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Nineteenth Century Literature

A 'head’ of their time: The influence of phrenology on nineteenth-century literature

A 'head’ of their time: The influence of phrenology on nineteenth-century literature

... the nineteenth century has been focused on discrediting its core principles and its subjection of ...late nineteenth century; however this dissertation focuses on the core concepts of ...

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Works of taste and fancy : the woman and the child reader in nineteenth century literature

Works of taste and fancy : the woman and the child reader in nineteenth century literature

... 21st century critic as the language that surrounds the domestic scene is fraught with shortcomings and problems of ...the nineteenth century literature of domesticity and the realities of its ...

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Horse racing in nineteenth-century literature

Horse racing in nineteenth-century literature

... the nineteenth century gambling certainly could have that affect by providing exercise for the ...the nineteenth century was the most successful example of their own self-help in the modern ...

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Ecstasy and Solitude: Reading and Self-Loss in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology

Ecstasy and Solitude: Reading and Self-Loss in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology

... States of self-loss present another problem that stems from their elusive nature: how to productively name them for critical examination. In part, this chapter works to disentangle the complexities of naming these ...

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The garden politic: botany, horticulture, and domestic cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century American literature

The garden politic: botany, horticulture, and domestic cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century American literature

... Nineteenth-century literature explores the paradoxes of plants: growing down into the soil and extending up into the light, they straddle earth and air, stability and motion, embeddedness and ...And ...

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Instrumental performance in the nineteenth century

Instrumental performance in the nineteenth century

... After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, his son moved the country away from German sympathies towards a cultural ‘Russification’, especially in St Petersburg, to inspire a new sense of ‘belonging’; this led ...

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Theft in nineteenth century Malta

Theft in nineteenth century Malta

... the nineteenth century, the English authors, Mayhew and Binney ventured the assumption that female criminality especially that connected with ‘petty theft from the person or burglary of their homes ...

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Turquerie in nineteenth-century America

Turquerie in nineteenth-century America

... Room betrays typical traits of an Oriental interior, which could be easily called a Turkish style: a divan occupies the entire side of the room; it is upholstered with finely woven Oriental rugs; the walls are deftly ...

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Nineteenth Century Collections Online

... (although, more recently, historians have raised questions about this whole enterprise, viewing it as flawed in its assumptions). The editors have raided that great bibliography, The Autobiography of the Working Class , ...

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Recent studies in the nineteenth century

Recent studies in the nineteenth century

... of nineteenth-century studies, attending to a work first released in the same year as the Catholic relief act and topical enough to go into seven editions between 1829 and ...researching ...

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Quakers in Australia in the nineteenth Century

Quakers in Australia in the nineteenth Century

... To understand the history of Quakers in Australia in the nineteenth century it is necessary to see that history against the background of Quakerism in Great Britain and Ireland, for Aust[r] ...

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On the street in nineteenth century London

On the street in nineteenth century London

... On the following Tuesday, the 30th, I left work at 10.30 p.m., and met the prisoner in Abbot Road about 800 or 900 yards from the works—I was on my way home; we were passing each other—he said, "Now you ...

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Women and Music in Nineteenth Century Dublin

Women and Music in Nineteenth Century Dublin

... The nineteenth century saw Dublin begin to develop as a musical city, with women involved in increasing ...the nineteenth century, Dublin lacked an adequate system of music ...

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Anglo Saxonism in nineteenth century poetry

Anglo Saxonism in nineteenth century poetry

... in nineteenth-century poetry, but only scattered secondary material on individual ...that literature among Victorian writers (see, for example, Wawn, The Vikings and the ...

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Preserving the Nineteenth Century: Challenges and Possibilities

Preserving the Nineteenth Century: Challenges and Possibilities

... Second, although preserving the nineteenth century is a fundamental extension of our larger job of managing the resources that we choose lo acquire and own, collaboralion on the preserva[r] ...

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A nineteenth century Malay bookseller's catalogue

A nineteenth century Malay bookseller's catalogue

... The catalogue itself lists two titles published by Haji Putih in Penang and a third printed in Singapore by Sira] on Hail Putih's behalf.i?. In his own publications, Haji Putih advertise[r] ...

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Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century

Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century

... Shinnecocks—traveled from their communities to Hartford as they sought “religious fellowship, work opportunities, and education” (8). Indeed, at the time of the Eulogy’s rehearsal in Hartford, at least four members of ...

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Microfinance institutions in nineteenth century Ireland

Microfinance institutions in nineteenth century Ireland

... R. R. Madden, a civil servant and a literary figure in nineteenth century Ireland, 11 was a longstanding secretary of the LFB from 1850 until 1880. 12 Madden wrote a number of volumes on the loan fund ...

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The Total Train System: Technology and Progressivism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

The Total Train System: Technology and Progressivism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

... the nineteenth century and the first decades of the ...eighteenth century, historical progress was conceived of as a course of human events, with the advent of the railway system, many began to ...

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Opium in Nineteenth-Century England

Opium in Nineteenth-Century England

... This case depicted how easy it was for people to get their hands on and inappropriately handle and distribute opium at the expense of others.47 This case was different from the earlier case of Catherine Michael for a few ...

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