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1	The Performative History of Tomboys in Anglophone Literature Prior to Little Women Palmer, Kimber 22 June 2023 (has links) (PDF) This paper examines the expansive history of literary tomboys in the century preceding Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868). Applying concepts from gender performativity theory, it explores earlier and previously overlooked portrayals of tomboys (or, alternatively, "hoydens" or "romps"), especially in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's A Trip to Scarborough (1777), Isaac Bickerstaffe's The Romp; A Comic Opera in Two Acts (1786), Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (1817), and E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand (1859). Because the tomboy phenomenon emphasizes that gender roles must be learned and can be resisted, tomboy characters are implicitly making a feminist point. As such, in the gap between Austen and Southworth, texts with minor and derogatory mentions of tomboys connect tomboyism with the prevailing anti-feminism of the early nineteenth century. By examining the developmental arc of tomboyism throughout literature and culture, this essay develops a greater understanding of how tomboyism fits within different historical periods and was a fully recognizable type in Britain and America decades before Alcott's Jo March supposedly normalized it in popular culture. tomboy gender performativity hoyden romp Richard Brinsley Sheridan A Trip to Scarborough Isaac Bickerstaffe The Romp; A Comic Opera in Two Acts Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Jane Austen Northanger Abbey E.D.E.N. Southworth The Hidden Hand Louisa May Alcott Little Women literary history feminism Arts and Humanities
2	”By the iron hand of oppression" : The performance of the parliamentary election contest in Nottingham and Middlesex 1802-1803 Blomgren, Alvar January 2017 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to investigate how politics was done at the level of the parliamentary constituencies at the time of the treaty of Amiens 1802-1803. This is achieved through two case studies of the elections in Middlesex and Nottingham, which are investigated as social practices. This thesis argues that understandings of masculinity and national identity, as well as questions about the nature of the constitution and citizen rights were central to participants in the extraparliamentary political process. Collective emotions were also highly important in the process of mobilising political support, and this thesis emphasises that participation in these elections was a collective effort; men and women from all levels of society were significant political actors. Moreover, this thesis demonstrates the importance of competences such as knowledge about the organisation of crowds and political violence in the performance of the election. Georgian elections political history history of democracy Georgian politics Parlamentary reform reform movement radicals radicalism Pittite repression Gagging acts two acts seditious meetings act treason act habeas corpus suspension act habeas corpus Nottingham Middlesex 1802 general election parlamentary elections controverted elections 19th century nineteenth century treaty of Amiens Joseph Birch Daniel Coke William Mainwaring Francis Burdett Mary Rich Cold Bath prison newspapers citizenship nationality British national identity English national identity gender masculinity independence working-class lower-class crowds women female political propaganda political artifacts vestiary affronts space place power emotions collective emotions solidarity doing politics social practice practice theory practice-as-entity practice-as-performance Elizabeth Shove Ducking spencering Hanoverian History Historia

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The Performative History of Tomboys in Anglophone Literature Prior to Little Women

”By the iron hand of oppression" : The performance of the parliamentary election contest in Nottingham and Middlesex 1802-1803