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Hartvigsen, Kathryn. "Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2510.pdf.
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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&rsquos 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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Akers, Caroline Gibson. "Nineteenth-century British crime rates." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610789.
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Hoover, Douglas Pearson. "Women in nineteenth-century Pullman." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276796.
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Built in 1880, George Pullman's railroad car manufacturing town was intended to be a model of industrial order. This Gilded Age capitalist's ideal image of working class women is reflected in the publicly prescribed place for women in the community and the company's provisions for female employment in the shops. Pullman wanted women to establish the town's domestic tranquility by cultivating a middle class environment, which he believed was a key to keeping the working class content. Throughout the course of the idealized communitarian experiment, however, Pullman's policies and prescriptions changed to meet the needs of working class families who depended on the wages of women. This paper will study the ideologies and realities surrounding women in nineteenth century Pullman.
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Lehrer, Charles-David. "The Nineteenth-century Parisian concerto /." Ann Arbor : Mich. : UMI, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35296154x.
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Wong, Marcelle. "Censorship in late nineteenth century Britain." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25332.
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In his 1859 work, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill asserts that ‘[i] in our times, from the highest class of society down to the lowest, every one lives as under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship.’ For Mill, this censorship was implemented not by official institutions, but by social opprobrium, by a less explicit, but no less devastating public opinion. My thesis provides an account of late nineteenth century censorship that does not rely on traditional dichotomised models. These models present censorship as a Manichaean struggle between an aggressive regulatory mechanism that is more diffused and mobile than such rigid binaries suggest. I look at instances of censorship in literature, the visual arts, and other disciplinary fields, placing them in wider social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts. I take into account recent scholarship which has challenged traditional models on theoretical grounds. These recent developments are useful for investigating particular instances of censorship, but conversely, these instances, despite their specificity, can also provide insights into, and elucidation of, the theories themselves. By moving beyond a state understanding of censorship as silencing and repression, I redress conventional assumptions about Victorian society and popular myths of a draconian regime, while also reassessing the concept of censorship itself.
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Thompson, Melissa Jane. "The highwayman in nineteenth century fiction." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445028.
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Hollingsworth, Mark. "Nineteenth-century Shakespeares : nationalism and moralism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10551/.
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This thesis shows that 'Shakespeare' (both the works and the man) was at the forefront of literary activity in the nineteenth century. By focusing on concerns about the identity of the British nation and its people it shows that Shakespeare was a constant presence in the debates of the day and that a number of agendas were pursued through what were ostensibly writings about Shakespeare's plays and the biography of their author. The Introduction first notes Shakespeare's transition from Elizabethan playwright to Victorian cultural icon and proceeds to outline nineteenth-century critical practice and changes in the social organisation of knowledge. From here the shift in how Shakespeare was considered is noted as well as the fact that, despite increasing interest in the history of the phenomenon, the nineteenth century has been largely neglected. What exploration there has been of this period has tended, by its nature as part of larger surveys or issue-specific studies, to oversimplify the complexities of nineteenth-century criticism. Further to this, the nineteenth century itself is often treated as a time of unsophisticated development and as a precursor to modern thought rather than a period of interest in its own right. A variety of what this thesis terms 'literary pursuits' during this period are then contextualised, as well as the changing role of the critic in nineteenth-century society. This is accompanied by an exploration of the community of readers and writers who would have engaged with these works. Finally, the methodological decisions which have directed this thesis are explained, including the privileging of page over stage, and the choice of those nineteenth-century writers who have been examined. The main body of the thesis is divided into two sections: Part One (Chapters One and Two) gives a broad taxonomy of ways in which nineteenth-century writers used Shakespeare as a means for addressing other issues, and Part Two (Chapter Three) uses a specific case study through which to examine these particular issues. It shows that attitudes to Shakespeare were shaped by an ongoing dialogue concerning the identity of the nation and its population. However, while there was much commonality regarding the agendas for which Shakespeare was used, the ways in which various different writers approached this was surprisingly diverse. Chapter One, 'Nationalism,' looks at how Shakespeare could be used in order to serve a nationalistic agenda: this involved either allying Shakespeare with the nation itself (by utilising Shakespeare's nationality, writing in a rhetorically charged manner, or interpreting Shakespeare's works in a certain fashion), or equating the nineteenth century with the early modern period (and highlighting various commonalities or differences with those times). The concept of nationalism is contextualised by looking at various attitudes to the nation which were driven by the challenges of the expanding Empire. Chapter Two, 'Moralism,' looks at the ways in which Shakespeare was used as a tool by those who sought to promote certain behavioural traits amongst their readers. The different ways in which writers made use of Shakespeare are situated within a discussion of nineteenth-century philosophical and moral positions. This chapter looks successively at what is termed 'Private Moralism' (a concern with abstract ideas, such as self-control and adherence to familial or religious ties), and 'Public Moralism' (that is, efforts to improve the outward or physical attributes of individuals, such as financial accumulation or class status). Part Two of the thesis focuses on how Victorian writers used Shakespeare specifically in relation to Shakespeare's Sonnets. To this end, Chapter Three, 'The Sonnets,' looks at how writings on the Sonnets pursued moral or nationalistic agendas. This chapter also seeks to draw together the strands of nationalism and moralism by showing that anxieties about the state of Britain fed into writing about the Sonnets at this time and that this involved a complex debate about the Sonnets, ancient Greece, and the nature of what would today be termed homosexuality. A significant contention of this chapter is that nineteenth-century attitudes towards the Sonnets need to be appreciated on their own terms rather than anachronistically via a modern understanding of homosexuality. The Conclusion suggests that Shakespeare was used by nineteenth-century critics and biographers as a location within which to debate certain overarching concerns of the day. How these issues were approached, however, took different forms and Shakespeare was employed for different ends, which points to a general unease regarding the identity of the nation. As the formal institutionalising of the English Literary canon was taking place during the period covered by this thesis it seems reasonable to suggest that the use of Shakespeare was related to Shakespeare's position of dominance within the canon. Finally, suggestions are made as to how the ease with which Shakespeare could be used - as well as the unavoidable difficulties which are attendant with Shakespeare - might have affected this process of canonisation.
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Herrington, Eldrid Roberts. "Hopkins, Whitman and nineteenth-century philology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621883.
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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, characters, or themes, these "stylistic virtues" ascribe moral significance to "literariness" itself.
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Ward, I. "Lakeland sport in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333074.
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Meldrum, Patricia. "Evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1943.
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This thesis deals with the theology and development of the Evangelical Episcopalian movement in nineteenth-century Scotland. Such a study facilitates the construction of a detailed doctrinal and social profile of these Churchmen, hitherto unavailable. In the introduction an extensive investigation is provided, identifying individuals within the group and assessing their numerical strength. Chapter 2 shows the locations of Evangelical Episcopalian churches and suggests reasons for their geographical distribution. Chapter 3 investigates some sermons and writings of various clergy and laypersons, highlighting the doctrinal beliefs of Scottish Evangelical Episcopalians and placing them within the spectrum of Evangelical Anglicanism and showing affinities with Scottish Presbyterianism. Chapter 4 concerns the lifestyle of members of the group, covering areas such as marriage, family, leisure and philanthropy. Chapter 5 provides a numerical analysis of the social make-up of various congregations paying particular attention to the success achieved in reaching the working classes. Chapters 6 and 7 examine the issues faced by Scottish Evangelical Episcopalians in an age of increasing Tractarian and Roman Catholic activity. Topics covered include the theology of baptism and the communion service. The contrast between Evangelical belief and that of orthodox Scottish High Churchmen and Virtualists is clarified. Chapter 8 explains the factors contributing to the secession of D. T. K. Drummond from the Scottish Episcopal Church and the formation of the English Episcopal movement. Further disruptions are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 provides a detailed analysis of the development and eventual fragmentation of English Episcopalianism. Chapter 11 concludes the thesis with an evaluation of the contribution of English Episcopalianism to the history of the Scottish Episcopal Church and the reasons for its emergence. The thesis thus provides a detailed examination of the motives which drove the adherents of this important facet of nineteenth-century British Evangelicalism.
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McKercher, William Russell. "Libertarian thought in nineteenth century Britain /." New York ; London : Garland publ, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37411818r.
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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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Panton, Frank H. "Finances and government of Canterbury eighteenth century to mid nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Kent, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267395.
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Wongduen, Narasuj Grabill Joseph L. "Siamese-American relations in the nineteenth century." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8818718.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1988.Title from title page screen, viewed September 12, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Joseph L. Grabill (chair), L. Moody Simms, Lawrence W. McBride, Louis G. Perez, Richard H. Jacobs. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-143) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Hornsby, Stephen J. "Nineteenth-century Cape Breton : a historical geography." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27110.
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This thesis is an historical geography of Cape Breton Island in the nineteenth century. It aims to provide a geographical synthesis of the Island over a hundred years, elucidating the changing relationship between the Island's population and their environment. The Island is considered as a region and the scale of enquiry is at the regional level. The patterns of population, settlement, economy, and society are identified, and the processes that created them are discussed. Finally, the wider relevance of the Cape Breton experience is suggested.
Three distinct and largely separate patterns of settlement, economy, and society coexisted in early nineteenth century Cape Breton: the old commercial staple trade of the cod fishery, semi-subsistent family-farms, and industrial coal mining. After the end of the French regime on the Island, British and Nova Scotian capital was invested in the inshore cod fishery, creating specialised fishing settlements, a fishing population, and an economy tied to distant, international markets. Superimposed upon this staple trade in the 1820's was a fee-simple empire of family-farms. Agricultural changes in Western Scotland displaced thousands of people, many of whom fetched up on Cape Breton - among the cheapest of overseas destinations. By mid-century, these immigrants had occupied all the good land and considerable areas of poorer backland. After years of backbreaking work, the settlers had created semi-subsistent farms on relatively cheap land far from markets. About the same time as the Scots arrived, British industrial capital exploited the Island's coal reserves, introducing skilled British labour and steam-technology to win coal for external markets.
Until the final decades of the century, the fishery changed little. The cod fishery, organised and supplied by Channel Island and resident merchants, remained dominant. Only in the 1870's was it augmented by the rapid rise of the lobster fishery. Both farming and mining, however, were transformed in the years after 1850. As the agricultural population grew, largely by natural increase, settlement expanded farther onto backland, and growing numbers of subsistent farmers combined agriculture with seasonal work in the coal mines and in Boston. Under the successive stimuli of Reciprocity and the National Policy, the coal industry expanded, attracting more companies, increasing output, and employing more men accommodated in several new settlements. Yet these three economies remained essentially separate. Agriculture supplied some produce and seasonal labour to the fishery and the mines, but the two staples -exploiting different resources and tied to different sources of capital and markets - had no contact. With limited capacity to generate multipliers, a larger, more mature economy did not develop on Cape Breton. Faced with limited land and uncertain returns from the staple industries, many Islanders emigrated to the burgeoning towns and cities of New England. This cycle of immigration, population growth, and emigration, set against an economic background of staple industries and semi-subsistent farming, was common to much of settled Canada in the nineteenth century.Arts, Faculty of
Geography, Department of
Graduate
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Styler, Rebecca. "Religion, gender, genre : nineteenth-century women's theology." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30284.
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This thesis considers how women in the nineteenth century used a variety of literary genres to write theology, when formal theological channels were closed to them. Each chapter considers a different literary genre and different writers. Features of genre are foregrounded as I consider how each writer constructs meanings and addresses her audience, and what the implications were for them as women writing this way. It departs from the specifically feminist approach of many studies of women's theology, to explore a range of women's attempts to find an adequate spirituality. Emma Jane Worboise's popular novels and biography of Thomas Arnold construct parables in which 'feminine' Christian values are extended to the public world. The poetry of Anne Bronte debates with Calvinism, and with the Romantic and Evangelical ideals of intense personal communion with the divine. Harriet Martineau creates a religion for middle-class liberals through her essays for the Unitarian periodical the Monthly Repository. She embodies a new model of a theologian who has earned her authority through the press. The autobiographies of the intellectuals Frances Power Cobbe and Annie Besant also do this, as they present themselves as creators of post-Christian theologies. Autobiographies by Margaret Howitt and Margaret Oliphant rather evaluate the emotional adequacy of belief. Other writers anticipate some late twentieth-century developments in theology. The writers of collective biography, while addressing distinctly Victorian gender issues, also offer a form of feminist Bible criticism. Josephine Butler creates a 'liberation' theology in her political speeches against legalised prostitution. The perspective of women's theology, expressed in literary forms, brings to light writers who, while forgotten today, were significant in the nmeteenth-century context. It also enables a new appreciation of authors who are better-known for other achievements.
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Maltby, Deborah K. Phegley Jennifer. "Reading "Hodge" nineteenth-century English rural workers /." Diss., UMK access, 2007.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of English and Dept. of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007."A dissertation in English and history." Advisor: Jennifer Phegley. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Nov. 13, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-321). Online version of the print edition.
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Dore, Kelly Lyn. "Representations of witches in nineteenth century music." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3423.
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Portrayals of witches appear frequently in nineteenth-century music, either as supernatural characters as in folk tales, or as real persons (especially women) who are viewed by society as possessing the stereotype features of the witch. This thesis examines the musical characterizations of these witches, suggesting that their portrayals share a common vocabulary of musical features, and thus constitute what scholars such as Leonard Ratner, Kofi Agawu, or Robert Hatten call musical “topics.” The topics I have discerned include “noises and sounds ostensibly made by witches,” “the dance,” “sinister atmosphere” and an aesthetic of extremes which I have termed “aesthetic inversion.” Definitions and terminology related to witches in relevant European languages are reviewed in Chapter One. There follows a history of witches and witchcraft in Europe with the hope that it will provide an historical context which will enhance the reader’s understanding of the character of the witch. Chapter Two provides musical analyses of the musical “topics” which the composers drew upon to communicate to the audiences their representations of witches. In Chapter Three I examine the implications of these depictions from ideological, political and gender standpoints. The thesis concludes with a summation of the “topics” and their uses.
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Bradstreet, Christina Rain. "Scented visions : the nineteenth-century olfactory imagination." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504733.
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This thesis considers the role of smell in art and aesthetics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores the growing interest of a number of artists and literary figures, c.1860 - 1910, in cultivating an olfactory aesthetic. Through examination of artistic engagements with the sense of smell, it reveals how and why artists became occupied with olfactory perception and its representations, arguing that scents were increasingly perceived as an important means of communication in art, being influential in the life of the imagination owing to their emotional reverberation and associational nature. The thesis also examines popular ideas about the aesthetic status of perfume and argues that it was the perceived contradictory nature of smell as both sensuous and spiritual that rendered it so problematic and ripe for discussion in late-nineteenthcentury writings about the nature of art, beauty and aesthetics. This project carves out new territories within the history of visual culture through exploration of the areas of overlap and interplay between the visual and the olfactory, from the visualisation of invisible odour to the influence of scent upon mental imagery. Artistic sites of interaction between smell and the visual, such as perfume concerts that triggered visions of place, paintings of women smelling roses or bodily representations of incense in dance, provide new and fertile grounds for exploring the social and cultural fabric of the period. By drawing upon culturally specific ideas about smell, with reference to such themes as female sexuality and the erotic imagination as well as the Orient, health and disease, spirituality and the soul, this thesis offers fresh interpretative insights, being the first art historical project to bring into play the growing body of cultural and historical research on the sense of smell.
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Inder, Pamela M. "British provincial dressmakers in the nineteenth century." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/10725.
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Lübbren, Nina. "Rural artists' colonies in nineteenth-century Europe." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555877.
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Butt, Allah Rakhio. "The nineteenth-century book trade in Sind." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582614.
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The thesis is concerned with the book trade activity in Sind from the coming of the British in 1843 to the end of the nineteenth century. The introductory Chapter 1 deals in broad terms wi th the educational and cultural aspects of the country during the first half of the century, before the advent of the press and the introduction of modern systems of education. Thereafter the work is divided into seven chapters, which focus on the modernisation of the country in general, and '-'11 the printing, publishing and bookselling businesses in particular. Chapter 2 discusses the founding and individual history of European-owned newspapers and periodicals. The Indian-owned newspapers and periodicals, issued in all major languages spoken in the province, are covered in Chapter 3. The growth of profeSSionalism in writing and publishing books in English and vernacular languages is treated in Chapter 4, concentrating particularly on government patronage, the Church Missionary Society programmes and the achievements of the indigenous publishers in this field. Chapter 5 outlines relationships, both friendly and hostile, between the government and the press. In Chapter 6 the technical problems of printing, including some aspects of book design, are highlighted. In Chapters 7 and 8 bookselling activities on the part of Europeans, Parsis, Christian missionaries, government and indigenous booksellers are considered. Two main appendices (6 and 7) comprise the first attempt so far made to chart the total output of English and vernacular language books published in Sind from 1851 to 1900.
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Clark, Joannah Kate. "Prison Reform in Nineteenth-Century British-India." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10695.
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By the beginning of the nineteenth century imprisonment was slowly becoming the favoured form of punishment for criminals in Britain and wider Europe. The nineteenth century was therefore a time when penal institutions were coming under scrutiny. In British-India, the Prison Discipline Committee of 1838 and the 1864 Inquiry Committee attempted to address a number of issues within the colonial Indian jails ranging from discipline and administration to health, labour and rehabilitation. There are important questions that need to be more thoroughly explored in relation to these periods of reform: What were the different points of emphasis of the proposed reforms in each period? What continuity or change can be observed between 1838 and 1864 and what accounted for it? The prison reform of this period in India reflected the various and fluctuating ideas on punishment and criminality that also characterised Britain, America and Europe. However, the approach of the 1838 Prison Discipline Committee and the 1864 Inquiry Committee often attested to the British preoccupation with “progress” and asserting control over the Indian population rather than addressing the needs of the prisoners. Furthermore, the conceptualization of Indian criminals by the British impacted upon ideas relating to convict rehabilitation. Although work has been done in this area of British-India’s history, there is a need to draw together the various threads of reform to create a clearer picture of the overall character and development of prison reform in nineteenth-century British-India.
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Cantlie, Elizabeth Anne. "Women's memoirs in early nineteenth century France." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5510/.
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Although historians have acknowledged the importance of gender as a factor in the social and political life of post-revolutionary France, and bibliographical studies have revealed that vast quantities of memoirs were composed during the half century after the outbreak of the Revolution, the lives of women between the late 1790s and the 1830s, and the works in which they wrote about their lives and about the age in which they lived, have hitherto attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and historians. Previous research, moreover, has concentrated on women as writers of poetry and fiction, on the portrayal of women in novels, and on their position in society as it was defined by legislators, doctors, philosophers and the authors of manuals on female education and conduct. As a result, the diversity of women's writing and the complexity of their lives as historical subjects during this period have often been obscured. It is this diversity and complexity which are revealed by studying memoirs. This thesis examines women's memoirs from both a literary and a historical perspective, focusing on the relationship between gender, genre and historical circumstances. It argues that women wrote memoirs and wrote them in the way they did because of the political and social conditions of the age in which they lived. A short introduction outlines the reasons why the memoirs written by women in the first decades of the nineteenth century have been neglected: the preoccupation of literary scholars with memoirs of the ancien regime; the memoir's apparent lack of depth compared to 'true' or 'literary' autobiography; the weakness of most women's memoirs as sources of information on political and military affairs for the Revolution and Empire; and the narrow focus of recent women-centred histories. The rest of the thesis is an attempt to fill in some of these gaps.
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Kelleher, John D. "The rural community in nineteenth century Jersey." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4249/.
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After centuries of relative isolation as an outpost loyal to the English Crown the small Island of Jersey was, in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, opened to the twin forces of large-scale immigration and economic expansion. Jersey was a product of peculiar historical circumstance, which resulted in a cossetted existence and a high degree of independence. Economic growth, founded on a merchant-based economy and on agriculture, was both fuelled by and attracted English and French immigrants. The presence of a large urban population, many of who were non-local, and wealth, created friction in a society whose institutions were designed for a dispersed rural population. An identifiable urban bloc developed and demanded access to power proportional to its wealth and size and the reform of certain structures along lines more conducive to economic life. Alongside direct political challenge was a more subtle linguistic and cultural challenge. This thesis examines these forces at work in Jersey society and assesses their impact. Emphasis is placed on the rural community, as the representative of traditional Jersey society and the guardians of local power and independence. It is argued that the potential forces of change and challenge were, by the end of the century, fairly comfortably assimilated or contained. With the exception of a Nonconformist challenge in the countryside, the challenges to Jersey society were inseparably linked to immigration and economic expansion, yet never provided a coherent and concerted attack on all fronts. The rural community was most successful at defending its institutions, yet was unable to stem the flow of English language and culture. In the short term Jersey succeeded in controlling the forces ranged against its society, but in the long tern institutional strength belied a weakening at the foundations.
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Anderson, Anne. "Aspects of music in nineteenth-century literature." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367245.
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Owen, A. "Subversive spirit : Women and nineteenth century spiritualism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378374.
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Manai, Mohamed Adel. "Electorial politics in mid-nineteenth-century Lancashire." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306391.
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Maxwell, Catherine. "Looking and perception in nineteenth century poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8f4ff9be-6c07-4060-b777-6a7402d024c7.
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The thesis examines a series of nineteenth century poets whose poems are concerned with complex relations of looking and perception, and concentrates on Shelley and the poets he influenced: Browning, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Hardy. It focusses on poems dealing with the visual arts and aesthetic modes of perception, and concludes with a study of Walter Pater - an unrecognised follower of Shelley - and his notions of artistic character. An emphasis on the way face and bodily form are scrutinised, in poems concerning painting, sculpture and portraiture, leads to the hypothesis that the way the poet pictures essence or character through corporeal form is correlative to the essence or character of his own poetry. The particular spatial relations and visual representations of the poetry provide an index to specific patterns of reading. At the heart of this examination is a Shelleyan conception of the "unsculptured image", the characterising force and pre-given perspective of a poet's poem, which has a primary shaping effect on his language and representations, and continues to exert itself in the poem's reading. As this "image" is an imaginative rather than purely linguistic force, the analyses of selected poems avoid reduction to considerations of language and rhetoric alone, seeking rather to engage with the question of what constitutes a writer's own essence or particularity and what gives a strong poem its compulsive power. The thesis draws on the work of the French literary critic Maurice Blanchot to inform its ideas of poetic space and depth, and to produce an understanding of the poetic text very different from that given by a classical reading; and so alter the way one perceives the poem as literary object. In addition to this, certain nineteenth century and earlier aesthetic writings, and the prose works of the poets themselves, establish the critical basis of the arguments advanced. The thesis also endeavours to follow through the arguments of traditional scholarship in order to provide critique on distinctions or departures made. Chapter I examines Shelley's 'On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery'; Chapter II deals with portraiture in Browning's 'My Last Duchess' and Rossetti's The Portrait'; Chapter III turns to the sculpture of the hermaphrodite in Swinburne's early lyric 'Hermaphroditus'; Chapter IV looks at Thomas Hardy's poems about sketches and shades; Chapter V is an epilogue in which the work of Walter Pater draws together the ideas developed in the rest of the thesis.
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Craine, Ashton. "British amateur astronomers in the Nineteenth Century." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393186.
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Bafna, Sonit. "The nineteenth century discourse on Indian architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12716.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81).
The thesis deals with the subject of the marginalization of Indian architecture. The particular issue that it takes up is the tendency in the current criticism to attribute this marginalization to the "Orientalist " biases of the scholars who first attempted to study it. Key amongst these is James Fergusson, whose History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, written in 1876 was the pioneering text on the subject. His character as it emerges from these critical revisions is that of a haughty, supercilicious imperialist, who despite liking Indian architecture, could not appreciate it whole-heartedly and therefore ended up marginalizing it. Taking a stand against this interpretation, the thesis demonstrates that Fergusson's character was much more complex than it is made out to be and his appreciation of Indian architecture was genuine. He admired not just historical buildings but also contemporary practices in India, considering them as exemplary for European architects. The argument made is that his contribution to the marginalization of the Indian architecture therefore, resulted not from intention but, paradoxically, from his very efforts to promote its study. The point illustrated here is that the impact of the individual scholars on the consequent interpretation of their work is not deterministic and the causes for marginalization cannot be found in their cultural biases and aesthetic preferences alone. Instead, tracing the changing nature of the discourse on Indian architecture through the nineteenth century, the thesis suggests that the origins of the marginalization lie in the conditions under which the scholarship on it emerged. A fruitful reappraisal of such a scholarship thus calls for an analysis not just of particular texts or scholars, but the discursive practice that defines the subject.
by Sonit Bafna.
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Crone, Rosalind Helen. "Violence and entertainment in nineteenth-century London." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614042.
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Anderson, Valerie E. R. "The Eurasian problem in nineteenth century India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/13525/.
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Bentley, David Ronald. "Trial on indictment in nineteenth century England." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1993. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10214/.
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The aim of this thesis is to assess how far trial on indictment in nineteenth century England conformed to -." the present day concept of a fair trial. What by contemporary English standards are considered the essential elements of a fair trial the thesis deduces from current statute and case law. Having identified these elements it attempts to discover how far they were present in the nineteenth century system. The analysis broadly follows the chronology of the trial itself, with particular attention paid to legal aid, the campaign to abolish the rule rendering prisoners and their spouses incompetent as witnesses in their own defence, and appellate remedies. The conclusion reached is that, although at the start of the nineteenth century the trial system fell well short of the twentieth century model, by the century's end it had (except in relation to legal aid and appellate remedies) moved much closer to it. For its analysis of the trial system the research draws upon eighteenth and nineteenth century law texts supplemented by evidence as to trial practice gleaned from contemporary reports of trials (in particular the reports in The Times, the Central Criminal Court Sessions Papers and Legal Journals), legal memoirs and biographies, and unpublished material in the Public " Record Office and elsewhere. The most important single unpublished source consulted has been the notebooks which record the reserved criminal cases which came before the Common Law judges between'*1785 and 1828. Reports of Royal Commissions, and Select Committees, draft Bills and the Reports of Parliamentary Debates (supplemented by articles in newspapers and journals) have provided the raw material upon which the account given of the reforms made and attempted during the century is based.
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Warren, Richard. "Tacitus and nationalism in nineteenth-century art." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9502/.
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In the nineteenth century artists patronised by national, imperial and aristocratic elites in Europe turned to Tacitus and other classical sources for inspiration in defining the national and ethnic ideal of these patrons. This is a phenomenon that was particularly evident in the German-speaking countries of central Europe, where the figure of Arminius from Tacitus' Annals was represented in many different artistic media, from painting to monumental sculpture. In the German states themselves depictions often followed a similar prescription, which took their inspiration from the plays of Freidrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Heinrich von Kleist, which dramatised the victory of Arminius (or 'Hermann') over Quinctilius Varus and his Roman army. The national context of the time was complicated by the process of unification and the reach of German language and culture beyond the borders of what was in the later century united in the new German Reich. Use was also made of figures drawn from Tacitus in nineteenth-century Britain. In this thesis I also examine how Boadicea and Calgacus were employed in national and local contexts during a period when Britain's imperial power was at its height. It is shown that here too the approach taken by artists to their subject matter in a nationalist context was not always predictable. Examining both central Europe and Britain it compares different case studies, to demonstrate something of the flexibility possible in the treatment of an – at first sight – straightforward theme from classical literature. It will also be explored how the political and artistic contexts of the respective periods in which artists lived variously affected – or did not affect - their treatment of the themes. The extent to which one can analyse their individual portrayals as 'nationalist', or under the influence of 'nationalist' themes, is explored.
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Horton, Julian Alfred. "Towards a theory of nineteenth-century tonality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284011.
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This thesis pursues three successive and related areas of research. First, it undertakes a critique of Schoenberg's interpretation of nineteenth-century tonality, and explores the reception history of these ideas and their relationship with other prominent theoretical models, notably that of Heinrich Schenker. Second, it suggests an analytical theory of nineteenth-century tonality which proceeds from the conclusions of this critique. Lastly, it applies this model in the analysis of an extended work from the period: Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. The initial critique seeks to show that Schoenberg's model of tonality in decline is predicated on a self-justifying argument; the necessity of atonality is not an immanent property of nineteenth-century tonality, but is imposed upon the music by Schoenberg's own theoretical discourse. Schenkerian theory associates with this position in a negative sense; the aspects of this music which Schoenberg perceived to be the precursor of atonality are taken by Schenker as evidence of the decline of the musical art. The error in both interpretations is the assumption that a stable system of tonality must of necessity be founded on a fundamental diatonicism. The suggestions of an alternative model starts with an exploration of the properties of a tonal system arising from a fundamental chromaticism. The taxonomies of modal and harmonic properties advanced in this regard by Gregory Proctor and Robert Bailey are extended, and distilled into four categories, being diatonicism and three identifiable modes of chromatic progression. The theoretical exposition then elaborates a quasi-reductive model, founded upon this taxonomy, which replaces the Schenkerian system with a dualistic theory. The foreground level is characterised by the grouping of material into localised units defined by the control of one or more of the categories of progression and possible modalities arising from the total chromatic. Such structures are defined as 'harmonic fields'. A segmental technique is advanced which facilitates the isolation of these structures. The notion of the Ursatz is then revised to accommodate mixtures of diatonic and non-diatonic tonal relationships, and purely chromatic tonal structures, and a taxonomy of background types is provided.
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Burke, Tristan. "Mutations of heroism in nineteenth-century modernity." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/mutations-of-heroism-in-nineteenthcentury-modernity(2ceeeebe-eec3-4168-bb13-9d9c157167f2).html.
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This thesis addresses how a range of early- to mid-nineteenth century texts from different national traditions deploy a discourse of heroism that responds to the legacies of Byron and Napoleon in such a way as to imagine new forms of subjectivity and class position as heroic. It shows how Byron and Napoleon are constructed by these texts as heroic figures of the past who are no longer suited to the current economic and social conditions of the triumphant bourgeoisie, but, simultaneously, how these figures are deployed by the bourgeoisie in order to bolster the ideological work of showing their class as heroic. Napoleon and Byron offer certain ideological and intellectual preconditions for the development of a bourgeois consciousness, a development which in turn repudiates what it is based on. I have selected texts across a range of national traditions in order to stress the pan-European importance of Napoleon and Byron. Their influence involves such an extent of international dialogue that they cannot be looked at without considering them as international figures. The comparative and international focus of the project allows an approach which both highlights the similarities between different national traditions and responses, and the differences between them, often rooted in various histories, points in economic development and ideological and political configurations. The rationale for selecting the particular texts I have is that all of them grapple quite obviously, and at a basic linguistic level, with the question of heroism: they present the word ‘hero’ in their title, in their opening pages, or with a certain frequency throughout the text. In addressing the central focus of my research, a number of issues surrounding it frequently arise. Particularly these concern theoretical questions to do with the novel as a key cultural form through which the bourgeoisie ideologically expresses and consolidates itself, questions such as “what is realism?” and “how does the novel respond to historical events?” Furthermore, the thesis inquires exactly how bourgeois subjectivity can be imagined, recognised and theorised. In order to address these concerns I deploy a range of theoretical texts, particularly the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin and Jacques Rancière. The thesis is split into two halves, focusing on Byron and Napoleon. It begins with a general introduction, addressing the historical context, and critical and theoretical works that respond to the notion of the hero and heroism. After this, each chapter focuses quite narrowly on specific texts but draws in wider historical, literary and other contextual concerns. The Byron theme has chapters on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time, and on Dickens’s David Copperfield. The Napoleon theme has chapters on Stendhal’s The Red and the Black and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
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Allis, Wilfred. "Music and class in nineteenth century Manchester." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738696.
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Brink-Roby, Heather. "Typical People in the Nineteenth-Century Novel." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467515.
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We usually encounter objects as instances: a pen, a tree, a stream. We approach them as logically subsumed. But George Eliot's Saint Theresa or Charles Dickens’s Mr. Turveydrop is not an instance of something but rather has instances: the uncounted “Theresas” or the “many Mr. Turveydrops.” The individual functions itself as a concept. It becomes a mental representation of a whole class of things. Logically, it is not enclosed but rather encloses. Referentially, it picks out a domain within the world and opens a new space in the mind. The character becomes many. He is everywhere in the way that maple tree or red is. As concepts, these characters become the constituents of thought; we think with persons.
Such types are where investigation of the nature of ideas touches that on the possibilities of artistic representation and the risks of social being. But they are also where art itself feels its surround, referentially and methodologically. Through its shared preoccupation with the concept and shared language of the type, the novel became fully alive to concurrent work in other fields and tried its implications; it assimilated, rebuffed, and creatively misprized contemporary theories of the type in philosophical logic, statistics, sociology, medicine, psychology, comparative anatomy, biological taxonomy, and evolutionary theory. Drawing from the outer edge of the novel and beyond it, the type defined the work of the writers studied here—Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy—from its core.English
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Papadopoulos, George-Julius. "Johannes Brahms and nineteenth-century comic ideology /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11241.
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Ianetta, Melissa Joan. "Flowers rhetoric : the nineteenth-century improvisatrice tradition." Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1225218020.
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Fletcher, Valerie. "Nineteenth century railways : federation and the constitutional conventions /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17414.pdf.
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Connolly, Patrick. "The American overseas community in nineteenth-century Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2590571.
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Laing, Roisin. "The precocious child in the late nineteenth century." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11882/.
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Precocity is incongruous with the nineteenth-century ideology of childhood innocence. It is, nevertheless, a prominent subject across discourses in the century’s final decades. This thesis argues that in the late nineteenth century precocious children are depicted and debated in ways that reveal their particularly post-Darwinian significance. Through an analysis of a broad range of literary texts, in dialogue with key contributions to the emergent branch of psychology known as Child Study, this thesis illustrates that the precocious child functions as a problematic origin for narratives of adult selfhood in an era when such narratives were ever more tentative, and ever more tenacious. The thesis first examines precocity and innocence in a scientific overview of the subject, and in a selection of Henry James’s fiction, to suggest that these contradictory qualities are inextricably bound up with the question of adult self-construction. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess and E. Nesbit’s Treasure Seekers series are then shown to complicate the assumptions about, and functions of, the precocious child in contemporaneous medical studies of precocity. Following this, the thesis interrogates the extent to which autobiography enables authors and psychologists to create a remembered child who might function as the precocious origin to the adult self. J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is then analysed as a study of the ideology and contextual significance of the precocious child. A final chapter discusses work produced by two precocious children themselves. This thesis illustrates that the precocious child emblematises the continuity of the self across time, but only by reflecting an adult to whom it is supposed to be a primitive antecedent. Precocity can thus be read as a study of the idea of progressive selfhood which was so central to the Victorian era after Darwin.
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Greenlee, Jessica. "Folk narrative in the nineteenth-century British novel /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283959861&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-228). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Hernandez, Alberto Hector. "Puerto Rican piano music of the nineteenth century /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10936671.
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Da, Sousa Correa Delia Gwendolen. "George Eliot and music in nineteenth-century literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358448.
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Crowder, G. "The idea of freedom in nineteenth-century anarchism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381857.
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