No Greater Love: Recognition, Transformation, And Friendship In The Harry Potter Series,
2013
Liberty University
No Greater Love: Recognition, Transformation, And Friendship In The Harry Potter Series, Stephen Parish
Masters Theses
Nobody today doubts the momentous influence the Harry Potter series has had on a generation of readers. Many scholars and critics assume Harry's place amongst other great works of children's literature, and indeed the series has brought about a revival in children's literature scholarship. Despite this popularity, many critics question the series' aesthetics, its attention to moral demeanor. Therefore, what element exists in Harry Potter that could enforce its aesthetic quality? Based on a rhetorical reading of the texts, my thesis upholds the aesthetic nature of the books through an analysis of the trio's friendship and and its impact on …
Putting Down Roots: A Tolkienian Conception Of Place,
2013
Liberty University
Putting Down Roots: A Tolkienian Conception Of Place, Kayla Snow
Masters Theses
This thesis explores the way in which J.R.R. Tolkien's develops and expresses his nuanced sense of place through his major literary works--namely, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien's sense of place, as expressed through his fiction, encompasses both metaphysical and geographical relational structures that are operative at both the local and global levels. As Tolkien develops his sense of place in his fiction, he draws from the Distributist principles--largely informed by Catholic social policy of the late nineteenth century and popularized by G.K. Chesterton--to build the economy in Middle-earth. The resulting economy resists industrialization …
Conforming To Conventions In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Pride And Prejudice, And Emma,
2013
Liberty University
Conforming To Conventions In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Pride And Prejudice, And Emma, Veronica Olson
Masters Theses
A major part of Jane Austen's novels consists of a critique of the societal conventions that were prevalent in Regency England. Through a study of Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, it can be seen that Austen marginalizes those characters who chose conformity to social conventions. Contrariwise, the characters who exhibit a greater degree of autonomy within their patriarchal culture become the focus of the narrative. In looking at societal conventions concerning money, gender roles, and class status in conjunction with Austen's portrayal of various characters in the three novels, Austen's own views about conformity to societal conventions are …
Jane Austen’S Anglicanism By Laura Mooneyham White,
2013
Wayne State University
Jane Austen’S Anglicanism By Laura Mooneyham White, Andrew O. Winckles
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Symbolic Capital And The Performativity Of Authorship: The Construction And Commodification Of The Nineteenth-Century Authorial Celebrity,
2013
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Symbolic Capital And The Performativity Of Authorship: The Construction And Commodification Of The Nineteenth-Century Authorial Celebrity, Whitney Helms
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Victorian and Antebellum writers were the first literary figures to construct and perform their authorship within the sphere of celebrity. Unlike their Romantic predecessors who endured fame as an unexpected consequence of their popularity, the Victorians and their contemporaries understood celebrity as a condition of authorship. This dissertation takes as its subject the origins and development of symbolic power for authors as it was expressed in the trappings of celebrity and mass culture and argues that authorship became no longer strictly a profession of writing, but rather a performative endeavor that could be presented through diverse commercial markets. Investigating the …
Chasing The Ghost Of Melesina Trench: A Film By Qina Liu In Collaboration With Katharine Kittredge,
2013
Ithaca College
Chasing The Ghost Of Melesina Trench: A Film By Qina Liu In Collaboration With Katharine Kittredge, Katherine Kittredge, Qina Liu
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
Filmmaker Qina Liu has created a short documentary about Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench. The story tells of remarkable coincidences, documents lost and found, and the emergence of Trench's descendants in the project's final chapter.
Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space,
2013
California State University, East Bay
Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space, Eve M. Lynch
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
When Mary Shelley began writing The Last Man in 1824 in the wake of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s untimely death, she drew from her close circle of family and friends as models for her main characters. Although it is tempting to view this novel as an autobiographical expiation of the profound sorrow that overwhelmed Shelley at her husband’s death, to do so is to underestimate her prescient political insight and to risk overlooking the complex implications of class and rank that suffuse the position of the narrator, Lionel Verney. While Shelley’s emotions give a passionate appeal to this novel, …
The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy,
2013
University of Arkansas
The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy, Amy Hodges
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s conception of England as an orderly, unromantic site of commercial trade. Arabella’s romances prompt her to expect certain power structures from English society; she invites others to see her body as a spectacle and expects that her actions will solidify her status as a powerful woman. Yet Lennox reveals that English society sees Arabella’s body not as powerful, but as an object upon which they may construct their own potential site for the exchange of knowledge, an objectification that neither Arabella nor Lennox are prepared …
Welcome To 'Notes And Discoveries',
2013
University of South Florida
Welcome To 'Notes And Discoveries'
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
The New Science And Women’S Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein, Ed. By Judy A. Hayden,
2013
University of West Georgia
The New Science And Women’S Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein, Ed. By Judy A. Hayden, Laura Miller
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández,
2013
Seton Hall University
Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Dutch And Flemish Masterworks From The Rose-Marie And Eijk Van Otterloo Collection Mfa-Houston (Nov. 13 2011-Feb. 12, 2012),
2013
University of Houston
Dutch And Flemish Masterworks From The Rose-Marie And Eijk Van Otterloo Collection Mfa-Houston (Nov. 13 2011-Feb. 12, 2012), David Mazella
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
The Experience Of Domestic Service For Women In Early Modern London, Ed. By Paula Humfrey,
2013
University of South Florida
The Experience Of Domestic Service For Women In Early Modern London, Ed. By Paula Humfrey, Marisa Iglesias
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, And The Emergence Of Virtual Reality, By Peter Otto,
2013
University of New Mexico
Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, And The Emergence Of Virtual Reality, By Peter Otto, Stacey Kikendall
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Separated By Their Sex: Women In Public And Private In The Colonial Atlantic World, By Mary Beth Norton,
2013
Marymount University
Separated By Their Sex: Women In Public And Private In The Colonial Atlantic World, By Mary Beth Norton, Leigh Johnson
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Living In A Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, And Open Access,
2013
Emory University
Living In A Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, And Open Access, Sheila Cavanagh
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
In Search Of Lady Isabella’S Library; Or, A Question Of Access,
2013
Union University
In Search Of Lady Isabella’S Library; Or, A Question Of Access, Patricia L. Hamilton
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Digitally Reconstructing The Reynolds Retrospective Attended By Jane Austen In 1813: A Report On E-Work-In-Progress,
2013
University of Texas at Austin
Digitally Reconstructing The Reynolds Retrospective Attended By Jane Austen In 1813: A Report On E-Work-In-Progress, Janine Barchas
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Place And Contemplative Pedagogy,
2013
University of South Florida
Place And Contemplative Pedagogy, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Gender & Genre,
2013
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Gender & Genre, Sharon Harrow
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
