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Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

Early Perceptions of Mental Illness

that if mental illness was caused by a weakened or weakening of the mind, then the stable environment and care that was provided i...

Syllabus Design: 19th Century Literature

4/13 - Laclos, "Dangerous Liaisons", Part IV Segment Five: The Literature of Tension Moving into the 20th century, these works hi...

Race Relations in Trinidad and Tobago

racial divisions in Trinidad and Tobago in relation to the political and social climate of the 19th century, it is necessary to go...

Early Modern Great Britain and Violence

In seven pages this paper discusses the marked increase in violent crime in 19th century Great Britain. Five sources are cited in...

Photographer and Social Reformer Jacob Riis

16). In 1888, Riis left the Tribune to work for the Evening Sun, at which time he also began work on his first book concerning t...

19th Century Working Class Perceptions of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

This paper considers the working class perceptions of Marx and Engels resulting from major 19th century socioeconomic changes in a...

Gender and Race Issues in 19th Century Literature

passionately involved in the struggles of minorities and minority issues, Childs biographer, Carolyn Karcher (1998), readily admi...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

Late 19th Century Opiate Use

This paper pertains to the use of opium and its derivatives, especially laudanum, during the later half of the 19th century. Four ...

Nineteenth Century Childhood in the Works of Henry James

In eight pages this paper examines how 19th century childhood is reflected in James's What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw. ...

Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills'

This paper of 7 pages considers how the author considered issues of economic inequality, social separations, and class differences...

First Seven Chapters of The Revolution of Life by Loubere

The first seven chapters of this text which discussed Europe's 19th century industrial, economic, and political developments are e...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Books on Catholic Revivalism Contrasted

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Madonna of 115th Street by Robert Orsi and Catholic Revivalism by Jay P. ...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

US Catholic Revivalism

Dolans work is particularly concerned with looking at Catholic history from a standpoint which does rely solely on a narrow eccles...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

South Africa's Development and the Impact of the Boer Wars

and the British Empire - black people were also involved at all levels of the war and this in itself had a salient effect on the w...

Piano's Development

loud" (History of the Piano...Grover). In its shape and general construction, it resembled a harpsichord, however, there were ma...

Lombroso and Criminal Behavior

a sensation with his book that was published in 1876 ("Cesare," 2001). In the work, the doctor utilized Darwinian principals of ev...

The Concept of Manifest Destiny as it Applies to Early Life in California

Yankee settlement. Only two days after the American flag rose in the center of town in July, 1846, More than two hundred Mormon s...

Literature and Evolution Theory

a theory that was unmarred by economics. (Hartman, 1999). In essence, Peirce appears to have been saying that nineteenth century...

Expansionism of the U.S., Italy, and Germany During the 19th Century

there was considerable fractionation between the people. The young United States also faced the problem of enlarging her territor...

Classical Themodynamics Topic Critique

more extended its range of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made on me. It is the onl...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...