Canadian Studies 33, no. 1 (2019): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2019-0018.

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Abstract This article argues that in his collection of short stories England and Other Stories (2014), as in most of his fiction, Graham Swift is preoccupied with the limits of language, with what remains unsaid or is poorly communicated. In this volume, the writer’s focus on private, domestic and ordinary lives corresponds to his representation of the language of everyday interaction as essentially non-creative and formulaic. Swift’s deliberately clichéd language reflects what, as contemporary studies of discourse reveal, is a standard mode of social interaction. For example, Roberta Corrigan

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Mallan, Kerry, Clare Bradford, and John Stephens. "New Social Orders: Reconceptualising Family and Community in Utopian Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 15, no. 2 (2005): 6–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no2art1246.

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In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: The family is the cradle into which the future is born; it is the nursery in which the new social order is nourished and reared during its early and most plastic period. (Sidney Goldstein, Marriage and Family Living, 1946)1 When Goldstein conceived the metaphor of the American family as the cradle of the future he was writing at a specific historical moment, ‘one to which the stresses of war, the uncertainties of the ensuing peace, and the emerging relationship between ideologies of the family and American national identity toget

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Janmaat. "The Development of Generalized Trust among Young People in England." Social Sciences 8, no. 11 (2019): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8110299.

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This paper explores how generalized trust develops over the life course among young people in England and whether trust is influenced more by family background factors or by conditions in late adolescence and early adulthood. If the latter are important, there may be reason for concern about falling levels of trust as material conditions, particularly regarding housing, have deteriorated for the present generation of young people. The first set of influences are highlighted by a perspective arguing that trust is primarily shaped by conditions in early childhood, while the latter are suggested

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Nikolaev, Dmitry. "“The Struggle of the Worlds”: the Representation of the Future War in the Soviet Science Fiction of the 1930s." Проблемы исторической поэтики 22, no. 3 (2024): 257–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2024.14102.

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In pre-revolutionary fiction, the struggle of the worlds was perceived mainly as a clash between earthlings and an extraterrestrial civilization. After the emergence of the Soviet state, the struggle between the Bolshevik and antiBolshevik worlds became one of the key themes in fiction. By the early 1930s, the formula “struggle of the worlds” existed in Russian literature both as fantastic and non-fantastic, reflecting a real social confrontation. However, the idea of a world revolution as the goal and result of the struggle of the worlds is actually eliminated from science fiction. The social

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Jones, Todd. "Can We Learn about Real Social Worlds from Fictional Ones?" International Journal of Applied Philosophy 33, no. 2 (2019): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ijap2020228128.

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It is very common for social scientists to be asked whether their findings about human nature could also be learned from reading great works of literature. Literature teachers frequently assign readings partly to teach people important truths about the world. But it is unclear how looking at a work of fiction can tell us about the real world at all. In this paper I carefully examine questions about the conditions under which the fictional world can teach us about the real world.

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Galván-Díaz, Félix Joaquín. "Fiction in Pain: Mourning and Melancholia in Borges’s Emma Zunz and El Aleph." Catedral Tomada. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 11, no. 20 (2023): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2023.592.

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In this article, I analyze the representation of mourning and melancholia in Jorge Luis Borges’s “Emma Zunz” and “El Aleph.” First, I propose a reconceptualization of mourning and melancholia. Starting from Freud’s premises, I rethink both concepts to argue that mourning is a social activity anchored on social frames and that melancholia comes from the impossibility of the social frame of mourning to carry and signify a loss. Then, I discuss how the short stories represent mourning processes that, in both cases, are difficult to achieve since the social conditions do not allow the mourner to g

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Vermishova, Polina. "Communication, Lies, and the Posthuman: Understanding the Science Fiction Novels of A. Reynolds." Scientific Research and Development. Modern Communication Studies 14, no. 2 (2025): 47–54. https://doi.org/10.12737/2587-9103-2025-14-2-47-54.

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The article explores the philosophical aspects of posthuman existence through the understanding of Alastair Reynolds's science fiction novels "Revelation Space", "Ark of Salvation", "Inhibitor Phase". Their philosophical basis was the ideas of post- and transhumanism. It is analyzed how the processes of change in human nature, human identity, axiological, ethical guidelines and communicative attitudes are explicated and legitimized in modern science fiction. The focus of the research attention is the topic of postmodernist understanding of social communication "I-Other" and xenocommunication "

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Best, Robert, and George Khushf. "The Social Conditions for Nanomedicine: Disruption, Systems, and Lock-In." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 34, no. 4 (2006): 733–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2006.00093.x.

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Many believe that nanotechnology will be disruptive to our society. Presumably, this means that some people and even whole industries will be undermined by technological developments that nanoscience makes possible. This, in turn, implies that we should anticipate potential workforce disruptions, mitigate in advance social problems likely to arise, and work to fairly distribute the future benefits of nanotechnology. This general, somewhat vague sense of disruption, is very difficult to specify – what will it entail? And how can we responsibly anticipate and mitigate any problems? We can't even

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Gouanvic, Jean-Marc. "La traduction et le devenir social : le cas de l’irruption de la science-fiction américaine en France après la Seconde Guerre mondiale." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 7, no. 1 (2007): 117–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037171ar.

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Résumé La traduction et le devenir social: le cas de l'irruption de la science-fiction américaine en France après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. À partir de la théorie de Pierre Bourdieu (concepts de champ, de capital et de biens symboliques, d'habitus et d'ïllusio), cette étude propose une sociologie de la traduction appliquée à l'importation de la science-fiction américaine en France dans les années 1950. C'est d'un « nouveau genre littéraire » d'origine américaine que Boris Vian, Raymond Queneau et Michel Pilotin se font les initiateurs dans l'espace socio-culturel français. Or, si les textes

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Bentham, Graham. "Public Satisfaction and Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions in the Counties of England." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 11, no. 1 (1986): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/622068.

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Ohagwam, Uchenna, and Ndubuisi Ogbuagu. "Helon Habila and the Trauma of Disposable People in Oil on Water." American Journal of Literature Studies 2, no. 1 (2023): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ajls.1418.

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Trauma studies is no doubt a burgeoning area of discourse that has captured the literary imagination of academic scholars for a few decades running. This study examined the complex relationship between socio-cultural influences and intimate personal relations portrayed in a trauma fiction as Helon Habila’s Oil on Water. Specifically, how does these depictions in Habila’s fiction direct the awareness of the catastrophic effects of war, poverty, hostage taking, domestic abuse on the individual psyche? How do traumatised people respond? To what extent can one theorize trauma studies and ecocritic

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WEST, ANNE, AGNES BLOME, and JANE LEWIS. "What characteristics of funding, provision and regulation are associated with effective social investment in ECEC in England, France and Germany?" Journal of Social Policy 49, no. 4 (2019): 681–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279419000631.

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AbstractEarly childhood education and care (ECEC) is seen as a crucial element of the social investment state. Whilst the extent of social investment in ECEC depends on financial expenditure, its effectiveness depends on certain conditions being met: namely, affordable, high quality provision being available. We explore policy development and the role played by government in the funding, provision and regulation of ECEC in England, France and Germany and then compare availability, affordability and quality. We argue that for children aged three and over, social investment can be deemed to be b

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Tuğlu Atamer, Begüm. "Abstract Machines in J. G. Ballard’s "High-rise"." Journal of English Studies 21 (December 20, 2023): 181–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.5552.

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This article sets out to explore how J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise (1975) can be read through Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of rhizome, abstract machines and schizophrenia. The social structure of the Seventies in England, High-Rise as a building and High Rise as a novel are connected to one another to portray a rhizome that manifests a dystopian answer to the inquiry of human nature. High-Rise can be studied as an abstract machine since it is a machine of fiction through which the readers question the meaning of humanity. High-Rise, the building, is also an abstract machine in itself since it o

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