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Women in 18th and 19th Century American Literature, 2004.
This paper discusses two popular works of American literature illustrating the position of women during the 18th and 19th century, "The Hidden Hand" by E.D.E.N. Southworth (1888) and "The Coquette" by Hannah Foster (1797).
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper relates the way the main characters, Capitola Black, in "The Hidden Hand" by E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Eliza Wharton, in "The Coquette" by Hannah Foster, portray, in diverse ways,the progression of women in American society. The author points out that these literary works depict the struggles and victories of women as they fought their way towards progress and eventual liberation in the society. The paper states that, in Southworth's and Foster?s novels, the role of women progressed by adopting masculine characteristics while maintaining their femininity.
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"Capitola Black, or Cap, in the novel The Hidden Hand is an example of a 19th century-woman who adopts a masculine personality in order to initiate progress in the society. This is a practical decision to make on her part, since she has been aware that opportunities, especially job offers, are limited for women and abundant for men. The development of Cap?s character in the novel is best embodies by a comparative analyses of the characters of Cap, Clara Day, and Mrs. Le Noir, which all embody the kinds of women existing during Southworth?s time. Cap, as mentioned earlier, is illustrated as a feisty woman, working her way up in the economic ladder by disguising herself as a young man: ?? And so because I was a girl there seemed to be nothing but starvation or beggary before me!... I felt bitter against Fate for not making me a boy? Yes, sir, and the only thing that made me feel sorry was to see what a fool I had been not to turn to a boy before, when it was so easy! And from that day forth I was happy and prosperous!? "
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The Role of Women in the Opera During the 18th & 19th Centuries, 1988.
Correlates treatment of, & attitudes toward, women in opera of the 18th & 19th centuries to social treatement & attitudes toward women during those periods.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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" The role of women in opera in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected their roles in the society that produced this opera, as would be expected. The roles of both men an women in opera are, of course, heightened from what one would expect in real life and often even beyond what is found in drama, with the grand gesture and the even grander emotion expressed not just musically but in attitudes and behaviors. Catherine Cl?ment finds indeed that the attitudes expressed in the opera toward female characters extended to the female members of the audience:
Where were women in the structure of this edifice? In their place, of course. . . . Nothing comes along to disturb the social pyramid that makes the audience itself an ornament of the opera. Nothing will come later, in the nineteenth century when romantic opera(...)"
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The Catholic Question in 18th and 19th Century Ireland, 2002.
A study of the emergence and interaction of Penal Law, Middle Class, Nationalism,and Political Clergy in 18th and 19th century Ireland.
2,509 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The paper shows that, not unlike the rest of Europe at the time, nineteenth century Ireland was host to a strange new period of politics. The growth and empowerment of a new merchant class that had had its foundations in the later half of the eighteenth century changed politics and strengthened or re-forged alliances. The paper examines one of the results of this which was the gradual re-empowerment of Catholics in the country during a moral and political battle between classes, parties, and English and Irish parliaments.
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"Amidst the fear of French revolution and liberal republicanism, a period of oppression set in during the final decade of the 18th century. The rising sectarianism and agitation was a result of many factors not limited to events in France, but the resultant militarization of the government only helped to inflame the situation. By the close of the century the final results of this campaign were anything but apparent. The political force of the catholic middle class had largely been silenced through the 1797 Act banning public conventions, but this did not quell the need for communication between the Catholic underclass and Protestant minority."
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Land In England In the 18th & 19th Century, 1999.
Examines the impact of the changing land policy on urbanization, economics, politics, class relations, laws and industrialization.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 63.95
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"Land is the most fundamental of resources, the beginning and end of human wealth, the beginning and end of human identity. Where a person happens to be born defines their sense of identity forever; the reason that the dead are committed to the ground is in some measure because it reaffirms this human connection to place. The wealth of a person is tied to the land that she or he controls: A good farmstead, a poor claim, a reliable well make or break a person's fortune in the world.
In the 18th century, England - like other countries throughout the world at the time (and arguably in some measure still today) was a country marked by enormous distinctions of wealth, distinctions that were expressed in terms of owner ship of land."
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Urban Change in 18th and 19th Century America, 2002.
This paper compares the functions of American urban centers in 1700 and 1900.
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In 1700 urban centers in America were few, dominated by London and primarily administrative and service based. By 1900 they had become centers of manufacturing and the locus of Fordism. Also, they were significantly larger, more numerous and dominated by domestic central places rather than London.
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Whig Party In England In the 18th and 19th Centuries, 1999.
Discusses origins, ideology, influence and power, leadership, platform, religion and economics.
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The 18th century in England saw the destruction of the political structures that had been built up in the century before, as the political parties once in power lost their footing (or found themselves entirely transformed) to be replaced by different ones and as the power in the government shifted along institutional lines to the cabinet
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"The 18th century in England saw the destruction of the political structures that had been built up in the century before, as the political parties once in power lost their footing (or found themselves entirely transformed) to be replaced by different ones and as the power in the government shifted along institutional lines to the cabinet. The result of these transformations was that the modern structures of the British government were in substantial ways established during the first and second quarters of the 18th century.1
By the middle of the 18th century, both Whigs and Tories found themselves changed from what they had been. This is hardly surprising, given how much history had changed around them since these parties had formed. It is in fact less surprising that they changed than that they survived at all. This is especially true of ..."
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Art In the U.S. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, 1999.
Examines post-Revolutionary War and post-Civil War art as expressions of values of freedom and growth. Discusses styles, examples, major works and artists and European influences.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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"In the decades following the Revolutionary War Americans felt called upon to reaffirm the concepts on which their fight for freedom had been based. Thus the broadest trend in art and architecture was toward the severe neoclassical style that spoke of virtue and a fresh approach to the problem of organizing society.
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"In the decades following the Revolutionary War Americans felt called upon to reaffirm the concepts on which their fight for freedom had been based. Thus the broadest trend in art and architecture was toward the severe neoclassical style that spoke of virtue and a fresh approach to the problem of organizing society. In the years after the Civil War the nation was also undergoing an adjustment, but this time the change was not related to political organization but to the radical changes inherent in the industrialization and rapidly expanding wealth of the young country. The response was an overwhelming growth in the arts accompanied by a split in sensibilities between those looking for an art that put a seal of cultural approval on industrial growth--usually turning to European models--and those who adhered to a more local vision."
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Rape In Britain In The Late 18th Century and Early 19th Century, 1997.
Examines legal, social, marital, literary, theoretical, moral, class and feminist issues, focusing on the views of women as possessions of men.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the issue of rape in Great Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The plan of the research will be to set forth the social and cultural context in which the issue achieves significance and then to discuss patterns of activity within the culture that appear to show an evolution of consciousness and priorities in the understanding of the phenomenon.
The conceptualization of rape in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appears to have been very much a social construction that dominated the whole of Western society, whether in England and the Empire, on the continent, or in the U.S. Thus however rape might have been perceived or experienced at the personal level, the principal social fact about the phenomenon was that it was subsidiary to more widely held views of social ..."
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Hurting Canadian Women in the 19th Century, 2002.
How the labor market affected women's status in the 19th century in Canada.
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This paper discusses the severity of women suffering in the 19th century labour market. Illustrated is how women's roles were predetermined and pushed into being house labourers.
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Peasant Women of 19th Century France, 2002.
Historical account of the lives of peasant women in France during the 19th century.
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A study of the lives and culture of French peasant women during the 19th century. Discusses the influence of the Revolution, and of Napoleon's structural improvements, on rural France and (indirectly) on the role of women in the economy. Also covers rural schooling efforts and the influence of industrialization on population and materials available in rural areas.
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The Role of Women in 19th Century England, 2002.
This paper compares two essays about the role of women in 19th Century England written by Sarah Stickney Ellis (excerpt from ?The Wives of England?- 1843) and Jeanne Deroin (excerpt from ?Almanach des Femmos?- 1852).
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This paper defines that these two critical essays are essential studies of how women?s role in 19th Century English society shifted from one of subordination to a more liberal, even radical criticism of the society?s treatment of women. This paper discusses Ellis? essay, which talks about women?s subordination to men and Deroin's later essay, which criticizes the unjust and unequal treatment of the society to its women, particularly in their role as wives, mothers, and as women inside the family institution.
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"Ellis? essay, an excerpt from her book, ?The Wives of England,? talks about the ways and actions a woman must portray in public in order to be considered an intelligent and ?rational? individual by her society. The essay is described as an advisory about the necessary actions a woman must do in order to make their husbands, or the men, ?feel like kings in their own households and thereby become aware of just how much they need their devoted wives.? Ellis started her essay by stating that the role of men in the society is essential and their role as the ?head of a household? are both vital functions to which the males of the society must attend. In effect, Ellis makes it clear that the role of women fades in comparison with the important work men must do to both maintain the stability and security of the society and his family."
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Women's Suffrage in the 19th Century, 2007.
This paper examines the women's suffrage movement in America during the 19th century.
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This paper traces the history of the women's suffrage movement in 19th century America, with an emphasis on its leaders and goals. In particular, the contributions of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Fanny Wright are illustrated through their writings and lectures. The paper states that women earning the right to vote meant a nearly complete transformation of social norms in the United States. The paper also describes the connection between the abolitionist movement and women's suffrage. The writer concludes that despite the ratification of the 19th Amendment, women still suffered from widespread discrimination and continue to fight for equal rights even today.
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"Susan B. Anthony and scores of other prominent suffragists rallied as much for the cause of abolition as for women's rights. One of the most notable companion causes of 19th century suffragists was the temperance movement. In fact, suffragist Frances Willard had been intimately involved in the Christian Temperance movement and in 1891 became president World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The temperance movement's primary objective was the reduction in alcohol abuse, and in 1872, the Prohibition Party became the "first national political party to recognize the right of suffrage for women in its platform," ("Women's History in America"). Therefore, the women's suffrage movement did not exist in isolation of other social, economic, and political causes."
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Women in 19th Century Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses the short stories, ?The Yellow Wallpaper? by Charlotte Gilman, ?The Storm" by Kate Chopin, and ?Eveline? by James Joyce, which depict women's lives in the 19th century society.
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The paper describes and analyzes each of these short stories. The author feels that all of the three woman protagonists in the short stories represented women empowerment in their own manner, who achieved liberty to become themselves by going against the norms of the society, and by defying the people and the society that continue to repress them as free women in their respective societies.
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"?The Storm? also is a story that talks about women empowerment through freedom to express repressed love and longing for one?s true love. Calixta, the protagonist in the story, is a hardworking housewife, who experienced her ?life-changing? experience one day, when a storm has occurred in their place. The storm in the story signifies the ?turbulent? events that happened between Calixta and her old love, Alcee, when both experienced freedom for once in their lives and were able to release their love for each other, after they made love during the storm. Calixta?s old lover represents the wrong decisions and regrets that she had made in her life. The fact that both Calixta and Alcee were married when they had committed themselves to make love is a radical expression and defiance to the society?s norms about fidelity and trust to one?s spouse. Instead of looking at Calixta somewhat condemningly after she had committed ?adultery? by making love with a married man like Alcee, what the readers will feel is that their brief encounter with each other, their brief expression of love for each other is justified."
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Women in 19th Century America, 2008.
The paper discusses how women were treated as second class citizens in America in the latter half of the 19th century.
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The paper looks at how, by 1863, women in the US were beginning to influence the economy due in large part to the Civil War and the shortage of male labor. The paper looks at how many men, however, endorsed the societal norm of the time that a woman's rightful place was in the home. The paper describes how women starting their own businesses found it very hard to secure adequate credit to start and expand their businesses. The paper portrays how even resourceful women were relegated by societal norms to the role of glorified housekeeper.
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"One has to only look at the Declaration of Sentiments issued at the end of The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 for historical proof that women were treated as second class citizens in America in the latter half of the 19th century.1 If women were in fact treated legally, politically and socially as men's equals, there would have been no convention, no one hundred and fifty plus year feminist movement in America. Women may well have made only limited progress in the subsequent half century in elevating their status, but there is ample evidence that it was not for lack of trying."
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Peasant Women of 19th Century France., 2002.
A study of the lives and culture of French peasant women during the 19h century.
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A study of the lives and culture of French peasant women during the 19h century. Discusses the influence of the Revolution, and of Napoleon's structural improvements, on rural France and (indirectly) on the role of women in the economy. Also covers rural schooling efforts and the influence of industrialization on population and materials available in rural areas.
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