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This paper explores the appearances of the character of Judith in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England. Transported from the Apocryphal book of the Old Testament to the Latin Vulgate Bible by St. Jerome, this Hebrew heroine held an...
In exploring the degree to which Romantic legacies persist, this study concerns a particular type of poet and novelist. Typical Romantic themes – such as those of nature, solitude, or the sublime – surface in numerous nineteenth and...
This study concerns itself with studying the ways in which various texts both examine and display the effects of technology as manifested by automobiles, trains, and computers as well as the change such inventions have brought about...
Though the influence of penny fiction on the sensation novel was widely recognized by Victorians and is acknowledged by modern critics, there has been little examination of the relationship between these genres. My dissertation addresses...
Since the 1980s, literary scholars in the U.K., Ireland, and the U.S. have recovered the contributions of the nineteenth-century American writer Catharine Maria Sedgwick and her older Anglo-Irish contemporary Maria Edgeworth, ...
The notions of maternity and motherhood in late-eighteenth century England are fraught with ambiguity and contradictions. By this period, the cult of idealized motherhood and maternal virtue is beginning to emerge in England in order to...
Iconic Androgyne" explores the nature of androgyny in both the poetical works of Lord Byron and in the composition of Byron's own persona. Most contemporary scholarship approaches androgyny from a queer theory or feminist theoretical...
This thesis shows the different ways the tension between the societal ideal of the family (something that is in and of itself a construct) and the constructed family plays out in two 20th century British novels, Oranges Are Not the Only...
The Subtle Art: Poison in Victorian Literature rethinks how nineteenth-century crime fiction responds to cultural perceptions about the progress of Victorian science. To this end, this project examines how authors use the poisoner--a...
This study investigates the presence of some anachronistic "forms of woe" in 20th and 21st-century Gothic narratives, their roots in the 19th century and particularly in the Victorian Celebration of Death, and their function as part of...
"The Future Is Open" for Composition Studies: A New Intellectual Property Model in the Digital Age examines problems with the current intellectual property paradigm and focuses on the application of open source methods of knowledge...
Traditionally, ecopoetics has been interested in texts whose primary goal is to explore place, or locations that are imbued with human meaning or culture, as a solution to the problem of human alienation from the nonhuman world. While...
This dissertation aims to make a case for the ecological relationship between portable writing technologies, everyday writing, and counterpublics, arguing that all three represent means by which we can foster more publicly–engaged and...
This study examines the idea of escape in the lives and fiction of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, addressing how these individuals embraced an ethos of escape that had continuously developed in...
This dissertation presents evidence, using the vehicle of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, that Charles Dickens remained an optimist, contrary to critical opinion that claims he became a dark pessimist during the latter half of his...
ABSTRACT ...coming out of darkness, moving toward the light... -- Maya Angelou The following are the questions at the very heart of this dissertation. What is mothering and what are the roles and duties that mothering entails? Who...
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