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Description:: This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
Keyword:: Environment, Sympathy, Victorian, Literature, Space, and Silence
Subject:: History and English literature
Creator:: Mason, Sarah Michelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_838563 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15678

Description:: Celebrity, reputation, and identity were complex issues for nineteenth-century British actresses. This dissertation examines how actresses responded to, integrated, and defied gender norms and social structures as they performed “authentic” identities for consuming publics. I investigate how actresses participated in charity events and bazaars, autobiographical writing, and advertising campaigns in...
Keyword:: Identity, Victorian, Reputation, Celebrity, Actresses, and England
Subject:: History, Theater, and Theater history
Creator:: Kelly, Lisa Michelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_667794 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14707

Description:: Victorian novels’ characteristic preoccupation with marriage and inheritance has led scholars to view the form as socially conservative in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet contemporary commentators feared what young women might conceive as a result of reading. The key to this dilemma, I argue, is the usual consequence of nineteenth-century marriage...
Keyword:: pregnancy, Victorian, reproduction, breastfeeding, childbirth, and novel
Subject:: English
Creator:: Sarah Elizabeth Roth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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