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Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey Dec 2020

Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey

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Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed Dec 2020

Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed

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"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek Dec 2020

"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek

Journal X

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The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala Dec 2020

The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala

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Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf Dec 2020

Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf

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Othello's Monsters: Kenneth Burke, Deleuze And Guattari, And The Impulse To Narrative In Shakespeare, Bruce Boehrer Dec 2020

Othello's Monsters: Kenneth Burke, Deleuze And Guattari, And The Impulse To Narrative In Shakespeare, Bruce Boehrer

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"Blood Will Have Blood": Power, Performance, And Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble, Cristina León Alfar Dec 2020

"Blood Will Have Blood": Power, Performance, And Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble, Cristina León Alfar

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Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors

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Tears And Blood: Lady Wilde And The Emergence Of Irish Cultural Nationalism, Marjorie Howes Dec 2020

Tears And Blood: Lady Wilde And The Emergence Of Irish Cultural Nationalism, Marjorie Howes

Journal X

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The Representation Of Narrative: What Happens In Othello, Lisa Hopkins Dec 2020

The Representation Of Narrative: What Happens In Othello, Lisa Hopkins

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Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors

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Vol. 12 (1971): Full Issue, Journal Editors Sep 2020

Vol. 12 (1971): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English

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Playing To Win: The Marriage Market In Jane Austen’S Northanger Abbey, Sense And Sensibility And Emma, Caroline Elizabeth Nall May 2020

Playing To Win: The Marriage Market In Jane Austen’S Northanger Abbey, Sense And Sensibility And Emma, Caroline Elizabeth Nall

Honors Theses

This thesis aims to analyze the implications of the marriage market in Jane Austen’s novels Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. In these books, the main focus will be on Isabella Thorpe, who is actively participating in the “game” of the marriage market, Charlotte Palmer, who has won the “game” of marriage, and Miss Bates, who has lost the “game” of marriage. The historical context of these situations, taking place in eighteenth and nineteenth century England, has been taken into account. Austen has created characters to demonstrate the many aspects of a female’s life and how it relates …


More Than A Language: A Detailed Look At The English Major, Hannah Woods May 2020

More Than A Language: A Detailed Look At The English Major, Hannah Woods

Honors Theses

This thesis analyzes the perceptions of the English Major in order to come up with suggestions for the Univeristy of Mississippi English Department with the purpose of increasing enrollment in the English Program. The last decade has seen a large decrease in the number of English Majors throughout the country, and this decrease has been reflected in the University of Mississippi. This thesis looks at recent opinions of the English Major in society, including popular criticisms of the major and responces from the English community. It was found that the two main criticisms of the English Major are that graduates …


"Monsters In Suburbia": Women's Bodies, Monstrosity, And Motherhood In The Mere Wife, Claire M. Bonvillain May 2020

"Monsters In Suburbia": Women's Bodies, Monstrosity, And Motherhood In The Mere Wife, Claire M. Bonvillain

Honors Theses

This thesis explores themes of monstrosity in Maria Dahvana Headley's novel The Mere Wife in connection with issues of women's bodies and feminism. It analyzes prominent female characters in the novel and the relationships of their bodies to patriarchal authority, showing how and why bodies are deemed monstrous. It discusses the role that motherhood plays in patriarchal society, as well as explores alternatives that the novel offers to this system.


The Hair You Wished To Comb, Sarah Barch May 2020

The Hair You Wished To Comb, Sarah Barch

Honors Theses

This thesis is a collection of poems exploring gender and trauma in Greek mythology by retelling classical stories in a female voice.