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Gothic Transformations And Remediations In Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Wendy Fall
Gothic Transformations And Remediations In Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Wendy Fall
Dissertations (1934 -)
My project considers the transformation of gothic characters as they move among different types of publications in the nineteenth century. As they meander from triple-decker novels to chapbooks, to theatrical scripts, to periodicals, and to penny serials, gothic stories and portrayals of people in them are altered by the length and technological capability of each form. They also mutate to reflect the tastes and ideologies of their changing audiences, and to hybridize genres under the popular influence of realism toward the mid-century. The mainstays of the gothic mode remain stable; these publications adhere to ambiguous or pluralistic ideologies, are obsessed …
The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity And Anglophone Women War Writers Of The Great War, Sareene Proodian
The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity And Anglophone Women War Writers Of The Great War, Sareene Proodian
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation examines the texts of Anglophone women writers from the First World War. Women’s roles in the war—volunteer nurses, ambulance driver, munitions workers, and land girls—gave them the opportunity to leave the protection of their homes and enter the masculine dominated public sphere. In this dissertation, I examine different genres of women’s writing from the war and trace three aspects of simultaneity as these writings explore the new freedoms, and new and old constraints, that the war brought to women. The three principles of simultaneity explain the conflicting emotions women feel over what the war means for them in …
Gender Politics In The Novels Of Eliza Haywood, Susan Muse
Gender Politics In The Novels Of Eliza Haywood, Susan Muse
Dissertations (1934 -)
This study investigates how Eliza Haywood addressed ideological conflicts about gender produced by modernization in early eighteenth-century England. Expanding Michael McKeon's theory of the novel to include "questions of gender," I address a wide sample of novels in order to show how Haywood's writing developed during her long career. Her first preoccupation was the sexual double standard that defined "fallen women" as society's exiles. Influenced by the "she-tragedy" of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, Haywood wrote novels that elicited pity for fallen women and searched for reasons to explain their condition. Haywood's writing became overtly political with her …