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TRANSITIVE SPACES:
MID-VICTORIAN ANXIETY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE
by
Natasha Alvandi Hunt
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Natasha Alvandi Hunt
Object Description
| Title | Transitive spaces: mid-Victorian anxiety in the face of change |
| Author | Alvandi Hunt, Natasha |
| Author email | alvandi@usc.edu; nataliahunt@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-12-01 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-01-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kincaid, James R. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Anderson, Emily Bleichmar, Daniela |
| Abstract | Situated between the Chartist Rebellion of 1848 and the Second Reform Act in 1867, the 1850s traditionally have been viewed as an era of social and cultural peace. The Great Exhibition’s declared intended goal of unity—between the world’s countries and all classes of British subjects—enhances our contemporary stance that the 1850s were a relatively peaceful period in British history. And yet, the Great Exhibition, apart from its proposed and publicized goal of worldwide harmony was not a place in which the classes of Britain and the people of the world could mingle freely with one another.; While viewed by many as an unrevolutionary period in Victorian history, the years immediately following the Great Exhibition and the mid- to late-1850s were still affected by the cultural, social, and technological changes inspired by the Chartist Rebellion and the Great Exhibition. In the 1850s and through the early 1860s, writers and speakers from Prince Albert to journalists referred to their own era as "the age of transition" or the "age of rapid change." In fact, the Great Exhibition and other non-governmental spaces prominent in popular literature and nonfiction texts of the 1850s are what I call "transitive spaces." They are locations that enhance or illuminate society's potential for social and physical change and ones in which upheaval is met head on and underlined. These sites are sources, demonstrations, and confrontations of mid-Victorian defined anxiety, especially since they are closed-off systems in their own right even though they overlap with the world outside of their borders. The mid-Victorian period with its emphasis on globalization and its cultural apprehension surrounding the potential results of rapid social change allows for these locations to abound. |
| Keyword | Victorian; mid-Victorian; spaces; space; location; city; house; Dickens; Gaskell; Collins; Great Exhibition; Crystal Palace; 1850s; 1851; working-class; senses; change; transition; anxiety; Chartism; Chartist; Rebellion |
| Geographic subject (country) | Great Britain |
| Coverage date | 1848/1867 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3613 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Alvandi Hunt, Natasha |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Alvandi-4243 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Alvandi-4243.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | TRANSITIVE SPACES: MID-VICTORIAN ANXIETY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE by Natasha Alvandi Hunt A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Natasha Alvandi Hunt |
