Dissertations / Theses: 'Spanish literature – 19th century'

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Vizoso, Pedro Jose. "Madrid Modernista: Espacios Urbanos Madrilenos en la Literatura Bohemia del Modernismo Espanol." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195069.

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This study offers an analysis of the interaction between urban spaces and bohemian literature in Madrid around 1900. I argue that bohemianism and bohemian literature are actually part of a very well structured cultural discourse--a discourse of social resistance--and must be studied as such. At the same time, the obvious urban nature of this phenomenon is a deciding aspect of it. In order to know how the bohemian discourse evolved in Madrid from 1850s to 1920s--from Realism to Modernismo--we have to study the core and reciprocal relationship between bohemianism and the city. This issue has not yet been explored within Hispanism, in spite of the fact that it provides a very useful perspective for considering the period as a synthesis of intellectual and artistic matters.In my dissertation I engage the essential aspects of bohemianism in the turn of the twentieth century Spanish literature. I focus on the characterization and use of space in the bohemian discourse of Peninsular Modernismo. My starting point is the description and characterization of such a discourse as it has been constructed, analyzing how it takes form in a variety of different kind of texts. I study the construction and evolution of its "cartographic imaginary" (David Harvey), an image of the city that bohemian literature uses to resist the bourgeois order imposed on Madrid's urban spaces and the capitalistic process that supports it. I argue that bohemianism was taken by the peninsular version of Hispanic Modernismo as its central aesthetic discourse. Consequently, and because of the subaltern and marginal nature of it, Modernismo could never position itself at the central stage of the 1900s Spanish culture.

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DeVirgilis, Megan. "BLOOD DISORDERS: A TRANSATLANTIC STUDY OF THE VAMPIRE AS AN EXPRESSION OF IDEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC TENSIONS IN LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY HISPANIC SHORT FICTION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/532513.

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This dissertation explores vampire logic in Hispanic short fiction of the last decade of the 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century, and is thus a comparative study; not simply between Spanish and Latin American literary production, but also between Hispanic and European literary traditions. As such, this study not only draws attention to how Hispanic authors employed traditional Gothic conventions—and by extension, how Hispanic nations produced “modern” literature—but also to how these authors adapted previous models and therefore deviated from and questioned the European Gothic tradition, and accordingly, established trends and traditions of their own. This study does not pretend to be exhaustive. Even though I mention poetry, plays, and novels from the first appearance of the literary vampire in the mid-18th century through the fin de siglo and the first few decades of the 20th century, I focus on short fiction produced within and shortly thereafter the fin de siglo, as this time period saw a resurgence of the vampire figure on a global scale and the first legitimate appearance in Hispanic letters, being as it coincided with a rise in periodicals and short story production and represented developments and anxieties related to the physical and behavioral sciences, technological advances and urban development, waves of immigration and disease, and war. While Chapter 1 establishes a working theory of the vampire from a historical and materialist perspective, each of the following chapters explores a different trend in Hispanic vampire literature: Chapter 2 looks at how vampire narratives represent political and economic anxieties particular to Spain and Latin America; Chapter 3 studies newly married couples and how vampire logic leads to the death of the wife—and thus the death of the “angel of the house” ideal—therefore challenging ideas surrounding marriage, the family, and the home; lastly, Chapter 4 explores courting couples and how disruptions in the makeup of the public/private divide influenced images of female monstrosity—complex, parodic ones in the Hispanic case. One of the main conclusions this study reaches is that Hispanic authors were indeed producing Gothic images, but that these images deviated from the European Gothic vampire literary tradition and prevailing literary tendencies of the time through aesthetic and narrative experimentation and as a result of particular anxieties related to their histories, developments, and current realities. While Latin America and Spain produced few explicit, Dracula-like vampires, the vampire figures, metaphors, and allegories discussed in the chapters speak to Spain and Latin America’s political, economic, and ideological uncertainties, and as a result, their “place” within the modern global landscape. This dissertation ultimately suggests that Hispanic Gothic representations are unique because they were being produced within peripheral spaces, places considered “non-modern” because of their distinct histories of exploitation and development and their distinct cultural, religious, and racial compositions, therefore shifting perceptions of Otherness and turning the Gothic on its head. The vampire in the Hispanic context, I suggest, is a fusion of different literary currents, such as Romanticism, aesthetic movements, such as Decadence, and modes, such as the Gothic and the Fantastic, and is therefore different in many ways from its predecessors. These texts abound with complex representations that challenge the status quo, question dominant narratives, parody literary formulas, and break with tradition.
Temple University--Theses

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García-Precedo, Juan Manuel. "Intrahistory, regeneration and national identity, past and present : the reflection of Nietzschean Unamuno on Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13792.

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This thesis analyzes the relevance of Miguel de Unamuno’s idea of Spain and its Nietzschean influence in two contemporary authors, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro. My work contributes to a debate that is ever present in literature and politics: what is Spain and what defines Spanish identity. This debate has continued throughout the democratic period and reveals that Spain is still a controversial idea. The Constitution of 1978 might have shaped national identity but Spanish sociopolitical evolution has indeed questioned the idea of Spain emerged in the Transition. From my point of view, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro evoke Unamuno’s ideological inheritance to offer a solution of what has been branded as the age-old problem of Spain. By the end of the nineteenth century, Unamuno introduced his theory of intrahistory in order to contravene the model of nation promoted by the political class during the Restoration. The author considered that this model imposed on society a metaphysical idealization, protected by reason, which distorted its actual national identity. Currently, the works of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro reflect Unamunian intrahistory thus putting an end to this idealization. As seen in the chapters of this thesis, the combined analysis of the works by Pérez-Reverte and Castro reveals the implicit survival in our days of Nietzsche’s influence in Unamuno’s intrahistory. In this sense, they highlight the crucial role of individual subjectivity, work and interaction with their immediate environment, in the characterization of Spanish national identity. In so doing, their works reflect Unamuno’s implementation of Nietzschean theories on metaphysics, the Greek tragedy, the eternal recurrence and the overman. Pérez-Reverte and Castro’s works suggest that the solution to the problem of identity in Spain is to be found in Nietzsche’s influence on Unamuno’s intrahistory.

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Nieto, Alarcón Maria Dolores. "En la trama del lenguaje. Desdoblamiento y repetición en la escritura de Chantal Maillard." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/393858.

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Esta tesis doctoral propone una lectura de la obra de Chantal Maillard desde la perspectiva de la incidencia de los desdoblamientos y las repeticiones en la escritura de la autora. Maillard (Bruselas, 1951) cuenta con una amplia obra que explora la poesía, el ensayo y los diarios. En cualquier género que ensaya, su escritura acusa siempre gestos desdoblados y movimientos repetidos. El estudio de esta particularidad responde a la hipótesis de que estas marcas construyen un universo hipertextual al mismo tiempo que borran la figura del sujeto en la trama del lenguaje. La tesis se divide en tres capítulos, ocupándose cada uno de ellos de los ejemplos más importantes de desdoblamiento y repetición en la escritura maillardiana. En el primer capítulo, se aborda la estructura interna fractal de muchos de los libros de la autora. Maillard suele dividir sus libros en dos partes donde cada una consiste en la traducción a niveles simbólicos distintos de la otra, creando así un juego de espejos, una repetición desencajada o un desdoblamiento desenfocado. En el segundo capítulo, el foco de estudio es el observador, una singular modulación del sujeto que se pliega sobre sí mismo para observar su propio yo como si de un actor se tratara, abriendo la misma distancia estética que las representaciones procuran. Con este desdoblamiento de la voz, Maillard sondea sus vaivenes mentales y traza una estrategia de observación de la conciencia que se convierte, finalmente, en una herramienta de deconstrucción del sujeto. En el tercer capítulo, el análisis está centrado en las reescrituras, un proceso por el que la autora vuelca a poema ciertos pasajes en prosa de sus diarios. Maillard reescribe su propia escritura llevando a cabo modificaciones mínimas que señalan la naturaleza hipertextual y condicionada de su obra y, asimismo, demuestran que las palabras son metáforas, es decir, que adquieren sentido puestas en relación con otras, en la tensión que genera la trama lingüística. El sentido, entonces, surge del contexto. Estos tres casos de desdoblamiento y repetición en la escritura de Chantal Maillard singularizan su obra y la convierten en una de las apuestas más atrevidas y originales de la literatura española actual.
This thesis proposes a reading of Chantal Maillard's literature works from the splitting and repetitions perspective. Maillard (Brussels, 1951) has an extensive work that explores poetry, essays and diaries. In either gender, her writing always accuses splitting gestures and repeated movements. This thesis responds to the hypothesis that splitting and repetitions build a hypertext universe and also delete the subject in the frame of language. This study is divided into three chapters, each one analyzing the most important examples of splitting and repetition in Maillard's work. In the first chapter, I examine the fractal internal structure of many of her books. Maillard's books tend to divide themselves in two parts: each one of them is the translation into different symbolic levels of the other, creating a set of mirrors, a disengaged repetition or duplication focus. In the second chapter, the focus of study is the observer, an odd modulation of the subject that folds back on itself to observe its own self as if it were an actor, opening the same aesthetic distance that representations imply. With this split voice, Maillard probes mental fluctuations and draws an observation strategy of consciousness that becomes a tool of subject deconstruction. In the third chapter, the analysis is focused on rewrites, a process by which the author turns to poem prose passages from her diaries. Maillard rewrites his own writing with little modifications that mark the hypertextual and conditional nature of her work and also show that the words are metaphors; they only have sense in relation with the other words of the linguistic plot. The sense, then, emerges from the context. These three cases of splitting and repetition in Chantal Maillard's writing make her work one of the most daring and original in current Spanish literature.

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Faura, Sánchez Francisco Manuel. "Juan Mayorga y el teatro de la memoria en el contexto social y literario de comienzos de milenio." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668078.

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El estudio de las nuevas tendencias dramatúrgicas contemporáneas no se encuentra alejado de todo lo político y social que está gestándose en la sociedad occidental actual. Los cambios producidos en este comienzo de milenio debido, en gran parte, a las luchas de poder entre lo nuevo y lo tradicional, han originado unas luchas entre todos los ciudadanos que están más o menos vinculados al mundo de la cultura. Por este motivo, este estudio muestra todos esos cambios a través de una mirada crítica a la sociedad, no por el mero hecho de mostrarse escéptico con toda la realidad que rodea a esta época, sino por tratar de una manera dura y rigurosa los tópicos que rodean a los nuevos creadores. Para concretar estas nuevas tendencias en un solo nombre y a raíz de lo expuesto a lo largo del trabajo, la aproximación a su dramaturgia y los ensayos académicos, Juan Mayorga ha estudiado en su creación una visión crítica y filosófica de la sociedad, así como una desconfianza a las palabras y verdades establecidas a lo largo de la tradición. Juan Mayorga se ha convertido en un autor atrayente para los académicos por su lenguaje dramático y su puesta en escena. Su trabajo como dramaturgo y su reciente inclusión en la Real Academia Española le confieren un mérito lingüístico y filosófico que impregna todo su trabajo como dramaturgo. Los espectadores que asisten a sus eventos teatrales han de entrar en el juego político-teatral que él mismo propone.
The study of the new contemporary dramaturgical tendencies is not far from everything political and social which occurs in the western society. The changes produced in this beginning of the millennium due, in large part, to the clash of cultures between the new and the traditional, have led to struggles among all citizens who are linked to the culture world. For this reason, this study shows all these changes through a critical look at society, not just keeping skeptical of all this reality what surround this time, but treating in a extensive and rigorous way the topics that wraps up the new creators. To concretize these new tendencies in a single name and following the exposition throughout the work, the approach to his dramaturgy and the academic essays, Juan Mayorga has studied in his creation a critical and philosophical point of view of the society, as well as a distrust to the words and truths established throughout the tradition. Juan Mayorga has become an attractive author for academics because of his dramatic language and his staging. His work as a playwright and his recent inclusion in the Royal Spanish Academy give him a linguistic and philosophical merit that spreads out all his playwright work. The spectators who attend their theatrical events have to enter into the political-theatrical game that he proposes.

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Saklıca, Ayşegül. "Análisis comparativo de dos historias de amor: los amantes de Teruel y Ferhat i̇le Şi̇ri̇n de la tradicion oral a la literatura." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/382473.

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La presente tesis doctoral es un estudio comparativo de dos leyendas de distintas culturas: «Los Amantes de Teruel» de España y «Ferhat ile Şirin» de Turquía. Es el primer estudio que contiene el análisis de una leyenda española con un relato turco desde un punto de vista comparativo utilizando una bibliografía amplia de los importantes estudiosos de España, Turquía y de todo el mundo. El estudio consta de dos partes. La primera parte contiene el análisis de los dos relatos en la tradición oral. En el primer capítulo se analiza la distinción entre los géneros folclóricos que pertenecen las dos historias: la leyenda y halk hikayesi. En el segundo capítulo se centran en los orígenes de «Los Amantes de Teruel» y su evolución en la cultura oral del país, analizando la estructura y los motivos folclóricos que contiene el primer testimonio oral del relato en España, el papel escrito de letra antigua de Yagüe de Salas. En el tercer capítulo se dedica a los orígenes del relato turco y al análisis comparativo de sus cinco versiones en la tradición oral turca teniendo en cuenta la estructura que se proporciona por el investigador turco del folclore, Pertev Naili Boratav y los motivos folclóricos de Antti Aarne. En el último capítulo de la primera parte se hace un análisis comparativo de la estructura y los motivos folclóricos de los primeros testimonios de las historias española y turca. La segunda parte consta de sus versiones más exitosos en la literatura de dos países: Los amantes de Teruel de Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch y Ferhat ile Şirin de Nazım Hikmet. En el primer capítulo se dedica a la vida y la época de Hartzenbusch y la comparación de las dos versiones de la obra; una escrita en 1839, el primer manuscrito y la otra de 1849. Así se ve tanto la evolución de la leyenda en la literatura y también la evolución del drama y el dramaturgo en el siglo XIX. En el segundo capítulo consta de la vida y época de Nazım Hikmet que cultiva su obra dentro del movimiento realismo social y se considera como uno de los autores de la literatura turca más conocidos mundialmente. Para hacer el análisis, escogimos la primera publicación de Ferhat ile Şirin y lo comparamos con su versión en castellano Leyenda de amor, que se traduce bajo el dominio del mismo autor. Así se ven los cambios a la hora de traducir la obra a otro idioma. Tambien se ven la evolución de la leyenda dentro de la literatura.
This present thesis contains a comparative study of two legends of different cultures: "The Lovers of Teruel" in Spain and "Ferhat and Şirin" in Turkey. It is the first study that elaborates the analysis of a Spanish legend with a Turkish story from a comparative point of view using a large bibliography of leading scholars from Spain, Turkey and the entire world. The study consists of two parts. The first part contains the analysis of the two stories in the oral tradition. In the first chapter analyses the diferences between the folk genders that belong two stories: the legend and halk hikayesi. The second chapter focuses on the origins of "The Lovers of Teruel" and its evolution in the oral culture of the country, analyzing the structure and folk motifs taht contains the first oral testimony of the story in Spain taht is written by notarial Yagüe de Salas. The third chapter is dedicated to the origins of the Turkish story and the comparative analysis of the structure of Pertev Naili Boratav and folk motifs of Antti Aarne of the five versions in Turkish oral tradition. The last chapter contains the comparative analysis of the structure and the folk motifs of the first testimonies of the Spanish and Turkish stories. The second part consists of its most successful versions in the literature of two countries: The Lovers of Teruel of Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch and Ferhat ile Şirin of Nazım Hikmet. The first chapter is dedicated to the life and the century of Hartzenbusch and the comparison of the two versions of the book; one is written in 1839, the first manuscript and the other in 1849. Wıth thıs study we see the evolution of the legend in literature and also the evolution of the drama in the 19th century. The second chapter consists of the life and era of Nazım Hikmet who cultivated his work within the social realism movement and is regarded as one of the authors of Turkish literature more known ın world. We chose the first publication of Ferhat ile Şirin and compare it with the version in Spanish Legend of Love, translated under the control of the same author. So we compare the diferences between the original text and the translation one and also the evolution of the legend in literature.

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Hanes, Stacie L. "The sense and sensibility of the 19th century fantastic." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618887.

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While studies of fantastic literature have often focused on their structural and genre characteristics, less attention has been paid to the manner in which they address social issues and concerns. Drawing on theoretical, taxonomic, and historical approaches, this study argues that 19th-century England represented a key period of transformation during which fantastic literature evolved away from its folkloristic, mythic, and satirical origins and toward the modern genres of science fiction, feminist fantasy, and literary horror.

The thesis examines the subversive and transformative function of the fantastic in nineteenth-century British literature, particularly how the novel Frankenstein (1831), the poem “Goblin Market” (1862), and the novel Dracula (1897) make deliberate uses of the materials of fantastic literature to engage in social and cultural commentary on key issues of their time, and by so doing to mark a significant transformation in the way fantastic materials can be used in narrative.

Frankenstein took the materials of the Gothic and effectively transformed them into science fiction, not only through its exploration of the morality of scientific research, but more crucially through its critique of systems of education and the nature of learning. "Goblin Market " transformed the materials of fairy tales into a morally complex critique of gender relations and the importance of women's agency, which paved the way for an entire tradition of such redactions among later feminist writers. Dracula draws on cruder antecedents of vampire tales and the novel of sensation to create the first modern literary horror novel, while addressing key emerging anxieties of nationalism and personal identity.

Although historical connections are drawn between these three key works, written at different points during the nineteenth century, it does not argue that they constitute a single identifiable movement, but rather that each provided a template for how later writers might adapt fantastic materials to more complex literary, social, and didactic ends, and thus provided a groundwork for the more complex modern uses of the fantastic as a legitimate resource for writers concerned with not only sensation, but significant cultural and social concerns.

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Heath, Veronica. "Tradition and innovation : Proust and 19th century English literature." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327883.

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Szabo, Anna Marieke. "19th century girls' literature stories of empowerment or limitation? /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/456299126/viewonline.

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Zaera, Isabel María. "Mujeres Sumisas, Mujeres Transgresoras en el Siglo XIX Español: una Aproximación a la Obra de Francisca Navarro y Joaquina García Balmaseda." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849614/.

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This research discusses the changing role of women in Spanish society during the nineteenth century through the works of Francisca Navarro and Joaquina Garcia Balmaseda. The thesis shows the break with the traditional image of the "angel del hogar" and the gradual incorporation of the social changes affecting women which were reflected in the female protagonists of the comedies written by such playwrights. By reading theoretical texts of the emerging feminist theory and through analysis of the main female characters, this study examines the changes regarding the established canon and its own evolution within the nineteenth century, from the works of a pioneer like Francisca Navarro in the first third of the century to those of Joaquina Gracia Balmaseda towards the end of it.

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Ben-Sira, Tallya. "Representation of motherhood in 19th and 20th century texts." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262312.

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Martin, Michael Sean. "Imaginative Thanatopsis: Death and the 19th-Century American Subject." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/41295.

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In my dissertation, I intend to focus on the way that supernaturalism was produced and disseminated as a cultural category in 19th-century American fiction and non-fiction. In particular, my argument will be that 19th-century authors incorporated supernaturalism in their work to a large degree because of changing death practices at the time, ranging from the use of embalming to shifts in accepted mourning rituals to the ability to record the voices of the dead, and that these supernatural narratives are coded ways for these authors to rethink and grapple with the complexities of these shifting practices. Using Poe's "A Tale of Ragged Mountains" (1844) and Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Alcott's Little Women (1868), Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables (1851), Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Brockden Brown's Weiland (1798), Phelps' short fiction, Shaker religious writings, and other texts, I will argue that 19th-century narration, instead of being merely aligned with an emerging public sphere and the development of oratory, relied heavily on thanatoptic or deceased narrators, the successive movement of the 18th-century British graveyard poets. For writers who focused on mesmerism and mesmerized subjects, the supernatural became a vehicle for creating a type of "negative freedom," or coded, limitless space from which writers such as Margaret Fuller and Harriet Martineau could imagine their own death and do so without being scandalous. The 19th-century Shaker "visitations," whereby spirits of the dead were purported to speak through certain Shaker religionists, present a unique supernatural phenomenon, since this discrete culture also engaged with coded ways for rethinking death practices and rituals through their supernatural narratives. Meanwhile, such shifting cultural practices associated with death and its rituals also lead, I will argue, to the development of a new literary trope: the disembodied child narrator, as used first in Brockden Brown's novel and then in Melville's fiction, for example. Finally, I will finish my dissertation with a chapter that, while also considering how thanatoptic narrative is used in literary supernaturalism, will focus more on spaces, mazes, and, to use Benjamin's term in The Arcades Project (tran. 1999), arcades that marked 19th-century culture and architecture and how this change in space - and subsequent thanatoptic geography in 19th-century fiction - was at least partially correlated to shifting death practices. I see this project as contributing to 19th-century American scholarship on death practices and literature, including those by Ann Douglas, Karen Sanchez-Eppler and Russ Castronovo, but doing so by arguing that the literary mechanism of supernaturalism and the gothic acted as categories or vehicles for rethinking and reconsidering actual death practices, funeral rituals, and related haunted technology (recordings, daguerreotypes) at the time.
Temple University--Theses

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Bauer, Petra. "The reception of E.T.A. Hoffmann in 19th century Britain." Thesis, Keele University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301193.

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Bouagada, Habib. "Orientalism in translation: The one thousand and one nights in 18th century France and 19th century England." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26857.

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The objective of this study is to show how translation contributes to the "Orientalist" project and to the past and present knowledge of the Orient as it has been shaped by different disciplines such as anthropology, history and literature. In order to demonstrate this, I have decided to compare the Arabic text Alf Leyla wa Leyla (The One Thousand and One Nights) with the French translation by Antoine Galland (1704-1706) and the English translation by Sir Richard Burton (1885). According to Edward Said, the Orientalist project or Orientalism is mainly a French and British cultural enterprise that has produced a wide-ranging wealth of knowledge about an Orient that has been represented as an undifferenciated entity with despotism, splendour, cruelty, or even sensuality being its main attributes. I have chosen these translations because they come from places with a long Orientalist tradition. In 18th century France, the age of the Belles infideles, Galland is a man of the Enlightenment who appears to be a precursor of Orientalism as embodied in Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and Votaire's zadig. A century later, Burton's The Arabian Nights, backed by a deep knowledge of Islam, is published. Burton is an official in the service of the British Empire---an empire that takes pride in having the highest number of Muslim subjects. The evolution of Alf Leyla wa Leyla and its translations is followed by an analysis of the shifts applied to the representations of Oriental elements found in it (social and religious practices). These shifts as well as the annotations that refer to Arabo-Islamic culture are related to Galland and Burton's intellectual development and to the socio-historical context of their respective translations.

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Fung, Kit-ting. "Decolonizing fictions : the subversion of 19th century realist fiction /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23473010.

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Roach, Katherine. "Between magic and reason : science in 19th century popular fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13687/.

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The scientist in fiction is much maligned. The mad, bad scientist has framed much of the debate about literary representations of science and with good reason since he is a towering icon of popular culture. Yet, I will propose that an equally preeminent figure provides an alternative model of science in fiction. This is the detective. Links between developing scientific disciplines and the emerging genre of detective fiction have been well described to date. Yet the history of the detective as scientific icon has not been told, particularly not as it engages with the history of the mad scientist. These two paragons of modem culture developed from a groundswell of gothic narrative and imagery that emerged in the late 18th century and continued to entertain and challenge audiences throughout the 19th century, as they still do to this day. My aim is to recover some of the complexity of past public images of science, and the understandings that such icons relate to, as they develop and meander through a variety of 19th century fictions. In a series of time slices I relate these figures, their iconography and narratives, to contemporary debates about science and follow through the elements that each generation retains, remoulds and claims for their own time. Ultimately, I hope to show that an panalysis of the mad scientist alongside other fictional scientific figures provides a far more nuanced picture of potential meanings, than the negative and fearful response that he is often assumed to represent. This is significant because both these icons are current in popular culture today and as such are part and parcel of the present pool of cultural resources that provides tools for thinking about science and society in the 21st century.

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Baldridge, Kalyn Rochelle. "L'auguste Autrichienne| Representations of Marieantoinette in 19th Century French Literature and History." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10629008.

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Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, or as she is most well-known, Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) spent her entire life under the watchful eye of many. Fashioned from birth as an Austrian aristocrat, she was transported to France at age fourteen to meet and marry the future king of France. From the onset of her arrival, French writers made attempts to capture what they observed. However, personal bias, political leanings, and accepted rumor led them to do more than record what they saw. Rather than simply narrate a scene, these early witnesses of Marie-Antoinette became the interpreters of her thoughts, motives and feelings. As these interpretations grew, they became widely accepted as truth and eventually became the agents leading to Marie-Antoinette’s demise, as previous biographers and historians of Marie-Antoinette have amply discussed.

In this dissertation I suggest going beyond an analysis of the literature that led to Marie-Antoinette’s death, and examining the numerous times that Marie-Antoinette’s story was reinterpreted during the century after her death. I will examine nineteenth-century texts from several different authors and genres, including: the historical biographies of Christophe de Montjoye, Lafont d’Aussonne, Alcide de Beauchesne, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, and Horace de Viel-Castel; the eye-witness testimonies of Jean-Baptist Cléry, Henriette Campan, and Rosalie Lamorlière; the historical fiction of Elisabeth Guénard Brossin de Méré and Alexandre Dumas; and finally the archival compilations of Emile Campardon and Gaston Lenotre. I will examine each author’s choice of genre, as well as how contemporary trends in literature, historical studies and even politics influenced their interpretation of Marie-Antoinette.

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Neal, Allison Jayne. "(Neo-)Victorian impersonations : 19th century transvestism in contemporary literature and culture." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7208.

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Kent, Neil. "Light and nature in late 19th century nordic art and literature /." Uppsala : Universitätet, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35408280q.

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Wilson, Rachelle. "Historical Memory and Ethics in Spanish Narrative." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062813/.

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This study traces the current status of Spanish ethics as seen through the optics of historical memory. Starting from the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the thesis relates contemporary themes to their proposed origin throughout three additional distinctive eras of the 20th and 21st century in Spain: 1982-1996 (Socialist Spain), 1997-2010 (Post-modern Spain), and 2011-present (current Spain). Spanish narratives ranging from Los Abel by Matute, La magnitud de la tragedia by Monzó, "Fidelidad" of Ha dejado de llover by Barba and Las fosas de Franco by Silva are contextualized through their ethical architecture, in accordance with their socio-political context, and relationship to past historical traumas. This work proposes that the themes of anticlericalism, the pursuit of social equality, anti bureaucracy, and political distrust are trends culminating from Kohlberg's third level of morality. The thesis aims to be an exposition and legitimization of different ethical schemas that might otherwise be polarized as wrong and inferior by others.

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Schrag, Mitzi. "Rei(g)ning mediums : spiritualism and social controls in 19th-century American literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9321.

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Garske, Kevin T. "Society and Suffering: City as Character in 19th Century Realism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1219.

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The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between the city and the individual in literature, thereby acknowledging the anthropomorphic qualities we endow with our cities and in turn, how these qualities consolidate into the trope of the city character. We build this understanding by discussing the social, moral, political, literary, etc. associations of the city, and how these lend themselves to expressions of human energy or reflections of human character. These understandings are then given form through close readings of Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

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Hoekstra, Joshua M. "iTEXTS: TECHXTUAL POETICS, AUTHORSHIP AND RE-WREADERS IN 21^ST-CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/37.

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In 2007, Nuria Azancot published an article in the magazine El Cultural in which she identified a burgeoning group of Spanish writers that she referred to as the “Nocilla Generation.” The catalyst behind the article was a literary reunion that took place weeks before in Seville and brought together authors from all parts of Spain to talk about the status and future of writing. She described them as “transgressors” and “bloggers” who hybridized literary genres and held a revolutionary approach to the literary that was clearly marked by the Internet. Numerous articles and dissertations have since highlighted the impact that technology has had on the literature of this generation and how the Internet has allowed these authors a very active presence on social media. Few of these critical examinations have engaged in close textual analyses of the works of this so-called “Nocilla Generation” of writers. This dissertation engages with these issues for the purpose of exploring three main points. First, it seeks to identify and examine the role of the Internet on the literary production of Agustín Fernández Mallo, Alberto Olmos and Vicente Luis Mora. Second, it looks at the way that the internetization of literature implicitly undermines the traditional understanding of authorship. Third, the project suggests that the concept of an author as the source of an original creation should be replaced with a “re-wreader” (a blend of reader and writer infused with the repetitive nature of the prefix “re.”). The main thesis of this dissertation is that the interneticized text gives rise to a new understanding of authorship that is best captured in the figure of a re-wreader writing re-wreaderly texts that echo the ideas of the readerly and writerly from Barthes. The result: a textual space at once strange yet familiar in which a search for meaning, textual stability or origins gives itself over to the pleasure of the search, a search for something or nothing, a search for the search, a search in which all the material of the world (printed and digital) is there to be used and repackaged into a new literary creation.

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Newman, Danny Lawrence. "19th-century Tunisian travel literature on Europe : vistas of a new world." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401764.

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Mills, Andrew Joseph. "Escaping satisfaktion dueling violence and the German literary canon of the long 19th century /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378372.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3870. Adviser: William Rasch.

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Hanes, Stacie L. "The Sense and Sensibility of The 19th-Century Fantastic." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1382975086.

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Abraham, Adam. "Spurious Victorians : imitation and the nineteenth-century novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cbf24b85-cc63-42be-ba84-2f065942c4d8.

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In 'A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism', Jerome J. McGann writes, '[A]n author's work possesses autonomy only when it remains an unheard melody'. For the published and successful writer in the nineteenth century, such autonomy was often unattainable. Publications such as The Pickwick Papers inspired an array of opportunistic successors, including stage plays, unauthorized sequels, jest books, song books, and shilling and penny imitations. Despite the proliferation, this strain of writing is rarely studied. This thesis recovers ephemeral, scurrilous texts, often anonymous or pseudonymous, and reads them in the context of their canonical sources. Retrieving bibliographical environments, it demonstrates how plagiaristic, parodic, and willfully unoriginal works impacted on the careers of three novelists: Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton, and George Eliot. The thesis argues that formal distinctions among modes of Victorian writing - criticism, parody, and plagiarism - often blur. Further, it argues that our understanding of a particular novelist's work must be broadened to include sequels, spinoffs, and imitations: to know a particular author means to know the spurious and oftentimes bad (morally or aesthetically) works that the author inspired. The Spurious Victorians of the title form something of countercanon to the 'major' writers of the period. Thomas Peckett Prest, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, and Joseph Liggins, among many others, informed and influenced the literary history that has in turn denied them admission. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote, 'If only men of genius were to write, Lord help us! how many books would there be?' Of course, Victorian print culture found room for the genius and the subgenius, Boz as well as Bos. 'Spurious Victorians' recovers works that have been lost from view in order to better understand the process by which an individual authorial voice emerged amid an echo chamber of competing, imitative voices.

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Pieri, Giuliana. "The influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism on 19th-century Italian art and literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313182.

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Jones, D. Michael. "The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/1476662282/.

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From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male: devoted husband, sexual revolutionary and weaponized servant of the state. His silhouette can be traced through the works of authors like Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. More than a literary genealogy, this history of the Byronic hero and his heirs follows the changes that masculinity has undergone in response to industrial upheaval, the rise of the middle class and the demands of global competition, from the Victorian period through the early 20th century.
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Hines, Chad Allen. "Evolutionary landscapes: adaptation, selection, and mutation in 19th century literary ecologies." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/514.

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How can a literary theorist account for unselected texts and narratives, and measure the importance of voices no longer audible to readers today? The following dissertation uses various, and variously successful 19th century literary texts as a point of departure for considering the complex forces affecting the fragment of texts selected over time from within a wider field of anonymous and unwritten narratives. Bridging literary theory and Darwinian science, "Evolutionary Landscapes" argues that concepts of mutation, replication and selection can provide a framework for thinking about how narratives and genre developed in the 19th century United States. Current attempts to bring biological insights directly into literary study through evolutionary psychology or cognitive Darwinism ignore the complex systems, including cultural and market forces, that might have been used to predict a given text's chances for longer-term survival. The figure I choose to represent these economic, unwritten, and cultural influences on literary texts is the "adaptive landscape" developed by the geneticist Sewall Wright, and recently adapted by the evolutionary theorist Michael Ruse. The relationships between texts and ecologies fore-grounded in the following chapters, even when dealing with individual authors, necessitates looking at literature from the point of view of the random mutation and subsequent selection of texts in the face of a collectively determined ecology of formal expectations. My approach to the evolution of literature builds on the work of the literary critic Franco Moretti and the philosopher Daniel Dennett, although a turn to U.S. rather than British fiction casts a different light on literary evolution than that described yet by Moretti, and deals more specifically with questions of literary and cultural history than either Dennett's philosophy of memetics or Carroll's socio-biologically inflected Literary Darwinism alone would allow. The 19th century literary ecology to which the fictions of Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Edward Bellamy and Mary Wilkins Freeman were well or poorly adapted can be imagined as a kind of fitness landscape where literary publications are drawn towards the peaks climbed by previous writers, representing conventions or formula that proven successful in the past. A gradualist focus on textual silence and extinction within literary evolution, along with evolutionary and ecological theory, can provide abstract models to make visible the complex ecology of oral, cultural, written, printed and reprinted information that constitutes the "soft tissues" always missing from the archival past.

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Niemeier, Kristie Bulleit. "DUELING, HONOR AND SENSIBILITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH SENTIMENTAL COMEDIES." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/12.

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This dissertation explores the representation of dueling and honor in five theatrical works in order to answer one central question: How does the Golden Age concept of honor transform in the age of Enlightenment? This question may be broken down into specific inquiries, such as: 1) How is honor filtered through sentiment? 2) How did eighteenth-century ilustrados use theater to attempt to resolve the conflict between using violence to defend one’s honor and the Enlightenment ideal of avoiding excess? and 3) How did honor affect the private citizen and his relationship to the state in plays? During the eighteenth century, the age of sensibility rewrote the duel, transforming it from a ritual connected with the aristocracy into an act tied to individual, often middle-class lives. This project begins with an early play by José de Cañizares, Por acrisolar su honor (1711) and then examines sentimental comedies published and performed toward the end of the century: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’ El delincuente honrado (1773), Luciano Francisco Comella’s La Jacoba (1789), Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor’s El vinatero de Madrid (1784) and Gaspar Zavala y Zamora’s El amante generoso (1791). Sentimental comedies use sensibility to focus on individuals’ honor conflicts. An analysis of the representation of dueling offers a glimpse of the complex intermingling of multiple definitions of Spanish culture, where neither a lone enlightened model nor an identity based primarily on Spain’s Baroque past prevails. While sentimental comedies present conclusions that ostensibly exalt honor as virtue and rely on a belief in humanity’s goodness to resolve their conflicts, their representations of dueling point to a tense coexistence of multiple definitions of Spanish identity in the eighteenth century. Virtue is never enough to override the accusation that someone is a coward for not accepting a dueling challenge. The inclusion of extra elements that cater to social prejudices of the time also undermines the notion of honor-as-virtue. The contradictions revealed by sympathetic representations of dueling may point to the failure of sensibility as a cohesive model for resolving dramatic conflicts in a society with such diverse definitions of honor and citizenship.

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Gil, Lydia Mariana. "From the book to the desert : an examination of twentieth-century Jewish writing in Spanish America /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Schuman, Samuel A. "Representation, Narrative, and “Truth”: Literary and Historical Epistemology in 19th-Century France." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1621948796558803.

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Downing, Lisa Michelle. "Desire and immobility : situating necrophilia in nineteenth-century French literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ccbb5b9e-58da-4d36-901b-bd71112f3c05.

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White, Claire. "Work and leisure in late nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610774.

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Shank, Ashley C. "Composers as Storytellers: The Inextricable Link Between Literature and Music in 19th Century Russia." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1290275047.

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Wilkinson, Myler 1953. "The dark mirror : American literary response to Russia, 1860-1917." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=70290.

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This thesis is an intercultural and intertextual study of the ways in which an American literary identity has emerged out of an intense imaginative and political dialogue with Russian culture. Early portions of this study trace the historical connections which have drawn American writers into the orbit of Russian literature and culture during the period, 1860-1917. A theoretical chapter attempts to explain the intensity of this dialogue on several related levels: the figural relationship between two literatures which constantly transform each other; the psychic experience of an otherness between individuals and cultures which leads to provisional patterns of literary identity; and the transformation of a purely literary dialogue into the realm of social praxis. The second half of the thesis examines the careers of three major American writers--Henry James, Willa Carter, and Sherwood Anderson--as each reads the figures of Russian literature against a native American tradition, and in the process incorporates this "other" literature into that tradition. A concluding chapter initiates a discussion of the ways in which literary influence is also bound up with the dialogue of politics and power.

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Possehl, Suzanne René. "A women's journal, or, The birth of a Cosmo girl in 19th-century Russia /." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20175.

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This thesis examines the role nineteenth-century women's literary journals, specifically Ladies' Journal (1823--1833), played in the development of Russian literature. The longest-lived and most-circulated of the pre-Soviet women's literary journals, Ladies' Journal was well-positioned to have contributed to the on-going formation of a national literature through its influence on the Russian woman writer and reader. Ladies' Journal served as a forum for new Russian women writers and translators. It also promoted the discussion of women's issues. However, Ladies' Journal had a contradictory editorial policy concerning women and literature. While advocating women stake their own ground as writers, Ladies' Journal modeled the type of writer it wanted. The ideal writer was the inspiration of male poets and did not differ from the Romantic heroine or the ideal Romantic woman. This was a gesture in the spirit of the time, but it had consequences for Russian literature and for the poetics and politics of Russian women's journals to come.

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Sunbul, Cicek. "Nineteenth-century Women." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612905/index.pdf.

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This thesis proposes to demonstrate the representation of women in the 19th-century fiction through an analysis of the characters in George Eliot&rsquo
s Middlemarch and Thomas Hardy&rsquo
s The Return of the Native and Tess of the D&rsquo
Urbervilles. The study starts with an outline of the intellectual and industrial transformations shaping women&rsquo
s position in the 19th century in addition to the already existing prejudices about men&rsquo
s and women&rsquo
s roles in the society. The decision of marriage and its consequences are placed earlier in these novels, which helps to lay bare the women&rsquo
s predicaments and the authors&rsquo
treatment of the female characters better. Therefore, because of marriage&rsquo
s centrality to the novels as a theme, the analysis focuses on the female subordination with its educational, vocational and social extensions, the women&rsquo
s expectations from marriage, their disappointments, and their differing responses respectively. Finally, the analogous and different aspects of the attitudes of the two writers are discussed as regards their portrayal of the characters and the endings they create for the women in their novels.

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O'Hagan, Ciara Patricia. "Diatribe and defence : the patriotic manipulation of America in eightenth-century Spanish enlightenment literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486182.

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This thesis contributes to recent reassessments of Spanish Enlightenment literature through a detailed examination of the image of America that emerges in a diverse group of fictional and non-fictional texts, principally from the second half of the. eighteenth century, which range from the eighteenth-century Spanish novel to neoclassical epic poetry; from the apologetic accounts of prominent Jesuits to travel literature and satire. By adopting New World reading strategies and analysing the extent to which the texts examined participate in colonial, imperial and abolitionist discourses of Enlightenment Europe, as well as the nature of the literary representation of America that emerges in the fictional texts studied, it aims to counter the marked critical neglect of the topos of America in eighteenth-century Spanish literature. It is argued that no understanding of Spain's treatment of America is complete without recognition of the Eurocentricism that underpins much of it. Moreover, it is demonstrated that representations of America in Enlightenment Spain were inextricably linked to the political, economic and cultural discourses of eighteenth-century Europe. To that end, Chapter One analyses Spain's economic preoccupation with America as a mercantilist entity. Chapter Two reveals that the demands of capital detailed in Chapter One jostled with the ideological and humanitarian debates that were taking place in Enlightenment Europe over the legitimacy of the American conquest and the immorality of slavery. While it is revealed that Spain largely ignored such altruistic questions of empire, she did not ignore the disparaging comments that were being made elsewhere in Europe regarding her conduct in the New World. Indeed, such was Spain's indignation in the face of European calumny that the enlightened reforms put forward by Spain's Bourbon ministers were replaced by the obsessive need of Spanish intellectuals to first of all defend Spain. It is the precise nature of this response, which it is shown switches arbitrarily between diatribe and defence, that is the focus of the detailed examination undertaken of specific texts in subsequent chapters of this thesis.

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King, Laurel Allison. "God's in his lab and all's right with the world : depictions of science in 19th century American literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9512.

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Zhang, Jianqiao, and 張劍喬. "Marginalized women under the spotlight : Third Republic (1870-1940) schoolmistresses portrayed in French literature." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211121.

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Juxtaposing historical evidence with fiction, this thesis probes into the social marginalization of Third Republic schoolmistresses reflected in literary stereotypes. Despite their manifold representation in novels, the general stereotype is still predominant: a displeasing teacher in misery. Mostly secluded in provincial posts, they suffered not only from material indigence and burdensome teaching, but also from the hostility projected from their surroundings. Under these unfavorable circumstances, many took refuge in professional devotion and abnegation. However, they sometimes developed an ideal of heroism and self-sacrifice, which were comparable to nuns’ religious credos. Women teachers’ political portrait is often left out of literary representation. Because they could not even defend themselves and have their interests protected by superiors, political engagement would mean little to their secluded lives. Yet in the masculine Republic, women educators shouldered a political task of forming girls as qualified mothers and companions who embraced republican values. The Republic’s reinvention of the secular faith and the lay School manifested its inheritance of the Catholic legacy it strived to eradicate, best demonstrated by its imitation of a laicized religious discourse, epitomized in literature by institutrices’ spirit of martyrdom. Through their professional efforts, they came into the public sight and increased their political impact. With their pacifist ideal, militant teachers safeguarded the Republic as well as republican schooling. Above all, as a result of their continuous struggles, they shattered the image of domestic women by proving themselves to be independent and public, shaping the New Woman “prototypes” of the new century. The “vices” of new career women were evident, for their new professional identity contravened conventional norms of gender roles. It was the teaching career that gave them an anomalous sexual experience, by depriving them of their womanly roles as wives and mothers. The image of the embittered “vieille fille” thus became a target for demonization, which was presumably a cultural motive behind Colette’s writings. She arguably employed the image of schoolmistress as a vehicle for exposing a public polemic between traditional and modern views on gender roles, in the context of major social transformations especially in thought. Schoolmistresses are a metonymy of French republicanism: a republican experiment which conflicted with women’s traditional functions and undermined the inveterate masculinist order. Third Republic schoolmistresses underwent a metamorphosis from domestic to public as they acquired new social roles. While institutrice literature shares profound bonds with autobiographical accounts, many testimonies also suggest an inclination of being attached to and even governed by novels. Despite the fact that literature is fabricated upon a universe of stereotypes, many teachers spontaneously chose fictional texts as the representative of their professional voice, making these “republican mythologies” a collective autobiography which articulated institutrices’ individual career pathos to a broader audience.
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Modern Languages and Cultures
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Mayo, James Oliver. "Images of Corsica in France: Travel Memoirs and 19th Century Writers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1764.

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Considered an integral part of Metropolitan France, the island of Corsica is situated nonetheless on the very periphery of the modern state that claims it. Actually situated geographically closer to Italy than to any part of France, its culture and its people are likewise more closely related to their Italians neighbors than to the rest of what Corsicans term "Continental France." Following the acquisition of Corsica, both government officials and bourgeois travelers would seek to visit the island, often recording their findings and publishing these memoirs for others to know of their travels. This concept of travel memoirs, specifically those regarding Corsica, had already been a fairly common practice among the British, as they had often placed interest in the island itself. From this group of French and British travel memoirs would come the writings of James Boswell, P. P. Pompéi, and the Baron de Beaumont, among others. Corsica becomes a place of unique setting for novels and short stories throughout the century, with tales of banditry, vendetta, and violence from the island. For those authors seeking to place their stories in Corsica, inspiration was drawn from the very travel memoirs they had read regarding the island, although often they chose to ignore them in favor of stereotypes. I have chosen three specific 19th century authors in relation to the images created by the travel memoirs of Corsica: Prosper Mérimée, Honoré de Balzac, and Guy de Maupassant. The purpose behind each author's use of the images of Corsica was very different and shows different ways that these images were used. Mérimée directly used Corsica to question the triumph of the civilized over the uncivilized, Balzac used Corsica to represent France itself, and Maupassant used Corsica to show that "reality" is really nothing more than a personal illusion. Though when publishing their travel memoirs the authors might not have expected much to come of them, they have actually influence an entire century of writers, and possibly an entire nation, with their images of Corsica.

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Keeling, Charles Paul. "Cuvier in context : literature and science in the long nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66734/.

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This study investigates the role and significance of Cuvier's science, its knowledge and practice, in British science and literature in the first half of the nineteenth century. It asks what the current account of science or grand science narrative is, and how voicing Cuvier changes that account. The field of literature and science studies has seen healthy debate between literary critics and historians of science representing a combination of differing critical approaches. This study asks whether we can continue work to synthesise historicist and formalist approaches, and suggests using a third narrative based approach to achieve a full complement of methodological tools. This in turn should provide more nuanced critical readings. In certain novels it has allowed me to shift the focus on literature and science enquiry to different decades. This study looks for “science stories” from scientific discourses in The Last Man, The Mill on the Floss and Bleak House. I have demonstrated the centrality of Cuvier to British science in the first half of the nineteenth century and that science's role as a model for the natural and human world, as well as informing the unstable systems of narrative characteristic of the novel genre and form. Cuvier's Essay initiated a lasting period of scientific centrality and legitimacy in British science and representation in British novels. His law of correlations applied to geology made his science both an important narrative and analogous to the empirical truth-seeking mode of the novel. The paleontological process becomes both a model for organic unity in Victorian fiction and a mode of narrative production. Cuvier's science and its discourse both produce and are reproduced in nineteenth century novels.

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Lantz, Lori Ann. "Widerstand/Gegenstand 19th-century "living statues" in literature in German and the emergence of cinematic spectatorship and of psychoanalysis /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=828451151&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Bending, Lucy. "The representation of bodily pain in late nineteenth-century English culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:751a567b-8260-4dfc-8e9e-904b7e1da20f.

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This dissertation presents a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late Victorian writing, placing literary texts alongside sermons, medical textbooks and campaigning leaflets, in order to suggest a pattern of representation and evasion to be perceived throughout the different texts assembled. In the first two chapters I establish the cultural and historical background to physical suffering in the late nineteenth century, as the Christian paradigm for suffering (the subject of the first chapter) lost its pre-eminance to that of medicine (Chapter Two). The next two chapters are concerned with the problem of the expressibility of pain. In Chapter Three I argue that despite popular belief, voiced most clearly by Virginia Woolf, that 'there is no language for pain', sufferers find language that is both metaphorical and directly referential to express their bodily suffering. Chapter Four takes up the cultural restrictions placed on the expression of pain, using the acrimonious debate over vivisection that arose at the end of the century. Bringing together the prolific texts of both vivisectionists and antivivisectionists, I display the possibilities and limitations of particular literary forms, arguing, for example, that language appropriate to medical textbooks proved to be too shocking in books with a wider circulation. The final chapter is concerned with the ways in which pain was schematised in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. I explore the basis of belief in pain as a shared, cross-cultural phenomenon and make the case, using the examples of invertebrate neurology, fire-walking and tattooing, that the understanding of pain is sharply affected by class, gender, race and supposed degree of criminality, despite the fact that pain is often invoked as a marker of shared human identity.

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Schack, Todd Alan. "The cultural war on drugs: The language of drug literature 19th century to the present." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3218996.

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Ranum, Benedikte Torkelsdatter. "Typecast Victorians : uses of biblical typology in late nineteenth-century literature." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2007.

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This thesis examines the literary uses of biblical typology in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. It aims to show how late Victorian writers, having opted out of the orthodox Christian beliefs of the age, were still writing from within a cultural discourse shaped by, and based upon, such faith. Covering works as diverse as Sartor Resartus, De Profundis, and The Island of Doctor Moreau, and discussing writers who range from Mary Augusta Ward via Hardy to Strindberg and Dostoevsky, my contention is that these writers not only used the structure, terminology, and imagery of biblical typology to express their religious doubts, but that they 'reclaimed' what was strictly seen as a mode of exegesis and transformed it into a richly suggestive signifying system. Through this reconstructed mode of expression, they could offer to their readers ideas of a new 'religion' or, at least, a possible way out of the despair caused by the ultimate failure of Christian faith. The thesis is presented in three parts, the first of which briefly details the various available definitions of biblical typology itself. Following this, each sub-section of Part One traces a different aspect of late Victorian typology usage. Parts Two and Three deal with what I claim to be the two major strains of the late nineteenth century's secular use of typology - those concerned, respectively, with the 'imitation of' or 'association with' biblical types in their relation to literary characters. The changes made to the traditional biblical typology by late Victorian writers, as examined in this thesis, brought the biblical anti-type closer to the Jungian archetype, just as it brought the Nineteenth Century closer to our twentieth-century view of our religious and textual inheritance.

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Sturgeon, Sinéad. "Law & literature in the writings of Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton, and James Clarence Mangan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711601.

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Hiser, Garrett. "Illustrating the Color Line: Charles W. Chesnutt and Clyde O DeLand." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1481030226046336.

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