| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| The Female Libertine from Dryden to Defoe |
2008 |
16393 |
This dissertation considers how Restoration and early eighteenth-century writers imagined the female libertine in representative comedies and fiction written from the 1670s to the 1720s. These include John Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode (1671),... |
| The beauty of paradox : Mansfield Park and Christianity |
1977 |
327 |
The purpose of this study is to explain why Jane Austen, the creator of Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, presented the readers of Mansfield Park with so seemingly unattractive a heroine as Fanny Price. Rather than being the failure many crit... |
| Independent women rendered sick, supple, and submissive: Charlotte Lennox and Jane Austen critique the gendering of sensibility ; and, Melville’s Bartleby: a perfectly-crafted anomaly |
2013 |
2925 |
Arabella of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote and Marianne Dashwood of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility are headstrong, independent female characters who are unwilling to submit to the husbands that their families have chosen for them. These w... |
| Fanny Burney's three eighteenth-century romances : Evelina, Cecelia, and Camilla |
1980 |
1966 |
Although the novels of Fanny Burney were highly regarded in their own time, modern critical assessments frequently conclude them to be flawed by contrived plots, flat, static characters, artificial language, and didacticism. These criticisms clearly ... |
| Jane Austen at play : self-consciousness, beginnings, endings |
1990 |
1585 |
It is because Jane Austen takes her art seriously that she can play. A self-conscious novelist, she delights in playing with reality and illusion, and the conventions of fiction-making. Her ironic perspective on individual consciousness and social in... |
| Chronicling the heroic epistle in England : a study of its development and demise |
1991 |
1594 |
This first detailed study of the English heroic epistle provides an extensive definition for the genre. In order to define the term properly and arrive at an understanding of this genre, the focus of the first chapter will be on the source, the Heroi... |
| Parody in Pale fire : a re-reading of Boswell's Life of Johnson |
1996 |
878 |
This study explores Vladimir Nabokov's parody, in his 1962 novel Pale Fire, of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I attempt to show that Nabokov's numerous parodic references to Boswell's work in Pale Fire perform two significant functions. Like all of the p... |
| "No more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia" : Utopian satire in Gulliver's travels |
1995 |
6842 |
This study provides the first book-length examination of Gulliver's Travels as a utopian work. Swift relies on the genre of the utopia for the structure of each of the book's four voyages and as a means to further his satire on human nature, English ... |
| Johnson, nature, and women : the early years |
1994 |
2052 |
Critics enamoured of James Boswell's Life of Johnson have too frequently overlooked the empathy Samuel Johnson's work reveals toward women and other creatures of nature caught in the patriarchal web of eighteenth century domination. This dissertation... |