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This dissertation argues that the rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement has roots in the aesthetics of literary modernism. Not only did Anglo-American modernism and the birth control movement come of age at the same moment...
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, manipulativeness, the inability to feel remorse and regret, and a glib, superficial charm. It is estimated that psychopaths make up anywhere from...
This novel is a queer coming of age story written for a teenage audience, dealing with themes of sexuality and gender. The story follows Taylor Garland, a homecoming queen in the fictional town of Hopuonk, Massachusetts in 1999, as she...
Critical examinations of the simulacrum have frozen, due in part to the overabundance and simplified applications of Jean Baudrillard's canonical theories. In a 2003 book review, David Banash voices this frustration, identifying ...
Adrienne Rich explains that the contemporary concept of the home and the domestic sphere is a cultural construct rather than an essential, inherent biological identity. She asserts that the “nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideal of the...
Atlantic popular theatre culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries circulated stagings of outcast yet admired underclasses. Karl Marx's naming of these characters lent increased visibility to the lumpenproletariat, ...
James Fenimore Cooper’s work as a political activist is the underlying subject of this monograph. This study looks at how Cooper used his political writing to disseminate the ideology of the radical enlightenment. Cooper’s specific...
Modernist literature positioned itself as the principal imaginer of what I call a "perception sickness." One character after another--usually an artist or artist figure--suffers from a too-keen perception with dangerous consequences....
Literary Violence in the Age of Depression explores violence in contemporary literature and popular culture by evaluating the decline of social bonds in American society and the heightening of Mertonian strain that developed in the wake...
Traitor, Traitor is a collection of poetry combining Celtic selkie myths with the Caribbean Nanny figure to construct a narrative about a widower living in the foothills of the Appalachians during the mid-20th Century. Grounded in the...
Overwriting Literature and Other Acts of Cultural Terrorism in the Control Era examines American experimental writers and artists who compose in what Gilles Deleuze called the control era. This project locates the beginning of the...
British literature of the long nineteenth century, exemplified by three authors who lived and wrote in England from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth centuries, was deeply focused on understanding human relationships and...
Inundated by the blabber of talking heads, politicos, and advertisements? Ready to hear the voice of the Bard again? The speaker in the dissertation manuscript Falsetto asks the reader to turn down all the noise and trust him, a new...
This dissertation explores how digital methods reveal ways in which soundscapes and landscapes function in William Wordsworth's complete poetical works, Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Charlotte Smith's collected poetry. My...
The inspiration for this novel is rooted in the social protocols surrounding who is allowed to mother a child and explores a protagonist who challenges that system. I wanted to explore the radical idea of a teenage girl kidnapping a baby...
Terraforming Modernism adopts the term terraforming from a largely science fiction canon, typically used to describe the imagined refashioning of extraterrestrial planets to make them more like Earth and more hospitable to human life....
Since 1928 The First Part of the Contention and Richard Duke of York (texts printed separately in the 1590s) have been regarded as memorial reconstructions of two texts printed in 1623 in the folio edition of Shakespeare's Comedies, ...
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