Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 472-490).

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This thesis evaluates the contribution to Victorian literary and cultural debate of Florence Marryat (1833-99) a prolific and varied writer yet to receive sustained critical attention. Specifically, I examine her many fictional representations of the legal, medical, and religious regulation of female identity in novels published between 1865 and 1899. I argue that Marryat goes further than other contemporary writers in subverting gender norms and theorising in fiction a transgressive female. By considering Marryat's output in relation to comparator authors, I demonstrate how her work represents a uniquely radical protest, anticipating and prefiguring the New Woman writing of the fin de siècle. I also show how Marryat appropriates different styles of rhetoric to expose and challenge various mid-Victorian notions of ‘woman' constructed for the purposes of regulation. By representing and then challenging the regulation of female identity, Marryat's novels provide an important insight into how Victorian gender roles were constructed. My research shows that her work constitutes an effective protest against this regulation, evidenced by the critical response which attempted to undermine her reputation and arguments. I examine these criticisms in detail, showing how Marryat's novels became a space in which she engaged with her critics, thereby pushing literary and gender boundaries. By bringing critical insight and contextual knowledge to close readings of Marryat's novels, I reveal the feminist meaning hitherto occluded by literary regulation and subsequent superficial interpretations. Through extensive archival research, I also explain how Marryat used her own experiences to educate her readers, often appearing as a character in the novels. I propose that this direct relationship with her audience, presenting feminist ideas in a quasi-polemical style, makes Marryat's oeuvre distinctive and worthy of further consideration. While Marryat is often considered a writer of ephemeral romances, I establish her as an early feminist who questioned and subverted nineteenth-century notions of femininity.

Review of The Intellectual Struggle for Florence: Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420–1440. By Field, Arthur. Oxford University Press. 2017. xiii + 368pp. £85.00.

Inaug.-diss.--Erlangen. / Lebenslauf. "Literatur": p. vii-ix.

Thesis--Bonn. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203).

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Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2008. / Document formatted into pages; contains 1 score (50 p.) For concert band in four movements: first and fourth movements for full ensemble; second movement for woodwinds/percussion; third movement for brass/percussion. Includes bibliographical references.

Texte remanié de: Tesi--Lettere--Firenze, 1975. / Bibliogr. p. 169-176. Index.

Diss.--New York, 1972. / Bibliogr. f. 28-70 (t.2).