Browsing by Subject "nineteenth century"
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(2016-08-26)In mid-nineteenth century Britain, the dramatic disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his men led to a large-scale search conducted throughout the Arctic by sailing ships and steamers. One such ship was HMS Pioneer (formerly ...
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(2012-02-14)Until recently Alice Cary's works have gone largely unnoticed by the literary community, and those critics who have examined her writings have recognized her primarily as a regionalist sketch writer. However, studying ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)ComfortâÂÂwith its various connotations of physical ease, wealth, independence, and serviceâÂÂis an important concept to Jane Austen, who uses comfort in her novels to both affirm and challenge accepted womenâÂÂs ...
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(2022-06-06)Through feminist geography, public sphere theory, and journalism history, this project argues that British and American authors articulated their anxiety and excitement surrounding changes in the culture of publicity and ...
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(2015-08-06)Steamboats became commercially viable in the early nineteenth century, and by the 1830s were arguably the most popular form of long-distance travel around North America, especially on inland waterways like Lake Champlain. ...