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The Haunted Don's House: Architectural Liminality, Socio-Poltical Conservation And Burgeoning Modernism In Montague Rhodes James's "Episode Of Cathedral History", Daniel Townsend
English Theses
This thesis explores the use of architecture in the ghost story "Episode of Cathedral History" by Montague Rhodes James. The focus entails an examination of the architectural theories of John Ruskin, which impacted James's personal views on education, female empowerment, and Modernism. These views are reflected in "Episode of Cathedral History" as story elements that bear symbolic values that James hides under the auspices of entertainment for the purpose of creating a commentary and warning about the chaos of the emerging Modern world.
Bible Translators, Educators, And Suffragists: The Smith Women, A Nineteenth-Century Case Study In America About Power, Agency, And Subordination, Laurel Koontz
History Dissertations
The methodological approach used to tell the Smith sisters’ story is first and foremost a case study of women in the nineteenth century and the gendered categories that were constructed to define women. The story will be told through a biographical narrative, which will allow Hannah, Julia, and Abby Smith’s to tell their story in their own voice. Also, included within the biography is an examination of the nineteenth-century theories that defined women’s lives, and what effect, if any, these theories had on the Smiths. Each chapter is layered with three different narratives in an attempt to unravel the world …