Date of Award

7-1-1968

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Dr. Richard Lane

Abstract

Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 until 1901. Christina Georgina Rossetti's life span the years 1830 to 1894. Thus, she is placed, historically speaking, squarely within the Victorian age with all its attending connotations, both negative and positive. Among the traits of Victorian England that stand out: the dominance of sometimes sincere, sometimes hypocritical ideals of decency, modesty, and respectability; the tremendous intellectual ferment created by the new science, accompanied by rising philosophical and religious doubts; changing social conditions brought on by the new industrial character of England; and, in literature, a curious combination of reality and romance.

Comments

A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha. Copyright 1968 Nancy K. Oberlander.

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