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Tom Brown’s schooldays: ‘sportsex’ in Victorian Britain [PDF]
, 2012 Thomas Hughes’ idealised vision of life at Rugby public school is one of the best-known novels in the English language. It was regarded from the outset as a founding text of ‘muscular Christianity’.
Harvey, Andy
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Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 The pantun, a classical verse form which began as an oral tradition, is part of the cultural heritage of the Malay people. The earliest known Malay pantun translations into English in print have been identified in approximately seven different types of ...
Krishnavanie Shunmugam, Bee Kwee Soh
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Amateur Stained Glass in English Churches, 1830-80
19, 2020 Nineteenth-century English stained glass has produced a rich corpus of works mainly produced by the many large and well-known Victorian studios. One group of artisans who can add much to the current debate on nineteenth-century stained glass are amateurs.
Thomas Kupper
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Understanding Erica xwillmorei, a nineteenth century English garden hybrid
Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2003 The application of the binomial Erica willmorei Knowles & Westc. is discussed and the name is typified by an illustration. It is demonstrated that the name was altered to E. wilmoreana by Bentham. misapplied and misspelled soon after publication and that
E. Charles Nelson, E. G. H. Oliver
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Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, 2014 Resumen Este artículo analiza Ensayo sobre la literatura inglesa, obra de Joaquín Henrich y Girona publicada en 1881 que puede considerarse la primera historia completa de la literatura inglesa escrita en español.
Sara Medina Calzada
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/u/ fronting and /t/ aspiration in Māori and New Zealand English [PDF]
, 2009 This article examines the relationship between the frontness of /u/ and the aspiration of /t/ in both Māori and New Zealand English (NZE). In both languages, these processes can be observed since the earliest recordings dating from the latter part of the
Harlow, Ray +4 more
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Introduction: Minds, Bodies, Machines
19, 2008 This issue of 19 brings together a selection of essays from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Minds, Bodies, Machines' convened last year by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of London, in partnership with the English ...
Deirdre Coleman, Hilary Fraser
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Contrastive relational markers in women’s expository writing in nineteenth-century English
Language Value, 2023 This study seeks to analyse the occurrence of contrastive relational markers in a corpus of recipes called Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English, the 19th century sub-corpus (COWITE19).
Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo
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Smugglers, Poachers and Wreckers in Nineteenth-Century English Painting
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2005 This paper looks at the representation, in art, of three groups of people whose activities in the countryside and on the coast aroused conflicting reactions: moralists saw them as a threat to the social order, but they were rarely regarded as criminal ...
Christiana Payne
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Bending the Clock: New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ageing: A Roundtable Conversation
19, 2021 Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The Victorians and Old Age (2009), Kay Heath’s Aging by the ...
Andrea Charise +5 more
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