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Charles Dickens owes his success as a novelist to his imagination. Therefore, his attitude toward imagination is of interest. One way of determining his attitude toward imagination is to examine the characters that have imaginations.There are several characters in Dickens' works that misuse their imaginations. Initially Dickens regards these characters leniently. Eventually, however, he regards them harshly. He dwells on the damage caused by the misdirection of their imaginations.Many of the other characters who are imaginative are children or childlike adults. Dickens treats them sentimentally. This tendency to sentimentalize such characters continues throughout Dickens' career. However, with certain characters he does seem to try to correct this tendency.Finally in his last complete novel, Our Mutual_ Friend, he treats Jenny Wren, a character who uses her imagination a positive way, realistically. She represents the final development of his attitudes on imagination.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (February 22, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-116)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1921. / Vita. Published also as Studies in history, economics and public law, ed.by the Faculty of political science of Columbia university, vol. c, no 1; whole no. 227. Bibliography: p. 406-412.

Diss. : Geschichtswissenschaften : Giessen : 1982. - Bibliogr. p. 259-288. Index. -

This thesis discusses the relationship between money and character in the novels of Charles Dickens, concentrating mainly on the later novels, from Dombey & Son onwards. Money is extremely important in Dickens's social criticism, and he is always conscious of money-related motives in his conception of character. However, despite its importance and omnipresence, money ought not to be elevated into the key explanatory principle in Dickens's thought. Dickens has been valued for different qualities over the years. Many who value him as an entertainer with a powerful poetic imagination tend to undervalue his social criticism and moralising, and to treat those aspects as non-essential or as belonging to a different side of his life and work. On the other hand those who value him as social and moral critic have combined this with exaggerated claims of thematic coherence. This thesis suggests that we can dispense with such claims while still regarding Dickens's novels as serious contributions to the moral and social debates of his day. A close consideration will be given to most of the later novels, with the intention of placing the money themes alongside other themes, so as to emphasise the many-sidedness of Dickens's social and moral criticism. Other themes explored in the thesis include marriage and the home, and hypocrisy and self-deception. The thesis seeks to do justice to Dickens's thorough-going ambivalence towards money, and to his capacity for revisiting characters and themes from one work to another. The bias of the thesis is towards the personal and individual, but money is inevitably a social topic. Much consideration is therefore given to Dickens's fictional and non- fictional responses to contemporary social problems and attitudes, and also to material not written by Dickens but published by him in Household Words and All the Year Round.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-02-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:43:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 vas_bb_dr_fran.pdf: 3625525 bytes, checksum: e60a66dfb0f27727c2544238c47d30fa (MD5) / Este trabalho pretende aprofundar os estudos referentes ao período final do evento conhecido na historiografia brasileira como Guerra do Paraguai, especialmente a partir do final de 1868 e após a saída de Caxias, período que compreende o comando do conde d’Eu, até o final da campanha em 1870. A partir desse referencial, aborda-se a estrutura estabelecida para a logística mobilizada pelas forças militares terrestres brasileiras para suprir as demandas do esforço de guerra. Busca-se compreender melhor a estrutura militar organizada pelo Império para atender às necessidades da guerra, o panorama dessa estrutura ao final do conflito, considerando elementos como o comando militar de d’Eu, a ação diplomática e por vezes até militar de José Maria Paranhos (futuro visconde do Rio Branco) e a interação entre ambos diante dos percalços logísticos enfrentados pelas forças militares terrestres brasileiras para finalização do conflito. Estes entraves logísticos afetaram e comprometeram ora a intensidade e estratégias da ação militar, ora a ação diplomática da representação brasileira, com reflexos marcantes na dinâmica política imperial desse período / The present study aims at deepening the studies regarding the final period of the event known in Brazilian history as the Paraguayan War, particularly from its the end in 1868 and after the departure of Caxias - a period that includes the command of Count d'Eu, by the end of the campaign in 1870. Based on this framework, the study deals with the structure established concerning the logistics employed by Brazilian military land forces to meet the demands of the war effort. Thus, we aim at providing a better understanding of the military structure organized by the Empire to meet the needs of the war as well as a broader view of this structure at end the conflict. Factors such as the military command of d'Eu, the diplomatic and sometimes even military role played by José Maria Paranhos (soon to become Viscount of Rio Branco) and their interaction before the logistic troubles faced by Brazilian land forces in order to put an end to the conflict were considered. Such logistic barriers affected and jeopardized either the intensity and military action strategies or diplomatic efforts of Brazilian representatives, reflecting remarkably the political dynamics of the Empire throughout this period

Orientador: Sandra Negraes Brisolla / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-14T00:05:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carvalho_Edemirde_M.pdf: 3746366 bytes, checksum: ba833f759bfef7867fa97132df366740 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 / Resumo: Não informado. / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Mestre em Ciências Sociais

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No. of bitstreams: 1 dievanilopesvital.pdf: 1610861 bytes, checksum: fb3d2998956b170f0cb6f06689d09a18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-19 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A partir das contribuições da História Social das Ideias, o presente trabalho investiga a apropriação do pensamento francês iluminista e revolucionário pela produção intelectual da chamada “Geração 1870”; como as ideias contidas nesse pensamento foram apropriadas e instrumentalizadas em solo brasileiro do dezenove pelos nossos homens de letras, através de suas práticas contestatórias, na abertura do processo que encaminharia à crise o Império brasileiro. Constituem igualmente o escopo da pesquisa: compreender a conjuntura sociopolíticoeconômica e cultural em que os ideários da Ilustração Francesa e dos letrados brasileiros foram gestados, tendo em vista as cidades de Paris e do Rio de Janeiro em finais dos séculos XVIII e XIX, respectivamente; destacar possíveis relações entre ambos os movimentos no que tange ao legado do primeiro em relação ao segundo movimento e à situação de seus membros frente ao quadro social, político e intelectual, em suas respectivas épocas e realidades nacionais; compreender o engajamento político dos principais representantes do Iluminismo e da “Geração 1870” através da imprensa, do uso da literatura e da mobilização da opinião pública; demonstrar se alguns nomes selecionados do movimento político-intelectual, ao pensar o Brasil de finais do século XIX, dialogam com o repertório de ideias típicas do Iluminismo francês e do imaginário da Revolução, sem perder de vista os nexos do Iluminismo com as correntes cientificistas do Oitocentos europeu. Na metodologia da pesquisa, as ideias de Marc Bloch acerca da história comparativa são levadas em consideração. A História dos conceitos Koselleckeana é igualmente tomada como recurso metodológico no terceiro capítulo. Isto no intento de demonstrar como membros selecionados da “Geração de 1870”, ao analisarem a realidade nacional a partir das experiências da Questão Religiosa, discutem a secularização, cuja temática era coexistente na produção dos principais arautos do Iluminismo e na linguagem política da Revolução de 1789-99. Esse conceito foi tomado como conceito matriz para aquela parte da pesquisa. Com efeito, é mormente através dele que buscaremos investigar a apropriação do pensamento francês de fins do Setecentos pela consciência nacional num momento de inflexão na história do regime imperial-monárquico brasileiro. Espaço público, opinião pública, sociabilidade e apropriação constituem o arcabouço conceitual utilizado para a consecução da pesquisa. / À partir des contributions de l’Histoire Sociale des Idées, ce travail recherche l’appropriation de la pensée française des Lumières et de la Révolution par les ouvrages intellectuels de la « Génération 1870 » ; comme les idées de cette pensée ont été appropriées et instrumentalisées au Brésil du XIXe siècle par les gens des lettres, à travers des ses pratiques contestatrices, dans le processus qui conduirait à la crise l’ Empire brésilien. La recherche a des objectifs suivants: comprendre la conjoncture sociopolitiqueéconomique et culturelle dans lesquelles les idées des Lumières et de la « Génération 1870 » brésilienne ont éte formulées, dans les contextes des villes de Paris et de Rio de Janeiro à la fin du XVIIIe et XIXe siècle, respectivement; remarquer les rapports entre les deux mouvements en ce qui concerne l’ héritage du premier mouvement par rapport au deuxièume et la situation de ses répresentants en face du contexte sociale, politique et intelectuelle, dans leurs époques et realités nationales ; comprendre l’ engagement politique des principaux répresentants des Lumières et de la « Génération 1870 » à travers de la presse, de l’utilisation de la littérature et de la mobilisation de l’opinion publique; montrer si quelques noms sélectionnés de la « Génération 1870 » dialoguent avec les idées typiques des Lumières et de la Révolution au Brésil à la fin du XIXe siècle, sans ignorer les rapports entre les Lumières et les theories scientifiques de ce siècle-là. Les idées de Marc Bloch sur la comparaison historique sont considerées dans la méthodologie. L’Histoire des Concepts de R. Koselleck est aussi utilisée comme ressource méthodologique dans le troisième chapitre pour montrer comme quelques répresentants sélectionnés de la « Génération 1870 », dans leurs analyses de la realité nationale à partir des événements de la Question Religieuse, discutent la sécularisation, phénomène dont la thematique était coexistante dans les ouvrages des principaux hérauts des Lumières et dans le langage politique révolutionnaire. Ce concept a été pris comme base dans cette partie du travail. En effet, à travers lui nous rechercherons l’appropriation de la pénsee française de la fin du XVIIIe siècle par la conscience lettrée dans un moment important dans l’histoire du régime monarchique au Brésil. Espace publique, opinion publique, sociabilité, appropriation constituent le cadre conceptuel utilisé pour le développement de la recherche.

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