From Russia With Love: Souvenirs And Political Alliance In Martha Wilmot’S The Russian Journals,
2013
Sacred Heart University
From Russia With Love: Souvenirs And Political Alliance In Martha Wilmot’S The Russian Journals, Pamela Buck
English Faculty Publications
Although virtually unknown in literary studies today, Martha Wilmot's The Russian Journals remains an important text on the material circulation of things in an increasingly global eighteenth-century world.The Russian Journals describes her stay in Russia from 1803 to 1808 with family friend and powerful political figure Princess Dashkova. In particular, the souvenirs that she exchanges with Princess Dashkova shed light on how cultural and political connections were formed between Russia and Britain as well as how national identity was redefined on a more global scale.
"Something Old And Dark Has Got Its Way": Shakespeare's Influence In The Gothic Literary Tradition,
2013
Claremont Graduate University
"Something Old And Dark Has Got Its Way": Shakespeare's Influence In The Gothic Literary Tradition, Natalie A. Hewitt
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation examines Shakespeare’s role as the most significant precursor to the Gothic author in Britain, suggesting that Shakespeare used the same literary conventions that Gothic writers embraced as they struggled to create a new subgenre of the novel. By borrowing from Shakespeare’s canon, these novelists aimed to persuade readers and critics that rather than undermining the novel’s emergent, still unassured status as an acceptable literary genre, the nontraditional aspects of their works paid homage to Shakespeare’s imaginative vision. Gothic novelists thereby legitimized their attempts at literary expression. Despite these efforts, Gothic writers did not instantly achieve the type of …
A New Way Of Living: Bioeconomic Models In Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias,
2013
University of Kentucky
A New Way Of Living: Bioeconomic Models In Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias, Margaret A. Wells
Theses and Dissertations--English
The objective of this thesis is to explore the relationship between moralities and bioeconomies in post-apocalyptic dystopias from the Victorian era to contemporary Young Adult Fiction. In defining the terms bioeconomy and biopolitics, this works examines the ways in which literature uses food and energy systems to explore morality and immorality in social orders and systems, including capitalism and our modern techno-industrial landscapes. This work examines science fiction portrayals of apocalypses and dystopias, including After London: Or, Wild England and The Hunger Games, as well as their medieval and contextual influences. These works are analyzed in light of genre …
"It Is The Business Of The Artist To Follow It Home To The Heart Of The Individual Fighters": D.H. Lawrence, The Great War, And The Trajectory Of His Novels,
2013
Seton Hall University
"It Is The Business Of The Artist To Follow It Home To The Heart Of The Individual Fighters": D.H. Lawrence, The Great War, And The Trajectory Of His Novels, Samantha Lauren Mathews
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Frankly Speaking, "The Men That Is Now Is Only All Pallaver And What They Can Get Our Of You": Migration And White Slavery In Argentina In Joyce's "Eveline",
2013
CUNY Bronx Community College
Frankly Speaking, "The Men That Is Now Is Only All Pallaver And What They Can Get Our Of You": Migration And White Slavery In Argentina In Joyce's "Eveline", M Laura Barberan Reinares
Publications and Research
This article analyzes James Joyce’s “Eveline” (1904), looking at the moral panic about “white slavery” in Europe and South America. The article especially focuses on Argentina, the foremost recipient of trafficked women between 1880 and 1930 (and, of course, Joyce’s destination choice for Eveline). By looking at Frank, the sailor who intends to take Eveline to Buenos Aires, this article explores the possible links between Joyce’s story and the sex trafficking industry thriving in Buenos Aires through the Jewish criminal association Zwi Migdal. Frank’s representation allows us to draw this connection because his behavior with Eveline coincides with the seduction …
Time, Distance, And Epic Memory In The Tempest,
2013
Bard College
Time, Distance, And Epic Memory In The Tempest, Andrew Nathan Kaplan
Senior Projects Spring 2013
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
‘Stations Of A Mourner’S Cross’: Samuel Beckett, Killiney, 1954,
2013
Xavier University
‘Stations Of A Mourner’S Cross’: Samuel Beckett, Killiney, 1954, Graley Herren
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Staged Magic: Performing Witchcraft In Macbeth,
2013
University of Richmond
Staged Magic: Performing Witchcraft In Macbeth, Kristin M.S. Bezio
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
The three witches who initiate William Shakespeare's (1564 - 1616) Macbeth (1606) are the play's primary figures of theatrical spectacle, their bodies and actions the products of the 'magic of the theatre.' While much critical attention has been paid to the interpretive significance of the witches in Macbeth, much less has focused on the practical physicality of the witches' presence and the methodology of their theatrical presentation. The witches' entrance open Macbeth and is central to understanding their role within Macbeth's Scotland. The 'magic' that appears on stage is acknowledged by its audience as a series of illusions that …
Acting, Integrity, And Gender In Coriolanus,
2013
Chapman University
Acting, Integrity, And Gender In Coriolanus, Kent Lehnhof
English Faculty Articles and Research
Shakespeare's Coriolanus... anticipates and corroborates modern-day analyses emphasizing the sociopolitical dimensions and determinants of antitheatrical discourse. In the present essay, I would like to shift my focus from questions of class/status to questions of sex/gender, endeavoring to trace the links between Coriolanus’s antiperformative zeal and his ultra-masculine identity. For though it is true that Coriolanus opposes the dissimulation of others on political grounds (i.e., it creates social confusion), what causes him to reject play-acting in his own person is the sexualized fear that it will unman him (i.e., turn him into a squeaking virgin or crying boy). In this manner, …
Pedagogy And Identity In "The Night Lessons" Of Finnegans Wake,
2013
University of Mississippi
Pedagogy And Identity In "The Night Lessons" Of Finnegans Wake, Zachary Paul Smola
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores chapter II.ii of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)—commonly called "The Night Lessons"—and its peculiar use of the conventions of the textbook as a form. In the midst of the Wake's abstraction, Joyce uses the textbook to undertake a rigorous exploration of epistemology and education. By looking at the specific expectations of and ambitions for textbooks in 19th century Irish national schools, this thesis aims to provide a more specific historical context for what textbooks might mean as they appear in Finnegans Wake. As instruments of cultural conditioning, Irish textbooks were fraught with tension arising from their investment …
Dear Christopher,
2013
Providence College
Dreading He Knew Not What: Masculinities, Structural Spaces, Law And The Gothic In The Castle Of Otranto, Pride And Prejudice, And Wuthering Heights,
2013
Pitzer College
Dreading He Knew Not What: Masculinities, Structural Spaces, Law And The Gothic In The Castle Of Otranto, Pride And Prejudice, And Wuthering Heights, Samantha E. Morse
Pitzer Senior Theses
This essay investigates the integral linkages between Gothic spaces and Gothic masculinities in three texts: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). At the core of this examination is architecture, or more specifically, the physical constructions and built environments that comprise a man’s property. I explore how a man uses his property to construct, legitimize, and perform his identity. In the Female Gothic, the home is a place of anxiety for women, where patriarchal dominance and violence reign to constrain female agency. I argue that the home is …
Disabling Allegories In Edmund Spenser’S Faerie Queene,
2012
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
Disabling Allegories In Edmund Spenser’S Faerie Queene, Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
No abstract provided.
“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism",
2012
Seton Hall University
“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
No abstract provided.
“He . . . Beat His Blubbred Face": Reading Spenser’S Daphnaida As A Satire”,
2012
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
“He . . . Beat His Blubbred Face": Reading Spenser’S Daphnaida As A Satire”, Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
No abstract provided.
Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity,
2012
University of New Mexico
Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
Winner of the 2014 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Awarded the 2014 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
“The Nose Plays: Ovid In The Jew Of Malta.”,
2012
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
“The Nose Plays: Ovid In The Jew Of Malta.”, M. Stapleton
M. L. Stapleton
No abstract provided.
"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia,
2012
University of New Orleans
"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia, John Gery
John R O Gery
No abstract provided.
“Bruce Danner, Edmund Spenser’S War On Lord Burghley” [Book Review],
2012
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
“Bruce Danner, Edmund Spenser’S War On Lord Burghley” [Book Review], Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
No abstract provided.
Interpretation, 1980 And 1880,
2012
Swarthmore College
Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Buurma, Laura Heffernan
Rachel S Buurma
This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices. In seeking out nineteenth-century models for twenty-first-century critical practice, these critics imagine a world in which English literature never became a discipline. Some see these new methods as formalist, yet we argue that they actually emerge from historicist self-critique. Specifically, these contemporary critics view the historicist projects of the 1980s as overly influenced by disciplinary models of textual interpretation—models that first arose, we show through our reading of the Jolly Bargemen …
