I Was Crazy Once: An Examination Of Elizabethan Insanity In Shakespeare’S Work,
2023
Belmont University
I Was Crazy Once: An Examination Of Elizabethan Insanity In Shakespeare’S Work, Hope L. Kobus
[Archive] Belmont University Research Symposium (BURS)
William Shakespeare wrote numerous works, diving into the common motifs of love, revenge, power, but most importantly, madness. While Elizabethan audiences were more accustomed to seeing madness as a ploy for comedy, Shakespeare changed the appeal through shows such as King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He presents the power and ambition of women, as well as the failings of the upper-class, but he disguised them through the idea of insanity. At a time when the public had little understanding of mental health, it was easy to blame madness on gender, social status, and even the supernatural. Through …
Her Precious White Body/Her Tender Black Flesh: The Gothic Link To Black Women's (Mis)Treatment In Real Life And On The Page,
2023
Old Dominion University
Her Precious White Body/Her Tender Black Flesh: The Gothic Link To Black Women's (Mis)Treatment In Real Life And On The Page, Madisty R. Thomas
English Theses & Dissertations
As a work in progress, this thesis explores the interplay between historical and contemporary devaluation of and violence against Black women, materially and discursively, including visual mediums and written text. Specifically, I focus on the gothic novel to illuminate the impact race-based inventions such as chattel slavery and human exhibitions, as well as the generic tropes of the Gothic, have had on Black women’s representation and lived experience via a wide-ranging introduction and close examination of Richard Marsh’s The Beetle. Additionally, the conclusion attempts to suggest how Black women and girls might survive in this antiblack world, thus escape …
Does Shakespeare Believe In Sudden Conversions For His Villains?,
2023
Oberlin College
Does Shakespeare Believe In Sudden Conversions For His Villains?, Robert B. Pierce
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
“My All The World”: Constance, Motherhood, And Petrarchanism In Shakespeare’S King John,
2023
Webster University
“My All The World”: Constance, Motherhood, And Petrarchanism In Shakespeare’S King John, Anne Mcilhaney
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
“Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here”: Westworld’S New Prospero And His Isle Of Calibans,
2023
Thiel College
“Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here”: Westworld’S New Prospero And His Isle Of Calibans, Jared S. Johnson
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
A Double Time In Romeo And Juliet: Juliet’S Rapid Maturity,
2023
The University of Akron
A Double Time In Romeo And Juliet: Juliet’S Rapid Maturity, David George
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
“She Never Yet Was Foolish That Was Fair”: Whiteness As Erasure In William Shakespeare’S Othello,
2023
The University of Akron
“She Never Yet Was Foolish That Was Fair”: Whiteness As Erasure In William Shakespeare’S Othello, Kathryn Croft
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Introduction,
2023
Heidelberg University
Introduction, Emily Isaacson
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
The Virtue Of Humour In King Lear,
2023
Chapman University
The Virtue Of Humour In King Lear, Kent R. Lehnhof
English Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"As the essays in this volume by Carolyn Sale and Katie Adkison clearly demonstrate, King Lear is centrally concerned with virtue. France makes it a priority when choosing Cordelia for his wife, telling her ‘Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon’ (1.1.250).1 Similarly, Cornwall cites Edmund’s ‘virtue and obedience’ when deciding to ‘seize on’ Edmund as his own (2.1.115, 118). The fact that characters as opposite as Cordelia and Edmund are alike ‘seized’ upon on account of their virtue underscores how difficult it can be to determine who and what is truly virtuous. Lear highlights this very problem when …
Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates Of The English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates Of The English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668, Nathan D. Nikolic
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The main question my dissertation attempts to address is: what role did the expansion of English colonial trades play in the transformation of English society and government between the Petition of Right and the early years of the Restoration (1628-1668)? My thesis is that during this period, colonial expansion rose to the level of a general national interest and that many early seventeenth-century texts index the complexities and tensions of this development. As a small but very organized group of merchants, peers, and MPs mobilized the military and financial technologies of colonization to support Parliament’s war against Charles I, their …
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, And Disgust In The Work Of Virginia Woolf And Zinaida Gippius,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, And Disgust In The Work Of Virginia Woolf And Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, and Disgust in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius examines how the discourses of degeneration, eugenics, and sexology shaped representations of women’s bodies in British and Russian modernist literature. Focusing on the writing of Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), I challenge the longstanding argument that both authors attempted to escape the material body by resorting to androgynous tropes. I argue that the material female body takes center stage in both Gippius’s and Woolf’s work and functions as a powerfully paradoxical entity: one that generates disgust and enables oppression while housing …
Marriage Stories: Legal Reform And The Novel In France And Britain, 1780–1860,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Marriage Stories: Legal Reform And The Novel In France And Britain, 1780–1860, Tatiana Nunez-Bright
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
“Marriage Stories” analyzes connections between novelistic form, marriage law reform, and portrayals of virtue in texts by, among others, Stéphanie de Genlis, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sophie Cottin, Claire de Duras, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Sophie Doin, George Sand, Anne Brontë, and Gustave Flaubert. I argue that the novel was less concerned with abolishing or even critiquing marriage than it was with delineating “good” from “bad” unions, which in turn reflects contemporary discussions about marriage’s role in response to burgeoning social movements. My first chapter considers the epistolary novel in relation to the idea of spouses existing as “one body” culturally …
Ambivalent Scales: Methods For Reading Scenes Of Sexual Violation,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Ambivalent Scales: Methods For Reading Scenes Of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The importance of unveiling rape in the #MeToo era has unintentionally obscured encounters that lack the clarity of “yes” or “no.” However, desire can be ambiguous even in unambiguous cases of assault. Feminist activists and scholars have started to address ambiguity by arguing for a new epistemology of rape, what Linda Alcoff calls “grey rape.” In this thesis, I interrogate the “grey” embedded in ordinary sexual encounters by looking at ambivalence as an example of everyday desire evident across the seduction plot and the novel tradition. Rather than seeking to make consent more inclusive to oppressed groups, I read between …
A Difference Of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
A Difference Of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism, Ryan L. Tracy
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
“A Difference of One’s Own” demonstrates that deconstructive conceptions of race lie at the heart of the modernist canon’s experimental representations of selfhood. Drawing on recent and canonical scholarship in Modernist Studies, Black Studies, Deconstruction, Queer Theory, Critical Theory, and Feminist Studies, I look at moments in modernist-era literature where the need to represent racial blackness, whether as a descriptor that defines one’s self-identity or the identity of another person, fails to draw a coherent line of difference between people, communities, selves, and importantly, the literatures that are thought to adhere to hard and fast racial distinctions. “Part I: …
Translating The Hobbit (2023) By Mark T. Hooker,
2023
Valparaiso University
Translating The Hobbit (2023) By Mark T. Hooker, Arden R. Smith
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Arden R. Smith, of Translating The Hobbit (2023) by Mark T. Hooker
Shakespeare’S Prince Of Denmark: Political Pandering In Hamlet,
2023
Brigham Young University - Provo
Shakespeare’S Prince Of Denmark: Political Pandering In Hamlet, Moriah Theriault
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Shakespeare's Hamlet contains frequent cultural ties and insights into Danish tradition that depict intentional effort to represent Danish culture. These accuracies can be seen in the description of the castle in Elsinore, the deep-seated conflicts between Christian forgiveness and revenge, and the traditional cannon salutes featured in Hamlet. Shakespeare created these connections to Danish culture for a political maneuver to win the favor of King James and his wife, the Royal Queen Anne of Denmark.
Exploring The Matriarchal Past To Forge A Modern Identity: Maternal Origins In Woolf And Ihimaera,
2023
Brigham Young University
Exploring The Matriarchal Past To Forge A Modern Identity: Maternal Origins In Woolf And Ihimaera, Kirsten W. Burningham
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Though the writings of Virginia Woolf and Witi Ihimaera are “incommensurable” in many ways, I find “commesurablilities”––the kind of commensurabilities the Susan Stanford Friedman seeks out across the planetary landscape of modernism––in the way they negotiate a new creative identity in a modern environment with the bang clash of history and present ringing in their ears. I see this commensurability in at least three key features: 1) Woolf and Ihimaera each gave birth to new literary movements: Woolf was mother to high British Modernism with experimental techniques such as free indirect discourse and the relegation of plot to the background; …
Henrietta Maria: Royalist Women’S Representations Of The French Catholic Queen,
2023
Brigham Young University, Provo
Henrietta Maria: Royalist Women’S Representations Of The French Catholic Queen, Kim Hansen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
By the mid-15th century, the royal marriage of King Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria incited enough conflict to spark civil war, as the English struggled to reconcile between the long-established image of female English domesticity and a pervasive cultural expectation for equality between marriage partners. Any form of equality in the royal marriage called the absolute power of the king into question, as it would imply that his actions had included her direct involvement, and even at times were more representative of her, not his, views. Letters captured at the Battle of Naseby confirmed fears that the queen …
Paradise And Paradiso: Echoes Of A Fortunate Fall,
2023
Liberty University
Paradise And Paradiso: Echoes Of A Fortunate Fall, Kathryn Alley
The Kabod
Presented at the National Collegiate Research Conference at Harvard University, January 2023.
Frights And Forests: The Hellish Landscape Of The Dark Forest, From Sleepy Hollow To The Forest Of Arden,
2023
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Frights And Forests: The Hellish Landscape Of The Dark Forest, From Sleepy Hollow To The Forest Of Arden, Minna Nizam
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
This paper seeks to explore forest settings in fantasy, and its hellish landscapes. From the headless horseman in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, to the frights and horrors of mythical creatures in fantasy settings placed in forests. The purpose of this study is to dive deep into the fear of the forest, its early days in storytelling, to more modern renditions. Sources used will be primarily books, and texts within books, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Lord of the Rings, and much more.
