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Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities In Elizabeth Gaskell’S Social Problem Novels, Hunter Nicole Duncan
Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities In Elizabeth Gaskell’S Social Problem Novels, Hunter Nicole Duncan
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation rewrites the representations of disability, impairment, and illness throughout Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction. The project’s four chapters examine blindness in Mary Barton, pregnancy, deformity, and typhus fever in Ruth, tuberculosis and hysteria in North and South, and hysteria and disfigurement in Sylvia’s Lovers, in order to intervene with disability in its literary, historical, medical, and social contexts by uniting methodologies ranging from Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, feminist theory, and Victorian studies. By looking at the novel and rethinking it through Disability Studies, this dissertation joins contemporary theory with historical context, refreshing scholarly attention toward under-represented bodies and minds. This …
"A Dimple In The Tomb": Cuteness In Emily Dickinson, Angela Sorby
"A Dimple In The Tomb": Cuteness In Emily Dickinson, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics In The American Renaissance, Michael William Keller
The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics In The American Renaissance, Michael William Keller
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation focuses on the interaction between poetic form and popular religious practice in the nineteenth century United States. Specifically, I aim to see how American poets appropriated religious tropes—and especially religious conversion—in their poetry with specific designs on their audience. My introduction analyzes the phenomenon of religious conversion up through the nineteenth century with help from psychologists and historians of religion, including William James and Sydney Ahlstrom. In the introduction, I also explore how revivalist conversion helped inform the poetics of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chapter one focuses on Emerson’s poetry, particularly as it enacts Emerson’s poetic …
At Home In The Stranger's House: Poetic Revision And Spiritual Practice, Angela Sorby
At Home In The Stranger's House: Poetic Revision And Spiritual Practice, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Heroine, The Abbey And Popular Romantic Textuality: The Romance Of The Forest (1791), Diane Hoeveler
The Heroine, The Abbey And Popular Romantic Textuality: The Romance Of The Forest (1791), Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
“Lifted Moments”: Emily Dickinson, Hymn Revision, And The Revival Music Meme-Plex, Sarah Wadsworth
“Lifted Moments”: Emily Dickinson, Hymn Revision, And The Revival Music Meme-Plex, Sarah Wadsworth
English Faculty Research and Publications
This essay focuses on Dickinson’s poem “The Soul has Bandaged moments - ” (Fr360), placing it in relation to several interrelated hymns (Independent, Unitarian, and gospel) that share a common pattern of imagery deriving from the popular “Crowning Day” motif. Through a linked sequence of paired readings, it shows how connections between two loosely related texts sharpen and become meaningful when the two texts are brought into dialog with a third text. Juxtaposing three overlapping pairs of lyrics—first by Daniel Webster Whittle and William Channing Gannett, then by Philip Doddridge and Emily Dickinson, and, finally, by Gannett and Dickinson (with …
Education, Angela Sorby
Education, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler
Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
James Liddy: The Poet's Soul Purified, Tyler Farrell
James Liddy: The Poet's Soul Purified, Tyler Farrell
English Faculty Research and Publications
The author discusses the life and works of writer James Liddy. He notes that Liddy did more in poetry, catholicism and sexuality in Ireland and taught friends and students to embrace time and place, knowledge of history and religion as well as memory and awareness. The author also states that he was a poet who believed in real mortality, filled with truth and honesty.
Review Of Wordsworth In American Literary Culture By Joel Scott And Matthew Pace, Angela Sorby
Review Of Wordsworth In American Literary Culture By Joel Scott And Matthew Pace, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
"A Strange Opposition": The Portrait Of A Lady And The Divorce Debates, Melissa J. Ganz
"A Strange Opposition": The Portrait Of A Lady And The Divorce Debates, Melissa J. Ganz
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.