The emphasis of this thesis is to describe the Spasmodic poets of the Victorian period, to define "Spasmodism", to familiarize the reader with the major Spasmodics and their works, and to show the role that the Spasmodics filled during the Victorian period in English literature.

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From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male: devoted husband, sexual revolutionary and weaponized servant of the state. His silhouette can be traced through the works of authors like Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. More than a literary genealogy, this history of the Byronic hero and his heirs follows the changes that masculinity has undergone in response to industrial upheaval, the rise of the middle class and the demands of global competition, from the Victorian period through the early 20th century. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1121/thumbnail.jpg

Submitted by MANUELA GRATON MARCELLO null (manu.graton@gmail.com) on 2016-09-12T22:37:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Manuela Graton Marcello.pdf: 1091648 bytes, checksum: 6ced89dc5ea0ec9cde217bc5c18c559e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Felipe Augusto Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-09-14T20:04:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 marcello_mg_me_sjrp.pdf: 1091648 bytes, checksum: 6ced89dc5ea0ec9cde217bc5c18c559e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-14T20:04:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marcello_mg_me_sjrp.pdf: 1091648 bytes, checksum: 6ced89dc5ea0ec9cde217bc5c18c559e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-23 / Publicada em 1865 e considerada obra nonsense, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland é o livro mais conhecido de Lewis Carroll (pseudônimo de Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Escrito e publicado no período vitoriano, Alice apresenta um cenário repleto de fantasia onde a protagonista vive suas aventuras, que são vistas por muitos leitores como algo meramente fantasioso e desprovido de lógica. A partir de leituras relacionadas à sociedade vitoriana e ao discurso histórico, percebe-se que os acontecimentos e experiências experimentados pela garota são permeados por traços irônicos relativos à sociedade em que Alice vivia. A presente dissertação propõe, com base no estudo da narrativa histórica realizado por Hayden White, particularmente a questão do tropo da ironia, o entendimento de como o discurso no Alice é relacionado a implicações da ideologia da época. No âmbito da História da época e das técnicas discursivas utilizadas pelo autor o presente trabalho resgata alguns dos aspectos históricos ironizados por Carroll, utilizando não somente os estudos relacionados à linguagem e aos modos de elaboração de enredo de Hayden White (1994, 1995), mas também a história dos princípios educacionais da Inglaterra vitoriana, de Morais (2004). / Published in 1865 and considered a work nonsense, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the best-known book by Lewis Carroll (pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Written and published in the Victorian period, Alice is set in a fantastic scenario where the protagonist’s adventures take place, and the book is seen by many readers as something merely fanciful and illogical. From readings related to Victorian society and historical discourse, it is clear that the events and experiences lived by the girl are permeated by ironic traces related to the society of Alice’s day. The present dissertation, based on Hayden White’s study of historical narrative, particularly the question of the trope of irony, proposes an understanding of how Carroll’s discourse in Alice is related to implications of the prevailing ideology. In the context of the history of the period and of the discursive techniques used by the author the present study examines some of the historical aspects satirised by Carroll, utilising not only Hayden White’s studies of language and modes of plot development (1994, 1995), but also Morais’s history of the principles of Victorian education, Morais (2004).

Architecture and photography have always been closely interacted since the invention of photography in the late 1830s.While architecture has been captured as one of the main subjects of photography, photography has served architecture as a valuable tool of representation. Focusing on the frame defined by Victorian Britain, this study tries to capture intersecting histories between photography and architecture. Accordingly three intersections were defined: the first intersection corresponds to the simultaneous development of photography and architectural photography / the second to theinteraction between architectural photography and architectural theory/practice / and the third to the relation between architectural photography and architectural historiography.

The thesis attempts to discuss the character of late Romantic literature and art as it developed in England throughout the Victorian period. It follows the assertion made by G. Hough that it is possible to identify a continuous presence of Romantic ideas and methods in the writings of some major Victorian authors, and reflects the fact that there was actually no consensus or prevailing unequivocal view of Romanticism at that time, as is evidenced in the contradicting statements of such writers as John Ruskin and Walter Pater. The first objective of the thesis is thus to define the characteristic features of English Romanticism as they can be tracked down in the formative period of the 18th century and the time of High Romanticism of the first decades of the following century, and to see what transforming changes these characteristics underwent during the Victorian era. The sources of Romantic sensibility are located in the revolutionary role of the scientific discoveries of the 17th century and a new focus of the philosophical writings of that period, concerning mainly operations of the human mind. This development resulted in new aesthetic conceptions based on the two prevailing approaches, empiricism and Neo-Platonism. These theories conditioned the main concern of Romantic thought, i.e. an...

This thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written by Scottish surgeon Alexander M’Donald, of Inulluapik’s transatlantic journey to Aberdeen, Scotland and Tinnujivik (Cumberland Sound) from 1839 to 1840. I show how Inulluapik’s experience in Aberdeen in 1839, as recorded by M’Donald, provides insight into early Victorian worldviews and perceptions, which I call M’Donald’s Qallunaat-dom and Qallunaat-ness. By conducting a Qallunology of M’Donald’s description of the historical episode, I examine his early Victorian Qallunaat-dom, which compared Inuit from the eastern Arctic to Scots in Aberdeen through his binary understanding of whaling, gender, and spirituality. M’Donald’s interpretation of Inulluapik’s experience demonstrated his contrasting views of Inuit and non-Inuit cultures, which intersected with early Victorian ideas of civilization, intelligence, behaviour, appearance, respectability, female domesticity and marital purity, and Indigenous authenticity. In contrast, Inulluapik demonstrated fluid resistance to M’Donald’s early Victorian binaries of subsistence versus commercial whaling, rural versus urban, primitive versus advanced, and uncivilized versus civilized, and Indigenous versus non-Indigenous. / Graduate