Sökning: "Victorian"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Victorian.
1. The Victorian Governess Novel
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. LÄS MER
2. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction
Sammanfattning : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. LÄS MER
3. The Taming of a Viking : August Strindberg, Translation and Post-Victorian Censorship
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies August Strindberg’s two-volume collection of short stories, Giftas (1884, 1886) and its first English translation, Ellie Schleussner’s Married (1913). The purpose is to demonstrate that Married deviates from the original in many ways, primarily on the very aspects that were generally associated with the work. LÄS MER
4. Streetlife in Late Victorian London : The Constable and the Crowd
Sammanfattning : This study examines the streetlife of London at the end of the nineteenth century from the perspective of behaviour and practice. In reaction to the large number of works on the Victorian city based on a study of literary sources, this thesis takes the approach of analysing social interaction in the street. LÄS MER
5. Venn and Victorian bishops abroad : the missionary policies of Henry Venn and their repercussions upon the Anglican episcopate of the colonial period 1841-1872
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