| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| "Disturb not her dream:" the influence of Jacobite coding on Robert Burns's poetry ; and, Neither black nor white: Gray's liminal pastoral |
2014 |
2171 |
Robert Burns has collected many personas throughout literary history. Known separately as a political satirist, bawdy poet, and romantic bard, Burns is often attributed with only one of these identities at a time. Many critics seem to ignore the impo... |
| Declamation and dismemberment: rhetoric, the body, and disarticulation in four Victorian horror novels |
2015 |
6541 |
The fundamental question this dissertation seeks to answer is how late-Victorian horror fiction produced fear for its contemporary audiences. This study argues that the answer to this question lies in the areas of rhetoric—more specifically, oratory—... |
| Staking out space: British women’s war poetry, 1780-1840 |
2019 |
853 |
My dissertation engages with British women poets between the years 1780 and 1840, a period that saw prolonged conflict between England and France, domestic revolt, and eventually government reform. Scholarly attention to war in the long Romantic peri... |
| “I cannot get out, as the starling said–”: estate improvements, gender, and morality in Mansfield park and “the greatest improvement the house ever had–”: physical space, gender, and class in persuasion |
2013 |
13029 |
Mansfield Park's presentation of gender roles and relationships is complex and fraught with potential contradictions. Fanny Price, with her seemingly antiquated notions of estate improvement and romanticized nature, becomes an effectual yet subtle pr... |
| “Fancies bright and dark”: sadomasochism and the sublime in Jane Eyre |
2017 |
1852 |
The social context of Charlotte Brontë’s most famous work, Jane Eyre, provides a set of expectations for the novel’s central romance; Jane and Rochester seem to enjoy a relatively egalitarian relationship, while simultaneously occupying traditional g... |
| Complicated submissions : sati and subversion in three women’s novels of the Raj AND Appledore in bloom: Thaxter, Hassam, and a flowering of art |
2022 |
294 |
What can literary studies tell us about the Hindu custom of sati? The nineteenth century fiction of Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, and Krupabai Sattianadhan, written contemporaneously with the gendered norms it portrays, provides a representation of ... |
| Transatlantic terrorism : British and American literature, 1859- 1991 |
2024 |
18 |
Through a critical literary studies engagement with how terror is negotiated in literature from across periods and oceans, it becomes clear to me that a literary studies approach to expanding the historical and analytical dimensions of terrorism’s co... |
| Scientific sympathy and understanding in Mary Barton : and, Antifraternalism and biblical allusions in The Summoner’s tale |
2020 |
280 |
In Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, readers are introduced to a society that operates on strict gender expectations that any given person needs to play within their social status. It is through the characters of Job Legh and Alice Wilson that a natur... |
| Sense, conscience, and soul : the hybrid epistemology of natural science and Unitarian faith in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton |
2021 |
66 |
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton presents a tangle of social and relational issues whose persistence suggest epistemological underpinnings that, according to the text, should be considered in her contemporary society because of their implication for t... |
| Dark matters: gothic landscape and women’s writing in the 19th and 20th century British novel |
2012 |
5590 |
This work traces a connection between gothic narratives, noted for their particular depictions of carceral and sublime landscapes, and a women's rhetorical tradition elided by Plato and Aristotle. In order to accomplish this work, I follow Krista Rat... |
| “her convenience was always to give way”: (re)examining Anne Elliot’s Agency in Jane Austen’s Persuasion AND “something is wrong with mother”: alcohol, women, and respectability in Jack Common’s Kiddar’s Luck |
2017 |
2058 |
In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the narrator and the characters who encounter Anne seemingly portray her character as easily persuadable. Despite what appears to be a lack of agency and a mixed critical response towards potential agency, this essay argu... |
| Feasting bodies : structural cannibalism and literature in the 19th century |
2023 |
400 |
This dissertation presents what have I have termed "structural cannibalism," a theoretical framework that examines embedded cannibalistic violence within human power structures. Structural cannibalism is identified through consumptive metaphors (e.g.... |