| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Man-made menopause and architectural embodiment in Herman Melville’s “I and My Chimney” AND “A Disembodied Listener”: Hawthorne’s mesmeric narrator in The House of the Seven Gables |
2017 |
847 |
Herman Melville’s 1856 short story “I and My Chimney” illustrates a dispute between an old man and his wife about the domestic inconveniences caused by the chimney centrally located in their home. The old man desires to preserve his chimney at all co... |
| Beyond the borders of exile: exile, immigration, and migration in U.S. women’s writing |
2015 |
2667 |
This dissertation explores representations of trauma, healing, and memory in the literature of exile. Traditionally, analyses of this literature adhere to the parameters of ethnicity and national origin; however, I argue that an analytical focus on t... |
| “You have waked me all up”: New Women’s reformist utopian novels of the Progressive Era |
2018 |
2431 |
This dissertation examines women utopian authors of the Progressive Era who depict New Women protagonists awakening to new possibilities for their work, marriages, and domestic responsibilities; these protagonists model the process for other female c... |
| Writing the body : sentimental rhetoric in nineteenth-century Southern women writers’ fiction |
2022 |
222 |
This project explores nineteenth-century Southern women writers’ discussions of self-regulation in their sentimental fiction. This dissertation seeks to enrich literary scholarship’s understanding of Southern women’s writing in Victorian America; whi... |
| Other Americans: the racialized and anachronized Appalachian mountaineer at the turn of the twentieth century |
2016 |
800 |
The central claim of this project is that literary and historical texts from the turn of the last century rhetorically contained the Southern Appalachian mountaineer through racializing that figure into less-than-normative whiteness and anachronizing... |