This thesis is a study of rebellious child protagonists in Victorian bildungsroman. It discusses five novels ??? Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, What Maisie Knew, Vanity Fair and Kim ??? that feature ???radical child??? protagonists who use indirect methods of narrative control to resist conservative models of character development. It argues that these novels form a subset of subversive English bildungsromane, which threaten the genre???s traditionally liberal values. Theories of narrative desire, reader seduction and discursive manipulation are used to reveal how the radical child in the Victorian bildungsroman takes command of the reader???s sympathy and gains power over the realist text, despite its physical and social powerlessness. Especially important is the presence of a fantasy counterplot, which coexists with, and ultimately undermines, the bildungsroman???s realistic surface narrative of successful socialisation. The counterplot allows radical child protagonists to develop in a non-linear manner that contradicts bourgeois ideals of stable progress. Focusing instead on sites of rupture between the individual and society, subversive bildungsromane resist both the dialectical model of character, which aims to harmoniously unite the protagonist with the realist world, and the dialogic model of interaction, which requires the restriction of personal liberty for the common good. This rebellious child in the Victorian bildungsroman thus represents an assault on the genre???s democratic ideals. Rejecting compromise, the radical child replaces the bildungsroman???s central ethic of interpersonal responsibility with an individualistic ethic of domination. Indeed, the thesis argues that the appeal of such child protagonistslies in their rejection of the obligatory, but anticlimactic, exchange of freedom for security that underpins the realist bildungsroman???s social contract, a rejection attractive to the reader precisely because it is unrealisable in reality. Finally, the thesis compares this radical child with the Gothic monster. While the monster is punished for its subversion, the radical child???s counterplot enables it to enact most of its subversive desires unpunished. The conservative English bildungsroman thus becomes a more effective way of representing asocial energies than the more obviously radical Gothic genre, which openly displays its anti-democratic sentiments.

This thesis is a study of rebellious child protagonists in Victorian bildungsroman. It discusses five novels ??? Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, What Maisie Knew, Vanity Fair and Kim ??? that feature ???radical child??? protagonists who use indirect methods of narrative control to resist conservative models of character development. It argues that these novels form a subset of subversive English bildungsromane, which threaten the genre???s traditionally liberal values. Theories of narrative desire, reader seduction and discursive manipulation are used to reveal how the radical child in the Victorian bildungsroman takes command of the reader???s sympathy and gains power over the realist text, despite its physical and social powerlessness. Especially important is the presence of a fantasy counterplot, which coexists with, and ultimately undermines, the bildungsroman???s realistic surface narrative of successful socialisation. The counterplot allows radical child protagonists to develop in a non-linear manner that contradicts bourgeois ideals of stable progress. Focusing instead on sites of rupture between the individual and society, subversive bildungsromane resist both the dialectical model of character, which aims to harmoniously unite the protagonist with the realist world, and the dialogic model of interaction, which requires the restriction of personal liberty for the common good. This rebellious child in the Victorian bildungsroman thus represents an assault on the genre???s democratic ideals. Rejecting compromise, the radical child replaces the bildungsroman???s central ethic of interpersonal responsibility with an individualistic ethic of domination. Indeed, the thesis argues that the appeal of such child protagonistslies in their rejection of the obligatory, but anticlimactic, exchange of freedom for security that underpins the realist bildungsroman???s social contract, a rejection attractive to the reader precisely because it is unrealisable in reality. Finally, the thesis compares this radical child with the Gothic monster. While the monster is punished for its subversion, the radical child???s counterplot enables it to enact most of its subversive desires unpunished. The conservative English bildungsroman thus becomes a more effective way of representing asocial energies than the more obviously radical Gothic genre, which openly displays its anti-democratic sentiments.

Orientador: Paulo Celso Miceli / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T00:29:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ribeiro_RenilsonRosa_D.pdf: 3064242 bytes, checksum: 222e6a56f386c0b7ba8afdd3837c5416 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Os construtores do Império brasileiro, especialmente no final do período regencial e ao longo do Segundo Reinado, foram muito hábeis e eloqüentes na invenção de representações discursivas - escritas e imagéticas - que acabaram por forjar um tipo de memória oficial para a nação. Nesta perspectiva, a presente tese tem o objetivo de identificar e a analisar as representações temáticas da História do Brasil Colonial forjadas no Brasil Imperial, por meio da 1ª edição da Historia geral do Brazil (1854/1857), de Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878) - o visconde do Porto Seguro, procurando perceber as suas articulações com o projeto historiográfico do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB), fundado em 1838, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Palavras-chave: 1) Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de (1816-1878). 2) Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro. 3) Brasil - Historiografia. 4) Identidade. 5) Brasil - História - Império, 1822-1889. / Abstract: The builders of the Brazilian Empire, especially at the end of the regencial period and over the Second Reign, were very skillful and eloquent in the invention of discursive representations - written and imagery - that ultimately create a kind of official memory for the nation. In this perspective, this thesis aims to identify and analyze the thematic representations of History of Brazil Imperial Colonial forged in Brazil, through the 1st edition of the Historia Geral do Brazil (1854/1857), by Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878) - the viscount of Porto Seguro, looking perceive their relations with the historiographical project of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB), founded in 1838, in Rio de Janeiro. / Doutorado / Historia Cultural / Doutor em História

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Le 9 avril I656, le Canadien informait ses lecteurs qu'il avait reçu "le prospectus d'un journal qui devait être publié aux Trois-Rivières par Doucet et Cie". Il annonçait ainsi la naissance du Bas-Canada fondé par Georges-Isidore Barthe le 3 avril I856. Georges-Isidore, fils du capitaine Joseph Barthe et de Marie Tapin, était né à Restigouche au Nouveau-Brunswick le 16 novembre 1834. H fit ses études primaires dans sa paroisse et vint poursuivre ses études classiques au Séminaire de Nicolet. Par la suite il opta pour le droit et après avoir fait une partie de sa cléricature à l'étude de Napoléon Bureau de Trois-Rivières et l'avoir terminée à celle de George et Andrew Robertson de Montréal, il est admis au barreau le 16 octobre I856. La fondation du Bas-Canada marquait donc la première expérience de Barthe dans le monde du journalisme. Cependant Georges-Isidore recevra une précieuse collaboration de son frère Joseph-Guillaume. Ce dernier, de dix-huit ans son aîné, a vu le jour à Carleton le 16 mars 1816. Après des études classiques à Nicolet, il s'initia aux éléments de la médecine qu'il abandonna pour le droit. En 1837, à 21 ans, mêlé au mouvement insurrectionnel, il donna â la presse et en particulier au Fantasque de Nicolas Aubin quelques odes patriotiques qui lui valurent d'être emprisonné à Montréal le 2 janvier 1839, sous l'accusation d'avoir écrit en faveur de Papineau et des exilés des Bermudes. Remis en liberté, il se fit inscrire au barreau. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2012

In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby attempting to make a contribution in the relatively new field of feminist narratology. Chapter One provides an analysis of Pride and Prejudice as an example of a feminist statement by Jane Austen. The use of omniscient narration and its ironic possibilities are offset against the central characters' perceptions, presented by means of free indirect style. Chapter Two examines The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as a critique of Wuthering Heights, both in its use of narrative frames and in its at times moralistic comment. The third and fourth chapters focus on Charlotte Bronte. Her ambivalences about the situation of women, be they writers, narrators or characters, are explored. These are seen to be revealed in her narrative strategies, particularly in her attainment of closure, or its lack. Chapter Five explores the increasing sophistication of the narrative techniques of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose early work Mary Barton is shown to have narrative inconsistencies as opposed to her more complex last novel Wives and Daughters. Finally, I conclude that while the authors under discussion use divergent methods, certain commonalities prevail. Among these are the presentation of alternatives women have within their constraining circumstances and the recognition of their moral accountability for the choices they make. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)

In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby attempting to make a contribution in the relatively new field of feminist narratology. Chapter One provides an analysis of Pride and Prejudice as an example of a feminist statement by Jane Austen. The use of omniscient narration and its ironic possibilities are offset against the central characters' perceptions, presented by means of free indirect style. Chapter Two examines The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as a critique of Wuthering Heights, both in its use of narrative frames and in its at times moralistic comment. The third and fourth chapters focus on Charlotte Bronte. Her ambivalences about the situation of women, be they writers, narrators or characters, are explored. These are seen to be revealed in her narrative strategies, particularly in her attainment of closure, or its lack. Chapter Five explores the increasing sophistication of the narrative techniques of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose early work Mary Barton is shown to have narrative inconsistencies as opposed to her more complex last novel Wives and Daughters. Finally, I conclude that while the authors under discussion use divergent methods, certain commonalities prevail. Among these are the presentation of alternatives women have within their constraining circumstances and the recognition of their moral accountability for the choices they make. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / As white settlers and pioneers moved westward in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, some of the first to settle the Indiana territory, near the Ohio border, were members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). Many of these Quakers focused on social reforms, especially the anti-slavery movement, as they fled the slave-holding states like the Carolinas. Less discussed in Indiana’s history is the impact Quakerism also had in the movement for women’s rights. This case study of two of the founding members of the Indiana Woman’s Rights Association (later to be renamed the Indiana Woman’s Suffrage Association), illuminates the influences of Quakerism on women’s rights. Amanda M. Way (1828-1914) and Mary Frame (Myers) Thomas, M.D. (1816-1888) practiced skills and gained opportunities for organizing a grassroots movement through the Religious Society of Friends. They attained a strong sense of moral grounding, skills for conducting business meetings, and most importantly, developed a confidence in public speaking uncommon for women in the nineteenth century. Quakerism propelled Way and Thomas into action as they assumed early leadership roles in the women’s rights movement. As advocates for greater equality and freedom for women, Way and Thomas leveraged the skills learned from Quakerism into political opportunities, resource mobilization, and the ability to frame their arguments within other ideological contexts (such as temperance, anti-slavery, and education).