In 1851, Bristol educator Mary Carpenter made the following observation in her private
journal:“I wish that I could pursue the work I love so much without anyone seeing me, and …

This thesis examines Dickens's representation of cockney dialect and cockney speakers, as
well as representations of upwardly mobile Londoners and their speech. It identifies the …

This thesis is about bohemian associational culture in London and Manchester between
1850 and 1914. It is concerned with how the ideas of bohemianism and bohemia influenced …

When you read fiction, what are you paying attention to? You may consider character, plot,
description, narration, font, format, grammar, or any number of aspects that make up a novel …

A survey of writing about Dickens published in the United States in 1997 reveals a sobering
reality: few major university presses are publishing scholarly books devoted to him—or to …

The purpose of this research is to examine the nature-nurture debate In Charles Dickens'
famous novel Oliver Twist. More specifically, this research will examine the ways in which …

Many Victorian women novelists incorporated the female performer into their works. This
dissertation aims to salvage the original symbolic intricacies of such incorporations through …

Interrogating Rusticism utilizes concepts from postcolonial theory and studies in
cosmopolitanism to examine the relationship between the country and the city in nineteenth …

From 1830 to the mid 1870s, interest in Shakespeare flourished in England, and an
extensive number of scholars have written about this fact. Many of those writers include …

In the last 15 years or so, scholarship on media audiences has moved away from studies of
direct engagement with texts towards a consideration of the multiple articulations with media …