| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| “Beauty’s Red and Virtue’s White”: Representations of the Beauty/Virtue Topos in Book III of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum |
2012 |
4950 |
The representation of beauty was a primary focus of the early modern author, and in the Neo-Platonic and Petrarchan traditions, outer beauty was a sign of inner virtue; however, this signification seems to be questioned and manipulated by early moder... |
| Helping Hands: Two Seventeenth Century Recipe Books and the Distillation of the Scientific Revolution |
2014 |
2697 |
This study looks at two seventeenth-century medicinal recipe books, those of Anne Glyd and Lady Mary Dacres, that provide examples of how medical knowledge was recorded and used domestically after the revival of print recipe collections in the 1650s.... |
| From Blackface to Bestseller and Back Again: The Influence of Minstrelsy on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
2014 |
4476 |
Throughout the antebellum era, white performers would transform themselves into grotesque parodies of African Americans with burnt cork and ragged clothing. Nobody living in America during the time could avoid minstrelsy’s influence, and many contemp... |
| “Change the story, change the world”: Gendered Magic and Educational Ideology in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld |
2015 |
5026 |
This thesis explores educational ideology in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series with a continued focus on the ways gendered magic results in gendered knowledge and education. Pratchett’s witches and wizards demonstrate and even consciously uphold dis... |
| When You Can’t “Phone Home”: Subversive Politics Of The Foreign Other In E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial And District 9 |
2017 |
5714 |
This thesis takes a close look at the ways in which alien representations, especially in films, mirror the ways in which transnational and migrant individuals are viewed and treated. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is viewed as an unintentional allegory ... |
| ‘'An Art That Nature Makes’?: Shakespeare’s Ambiguous Garden in The Winter’s Tale |
2010 |
9158 |
Throughout The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare incorporates images of the garden to
represent the bodies of female characters in the play. During the Early Modern period, the
garden had a host of connections for readers and audiences; while writers reco... |
| ‘What Means These Tears?’: Intersections Of Grief And Gender In Early Modern England |
2017 |
2061 |
Drawing from characterizations of grieving in England during the early modern period, the thesis advances a series of examinations of literary dramatizations of grief and death. In the first chapter, the thesis presents some of the historical dynamic... |
| Playing With Power: How Connections To Hecate Strengthen Subversive Women |
2020 |
3859 |
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Thomas Middleton’s The Witch are two English plays that consider the demonization of the domestic woman in early modern society, using the figure of the witch as a representation of these vilified figures. I argue th... |
| “Thou Art The Thing Itself”: Early Modern Posthumanism In Shakespeare’s King Lear |
2016 |
2881 |
Recent years have seen posthumanism used as a critical term in literary studies, enabling scholars to deconstruct conceptions of anthropocentrism as they appear in humanist thought. Taking the stance that humans have always already been posthuman, th... |
| Lovecraft Across Time: Resonation And Adaptation In The Cthulhu Mythos |
2018 |
6703 |
This master’s thesis closely examines four adaptations or appropriations of the work of H.P. Lovecraft using Wai Chee Dimock’s theory of resonance. Close examination of Bloodborne by game company FromSoftware, Why We’re Here by Fred Van Lente and Ste... |