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Grove, Angela Nicole. "Thomas Johnson: Gentleman, Vermonter, Patriot." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/403.

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This thesis is a micro-history of the formation of the various identities that shaped the Revolutionary War experiences of one eighteenth-century Vermonter (Thomas Johnson) whose life is documented in a manuscript collection at the Vermont Historical Society. I break down Johnson's identities into three levels: social class, state, and national. My argument is that what it meant to be a provincial gentleman, to be a Vermonter, and to be an American were still being constructed at the time of the Revolution and were therefore in a state of flux. The fluid nature of these identities shows us how

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Williamson, Gillian Shirley. "The world of the gentleman : constructions of British masculinity in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1815." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658226.

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Bird, Barbara. "The Victorians and role performance : the middle class gentleman in John Halifax, gentleman and Great expectations." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221277.

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This project investigates the social role of gentleman in Victorian England as defined in two Victorian novels, Dinah Maria Mulock's John Halifax, Gentleman and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Mulock and Dickens promote the middle-class gentleman as a role that prioritizes the fulfillment of duty. Mulock's protagonist, John Halifax, displays this gentlemanliness throughout his social and economic rise. He bridges the upper and lower classes and embodies both a model and a pathway to middleclass gentlemanliness. Dickens's protagonist, Pip, develops this middle-class gentlemanliness as he

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Brown, David Andrew. "Nathaniel Richmond (1724-1784) : 'gentleman improver'." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342565.

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Denton, Jon. "The East-Midland gentleman, 1400-1530." Thesis, Keele University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443617.

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Nascimento, Christian Lindberg Lopes do. "Locke e a formação do gentleman." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2010. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4647.

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The main goal of this research is to analyze the concept of formation within John Locke's work. But this debate is inserted on the moral perspective defended by the philosopher in his work's set. On another hand, we realize that the formation intended by the author has in the gentleman, its main target. This discussion involves, besides the philosopher's educational texts, the theoretician contributions within the Essays on the Law of Nature, Essays Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration. Although, we don't excuse the adoption of other ma

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Cooper, M. L. "William Robert Grove (1811-96) : Gentleman of science." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379415.

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Block, Alvina. "George Flett, Native Presbyterian missionary, old philosopher/rev'd gentleman." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0006/MQ32058.pdf.

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Henry, Dorothée. "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur : un nouveau type de personnage?" Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030160.

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Arsène Lupin, héros de Maurice Leblanc, né en 1905, est la figure du gentleman-cambrioleur. Mais, cette expression, créée par l’auteur, est-elle la seule propriété du personnage ou recouvre-t-elle un nouveau type littéraire ? En observant les origines littéraires du personnage, les potentielles aspirations de l’auteur, puis en se tournant vers les héritiers qu’a engendré Lupin, je vais essayer de définir si le personnage de Leblanc est un nouveau type, inédit, et en allant plus loin, mettre en évidence l’originalité profonde d’Arsène Lupin. Cent ans d’existence n’ont pas essoufflé l’intérêt du

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Poulet, Georges. "The quiet gentleman de georgette heyer, etude et traduction." Lille 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LIL30023.

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Roman historique, the quiet gentleman est aussi, dans une certaine mesure un roman policier. L'auteur a tente et semble-t-il, reussi une reconstitution historique de la vie de l'aristocratie provinciale a l'epoque de la regence. L'intrigue policiere qui reste confinee a l'interieur de la famille de saint-herth s'analyse en termes judiciaires plus que policiers, bien que les magistrats soient tout autant absents du roman que les policiers. Le comte de saint-erth (personnage de fiction) a le costume et les manieres d'un dandy, mais son dandysme est de pure facade, que l'on se refere aux dandys r

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Banks, Stephen. "Killing with courtesy : the duel and the English gentleman 1785-1850." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445887.

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Vrtis, Catherine Ann Peckinpaugh. "Gentleman Johnny Plays War: John Burgoyne and The Blockade of Boston." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1151.

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John Burgoyne, a British general during the American Revolution, is best known for his defeat by the Continental Army at Saratoga. In addition to serving as a general,Burgoyne was a playwright. While in Boston during the blockade following the Battle ofBunker Hill Burgoyne combined his interests, writing a satire of the war. The Blockade of Boston, Burgoyne's play, was first presented as an afterpiece to a production of The Busybody on January 8, 1776 (Silverman 292).Accounts of the performance differ in detail, but the central event is consistent: during the performance a soldier walked out o

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Beckman, Marta Kaye. "The remains of the Victorian gentleman in James, Conrad, and Wharton /." Connect to Digital dissertations. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Lennon, Heather N. "A Stage for Gentility and the Performance of the Republican Gentleman: Taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23227.

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This thesis assesses the ways in which gentility served as a catalyst for the creation of a new masculine identity during the early American republic: the Republican Gentleman. In particular, I utilize taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820, in which to understand the significance of gentility. This thesis analyzes how Richmond taverns represented the growth of gentility through refined architecture and its male patrons. It discusses how taverns, as predominantly male spaces, allowed for the expression of the Republican Gentleman\'s masculine identity. The guiding research questi

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Walter, Helen. "Artist, professional, gentleman : designing the body of the actor-manager, 1870-1900." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2015. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1698/.

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In the historical record of British theatre in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the figures of London’s actor-managers are constantly present. As such, over the intervening century, they have been subjected to detailed historical enquiry by any number of different scholars in terms of their theatrical achievements, management styles, and their role in the changing nature of theatre in this period. However, despite the vast amount of extant visual material pertaining to these individuals in British, and other, collections, little attention has been paid to the image of the actor-manag

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O'Hallahan, Ryan C. ""Our Captain is a Gentleman”: Officer Elections among Virginia Confederates, 1861-1862." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4869.

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Enlisted soldiers preferred to elect company- and regimental-level officers during the first year of the American Civil War. This thesis explores how early Confederate mobilization, class conflict between elites and non-elites, and Confederate military policies affected officer elections from spring 1861 to spring 1862 among Virginia Confederates. Chapter 1 explores how the chaotic nature of mobilization and common soldiers' initial expectations regarding their military service influenced elections from April 1861 until late July 1861. Chapter 2 details the changing nature of elections as e

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Behr, Kate E. "The perfect gentleman : the representation of men in the English Gothic novel, 1762-1820." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:57c69640-90ab-4b4e-87a9-5f0c42e649f0.

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This thesis examines the representation of male character stereotypes as manifestations of a formula in late eighteenth-century popular fiction. In order to establish the presence of the formula, I have inspected a wide spectrum of both familiar and lesser-known works. Much recent criticism has focused on the passive figure of the heroine as one expression of female anxiety within the texts. In contrast, this thesis draws attention to the critically unseen, active figures surrounding her threatened perfection, by establishing, first, a common representation or role within the formula for each

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Carpenter, Oliver. "Gentleman of the sea : the rise of the ocean tramp shipowner c.1870-1939." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633820.

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This thesis tracks the rise of some British tramp shipowners and their experiences during the period c.1870-1939. Three case studies have been chosen to bring focus to the investigation - those being the tramp shipping companies owned and managed by Joseph Robinson (Stag Line), Walter Runciman (Moor Line) and James Knott (Prince Line). This thesis follows a chronological structure and is split into three divisions. Part I: Local (c.1870-1890), places the shipowners within their local communities, touching on topics such as religion (specifically Wesleyan Methodism), the construction of technol

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Simpson, Magaret Susan. "Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611) : the life and career of an Elizabethan courtier gentleman." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494968.

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Despite a long and active career as Elizabeth I's tournament champion, instigator of the Accession Day tournaments, Steward of the Queen's manor at Woodstock, Master of the Armoury and Knight of the Garter, Lee remained a gentleman, howbeit one of the elite courtier gentlemen who served Elizabeth I. The only studies of Lee's life are the brief monograph produced by his descendant, Viscount Dillon of Ditchley in 1906, and E.K. Chambers' Sir Henry Lee: an Elizabethan Portrait (1936). Lee's name frequently appears in major works on Elizabethan England, yet despite its dated nature and factual err

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Heath, Shannon Raelene. "“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33231.

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In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the duel of honor functioned as a formal recourse to attacks on a gentleman's reputation. Concurrently, many notable literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featuring duels or the threat of physical violence, a pattern indicating a connection between authorship and dueling. This study explicitly examines this connection, particularly as it relates to social acceptance, the gentrification of authorship, and the business of publishing. The act of publishing, putt

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Mentz, Søren. "The English gentleman merchant at work Madras and the City of London 1660-1740 /." Kbh. : Museum Tusculanum, 2007. http://www.mtp.dk/library/uni/kub/?isbn=978-87-635-0823-0.

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Zweigman, Leslie Jeffrey. "The role of the gentleman in county government and society : the Gloucestershire Gentry, 1625-1649." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76528.

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This study presents a picture of the social, political and economic life of the Gloucestershire county community on the eve of, and during the civil war, and discusses the causes and effects of the conflict in the Gloucestershire context.<br>Chapter One describes the county in 1640, studying its physical features, wealth and pursuits and social structure. The second chapter offers a survey of the 'county community,' the prominent county families who formed a small but most powerful and influential group in the county.<br>Chapter Three attempts to classify the established county gentry in terms

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Sowerby, Tracey A. "A brave knight and learned gentleman : the careers of Sir Richard Morison (c.1513-1556)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424685.

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Chu, Chi-fu, and 朱治夫. "A study of Wu Weiye's life (1609-1672) as a Qing Officialand a retired gentleman." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950231.

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Watson, Carly Emma. "The legacy of an eighteenth-century gentleman : Alexander Thistlethwayte's books in Winchester College Fellows' Library." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4954/.

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This thesis investigates the donation of books made by Alexander Thistlethwayte (?1718–1771), a Hampshire grandee and bibliophile, to the Fellows’ Library of Winchester College, the oldest of the English public schools. The first two chapters demonstrate the largely untapped potential of two unique books in the Thistlethwayte benefaction to advance scholarly understanding of topics relating to the copying and transmission of early modern literary texts. The second part of the thesis examines the collecting habits which shaped the physical configuration of Thistlethwayte’s books and the content

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Saeed, Amanda. "Lorelei's Guide to a Lady's Luxury: The Secrets of Social Mobility in Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23737.

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Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes constantly acknowledges tensions between the intentions and actions of its protagonist, Lorelei Lee. Some literary critics and authors have speculated in depth the reasons and/or effects of Lorelei’s humorous oblivion, coming to the conclusion that Loos creates this character as a parody for the reader. This article asserts instead that readers should grant Lorelei autonomy, thus giving her more credit than she is generally given at face value. I read Blondes as a self-help book rather than a parody. Specifically, I read Lorelei as not only a creation of mo

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Adams, Tracey Lynn. "A dentist and a gentleman the significance of gender to the establishment of the dental profession /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq28268.pdf.

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Baker, Geoff. "The political and cultural worlds of William Blundell (1620-1698), a seventeenth-century English Catholic gentleman." Thesis, Keele University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496190.

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This thesis considers the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth century Catholic gentleman based in Lancashire. It is argued that Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. Blundell actively defended his family from the extremes of the penal laws, particularly through creating sprawling kin and social networks that offered him protection. These networks consisted of both Catholics and Protestants. The relative freedom that this support offered Blundell allowed him to patronise other Catholics. In his locality he ensured that

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Marsh, Deborah. "Humphrey Newton of Newton and Pownall (1466-1536) : a gentleman of Cheshire and his commonplace book." Thesis, Keele University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283257.

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Berberich, Christine. "A sense of nostalgia? : Englishness and the image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403767.

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Wiemers, Michaël. "Der "Gentleman" und die Kunst : Studien zum Kunsturteil des englischen Publikums in Tagebuchaufzeichnungen des 17. Jahrhunderts /." Hildesheim : Georg Olms, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389870638.

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Richardson, Shelley. ""Striving after better things" : Julia Wilding and the making of a new woman and a noble gentleman." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of History, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2483.

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This thesis is a study of the family of Julia and Frederick Wilding. The focus is primarily upon the role of the mother and the lives of the first two surviving children, Gladys (1881-1905) and Anthony (1883-1915) It draws heavily upon the voluminous testimony of Julia. Born in Hereford in 1853, to Charles and Ann Deyke Anthony, a middle-class couple of some substance, she came to New Zealand in 1879 immediately after her marriage to Frederick Wilding, a young lawyer beginning to make his way in Hereford. An educated and cultured woman, she was well versed in the educational theories of her da

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Francis, Jill. ""A ffitt place for any Gentleman"? : gardens, gardeners and gardening in England and Wales, c.1560- 1660." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2941/.

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This thesis sets out to investigate gardens, gardeners and gardening practices in early modern England, from the mid-sixteenth century when the first horticultural manuals appeared in the English language dedicated solely to the ‘Arte’ of gardening, spanning the following century to its establishment as a subject worthy of scientific and intellectual debate by the Royal Society and a leisure pursuit worthy of the genteel. The inherently ephemeral nature of the activity of gardening has resulted thus far in this important aspect of cultural life being often overlooked by historians, but detaile

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Kennedy, Debra Emily. "Costume Design for "Back to Methuselah," Parts Three and Four "The Thing Happens" and "The Elderly Gentleman"." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10007177.

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<p> This thesis serves as a record for the process of designing and delivering costumes for the production of <i>Back to Methuselah</i>, produced by the Washington Stage Guild at the Undercroft Theatre of Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., opening on February 19 and closing on March 13, 2015. It was directed by Bill Largess, costume designs were done by Debbie Kennedy, set design was by Shirong Gu, lighting designer was Marianne Meadows, sound design was by Frank DiSalvo, Jr. and stage manager was Arthur Nordlie. This document traces the

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Hague, Stephen G. "A modern-built house ... fit for a gentleman : elites, material culture and social strategy in Britain, 1680-1770." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2fc553a3-8922-4793-b893-e6686518e61e.

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A 1755 advert in the Gloucester Journal listed for sale, 'A MODERN-BUILT HOUSE, with four rooms on a floor, fit for a gentleman'. In the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 'gentlemen's houses' like the one described evolved as a cultural norm. This thesis offers a social and cultural reading of an under-studied group of small free-standing classical houses built in the west of England between 1680 and 1770. By developing a profile of eighty-one gentlemen's houses and one hundred and thirty-four builders and owners, this study unites subjects such as the history of architecture, landsca

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Willet, Mary. "THE WORD OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE OATH OF A PATRIOT: Military Parole in the American Civil War." Thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7995.

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The use and eventual demise of military parole in the American Civil War provides a key insight into the changing nature of ‘military honour’ in America’s bloodiest conflict. This thesis will use parole to examine America’s engagement and dedication to European international law, the prevalence of ‘honour’ in Union and Confederate armies and the way a pre-war culture of honour was challenged both by the harsh realities of nineteenth-century warfare and by the uniquely American way parole was employed during the Civil War.

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Trajce, Aleksander. "The gentleman, the vagabonds and the stranger : cultural representations of large carnivores in Albania and their implications for conservation." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/the-gentleman-the-vagabonds-and-the-stranger-cultural-representations-of-large-carnivores-in-albania-and-their-implications-for-conservation(316ea0d0-5ba9-4e4a-a282-59247c776c78).html.

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This thesis explores how people in mountainous regions of Albania interrelate with large carnivores. For the research, I used a combination of questionnaire survey and ethnographic fieldwork to generate insights into how rural dwellers perceive and interact with bears, wolves and lynx. Research and conservation efforts relating to large carnivores in areas where they live near humans often have a strong focus on human-wildlife conflicts; with the presumption that conflicts are a central part of people’s relationships with predators. I argue that, although conflicts between people and predators

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Larsson, Malin. "Heathcliff : The Black Dog that Became a Bourgeois Gentleman - the Combined Issue of Race and Social Class in Wuthering Heights." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27588.

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This thesis will illustrate how the issues of race and social class in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights are main focuses for how Heathcliff is perceived and how they influence his actions. The importance lies in how both issues are main reasons for how Heathcliff is treated. He is not treated primarily because of his social class nor his race, but a mixture of both. The analysis will be done by analysing the text with a postcolonial theorization of imperialism. It will also include the study by Terry Eagleton Myths of Power: A Marxist study on Wuthering Heights and Maja-Lisa von Sneidern’s art

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Bray, Robyn. "'A scholar, a gentleman, and a Christian' : John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824) and his 'Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry' (1826)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4709/.

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This thesis contextualises the life and work of John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824), one of the first to hold the Rawlinson chair of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford, and considers his contribution to the development of Old English studies as a discipline. I argue that he has been unduly marginalised as a result of posthumous criticism that has failed to acknowledge the extent of his contribution to Old English scholarship. Part I of the thesis considers this issue from the perspective of John Josias himself, setting him in the context of the period in which he lived and the longer contin

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Marlin, Christine D. "A prison officer and a gentleman : the life and writings of Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908), prison inspector and novelist." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670243.

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Leedham, Susan. "Curating a gentleman's library : practices of acquisition, display and disposal in the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/12176.

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This thesis examines the book and archival holdings of the Cottonian Collection – a national designated eighteenth-century collection of fine art and books – between 1791 and 1816, the period of William Cotton II’s custodianship. Prior to this thesis, the Cottonian Collection has not been the subject of a full-length academic study. Whilst the art holdings have received some attention, the book and archival contents have not been examined. This thesis addresses this imbalance by conducting a thorough examination of the archival holdings and the history of the book collection. Taking the action

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Causey, Evelyn Douglas. "The character of a gentleman deportment, piety, and morality in Southern colleges and universities, 1820--1860 (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia) /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 1.03 Mb., 322 p, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit?3220636.

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Anttonen, Ramona. "The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-535.

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<p>The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). However, they have by now appeared so often in literary works, and in so many different shapes and sizes, that they are much too nuanced to be called ‘stereotypes.’</p><p>This essay will make a historical comparison between two fictional vampires, one hundred years apart, in order to show that a change has taken place when it comes to how vampires as fictional cha

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Gros, Emmeline. "The Southern Gentleman and the Idea of Masculinity: Figures and Aspects of the Southern Beau in the Literary Tradition of the American South." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/64.

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The American planter has mostly been presented as the epitome of the romantic cavalier legend that could be found in the fiction of John Pendleton Kennedy to Thomas Nelson Page: a man of chivalric manners and good breeding; a man of good social position; a man of wealth and leisure (Concise Oxford Dictionary). A closer scrutiny of the cavalier and genteel ethos of the time, however, reveals the inherent ideological inconsistencies with the idea of the gentleman itself, as the ideal came to be more and more perceived as an illusion and as challenges to traditional gender stereotypes came to re

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Frock, Clare. "Mischievous partners and systemless systems : Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Friedrich Schlegel's concept of irony." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61292.

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This thesis considers Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy in light of Friedrich Schlegel's concept of irony. Departing from previous criticism, which focuses on Sterne's playful narrative techniques, the discussion here elucidates other ways in which Tristram Shandy exemplifies the kind of irony Schlegel theorizes. These ways include: Sterne's "Mischgedicht" method, which amalgamates in a single work many types of style, or diverse permutations of form and content; the depiction of Parson Yorick, who epitomizes Socratic irony as Schlegel defines it in the 108th Lyceum fragment; Sterne's gentle s

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Tracey, Karen Kaiser. "The hobby horse's stumbling block." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9976.

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Savaş, Süleyman. "Linear Algebra for Array Signal Processing on a Massively Parallel Dataflow Architecture." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-4137.

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<p>This thesis provides the deliberations about the implementation of Gentleman-Kung systolic array for QR decomposition using Givens Rotations within the context of radar signal processing. The systolic array of Givens Rotations is implemented and analysed using a massively parallel processor array (MPPA), Ambric Am2045. The tools that are dedicated to the MPPA are tested in terms of engineering efficiency. aDesigner, which is built on eclipse environment, is used for programming, simulating and performance analysing. aDesigner has been produced for A

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Allard, Marcus. "Gentlemen - en degenerationsroman? : Dekadensen i Klas Östergrens Gentlemen." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12715.

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Denna uppsats undersöker dekadensens betydelse för Klas Östergrens generationsroman Gentlemen (1980). Syftet är dels att uppmärksamma ett hittills förbisett författarskap, dels att applicera en teori som kan belysa Gentlemen. Frågeställningen utgår därmed ifrån hur dekadensen återspeglas i romanens huvudkaraktärsskildringar, samhällsstämningar och form. Uppsatsens dekadensdefinition grundar sig i Paul Bourgets Théorie de la decadence (1883), där han skildrar samhällets, individens och språkets förfall. Utifrån dessa tankar antar jag en bred dekadensdefinition som fokuserar människans ambivalen

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Savaş, Süleyman. "Linear Algebra for Array Signal Processing on a Massively Parallel Dataflow Architecture." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2192.

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<p>This thesis provides the deliberations about the implementation of Gentleman-Kung systolic array for QR decomposition using Givens Rotations within the context of radar signal </p><p>processing. The systolic array of Givens Rotations is implemented and analysed using a massively parallel processor array (MPPA), Ambric Am2045. The tools that are dedicated to the MPPA are tested in terms of engineering efficiency. aDesigner, which is built on eclipse environment, is used for programming, simulating and performance analysing. aDesigner has been p

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Chu, Chi-fu. "A study of Wu Weiye's life (1609-1672) as a Qing official and a retired gentleman Wu Weiye (yi liu ling jiu zhi yi liu qi er) shi Qing yu gui yin zhi yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31950231.

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