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| Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Wentworth’s unconscious constancy ; and, “Nay, Mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!”: Jane Austen, William Cowper, and Marianne Dashwood’s evocative sensibility |
2014 |
3584 |
In Persuasion, Jane Austen uses Frederick Wentworth, a fundamentally unique Austen hero, to revise the eighteenth century theories of mind she has relied on in her earlier novels. Specifically, her depiction of his memory both recall... |
| “Overcoming the sinful states : Anne Finch’s “Psalm the 137th : Paraphrased to the 7th Verse” as a poem of spiritual transition AND “Vessels of desire in Jane Austen’s Persuasion” |
2024 |
16 |
Since the poetry of Anne Finch places equal emphasis on religion and the political atmosphere of early seventeenth-century Britain, it is surprising that her religious lyrics have received little attention from twenty and twenty-first century scholar... |
| "Lawless wingd & unconfind": aesthetics and the possibility of justice in early British romantic-era literature |
2011 |
7047 |
This dissertation seeks to remedy the gap in the scholarship pertaining to the intersection of justice and aesthetics in 1790s British literature. While many critics have considered the literature of this period within the historical context of the F... |
| The speculative mode: intersections of literature and the new science in Restoration England |
2018 |
503 |
Within the field of Restoration and eighteenth-century studies, critics have investigated the relationship between literature and science for almost a century. Even among specialists, however, there has been insufficient enquiry into epistemological ... |