An Exploration Of Female Sexuality, Class Status, And Art In Hardy’S Short Stories,
2018
Gettysburg College
An Exploration Of Female Sexuality, Class Status, And Art In Hardy’S Short Stories, Erin M. Lanza
Student Publications
In this paper, I examine Hardy’s treatment of female sexuality as mediated by art in two short stories: “The Fiddler of the Reels” and “An Imaginative Woman.” Given Hardy’s role as an artist, his noted compassion for women, and his interest in Victorian attitudes toward sexuality, my analysis of these topics in his short stories is particularly relevant. Hardy’s investment in class issues is also pertinent, as I consider how Hardy uses his heroines’ relationships with art to underline the distinct disadvantages of lower-class women. While Ella, the middle-class heroine of “An Imaginative Woman,” uses poetry to channel stagnant sensual …
Who Cries?: Tears And Otherness In The Middle Ages,
2018
DePauw University
Who Cries?: Tears And Otherness In The Middle Ages, Hyeree Ellis 18
Honor Scholar Theses
No abstract provided.
Spenser’S Narrative Figuration Of Women In The Faerie Queene,
2018
Indiana University - Bloomington
Spenser’S Narrative Figuration Of Women In The Faerie Queene, Judith H. Anderson
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance to an appreciation of women's plights and possibilities in the age of Elizabeth. The figures she highlights encompass the idealization of Una, humanized by parody; the historicized fixation of Belphoebe; the cross-dressed complexity of Britomart; and the psychological misery of Serena, a throwback to Amoret. They range from cartoons to a fullness sharing numerous features with the Shakespearean women salient in recent debates about character. The critical lens most revealing for each …
The Third Gender And Ælfric's Lives Of Saints,
2018
Middle Tennessee State University
The Third Gender And Ælfric's Lives Of Saints, Rhonda L. Mcdaniel
Richard Rawlinson Center Series
In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Ælfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism provided by the four Latin Doctors and illustrated in the early Latin Lives of Roman martyrs, revealing the importance of memory in the construction of the monastic "third gender." In the second section McDaniel turns to creating a historical and theological cultural …
Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews,
2018
Marshall University
Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews, Robert Ellison
English Faculty Research
This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I begin with a rhetorical analysis of sermons preached on behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the largest and best known missionary organization of its kind. I then examine a collection of sermons in which Hermann Adler, then rabbi of London’s Bayswater Synagogue and later Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, pushes back against their efforts, offering the “true explanations” of passages which, in his view, had been improperly employed by Christian preachers. Finally, I trace a kind of “feedback loop” in which …
Romola: The Failure Of A Husband And Triumph Of A Wife,
2018
Pepperdine University
Romola: The Failure Of A Husband And Triumph Of A Wife, Ryan Harding
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
George Eliot’s fifteenth century romance Romola follows the coming of age and independence of the titular character, an Italian noblewoman during the Renaissance. This essay examines the development of the relationship between Romola and her husband Tito’s common law wife, Tessa, specifically through the impact of Tito’s personal failures on both women. Throughout the novel, Romola struggles with her failed marriage, her need for personal connection, and Tito’s poor treatment of Tessa. Using the knowledge gained from her experiences and Tito’s poor behavior as an example, Romola transforms herself into the proper husband figure for Tessa: a provider, protector, and …
Parallels Of Morality: Wilde And Nietzsche’S Challenge To Social Obligation,
2018
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Parallels Of Morality: Wilde And Nietzsche’S Challenge To Social Obligation, Amzie A. Dunekacke
Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)
This thesis explores Irish author Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in relation to a selection of texts by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. To demonstrate the similarities between Wilde and Nietzsche’s challenges to European morality, this work considers these themes, which are present in the ideologies of both Wilde and Nietzsche: the body and sensual pleasure, social construction, and the hypocrisy of altruism. Both radical thinkers castigate Platonic notions of the body as ignoble and weak, and they mock European propriety’s shyness of the body. In addition, Wilde and Nietzsche offer similar criticisms of social laws, adopting a …
"Christen It With Thy Dagger's Point": Maternal Mistreatment In Shakespeare's Roman Plays,
2018
Webster University
"Christen It With Thy Dagger's Point": Maternal Mistreatment In Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Anne Mcilhaney
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
"She May Strew Dangerous Conjectures": The Political Sedition And Social Potency Of _Hamlet_'S Ophelia,
2018
Wright State University
"She May Strew Dangerous Conjectures": The Political Sedition And Social Potency Of _Hamlet_'S Ophelia, Christina M. Luiggi
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Sadomasochistic Cyclicality: Appropriations Of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" Sonnets In Dickens's _Great Expectations_,
2018
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Sadomasochistic Cyclicality: Appropriations Of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" Sonnets In Dickens's _Great Expectations_, Daniel G. Lauby
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Young Shakespeare: Culture, Patrons, And Connections,
2018
Urbana University
Young Shakespeare: Culture, Patrons, And Connections, David George
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Hubert's Encounters With The Succession In Shakespeare's King John,
2018
Marian University - Indianapolis
Hubert's Encounters With The Succession In Shakespeare's King John, Marcia Eppich-Harris
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Encountering Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Subversion Of The Occident's Threat Of Objectification,
2018
Alexandria University
Encountering Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Subversion Of The Occident's Threat Of Objectification, Amany El-Sawy
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2018
Heidelberg University
Front Matter, Emily Isaacson
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Language As Communication Vs. Language As Art: J.R.R. Tolkien And Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation,
2018
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Language As Communication Vs. Language As Art: J.R.R. Tolkien And Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation, Dimitra Fimi
Journal of Tolkien Research
This article situates Tolkien’s “A Secret Vice” (and its accompanying notes and papers) within the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century. It claims that at the heart of Tolkien’s exploration in this material is the question of language as communication vs. language as art. It argues that Tolkien’s language invention navigates the (perceived) binary between a utilitarian aim for language invention (contemporary International Auxiliary Languages) vs. an aesthetic linguistic pursuit (contemporary Modernist and other avant-garde linguistic experimentation), by choosing a third (middle) way. It examines Tolkien's linguistic invention alongside the work of Sapir, Jespersen, Joyce, Stein, and …
Robert Burns’S Politics And The French Revolution,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Robert Burns’S Politics And The French Revolution, G. Ross Roy
Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy
A sympathetic survey of Burns's changing political ideas before, during and after the French Revolution
Preface,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Preface, Patrick Scott
Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy
A brief introduction to Ross Roy's Selected Essays with a note on editorial procedure
Details On Printed Volume: Prelims, Dedication, Abbreviations, Contents Page,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Details On Printed Volume: Prelims, Dedication, Abbreviations, Contents Page, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth Sudduth, Jo Durant
Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy
Consolidated prelims pages from the print edition of this book, giving seties and publication information (including ISBN), the dedication to Lucie Roy (1924-2018), abbreviations, and contents page.
Robert Burns: A Self-Portrait,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Robert Burns: A Self-Portrait, G. Ross Roy
Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy
An essay looking at Burns as he portrays himself in his letters, notable for looking at how different correspondents bring out different aspects of his character.
The Bible In Burns And Scott,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
The Bible In Burns And Scott, G. Ross Roy
Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy
Surveys and compares the use of Biblical reference and allusion in two major Scottish writers, Robert Burns and Walter Scott
