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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Moral patterns in the novels of Fielding and Thackeray

Binks, Jennifer Anne. January 1965 (has links) (PDF)
[Typescript] Includes bibliography.
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Women of Substance : The Aspect of Education, Career and Female Identity in Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary

Lindgren, Johanna January 2009 (has links)
Although two hundred years separate Jane Austen and Helen Fielding and, subsequently, also their portrayals of society, the similarities outweigh the differences. When juxtaposing Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary in the light of feminism it is evident that both books provide clear examples of the prevailing situation of women in each time and place. The aspects of the study, which are especially important today, show both the development and some degree of stagnation of women’s rights and identities.
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The Accomplished Woman – No Changes Accomplished? : A Comparison of the Portrayal of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones

Nilsson, Kristina January 2009 (has links)
<p>In this essay I compare the notion of the accomplished woman in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s novels about Bridget Jones. My claim is that the notion of the accomplished woman that Austen described 200 years ago is still very relevant and not much different today as reflected in Helen Fielding’s narrative in Bridget Jones, but also that both authors satirically describe the pressure that is put on women to reach the ideal of the accomplished woman. I initially discuss feminist literary theory, and then I analyze the following characteristics and ideas which make up the accomplished woman: Physical appearance, Education & Knowledge, Marriage & Having Children, Career and Skills, Status & Class and Manners & Behaviour. This essay shows that the notion of the accomplished woman is still very much present and in some cases, like physical appearance, the pressure on women to reach this ideal has actually gotten worse. Both Jane Austen and Helen Fielding use irony and satirically describe the pressure on young women as a way of actually criticizing their contemporary societies.</p>
94

L'escouade des Bow Street Runners sous Sir John Fielding (Londres, 1748-1780)

Richard, Sébastien 02 1900 (has links) (PDF)
L'objectif de ce mémoire est de présenter les membres et les pratiques de l'escouade de Sir John Fielding, ce que l'on allait plus tard appeler les Bow Street Runners, et de tenter d'en savoir plus sur leur réputation, leur intégrité et leur professionnalisme. Ces individus ont fait partie, dans la deuxième moitié du 18e siècle londonien, de l'escouade sur laquelle le premier corps de police professionnel, les bobbies, fut modelé. De plus, cette recherche s'intéressera aux critiques d'un auteur de l'époque sur l'entreprise de Fielding, ses réalisations et ses hommes. Cette étude veut aussi jeter un regard sur les différentes techniques employées par les hommes de Fielding dans le cadre de leur travail. Cette recherche est principalement basée sur les archives judiciaires du Old Bailey durant les années où Sir John Fielding exerçait la fonction de magistrat à Bow Street. Nous avons également utilisé certains articles de journaux de l'époque, mais surtout une série d'articles parus dans le Oxford Magazine, une publication indépendante, imprimée et distribuée à Londres entre 1768 et 1772. L'étude de ces documents nous permet d'identifier les individus ayant travaillé pour Fielding à titre de runner et de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de cette escouade spéciale. Nous pouvons ainsi mieux comprendre comment les acteurs de la justice de l'époque jouaient leur rôle pour appréhender les suspects, de quelle façon leurs témoignages sont devenus plus importants en cour et comment ils témoignaient devant celle-ci. Bien que cette recherche ait identifiée de façon formelle plusieurs individus ayant travaillé à Bow Street durant la magistrature de Fielding, elle ne fournit que des réponses partielles et sur un groupe restreint d'individus, quant à la réputation de ceux-ci et le style de vie qu'ils entretenaient avant de se joindre à l'escouade de Bow-Street. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : John Fielding, Old Bailey, Police, Justice, 18e siècle, Oxford Magazine.
95

Uncertain affections : representations of trust in the British sentimental novel of the eighteenth century

Bowen, Michael John. January 2001 (has links)
This thesis examines representations of trust in selected British sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. It focuses principally on the manner in which sentimental prose fiction reflects and participates in the shift from premodern to modern formations of trust. Commenting on the nature of modern trust, Anthony Giddens claims that, with the move to modernity, trust relations in the intimate sphere become increasingly dependent on emotional mutuality, while trust in institutions becomes increasingly impersonal and disengaged from assessments of moral character. / My work explores this dual shift in three sentimental novels. It first analyzes Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and contends that Richardson denies the concept of honor its epistemological role in practical deliberations. The denial of the epistemology of honor uncouples the mechanism of personal trust from assessments of role and role performance and thus makes the trust in persons in the intimate sphere less dependent on institutional forms of trust. To replace honor's role in the formation of trust, Richardson proposes that the sentiments can provide reliable grounds for trust in the intimate sphere. However, he denies the sentiments a role in the formation of an encompassing social trust among strangers and mere acquaintances. The thesis proceeds to read Henry Fielding's Amelia (1751). In order to argue that Fielding envisioned divergent grounds for trust relations, it maintains that Fielding considers trust relations in the intimate sphere and trust relations in public life as based on the sentiments and fair distribution respectively. To conclude, the thesis investigates Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) to uncover the manner in which Goldsmith distinguishes personal trust in the intimate sphere from general system trust, which Goldsmith ultimately envisions as an ontological trust in providence.
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The Accomplished Woman – No Changes Accomplished? : A Comparison of the Portrayal of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride &amp; Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones

Nilsson, Kristina January 2009 (has links)
In this essay I compare the notion of the accomplished woman in Jane Austen’s Pride &amp; Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s novels about Bridget Jones. My claim is that the notion of the accomplished woman that Austen described 200 years ago is still very relevant and not much different today as reflected in Helen Fielding’s narrative in Bridget Jones, but also that both authors satirically describe the pressure that is put on women to reach the ideal of the accomplished woman. I initially discuss feminist literary theory, and then I analyze the following characteristics and ideas which make up the accomplished woman: Physical appearance, Education &amp; Knowledge, Marriage &amp; Having Children, Career and Skills, Status &amp; Class and Manners &amp; Behaviour. This essay shows that the notion of the accomplished woman is still very much present and in some cases, like physical appearance, the pressure on women to reach this ideal has actually gotten worse. Both Jane Austen and Helen Fielding use irony and satirically describe the pressure on young women as a way of actually criticizing their contemporary societies.
97

Uncertain affections : representations of trust in the British sentimental novel of the eighteenth century

Bowen, Michael John. January 2001 (has links)
No description available.
98

Adaptation, accessibility, and creative autonomy in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones series

Kimbrell, Karleigh Elizabeth Welch 03 May 2019 (has links)
Though feminist scholars criticize Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones series as they feel that Bridget’s diary minimizes her work, close analysis reveals that Bridget’s work is equally important to her as her relationships. The novels charts Bridget’s linear progression toward autonomy and creative freedom, and her work mistakes function as ironic commentary on the creative industries. Though she critiques the entertainment industry, she validates its accessibility to a variety of audiences, particularly through adaptations. Throughout the series, Bridget documents her own life into her diary, and, in the final two novels, adapts her past diaries for a new purpose. The diary form departs from Austen’s more distanced narrator as well as from the traditional scholarship on the diary, which dictates the diary as a way to work through trauma. Fielding alters the diary form, and through her use of interiority, creates a complex protagonist whose success does not make her inaccessible.
99

In the Shadow of Jim Crow: The Benching and Betrayal of Willis Ward

Steward, Tyran Kai 17 September 2013 (has links)
No description available.
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IngenMansLand : om män som feminister, intervjuframträdanden och passerandets politik / No Man's Land : Men as Feminists, Interview Performances and the Politics of Passing

Egeberg Holmgren, Linn January 2011 (has links)
This thesis explores constructions of gendered and gender political positions and practices of men identifying as ‘feminist’. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with 28 men aged 20-34. At issue is how seemingly contradictory positions for men as feminists are made comprehensible in theory and practice. An introduction showcase theoretical discussions on gendered experiences and the possibilities of men being feminist, mainly from standpoint, radical feminist and poststructuralist radical constructionist perspectives. Men doing feminism emerge as an unresolved complex matter. This is followed by a critical discussion of state feminism, double emancipation and research on men and masculinities in the welfare state. The support for men’s participation, predominantly as white heterosexual fathers, in the Swedish gender equality project has consequences for the construction of men as potentially ‘new’, ‘good’ gender equal feminist subjects. In the construction of profeminist positions in interview performances, interviewees are located in-between the radical feminist, poststructuralist and gender equality perspectives on men, masculinity and feminism. Two themes involve an implementation of the concept of passing and introduce the analytical concept of co-fielding. Passing consists of the microsociological process of making radical and deconstructive profeminist positions authentic and yet being able to manage masculinity in homosocial contexts. Co-fielding refers to the conjoint interlacing of experiences, knowledge and meaning-making in interview interaction where relations of researcher-researched are characterized by discursive closeness and overlapping positions. Co-fielding practices affect the outcomes of co-construction of interview performances, the negotiation of gender and power relations and the reflexive use of (in this case feminist) knowledge in qualitative interviews. In analyzing the presentations of self, ambiguous meanings of profeminist positions emerge and the doing, undoing and redoing of feminism and masculinity appear multi-faceted. Radical feminism and radical constructionism seem intersected in making men’s feminist positions comprehensible. Such rebellious positions emerge as oxymoronic and, when critically brought into the gender equality context, located in a no man’s land out of place. In all, the thesis seeks to bring together theoretical, national and empirical locations of profeminist men, and in a concluding chapter also explore issues of ethics in feminist research and cross-gender interviewing.

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