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First Person Narration In Postwar British Women’S Fiction, Julia Mccoy
First Person Narration In Postwar British Women’S Fiction, Julia Mccoy
English Student Scholarship
Julia McCoy ’22
Majors: English and Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Hogan, English
A study of postwar English novelists Margaret Drabble and Jeannette Winterson, looking particularly at the way these writers use first person narration in their works. Both writers explore how women’s identity can be ‘written into being’ against external pressures and authorities that seek to define women’s ‘proper’ role.
Blake’S Method: Blake Imagining Milton In The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell, Micaela Freeman
Blake’S Method: Blake Imagining Milton In The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell, Micaela Freeman
English Student Scholarship
Major: English
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bruce Graver, English
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is William Blake’s articulation of his reaction to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. After analyzing Blake’s reaction to Paradise Lost, I will suggest how Blake’s reading of Milton helped shape 20th-century criticism, specifically post-war Miltonic criticism. My paper will begin by considering Blake’s rewriting of Milton in the ‘Argument’ of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, starting at the Adamic myth. I will continue my analysis with looking at the famous passage on Plate 6 when Blake writes, “The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote …
Hawthorne’S Faith, Cecelia Little
Hawthorne’S Faith, Cecelia Little
English Student Scholarship
Major: English and Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Margaret Reid, English
This project is an examination of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings, particularly focused on Hawthorne’s identity, philosophy, and spirituality. Placing these ideas in the context of early American history as well as in the context of Hawthorne’s biography, Cecelia Little focuses on how Hawthorne offers pieces of a new and complex philosophy of the individual human soul within the human community. This powerpoint includes a structured compilation of many, but by no means all, of her findings, and she plans to delve much further into Hawthorne’s life and works. The primary focus …
Radical Rejections And Sloppy Seconds, Meaghan Dodson
Radical Rejections And Sloppy Seconds, Meaghan Dodson
English Student Scholarship
Jane Austen is famous for her heroines and their marriages; at the same time, however, she is also infamous for these same heroines rejecting proposals of marriage. This paper explores how Austen uses the failed marriage proposal to show how women need not fear putting their own happiness first - an idea that is just as radical in our own day and age.
Fulfillment Of Woman And Poet In Elizabeth Barrett Brown's Aurora Leigh, Beth Leonardo
Fulfillment Of Woman And Poet In Elizabeth Barrett Brown's Aurora Leigh, Beth Leonardo
English Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Wordsworth And Milton: The Prelude And Paradise Lost, Colin Mccormack
Wordsworth And Milton: The Prelude And Paradise Lost, Colin Mccormack
English Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The James Brothers And The Tragic Beauty Of Individualism, Corey Plante
The James Brothers And The Tragic Beauty Of Individualism, Corey Plante
English Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.