| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Beautiful Blemishes: Gender and Female Criminality in Four Victorian Novels |
2010 |
12403 |
This thesis analyzes the close connection between female criminality and gender in the Victorian novels Adam Bede, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Lady Audley’s Secret and Armadale. Each of the female criminals in these novels demonstrates gender deviance... |
| She’s Beautiful And She’s Laughing”: Laughter As Subversive Discourse In Lady Audley’s Secret And Daniel Deronda |
2017 |
1915 |
My thesis applies the lens of feminist theory, particularly Hélène Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa,” to the subject of female laughter in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. I build off nineteenth-century... |
| Disordered Gender And Disordered Genre: How The Restoration Of Order Fails In The Woman In White, Revelations Of A Lady Detective, The Sign Of Four, And The Picture Of Dorian Gray |
2018 |
1643 |
Crime and detective fiction is often considered to be a problem-solving genre that serves to reify existing binaries by introducing subversive elements only to solve those elements by the end of the story and restore the normative order. Early and fo... |
| Epic Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Homeric Tradition |
2012 |
12254 |
The purpose of this project was to reveal Lewis Carroll’s famous children’s novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There to be an attempt by the author to write a Victorian mock-heroic epic, one th... |
| The Reformer and the Eugenicist: Representations of Disease in Jane Eyre and Bleak House |
2014 |
7598 |
My thesis applies the critical lens of disability studies to the Victorian public health crisis, and examines the novels Jane Eyre and Bleak House within that framework.
In Jane Eyre, a group of wealthy benefactors intervenes to remedy the neglect ... |
| Exploring The Art Of Queer Life Writing Through Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography |
2019 |
2604 |
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) is a fictional literary biography that archives the lived experiences of a queer, non-dying person, a novel that would understandably complicate fact, fiction, truth, life writing, theory, and empiricism w... |
| Queering Intimacy In Written On The Body |
2020 |
634 |
Much scholarship has been devoted to determining the gender of the narrator in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body. The novel has been claimed by many as a fundamentally lesbian text, an ode to lesbian intimacy and aesthetics. However, I believe... |