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Putting The Ill In Illinois: How The Suffrage And Antisuffrage Movements In Illinois Transformed Themselves And The Nation, Emily Scarbrough Jan 2013

Putting The Ill In Illinois: How The Suffrage And Antisuffrage Movements In Illinois Transformed Themselves And The Nation, Emily Scarbrough

Undergraduate Honors Theses

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Wallpaper Mania, Ellen Corrigan Jan 2013

Wallpaper Mania, Ellen Corrigan

Ellen K. Corrigan

Text panels from "Wallpaper Mania," a local exhibit in support of the Booth Library installation of the National Library of Medicine traveling exhibition The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper," on display September 23-November 2, 2013.


Wallpaper Mania, Ellen Corrigan Jan 2013

Wallpaper Mania, Ellen Corrigan

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Text panels from "Wallpaper Mania," a local exhibit in support of the Booth Library installation of the National Library of Medicine traveling exhibition The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper," on display September 23-November 2, 2013.


Queering The Sublime: Virginia Woolf, Sexology, And Sexuality, Emily Whitmore Jan 2013

Queering The Sublime: Virginia Woolf, Sexology, And Sexuality, Emily Whitmore

Masters Theses

Using Virginia Woolf's novels, The Voyage Out, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando, I begin to explore moments where the characters experience the sublime as defined by Edmund Burke. Woolf uses the traditional sublime, but complicates the concept beyond its initial intention. The moments that mimic the sublime, but include the body, the natural world, and artistic creativity grows into what I will call the "queer sublime," which is new for both Woolf scholarship and for the sublime. Woolf's experimentation with the term and part of the "queer sublime" also helps to create a different …