scholarly journals Demonising the Victorian Heroine’s Coming-of-Age in Edward Bulwer-lytton’s Lucretia and Edgar allan Poe’s women’s Tales

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract:In Victorian times, the female subject, as embodiment of domestic morality, contributed to the construction of middle-class ideology. In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Lucretia (1846), the female protagonist apparently incarnates the ideal Victorian heroine. Nonetheless, through her coming-of-age, Lucretia’s privileged mind and lack of affection lead her to pursue ambitious aims in a men’s world. Edgar Allan Poe also referred to the incipient power women began to achieve. This article aims to analyse in which ways Victorian women’s awakening power is demonised through their comingof-age, thus pursuing a transatlantic comparative analysis between Bulwer-Lytton’s Lucretia and Edgar Allan Poe’s women’s tales.Keywords: Transatlanticism, gender, Victorian heroines, gothic fiction, coming-of-age, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe.Resumen:En la época victoriana, los personajes femeninos, como personificaciones de la moralidad doméstica, contribuyeron a la construcción de la ideología de la clase media. En la novela Lucrecia de Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1846), la protagonista aparentemente encarna el ideal de la heroína victoriana. Sin embargo, a lo largo de su proceso de madurez, su mente privilegiada junto con la falta de afecto la llevan a alcanzar ambiciosas metas en un mundo de hombres. Edgar Allan Poe también aludió al incipiente poder que las mujeres empezaban a conseguir. Este artículo pretende analizar el modo en que el poder emergente de las heroínas victorianas es demonizado a lo largo de su proceso de maduración, proponiendo un análisis comparativo transatlántico entre la novela de Bulwer-Lytton Lucrecia y las narraciones de mujeres de Edgar Allan Poe.Palabras clave: Transatlanticismo, género, heroínas victorianas, ficción gótica, paso a la madurez, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe.

The Right to Dream: Gender, Modernity, and the Problem of Class in Kate O'Brien's Bourgeois Bildungsromane

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Naoise Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aristocratic Culture ◽  
Modern Form

Feminist critics have celebrated Kate O'Brien's pioneering approach to gender and sexuality, yet there has been little exploration of her innovations of the coming-of-age narrative. Creating a modern Irish reworking of the Bildungsroman, O'Brien's heroines represent an idealized model of female identity-formation which stands in sharp contrast to the nationalist state's vision of Irish womanhood. Using Franco Moretti's theory of the Bildungsroman, a framing of the genre as a thoroughly ‘modern’ form of the novel, this article applies a critical Marxist lens to O'Brien's output. This reading brings to light the ways in which the limitations of the Bildungsroman work to constrain O'Brien's subversive politics. Their middle-class status remains an integral part of the identity of her heroines, informing the forms of liberation they seek. Fundamentally, O'Brien's idealization of aristocratic culture, elitist exceptionalism and ‘detachment of spirit’ restricts the emancipatory potential of her vision of Irish womanhood.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Common Root ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
German Court ◽  
The Ideal

The introduction ‘Philhellenism and Theatromania’ retraces the emergence of these two phenomena in the German middle class. The year 1755 marks a watershed in this regard: it saw the publication of J. J. Winckelmann’s treatise Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks and the premiere of G. E. Lessing’s first domestic tragedy Miß Sara Sampson. Both share the common root and motivation once and for all to banish Frenchified German court culture. While Winckelmann’s treatise praised the ‘noble simplicity’ and ‘quiet greatness’ of the Greek masterpieces, Lessing’s play advocated new family values and the ideal of ‘naturalness’ as the true virtues of the middle class. The merging of Philhellenism as the cult of beauty with theatromania as the quest for identifying in a social group and as an individual provided the basic condition for staging Greek tragedies.

scholarly journals Municipal modernity: the politics of leisure and Johannesburg's swimming baths, 1920s to 1930s

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Louis Grundlingh
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Outdoor Activity ◽  
White Males ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
Financial Expenditure ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Leisure Facilities ◽  
Sport Facilities ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract In the 1920s and 1930s, the all-powerful Johannesburg Council, comprising English-speaking middle-class white males, realized the importance of providing leisure spaces and sport facilities for its white residents and prioritized the building of swimming baths in their suburbs. It was regarded as the ideal facility, supporting the growing demand for outdoor activity. The upswing in the economy in the 1920s and especially in the 1930s, expedited this endeavour, as it eased the financial expenditure. As a result, Johannesburg could boast 10 new swimming baths by the end of the 1930s. The council was adamant that the swimming baths should be on a par with international standards. This venture fitted comfortably into the larger project of transforming the economically vibrant Johannesburg into a modern city. In contrast, the first swimming bath for Johannesburg's black residents was only built in the mid-1930s, proving that racial considerations determined the council's provision of leisure facilities.

scholarly journals Prevalência do uso de medicamentos para emagrecer entre universitárias

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Fernandes Oliveira da Silva ◽  
Francinie Valeska Mendes da Silva ◽  
Silvia Maria Ribeiro Oyama
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Ideal Weight ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
Recursos Humanos ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Cultural Pressures ◽  
The Ideal

Jovens do sexo feminino são mais vulneráveis às pressões socioeconômicas e culturais associadas aos padrões estéticos, tendo-se em vista a ênfase crescente dada à magreza como aspectos associados aos ideais de beleza. Para que a perda de peso aumente, eis que surge a necessidade do uso de medicamentos inibidores do apetite. O trabalho teve como objetivo identificar e descrever o índice de prevalência do uso de medicamentos para emagrecer entre universitárias. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de campo, descritiva, transversal e de natureza quantitativa.  O total de entrevistados foi de 148 alunas, compreendidas entre os cursos de Recursos Humanos, Pedagogia e Enfermagem. O uso de medicamentos para emagrecer quando as pessoas ingressam na universidade aumenta devido à necessidade do “corpo perfeito” para concorrer com outras universitárias. As usuárias necessitam desistir da ideia fixa de que o medicamento é a única forma rápida e fácil de perder peso e se conscientizarem de que o peso ideal é obtido através de exercícios físicos e uma dieta equilibrada, com reeducação alimentar.Descritores: Obesidade, Mulher, Medicamentos. Prevalence of weight-loss drugs among universityAbstract: Young women are more vulnerable to the socioeconomic and cultural pressures associated with aesthetic standards, keeping in view the increasing emphasis on thinness as aspects associated with ideals of beauty. For weight loss increase, here comes the need of using inhibitor drugs appetite. The study aimed to identify and describe the prevalence rate of use of slimming drugs among university. This is a field research, descriptive, transversal and quantitative in nature. The total number of respondents was 148 students, ranging from courses in Human Resources, Education and Nursing. The use of slimming drugs when people entering university increases due to the need of the "perfect body" to compete with other universities. The users need to give up the fixed idea that medicine is the only quick and easy way to lose weight and become aware that the ideal weight is obtained through exercise and a balanced diet with nutritional education. Descriptors: Obesity, Women Drugs. Prevalencia del uso de medicamentos para perder peso entre universitariosResumen: Las mujeres jóvenes son más vulnerables a las presiones socioeconómicas y culturales asociados con las normas estéticas, teniendo en cuenta el creciente énfasis en la delgadez como aspectos asociados a los ideales de la belleza. Para el aumento de la pérdida de peso, aquí viene la necesidad de la utilización de fármacos inhibidores del apetito. El estudio tuvo como objetivo identificar y describir la tasa de prevalencia del uso de drogas para adelgazar entre universidad. Se trata de una investigación de campo, descriptivo, transversal y cuantitativo en la naturaleza. El número total de encuestados fue de 148 estudiantes, que van desde cursos en Recursos Humanos, Educación y Enfermería. El uso de medicamentos para adelgazar cuando la gente entrar en incrementos de la universidad debido a la necesidad del "cuerpo perfecto" para competir con otras universidades. Los usuarios tienen que renunciar a la idea fija de que la medicina es la única manera rápida y fácil de perder peso y estar consciente de que el peso ideal se obtiene mediante el ejercicio y una dieta equilibrada con la educación nutricional.Descriptores: Obesidad, Mujeres, Medicamentos.

scholarly journals Perfil epidemiológico das gestantes com doença hipertensiva específica da gestação atendidas no serviço de referência municipal

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Jucimar Frigo ◽  
Letícia Maria Bringhenti ◽  
Andrey A. R. Gollo ◽  
Rosana Amora Ascari ◽  
Marta Kolhs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Hypertensive Disorders Of Pregnancy ◽  
Hypertensive Disease ◽  
Personal Risk ◽  
Reference Service ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The Ideal

Resumo: Objetivou-se analisar as características epidemiológicas e condições sócio-demográficas que contribuem para o desenvolvimento da Doença Hipertensiva Específica da Gravidez (DHEG) em mulheres atendidas no serviço de referência municipal. Pesquisa quantitativa, documental e retrospectiva. Analisaram-se 06 prontuários no período de janeiro de 2010 a 2011, através da estatística descritiva. Resultados: a maior parte das mulheres eram provenientes da área urbana e apresentavam entre vinte e trinta anos; 100% apresentava o IMC acima do ideal máximo; 66,7% apresentou fator pessoal de risco para a doença. Considerações finais: se faz necessário desenvolver ações educativas para melhoria da qualidade na assistência pré-natal, reduzindo assim mortalidade materno-fetal.Palavras-chave: Enfermagem; Gravidez; Cuidado Pré-Natal; Hipertensão.Epidemiological Profile Of Pregnant Women With Hypertensive Disorders Of Pregnancy Treated At Municipal Reference ServiceAbstrat: This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiological and socio-demographic characteristics that contribute to the development of Specific Hypertensive Disease of Pregnancy (HDP) in women treated at municipal reference service. Quantitative research, documentary and retrospective. We analyzed 06 medical records from January 2010 to 2011, using descriptive statistics. Results: Most women were from urban areas and had between twenty and thirty years, 100% had a BMI above the ideal maximum, 66.7% had a personal risk factor for the disease. Final thoughts: it is necessary to develop educational initiatives for quality improvement in prenatal care, reducing maternal and fetal mortality.Keywords: Nursing, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Hypertension.Perfil Epidemiológico De Las Mujeres Embarazadas Con Trastornos Hipertensivos Del Embarazo Atendidos En El Servicio De Referencia Municipal Resumen: Este estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar las características epidemiológicas y socio-demográficas que contribuyan al desarrollo de la enfermedad hipertensiva específica del embarazo (HDP) en las mujeres tratadas en el servicio de referencia municipal. La investigación cuantitativa, documental y retrospectivo. Se analizaron 06 historias clínicas entre enero de 2010 y 2011, utilizando estadística descriptiva. Resultados: La mayoría de las mujeres eran de zonas urbanas y tuvo entre los años veinte y treinta, el 100% tenía un IMC por encima del máximo ideal, el 66,7% tenían un factor de riesgo personal de contraer la enfermedad. Consideraciones finales: es necesario desarrollar iniciativas educativas para mejorar la calidad en la atención prenatal, la reducción de la mortalidad materna y fetal.Palabras clave: Enfermería, embarazo, cuidado prenatal, hipertensión.

The City Sketch

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-104
Author(s):  
John Evelev
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Lydia Maria Child ◽  
Margaret Fuller ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
City Life ◽  
The City

Although the picturesque sketch genre is primarily associated with rural subjects, it was also applied to city life during the mid-nineteenth century, when urban populations were undergoing unprecedented growth. Chapter 2 argues that the newly popular picturesque city sketch helped the emergent middle class to establish its identity as it attained a distinctive position between the wealthy and the working classes. Walking the streets, the middle-class picturesque city sketcher turned the class-divided city into picturesque tableaux that were far less antagonistic to city life than the sensationalist characterizations that were central to the dominant mode of city writing in midcentury. The chapter examines city sketches and fiction derived from the genre, written by Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Maria Child, George “Gaslight” Foster, Margaret Fuller, Cornelius Mathews, and others. Although city sketchers helped articulate a middle-class identity, the picturesque at times tended to give way to a sublime mode in which the city crowd threatened to absorb the middle class into its undifferentiated mass.

scholarly journals Effect of Acoustic Shock on Submarine

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4993
Author(s):  
Igor Korobiichuk ◽  
Viktorij Mel’nick ◽  
Volodimir Karachun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Translational Motion ◽  
Underwater Vehicles ◽  
Compressed Air ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Limiting Values ◽  
Real Medium ◽  
Limited Motion ◽  
The Ideal

The carried-out analysis of the dynamics of a submarine body’s translational motion affected by an acoustic shock in the ideal medium provides for the possibility to evaluate the physical properties of the medium and elastic properties of the external body of the submarine to the value of limited motion of a submersible vehicle. The results of analysis provide for the possibility to conduct a comparative analysis of the submersible vehicle’s translational motion affected by an acoustic shock, taking into account the peculiarities of the motion medium, or rather taking into account the viscosity of the real medium. In this work, evaluative measurements of the features of moving the layout of the submarine were carried out. The limiting values of the displacement of the layout of the submarine are established for the case of the presence of an external artificial diffuse disturbance. A fluid with air bubbles from a compressed air cylinder was used to create an artificial diffuse perturbation. Such conditions are possible with intensive local bombardment or the presence of other high-speed underwater vehicles involved in local underwater operations.

scholarly journals Needles, China Cups, Books, and the Construction of the Victorian Feminine Ideal in Rhoda Broughton’S Not Wisely, but too Well and Elizabeth Gaskell’S North and South

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Setecka
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Reality Effect ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Elements Of Style ◽  
And Function ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract Considering Victorian presentation of women as angelic, that is, spiritual, beings, it is rather surprising how much their presence was manifested by material objects. Baskets of needlework, tea equipage and novels lying around in a parlour were an unmistakable sign of the house being occupied by women. Indeed, my contention is, the objects did not clutter Victorian interiors, either real or imagined, merely for practical reasons or to produce the “reality effect.” They are a material representation of the immaterial and function as metaphors for angelic women’s spiritual qualities. Rather than functioning merely as details to enhance the illusion of the real (and thus as elements of style) or simply reflecting the Victorian world (and thus as empty forms), material objects are essential in constructing a middle-class (feminine) identity. My paper concentrates on Rhoda Broughton’s Not wisely, but too well and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South with an attempt to show how objects help construct a feminine ideal and, simultaneously, reveal the ideal to be just a construction. Broughton’s Kate Chester and Gaskell’s Margaret Hale find themselves in situations where their middle-class status might be compromised. Still, they both manage to reassert their position through effectively manipulating the signs of middle-class respectability. The “flimsy and useless” things they surround themselves with point to their “essentially feminine” qualities. Yet, the very superfluity of the objects reveals their relation to the characters’ economic status. They are, then, the site where the material and immaterial meet, where the borders between the economic world and the domestic world blur.

scholarly journals Electoral Reform in Asia: Institutional Engineering against ‘Money Politics’

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLLI HELLMANN
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Electoral Reform ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThis article argues that major cases of electoral reform across democracies in Asia in recent years can be explained as institutional measures aimed at curbing corruption and ‘money politics’. More specifically, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand rid themselves of their extreme candidate-centered electoral systems as a means to encourage politicians to invest in ‘clean’ collective party labels, while Indonesia discarded its extremely party-centered electoral system to increase the accountability of individual politicians. The article thus disagrees with scholars who argue that recent electoral reform should be understood as part of a wider project by Asian governments to engineer a majoritarian form of democracy. Instead, the comparative analysis shows that democracies across Asia, in line with global trends in institutional design, have been ‘normalizing’ their electoral systems, moving them closer towards the ideal of electoral ‘efficiency’.

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