Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "nineteenth century"

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    • Beyond Aura: Art as Object of Historical Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century 

      Unluonen, Sezen (2022-05-12)
      This dissertation turns to the originary moment of historicism to investigate what it meant for British culture to treat artworks (from architecture to literary texts) as expressions of historical knowledge in the nineteenth ...

    • Indignant Reading 

      Goodman, Lesley Anne (2013-09-18)
      In 1871, R. H. Hutton criticized George Eliot for "unfairly running down one of her own characters": Middlemarch's Rosamond Vincy. Hutton blamed Eliot for being cruel to her own creation and used his role as a reader and ...

    • The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life 

      Cook, Eli (2013-10-14)
      A history of statistical economic indicators in America, this dissertation uncovers the protracted struggle which took place in the nineteenth century over how economic life should be quantified, how social progress should ...