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Mysterious Ways : A Novel, Angela Pneuman

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Mysterious Ways: A Novel

Reasonable Conversions: Susanna Rowan's Mentoria And Conversion Narratives For Young Readers, Karen Roggenkamp

Faculty Publications

Though not well known, Rowson's Mentoria-a curious conglomeration of thematically-related pieces from multiple genres, including the essay, epistolary novel, conduct book, and fairy tale-offers particularly fertile ground for thinking about the nexus between eighteenth-century didactic books and earlier works for young readers.2 At the heart of Mentoria is a series of letters describing girls who yield, with dire and frequently deadly consequences, to the passionate pleas of male suitors.3 Fallen women populate Rowson's world, and scholars have traditionally read Mentoria within the familiar bounds of the eighteenth-century seduction novel.4 However, Rowson's creation transforms the older tradition of didactic, child-centered conversion …

Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, And American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921, Christine Cavalier

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921 by Christine Renée Cavalier Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Professor Vivian Pollak, Chairperson This dissertation examines how sentimental notions of respectable womanhood and refined education shaped the polished poetry and prose of four seminal female figures in the history of American Indian literature: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: 1800-1842), the earliest American Indian female author recovered thus far; E. Pauline Johnson: 1861-1913), the most successful nineteenth-century Native writer who became Canada's iconic poetess and Native national symbol; S. Alice Callahan: 1868-1894), the first American Indian female novelist; …

The Gay Of The Land: Queer Ecology And The Literature Of The 1960s, Jill Elizabeth Anderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation I argue not only that queer ecology is a legitimate and important next step for ecocritics and queer theorists but also that its literary application does a great amount of good in exploring and dismantling the natural/unnatural binary and exposing the ecological impact of the choices humans make everyday. I take as my method a combination of queer and environmental theory and literary criticism, as well as the foundational queer ecocritical works and include important historical and political perspectives influencing the emergence of the environmental and gay and lesbian movements. Through this dissertation, I legitimize more recent …

Cultural Reclamations In Helena Viramontes’ “The Moths”, Ashley Denney

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Dilemma Of The Italian American Male, Marc Dipaolo

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

“The Dilemma of the Italian American Male.”

Originally published in Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Ed: Elwood Watson. McFarland, 2009

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Recontextualizing Guy Endore’S Babouk In The Shadow Of Orientalism, Nathan Sacks

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear

Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach

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In Search Of America: Nature, Spirituality, And The Self In American Transcendentalism And Beat Generation Literature, Caitlin Cater

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Reading/Photography: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’S Four Girls At Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews And The Woman’S Era, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

No abstract provided.

Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

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Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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The Christian Recorder, Broken Families And Educated Nations: Julia Collins' Civil War Novel The Curse Of Caste, P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

This essay views Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (1865) through the racialized lens of Civil War’s promise and trauma. At first glance, the author’s narrative choices—her antebellum frame, her principal character’s racial indeterminacy and domestic concerns, even the overtly racialized advice she dispenses in the essays she publishes in the important Black paper, the Christian Recorder—seem distractingly distanced from the immediacy of the unfolding national conflict. Yet, readers can plot Collins’s story on the temporal and activist axes that she so explicitly engages by publishing in the Recorder, a paper that printed editorials …

Who’S Your Mama?: ‘White’ Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography And Anti-Passing Narratives Of Slavery And Freedom, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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"The Perils Of Disembodied Readership", Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Review of American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume and Violence in the Contemporary American Novel by James R. Giles.

Introduction , Charles Tatum

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Contemporary cultural critics have theorized the multiple aspects of "location" in many different ways…

"Sleeping With One Eye Open": · Fear And Ontology In The Poetry Of Mark Strand, James Hoff

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Power Of Hoodoo: African Relic Symbolism In Amistad And The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Alicia M. Simmons

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Down And Out With Thoreau: Reversals Of Perspective And Paradox In Walden, Peter J. Capuano

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Salvation And Rebirth In The Catcher In The Rye And The Bell Jar, Erica Lawrence

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Sentimental Abolition In Douglass’S Decade: Revision, Erotic Conversion, And Politics Of Witnessing In Frederick Douglass's "Heroic Slave" And My Bondage And My Freedom, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Race, Gender And Justice’: New Technologies And Student Empowerment, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Manifest In Signs: Reading The Undertell In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Past-On Stories: History, Ontology, And The Magically Real -- Morrison And Allende, On Call, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

The relation between ontology and naming is explicitly figured in both Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Morrison locates the defining power in speech and listening, survival skills quite distinct from talking and passive hearing. Allende subverts the Adamic power of literal naming and so posits a new genesis. In both novels, women become the site of a history that survives and so nurtures the present.

This Promiscuous Housekeeping': Death, Transgression, And Homoeroticism In Uncle Tom's Cabin, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Looking Back From Zora: Or Talking Out Both Sides My Mouth For Those Who Have Two Ears, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

Issues of representation and problematic address are considered in the works of several black women writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. These writers "talk out both sides" of their mouths and mediate their messages about representing race, gender and power.

The Spoken And The Silenced In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Our Nig, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Introduction, Lynn A. Higgins

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

From an issue of the Magazine Litteraire featuring the work of Fernand Braudel to an article by Hayden White on the "Absurdist moment" in criticism, it is clear that the disciplines of history and literary studies are converging. Historians like White and Dominick La Capra in the United States, and Michel de Certeau and the members of the Annales School in France are investigating the rhetorical modes of their craft and exploring implications of the fact that it is historians themselves who "make history." At the same time, literary scholars, emerging from Structuralism and the New Criticism, are seeking with …

The American West: An Analysis Of The Development Of Myth As Portrayed In American Literature, Gus Wilmerding

Honors Theses

An Analysis of the Development of Myth as Portrayed in American Literature.