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Finn, C. M. "'That artificial age' : Nineteenth-century attitudes to the eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234369.

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Tyler, Daniel. "Victorian Hopes : Future-directed attitudes in Nineteenth-Century literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522807.

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Moore, Douglas R. "Appropriating justice : Victorian literature and nineteenth-century law reform /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1483471651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007.<br>"Department of English." Keywords: Bulwer-Lytton, Collins, Wilkie, Trollope, Anthony, Browning, Robert, Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, Justice, Victorian, Law reform, Nineteenth century Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281). Also available online.

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Sussman, Matthew Benjamin. "Stylistic Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11097.

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To many readers, the Victorian novel is synonymous with moral insight and Victorian criticism with moral philistinism. While the novel remains celebrated for its complex treatment of decision-making and sympathy, the evaluative judgments of Victorian critics have been dismissed as thematically reductive and imprecise. However, this study argues that the virtue terms that pervade Victorian discourse--words like "natural," "manly," "lucid," and "sincere"--invest sentence-level stylistic properties with ethical value because they embody aesthetic character. Rather than focus on the novel's action

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Dredge, Sarah. "Accommodating feminism : Victorian fiction and the nineteenth-century women's movement." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36917.

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The research field of this thesis is framed by the major political and legal women's movement campaigns from the 1840s to the 1870s: the debates over the Married Women's Property Act; over philanthropy and methods of addressing social ills; the campaign for professional opportunities for women, and the arguments surrounding women's suffrage. I address how these issues are considered and contextualised in major works of Victorian fiction: Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1855), Charlotte Bronte's Villette (1853), and George Eliot's Middlemar

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Psiropoulos, Brian. "Victorian Gothic Materialism: Realizing the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13423.

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This project begins by asking why so many realist novels of the Victorian period also exhibit tropes borrowed from the eighteenth-century gothic romance—its locales, characters, and thematics. While theorizations of realism and of the gothic are plentiful, most studies consider them to be essentially opposed, and so few attempts have been made to explain why they frequently coexist within the same work, or what each figural mode might lend to the other. This dissertation addresses this deficit by arguing that gothic hauntings interpolated into realist fictions figure socio-economic traumas, th

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Higson, Helen Elizabeth. "Representations of nineteenth century female domestic servants in text and image." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243568.

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Nash, David Stewart. "The Leicester Secular Society : unbelief, freethought and freedom in a nineteenth century city." Thesis, University of York, 1988. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10892/.

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Straub, Julia. "A Victorian muse : the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780826445896.

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Harding, Andrew Christopher. "Gender disruption, rivalry, and same-sex desire in the work of Victorian women writers." Thesis, University of Chester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/311067.

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This thesis examines the important role of female same-sex relationships in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Whilst drawing directly upon Sharon Marcus's recent book, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England, a revisionary queer reading of inter-dependent same-sex female intimacy and mainstream middle-class heteronormative ideals, my own study extends the parameters of Marcus's work by focussing on alternative contexts and previously overlooked same-sex female relationships. This thesis argues that the culturally endorsed model of Victorian female homosoci

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Rice, Adrian Clifford. "Augustus De Morgan and the development of university mathematics in London in the nineteenth century." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1997. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6638/.

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This thesis investigates the teaching of mathematics at university level in London, and in particular by Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871) during his period as founder professor of mathematics at London University (later University College London) from 1828 to 1867. An examination of De Morgan's life and professorial career is followed by a review of changes in instruction at the college under his successors, together with a survey of higher mathematical tuition at other university-level institutions in the capital up to the turn of the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid to original

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Stannard, K. P. "Education and urban society : Working-class schooling in nineteenth-century Deptford and Greenwich." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383106.

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Coxall, Margot. "Motifs from the #Sleeping Beauty' fairy story in nineteenth century novels, poetry, and painting." Thesis, Keele University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386608.

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Simpson, Jennifer Lesley. "'Magic, spectacle and illness' : masquerade and gender identity in nineteenth century fiction by women." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1999. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU484336.

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Catherine Clément, in <I>The Newly Born Woman</I>, regards 'magic, spectacle and illness' as the performance of the feminine. In studying the narratives of masquerading and miming women, these are the images which I locate: the magic of the sorceress, the spectacle of the transvestites or the illness of the hysteric. Within this thesis, I study instances of masquerade or mimicry, and their influence upon gender identity, in a selection of texts by nineteenth century women written for a particularly feminine audience: <I>Belinda</I> (1801) by Maria Edgeworth, <I>Lady Audley's Secret </I>(1861)

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Anderson, Haley D. "Female Agency in Restoration and Nineteenth-Century Drama." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1560.

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This thesis examines issues of female agency in the plays The Rover and The Widow Ranter by Aphra Behn, Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw, and Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins. The heroines of each of these plays work toward gaining agency for themselves, and in order to achieve this goal, they often stray from cultural norms of femininity and encroach on the masculine world. This thesis postulates that agency for women becomes a fluid notion, not statically defined. These plays show a fluctuating and evolving sense of feminine agency.

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Putnam, Marlee Love. "A Jane of all Trades: Janet Taylor's Contributions to Victorian Navigation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91428.

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Janet Taylor made major contributions to Victorian navigational practices. She did so through creating business opportunities for herself as an educator, author, and inventor of nautical instruments.<br>Master of Arts<br>Janet Taylor, a woman who made major contributions to Victorian navigation, is representative of a large historiographical gap in maritime and nautical histories. In these fields historians are typically inclined to look at famous men in navigation: John Hadley, John Campbell, and others who invented nautical instruments such as the octant and sextant. However, we have failed

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Atmore, Henry Philip. "The great Victorian way : materiality and memory in mid-nineteenth century technological culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621866.

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Witwit, May. "An evaluation of anti-feminist attitudes in selected professional Victorian women." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/294460.

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The Victorian era paved the way for the emancipation of the modern British woman. The women who fought for the parliamentary vote, especially those who were imprisoned and experienced the torture of forcible feeding, eventually won their cause. Women who opposed enfranchisement did so for their own reasons. Both sides of the suffrage campaign claimed the majority was on their side and struggled to prove it. This thesis argues that those women who opposed were a subaltern group and compares them with the colonised subjects of the British Empire. The emancipation of women ran against the interes

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Green, Jordan. "Musing Sadly on the Dead: Erotic Epistemology in the Nineteenth-Century English Elegy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22661.

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This project is about what I am calling an “erotic epistemology” in nineteenth-century English elegiac poetry, a condition or event in a poetic text in which the discourses of love and knowledge are, to use a term Shelley liked to describe the experience of love, “intermixed.” The persistence of this inter-discourse suggests some fundamental connection between the desire for love and the desire for knowledge. Curiously, these performances of erotic longing insist urgently in the rhetorical, formal, and somatic registers of elegiac poetry in the nineteenth century. The confrontation with dea

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Janssen, Joanne Nystrom. "Character of memorization: quotation and identity in nineteenth-century British literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/687.

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In nineteenth-century Britain, the average person's mind was an anthology containing snatches of poetry, Latin verb conjugations, Bible verses, folk songs, miscellaneous facts, and the catechism. Because secular and religious education emphasized learning by rote, students' minds were stocked with information and quotations that originated in other texts, which is reflected in characters who repeat those bits and pieces in the period's literature. My dissertation investigates concepts of personal and national identity in Victorian literature and culture, particularly through the understudied p

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Startup, Radojka. "Damaging females : representations of women as victims and perpetrators of crime in the mid-nineteenth century." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1348856/.

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This thesis explores, and seeks an historical interpretation of, representations of women both as victims and perpetrators of crime in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Moving beyond how criminal offences were defined, perceived and disciplined, the analysis highlights their broader social and cultural contexts and effects. Focusing primarily on media accounts and literary narratives of "sensational" and serious cases, it argues that the treatment of crimes of spousal murder, sexual violence and infanticide can be read for cultural and political meanings. At a time when the technol

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Robson, Amy. "Dogs and domesticity : reading the dog in Victorian British visual culture." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10097.

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The central aim of this thesis is to critically examine the values associated with dogs in Victorian British art and visual culture. It studies the redefining and restructuring of the domestic dog as it was conceptualized in visual culture and the art market. It proposes that the dog was strongly associated with social values and moral debates which often occurred within a visual arena, including exhibitions, illustrated newspapers, and prints. Consequently, visual representations of the dog can be seen as an important means through which to study Victorian culture and society. Historians have

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Jansson, Åsa Karolina. "The creation of 'disordered emotion' : melancholia as biomedical disease, c. 1840-1900." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8317.

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This thesis traces the re-conceptualisation of melancholia as a biomedical mental disease in Victorian medicine, with an emphasis on the uptake of physiology into British psychological medicine. Language appropriated from experimental physiology allowed physicians to speak about ‘disordered emotion’ as a physiological process occurring when the brain was subjected to repeated ‘irritation’. When it came to diagnosing asylum patients, however, internal biological explanations of disease were of little use. Instead the focus was on externally observable ‘symptoms’, chiefly ‘depression’, ‘mental p

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Griffin, Brittany Renee. "Tales of Empire: Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4057.

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Children's literature often does not hold the same weight in the studies of a culture as its big brother, the novel. However, as children's literature is written by adults, to convey information which is important for a child to learn in order to be a functioning member of that society, it can be analyzed in the same way novels are, to provide insight into the broad sweeping issues that concerned the adults of that era. Nineteenth-century British children's literature in particular reveals the deep-seated preoccupation the British Empire had with its eastern colonies, and shows how England's r

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Redfern, Alastair Llewellyn John. "Oversight and authority in the nineteenth century church of England : a case study of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364954.

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Tressler, Ann Elizabeth. "Ecstasy and Solitude: Reading and Self-Loss in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104395.

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Thesis advisor: Rosemarie Bodenheimer<br>By focusing on the predominance of semi-conscious and unconscious states in both nineteenth-century British literature and psychology, this dissertation outlines the recognizable and multi-faceted relation existing between literature and psychology. Besides their obvious prevalence in sensation novels later in the period, these states, which I call ecstatic states, appeared in many of the most prominent, canonical novels of the nineteenth century. Prominent Victorian psychologists, such as Robert MacNish, John Abercrombie, James Cowles Prichard, and For

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Ritchie, Jessica Frances. "Revisiting the murderess representations of Victorian women's violence in mid-nineteenth- and late-twentieth-century fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Culture, Literature and Society, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/897.

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The murderess in the twenty-first century is a figure of particular cultural fascination; she is the subject of innumerable books, websites, documentaries and award-winning movies. With female violence reportedly on the increase, a rethinking of beliefs about women's natural propensity towards violent and aggressive behaviours is inevitable. Using the Victorian period as a central focus, this thesis explores the contradictory ideologies regarding women's violence and also suggests an alternative approach to the relationship between gender and violence in the future. A study of violent women in

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Jones, Mary C. "Fashioning Mobility: Navigating Space in Victorian Fiction." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/24.

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My dissertation examines how heroines in nineteenth-century British Literature manipulate conventional objects of feminine culture in ways which depart from uses associated with Victorian marriage plots. Rather than use fashionable objects to gain male attention or secure positions as wives or mothers, female characters deploy self-fashioning tactics to travel under the guise of unthreatening femininity, while skirting past thresholds of domestic space. Whereas recent Victorian literary and cultural criticism identifies female pleasure in the form of consumption and homosocial/erotic desire, m

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Lannon, Colleen Patricia. "Gambling and/on the Exchange: The Victorian Novel and the Legitimization of the Stock Market." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/991.

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Thesis advisor: Rosemarie Bodenheimer<br>In the aftermath of England‘s “Railway Mania“ in the 1840s, it became commonplace to equate stock market speculation with gambling. Yet opinion had changed so dramatically by the end of the century that the Quarterly Review could confidently declare, “Though speculation may lead to rashness and be censurable, it is not gambling.“ This project considers how and why the discourses of gambling and stock market speculation diverged over the second half of the nineteenth century, and the cultural and historical changes this shif

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Green, Sarah. "Sexual continence in the late nineteenth-century aesthetic tradition : Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, George Moore." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:52bd3fc9-9ebd-4b59-bba2-31019f923106.

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This thesis contends that the idea of productive sexual continence - that is, abstinence from sexual activity understood as a constructive practice - significantly shaped a branch of thought within and around the British Aesthetic Movement of the late nineteenth century. Recent critical work has stressed sexual liberation or permissiveness as among the values of Aestheticism, and has read Aesthetic representations of continent states as indications of repressed, sublimated, or coded sexuality. Reading these representations through period-specific sexual discourses, I reveal an alternative disc

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Smith, Andrew. "The Gothic sublime : a study of the changing function of sublimity in representations of subjectivity in nineteenth-century fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240896.

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Osborne, Harvey. "The preservation and poaching of salmon in Victorian England : fresh perspectives on nineteenth-century poaching crime." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289037.

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Kim, Katherine Jihyun. "Haunted Mind and Matter: The Human Will and Haunting in Nineteenth-Century British Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3839.

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Thesis advisor: Judith Wilt<br>This project argues that the concept of haunting pervaded Victorian society, imagination, and thought and reflected anxieties regarding destabilized conceptions of the self and the world. It spans the nineteenth century from Mary Shelley to Henry James in order to claim that the living can invite and employ haunting in ways useful to self discovery or recovery. Rather than view haunting as a primarily one-directional relationship in which the haunter imposes itself on the haunted, I suggest that haunting can be invoked by the haunted in order to integrate new per

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Hallett, Adam Neil. "America seen : British and American nineteenth century travels in the United States." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3164.

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The thesis discusses the development of nineteenth century responses to the United States. It hinges upon the premise that travel writing is narrative and that the travelling itself must therefore be constructed (or reconstructed) as narrative in order to make it available for writing. By applying narratology to the work of literary travel writers from Frances Trollope to Henry James I show the influence of travelling point of view and writing point of view on the narrative. Where these two points of view are in conflict I suggest reasons for this and identify signs in the narrative which disp

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Corey, Emily. "Beyond Sex: Arotic Desire in the Victorian Realist Novel." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587666198069013.

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Smith, Jeffrey Wayne. "George MacDonald and Victorian society." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/7e0872ad-8765-4fd9-9942-53ff0b6c25e3.

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This thesis approaches the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as discussions on his non-fictional texts and essays, industrialism, and the great rural-urban divide of the nineteenth century. Chapter Two concentrates on MacDonald’s representations of the city in Robert Falconer (1868), The Vicar’s Daughter (1872), and Weighed and Wanting (1882) by underscoring parallels between

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Carver, Ben. "Arranging the past, reconsidering the present : the emergence of alternate history in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4243.

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This study examines the expression and patterns of alternate history in nineteenth-century Britain and France. “Alternate history” refers to the presentation of events that did not happen in order to consider historical trajectories that might have been and the consequent displacements of present and future. The central chapters of this thesis correspond to the three fields of writing in which these texts are clustered: in narratives of undefeated and resurgent Napoleons, which I trace from the rival journalistic claims made about Napoleon and his historical significance; in accounts that re-i

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Roberts, Jason Lewis. "'The ruin of rural England' : an interpretation of late nineteenth century agricultural depression, 1879-1914." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7515.

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This thesis attempts a re-interpretation of late nineteenth-century agricultural depression, specifically in England, by complementing economic histories to suggest a hitherto neglected cultural component equally defined Victorian comprehension of both the phenomenon's geographic distribution and symbolic form. Adopting recent theoretical shifts in historical geography that validate the use of literary evidence in combination with economic data sources, the thesis claims depression was constructed from an accretion of mythologised layers of meaning deposited unconsciously or otherwise. These s

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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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Cameron, Leigh. "“We Always Say What We Like to One Another”: The Influence of Education on Women, Sympathy and Marriage in Early Nineteenth-Century British Literature." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41029.

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This thesis project investigates the relationship between education, sympathy, and marriage by analyzing the courtship process in three early nineteenth-century novels alongside three female educational texts. The role education plays in Austen’s Emma, Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and Gaskell’s North and South, particularly in terms of female characters’ marriage prospects, shows how writers at this time conceived of intellectual equality and opportunities for women, and how the terms in which they did so actively engaged with conduct book discourse. This project expands on Nancy Armstrong’s foundation

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Tate, Rosemary. "The aesthetics of sugar : concepts of sweetness in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:960ac765-d21b-43d3-a26b-0188b4792186.

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My thesis examines the concept of sweetness as an aesthetic category in nineteenth-century British culture. My contention is that a link exists between the idea of sweetness as it appears in literary works and sugar as an everyday commodity with a complex history attached. Sugar had changed from being considered as a luxury in 1750 to a mass-market staple by the 1850s, a major cultural transition which altered the concept of sweetness as a taste. In the thesis I map the consequences of this shift as they are manifest in a range of texts from the period, alongside parallel changes in the aesthe

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Bailey, Lucy A. "The village shop and rural life in nineteenth-century England : cultural representations and lived experience." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2015. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8824/.

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Despite consumption and retailing having grown to form a meta-narrative in historical enquiry, the village shop has largely escaped attention. Remarkably little is known about the long-term development of rural services, particularly shops, which are often ignored as marginal and undynamic. Moreover, whilst their recent decline has highlighted their perceived importance to the vitality of village life, the extent to which this is based on a romanticised or historically myopic image is unclear. This thesis seeks to rectify this lacuna by critically assessing the real and imagined role of the sh

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Kontou, Tatiana. "Ventriloquising the dead : representations of Victorian spiritualism and psychical research in selected nineteenth and late twentieth century fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430956.

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O'Reilly, Casey Michelle. "Phantom Limb: An Exploration of Queer Manner in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Tales." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1069.

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The term “phantom limb” is used to describe the phenomenal tingling sensation that occurs in the nerve endings of an amputated limb; though the limb is no longer physically attached to the body, the person experiences pain and physical sensation in the space the limb once occupied. Though the body part has been removed, it haunts both the body and the brain. It is through this metaphor that I am interested in investigating the connection between the disembodied and the embodied. The disembodied connects to the embodied through the loss or lack of a bodily form; the embodied, therefore, links t

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Mikolajcik, Deirdre. "VALUES IN THE AIR: COMMUNITY AND CAPITAL CONVERSION IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/85.

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Values in the Air argues that nineteenth-century authors attempted to challenge the individualizing and atomizing effects of the increasingly powerful and abstract investment economy by portraying the necessity of other fields of capital (cultural, social, domestic) to the formation and maintenance of local, knowable communities. I first look at the depiction of a successful integration of diverse capitals embodied in the figure of the male mill owner, wherein the idea of land stewardship is repurposed to include factories. Chapter 2 depicts an encroaching pessimism about tradition’s ability t

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Randolpe, Lyssa. "The new woman and the new science : feminist writing 1880-1900." Thesis, Coventry University, 2001. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/206dbf26-a8d1-ea66-bafb-338445adbefc/1.

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In this thesis I contend that evolutionary scientific discourses were integral to the work of "New Woman" writers of late Victorian literary culture in Britain. In the cultural debates that raged over the new gender politics and their relationship to social and moral values at the fin de siècle, the questions raised about femininity, modernity and the "woman question" were also central to the "new sciences" of sexology, eugenics, psychology and anthropology. This thesis investigates the issue of whether the new sciences offered an enabling set of discourses to New Women through which to produc

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Taylor, Taryne Jade. "Remembering the future, redefining the past: a study of nineteenth-century British feminist utopias." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6302.

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My dissertation maps the "scattered hegemonies" of the British Empire in the nineteenth-century British feminist utopian tradition. Beyond recovering this significant tradition of feminist thought and women's writing, my project considers the way these works both contest and replicate the dominant hegemony of the Victorian period. In the first chapter, "A Feminist Satirical Disutopia, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's New Amazonia," I argue that New Amazoniais a satirical disutopiathat bears witness to the dystopic reality of women's status in nineteenth-century Britain. Through elliptical critique

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Tener, John V. "Exhibiting the Victorians: Melodrama and Modernity in Post Civil War American Show Prints." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149259715322474.

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Crane-Kramer, G. M. M., and Jo Buckberry. "Is the pen mightier than the sword? Exploring urban and rural health in Victorian England and Wales using the Registrar General Reports." Springer, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18356.

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Yes<br>In AD 1836, the General Register Office (GRO) was established to oversee the national system of civil registration in England and Wales, recording all births, deaths and marriages. Additional data regarding population size, division size and patterns of occupation within each division permit urban and rural areas (and those with both urban and rural characteristics, described here as ‘mixed’) to be directly compared to each other. The annual Reports of the Registrar General summarize the collected data, including cause of and age at death, which is of particular value to historical demo

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Hook, Sarah. "Reading the gallery : portraits and texts in the mid- to late nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:87ad5989-055a-4777-9418-5f636afd6f96.

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The Victorians saw more portraits than any generation before them. While the eighteenth century has been named 'the age of portraiture', portraits pervaded nineteenth-century society like never before. With the invention of photography, coupled with technological advancements in low-cost printing methods, the medium in which faces could be recorded was revolutionised, the classes of society that could afford to be immortalised expanded, and the spaces in which portraits were seen proliferated. These spaces included the public gallery, photography studio shop windows, and personal photograph al

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