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Fancy Should Go Forth: Conversations Between Subject And World In "Mont Blanc" And Beachy Head, Liam Waterman
Fancy Should Go Forth: Conversations Between Subject And World In "Mont Blanc" And Beachy Head, Liam Waterman
2022 Undergraduate Awards
In both contemporary Ecocriticism and Romantic studies, the position of the human subject in relation to their world, and to the historical context of that world, has remained a contentious issue. Regarding Percy Shelley’s poem Mont Blanc, Frances Ferguson states that “critics seemed to have agreed on one thing… that it is a poem about the relationship between the human mind and the external world. After that, the debates begin” (172). These debates likely arise from the actual absence within the poem of any certain or unified way of thinking about the relationship between the human subject and the …
Moral Performativity In Eighteenth-Century Abolitionism And Black Lives Matter, Emma Stredder
Moral Performativity In Eighteenth-Century Abolitionism And Black Lives Matter, Emma Stredder
2022 Undergraduate Awards
The shallow phenomenon of moral performativity is consistently prevalent from the abolitionist movement of the eighteenth-century, to the Black Lives Matter movement of the twenty-firstcentury. Olaudah Equiano’s extraordinary abolitionist text, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, investigates and utilizes this phenomenon as he offers readers across centuries the opportunity to recognize the tenacious inequality which Black people face, as well as the paradoxical value that moral performativity provides. Through a close reading of Equiano’s religious argument, as well as his sentimental family scene, it may be recognized how egoism has the potential to unite with sentimentalism, and …
Default (Dis)Trust And The Medical Profession, Nathalie C. Diberardino
Default (Dis)Trust And The Medical Profession, Nathalie C. Diberardino
2022 Undergraduate Awards
Trust is typically taken to be an essential constituent to the patient/physician relationship. One way that trust can manifest in the context of medical care is in a default attitude; that is, the initial stance of trusting one takes upon entering any given interaction with a medical professional. In this paper, I identify the current default attitude of (dis)trust that certain marginalized groups are justified in taking towards the medical profession, and I explain why this default is not ideal. I then argue for my account of the ideal default attitude of trust, which I call medial trust. …