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Impact Of Tuberculosis On Victorian England, Cara Caputo
Impact Of Tuberculosis On Victorian England, Cara Caputo
Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners
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Challenging Classical Legacy: Virginia Woolf' Mythical Method In To The Lighthouse, Alex Rucka
Challenging Classical Legacy: Virginia Woolf' Mythical Method In To The Lighthouse, Alex Rucka
Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners
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Deterring A Critical Catharsis: An Inquiry Into The Rhetoric And Ethics Of Punishment In Wieland; Or The Transformation, Mike Haen
Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners
From Hammurabi’s Code to modern-day penitentiaries, a society’s chosen punishment models contribute to that society’s ethics. In Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland; or the Transformation (1798), characters interact with one another in an isolated community. These interactions center on Wieland’s murder of his family, and how his mind was influenced toward murder by Carwin, an ex-convict. Here, a reader is faced with deciding who to blame. However, solely focusing on criminal culpability ignores a rhetorical problem left unexamined by past scholars—that of criminal punishment in the novel. This problem involves two issues—first, the factors that motivate a society to choose …