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The performance of sexual and economic politics in the plays of Aphra Behn.Snook, Lorrie Jean January 1992 (has links)
Since her work as a professional playwright in the 1670s and 1680s, critics have sought to equate Aphra Behn and her plays, to fix and stabilize the body of the writer and of her work. She has been marked as a prostitute, a feminist, and a masculinist hack, in each case her gender determining the value of and audience for her writing. This dissertation argues that Behn's plays--and Behn--should be read in terms of her controlling tropes and forms of performance and intrigue. Her plays and her presence use these tropes and forms to decenter the idea of identity and manipulate conventions of gender roles in the patriarchal Restoration theater. In doing so, she recasts and reconstitutes the structure of the patriarchal theater and economy. Chapter 1 introduces my argument and presents an overview of critical and feminist responses to Behn. I use this overview to present my own view of identity as performance, opposing such essentialist theorists as Helene Cixous. Chapter 2 develops the historical and metaphorical associations of intrigue and performance, beginning with her Preface to The Dutch Lover; in reading two of her lesser-known intrigue-comedies, The Dutch Lover and The Feign'd Curtezans, or a Night's Intrigue, I then argue that performance and intrigue challenge the conventional engendering of roles such as the rake and the courtesan. Chapter 3 expands these associations and reads her economic metaphors, as I look at Behn's most famous intrigue-comedy, The Rover, and its sequel; as well as challenging conventional roles and economic valuations, however, The Rover, Part II emphasizes the ultimate inescapability of these roles and valuations in the patriarchal theater. Chapter 4 moves to her town-comedies; I argue that Behn adapts the intrigue-form to her comedies of manners, working out the characters' struggle between convention and nature to define public and private selves. Sir Patient Fancy sets up the power that the manipulation of convention offers; The City Heiress emphasizes the limits of such manipulation; The Lucky Chance offers magic and ambiguity as new theatrical possibility to subvert convention and recast role.
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The rise of cemetery companies in Britain, 1820-53Rugg, Julie January 1992 (has links)
Cemetery companies were the principal agency of the transition from a traditional reliance on graveyards to the use of modern extra-mural cemeteries. The thesis comprises a study of the 113 cemetery companies established from 1820 to 1853, a period which saw the origin of this type of enterprise and its spreading throughout Britain. The companies are not analysed as economic entities, but rather as representations of a range of attitudes towards the problems associated with intramural interment. To facilitate discerning different trends relating to the public perceptions of the burial problem, the companies have been classified according to type. This is an exercise which relies on textual analysis of company documents to understand the principal motivation of each group of directors. Three different types of company are examined in the thesis. Directors of enterprises within the first group to emerge saw the burial problem as a religious-political issue, and used cemetery companies as a means of providing extended space for burial which was independent of the Established Church. The new cemeteries had unconsecrated ground, and offered the freedom for Dissenters to adopt any burial service they wished. The increased enthusiasm for all joint-stock enterprise in the mid-1830s saw the advent of the speculative cemetery company, which saw in the burial issue the potential to make profits in one of three ways: by tapping a specific territorial market, a particular class market, or by buying and selling the scrip of grand and impractical necropolitan schemes. A third type of company dominated the 1840s, and its main concern was the provision of extra-mural cemeteries as a sanitary measure. In addition to studies of these three groups of companies, the thesis presents analysis of two additional themes essential to the progress of burial reform: fears concerning the integrity of the corpse; and the cultural significance thought to attach to cemetery foundation. The thesis demonstrates, by studying these companies, that the reasons for taking action to found cemetery companies could vary considerably, and that perception of the burial issue altered a number of times.
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Bodies, knowledge and authority in eighteenth-century infanticide prosecutionsSommers, Sheena. 10 April 2008 (has links)
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The late Victorian revolt, 1859-1895Cominos, Peter T. January 1958 (has links)
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The economic and political theory of William Godwin and his debt to French thinkersPrescot, H. K. January 1930 (has links)
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Conservative Cromwellians and the Restoration c.1657-c.1677Malins, Miranda Christabel Julia January 2011 (has links)
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Religious violence, secularism and the British security imaginary, 2001-2009Gutkowski, Stacey Elizabeth January 2010 (has links)
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Catering for the cultural identities of the deceased in late pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman BritainWhite, Natalie Catherine Christina January 2011 (has links)
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Gender and the literature culture of late medieval EnglandRogers, Janine. January 1998 (has links)
This dissertation explores the impact of gender ideologies held by medieval readerships on the production of books and circulation of texts in late medieval England. The first chapter explores how the professional book trade of late medieval London circulated booklets of Chauceriana which constructed masculinity and femininity in strict adherence to the courtly love literary tradition. In the second chapter, I demonstrate that such a standardized representation of courtly gender could be adapted by a readership removed from the professional book trade, in this case the rural gentry producers of the Findern manuscript, who present a revised vision of femininity and courtliness in their anthology. This revised femininity includes several texts which privilege the female speaking voice. The third chapter goes on to investigate the use of the female voice in one particular genre, the love lyric, and asks if the female lyric speaker can be associated with manuscripts in which women participated as producers or readers. Finally, the fourth chapter turns to masculinity, examining how the commonplace book of an early 16th century grocer, Richard Hill, contains selections from didactic and recreational literature which reinforce the ideals of masculine conduct in the merchant community of late medieval London. The dissertation concludes that manuscript contexts must be taken into account when reading gender in medieval English literature.
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From fever to digestive disease : approaches to the problem of factory ill-health in Britain, 1784-1833Paterson, Carla Susan 11 1900 (has links)
In the early decades of British industrialization, the ill-health of textile factory
workers attracted considerable public interest and provoked discussion and debate
among a growing number of medical men, operatives, manufacturers, and social and
political commentators. Guided by previous studies of the “framing” of disease, this
dissertation examines how such ill-health was conceived, designated and responded to in
the period from 1784 to 1833.
The dissertation reveals that workers themselves held a relatively constant view
of their condition. In the early part of the nineteenth century, they drew attention to a
variety of ailments and throughout the period they saw a clear link between their
maladies and the conditions of their labour. By contrast, medical understanding shifted
significantly, and as it traced a course more or less at odds with that of popular
comprehension, the nature and causes of worker suffering were substantially redefined.
In the 1780s and 1790s, doctors identified the illness of factory labourers as
“low, nervous fever,” an acute contagious disorder generated by the crowding and
confinement of human bodies. A generation later, in the period from 1815 to 1819, the
ill-health of mill workers was conceptualized, by a portion of the medical community,
as “debility,” a poorly-understood state of constitutional feebleness attributed to aspects
of machine work. In the early 1830s, medical authorities regarded factory workers’
sickness primarily as “digestive disease” and located its source in habits and diet.
The reconceptualization of worker ill-health yielded an ultimately optimistic
assessment of the consequences of industrial growth, failing to offer strong support to
demands for legislative restriction of factory operation. It also served to sanction
changing social relations through providing evidence of the physical and moral
distinctness of the manufacturing population.
As medical theory altered, so, too, did practices of relief and assistance. While
mill owners, and doctors, became increasingly unwilling to assume responsibility for
the well-being of the industrial workforce, operatives engaged ever more extensively in
practices of self-help. The expansion of the textile industry, however, ensured the
continuation of their affliction and incapacity.
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