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Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Creator:

Taylor, Corey

Abstract:

In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...

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Masters Thesis
Representative Writers of the Victorian Period

Creator:

Oviatt, May

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Undergraduate Thesis
The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:

Schmuhl, Emily J.

Abstract:

This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...

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Masters Thesis
Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography" : Rewriting Victorian Conventions of Autobioaphy

Creator:

Vanderpool, Aubrae M.

Abstract:

This thesis brings together gender and genre criticism to consider Virginia Woolf s memoir, "A Sketch of the Past," as a modern experiment in rewriting the traditions and conventions of Victorian autobiography. This thesis will demonstrate how Woolf specifically disrupts the conventions of linear representations of time and the assumed...

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Masters Thesis