Search results for "Victoria"
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Forms of Artistic Commitments (1880-1940) Introduction
2016
International audience; Introduction to a series of essays
« Before fin de siècle: periodical cosmopolitanism of the 1860s and 1870s»
2014
International audience; This presentation explores nascent cosmopolitanism as manifested in the Liberal 'Fortnightly Review' under John Morley's editorship (1867-82)
Art and Commitment in the British Music Hall in its Golden Age
2013
International audience; My own speciality is the British music-hall, especially its later period, after 1900. I like to see this form of popular entertainment as fitting into a series of stories: at least three storiesFirstly, as an industry, and as a repertoire of songs, it fits into the history of popular music, in the period before the domination of recorded or broadcast music, when live performance and sheet music were practically the only modes of distribution. It is a period when many aspects of today’s popular music were not present – there were no live recordings of songs to contrast with their studio versions, no post-production, and where singing along in a group, rather than othe…
Displacing Victorian Women: Mid-Nineteenth Century Popular Drama and the Representation of Female Identity
2019
La presente tesis contribuye al actual interés por rescatar las cuestiones de género más obviadas u olvidadas del siglo XIX. Principalmente, se establece la década de los sesenta (1860–1870) como década precursora al movimiento sufragista inglés de finales de siglo y se ofrece una visión temprana de las estrategias adoptadas por las mujeres victorianas para traspasar la constrictiva ideología de género de la época. Comenzamos cuestionándonos los motivos por los cuales las mujeres de los sesenta decidieron empezar su viaje o ‘journey’ hacia la emancipación, así haciendo referencia a la supuesta pasividad o ‘docilidad’ de las mujeres. Además, establecemos los vínculos existentes entre los mov…
Deconstructing Gendered and Colonial Violence in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth-Century: Domestic Traumas in Neo-Victorianism on Screen
2023
En esta tesis, examinamos el colapso del concepto idealizado de familia nuclear en las sociedades occidentales a través de la (mala) representación de los traumas de género y coloniales en el neovictorianismo audiovisual. Para ello, analizamos cuatro textos audiovisuales neovictorianos producidos en la última década: Crimson Peak (2015) de Guillermo del Toro, Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), Taboo (2017-presente) y Carnival Row (2019-presente) a través del marco teórico de los estudios de trauma. Nuestras hipótesis de partida son (1) estos textos audiovisuales neovictorianos aparentemente proporcionan una representación feminista de los traumas de género dentro de los confines de la familia nucl…
Hobsonʻs imperialism : a study in late-Victorian political thought
2009
In his PhD study Timo Särkkä explores J. A. Hobson’s (1858–1940) paradigm of imperialism, its content, intentions and, finally, its limitations. The study reveals that Hobson’s thesis of imperialism can be seen as paradigmatic of the 1890s radical-liberal understanding of imperialism.The author argues that when the Victorian periodical press (weeklies, reviews and magazines) is analysed in its original communicative context, it reveals a more appropriate environment in which to study Hobson’s political thought in terms of the history of ideas. Thus, quite conversely to the previous studies concerning Hobson, the principal sources used in this study are journal and periodical articles, revie…
«The Uneasy Modernist: John Middelton Murry »
2014
International audience; This presentation discusses John Middleton Murry "The Trajectory of an Intellectual" (1919)
Science on local, regional, and national scales: geographies of natural history in the mid- to late Victorian England
2022
The history of science has taken a “geographical turn” at the turn of this century. Since then, historians of science have sought to understand the impact of geography on the practice, organisation and diffusion of scientific knowledge. In this paper, I look into the organisation of amateur science in provincial England through the scales of local, regional and national. The scientific societies established in the Victorian Midlands provide an excellent material to understand the close relationship between the natural history societies and geography, which has usually been taken for granted. In the Victorian Midlands, some sixty scientific societies were established for the study of local n…
Taming of the Rake: From a Man about Town to a Man at Home in "The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë
2015
In „The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” Anne Brontë considers one of the most burning questions of the Victorian period, i.e. the problem of male domestic violence. The novel contributed to the public debate on the defects of the legal system which discriminated against women and made them totally dependent on their fathers and husbands. However, the writer’s diagnosis of the social issue does not focus on the formal aspects only, as she believed that political action should be accompanied by a farreaching reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century models of femininity and masculinity. Brontë suggests that legal reform is not enough to eliminate such pathologies as marital abuse. She tries to disma…
Florence Nightingale as a Victorian career woman
2016
The chapter focuses on the role of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) in turning nursing into a trained profession and a viable and respectable career option for Victorian women seeking employment outside of the home. Nightingale's accomplishments and her thoughts on women's lot in life as expressed in her essay "Cassandra", are presented against the backdrop of the ideology of separate spheres which circumscribes women within the domestic domain. The chapter discusses Nightingale's work in British military field hospitals during the Crimean War, her successful efforts to reform the ways in which such hospitals were run, and the establishment of the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses and …