"Not What They Have Chapter And Verse For:" On Judgments, Assumptions, And Expectations In Austen And Eliot,
2022
Hamline University
"Not What They Have Chapter And Verse For:" On Judgments, Assumptions, And Expectations In Austen And Eliot, Piper Dutton
Departmental Honors Projects
The nineteenth century left lasting impacts on our contemporary world, from political and economic developments to social and philosophical ones, and this extends to literature in the development of the novel as a major form. Jane Austen and George Eliot played integral roles in this maturation of the novel, as well as what Elizabeth Sabiston calls “the emerging female text and voice,” and thus both they and their art form merit continued reading and discussion (3). Novels are tools of social norms and revolution, and in the nineteenth century functioned as tools of the author in teaching their morals, worldviews, …
The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives Of Disease, Disorder, And Race In Global American Literature,
2022
Oberlin College
The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives Of Disease, Disorder, And Race In Global American Literature, Emma Brownstein
Honors Papers
This thesis examines the intersections among gothic literature, empire, and contagion, and traces the emergence and evolution of a yet unexplored subgenre: the Imperial Gothic. Where early American Gothic narratives express anxieties about national stability and the republican subject, the Imperial Gothic explores anxieties that emerge when imperialism brings white Americans into contact with foreign commodities, environments, and bodies, ranging from foreign nationals, immigrants, and enslaved peoples, to Martians. It demonstrates how viral threats to the body correspond to the nationalist conception of foreign threats against the imagined white body politic. What emerges from this body of global and interplanetary …
Beyond What's Missing: Silence In Women-Authored Novels From Wollstonecraft To Shelley,
2022
West Virginia University
Beyond What's Missing: Silence In Women-Authored Novels From Wollstonecraft To Shelley, Kelli Wilhelm
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly women’s silences, as representing either submission or resistance to oppressive institutions and societal expectations. I examine five women-authored novels from British Romanticism. The first half of this dissertation focuses on three radical works of the 1790s, Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice, and Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House. The second half discusses two well-known early nineteenth-century novels, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). Through examinations of these novels, I discuss how silence functions …
Eco-Material Rifts In South Asian Anglophone Fiction,
2022
West Virginia University
Eco-Material Rifts In South Asian Anglophone Fiction, Muhammad Manzur Alam
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
I examine how South Asian Anglophone fiction represents the evolution and derangement of postcolonial ecologies, especially how unrelenting colonial and capitalist interventions affect the symbiotic relationship between subaltern people and nonhuman entities. The conceptual methodology develops from Karl Marx’s theory of “metabolic rift,” which illustrates how capitalist exportation of crops causes loss of important soil nutrients because the nutrients are consumed in distant locations and not returned to the original soil. My concept of “eco-material rifts” extends Marx’s idea to contend that the “rifts” have grown into more complicated and difficult to remediate modes of material rifts today. I scrutinize …
Breaking Free: Detectives Let The Guilty Walk,
2022
Central Washington University
Breaking Free: Detectives Let The Guilty Walk, Cassandra Holcombe
All Master's Theses
In a genre like detective fiction, known for affirming social order, the refusal to enforce rule of law seems like an anomaly. The number of famous detectives who have let a perpetrator go suggests that release of suspects is not a break in genre conventions, but is a wider pattern that needs to be acknowledged. This study investigates that pattern by measuring the complexity of thirteen detectives: eleven of whom release perpetrators and two of whom do not, to serve as a control group. The higher the complexity of the character, the more human the character seems to be. The …
A Form Of Our Own: An Examination Of Black Sonnet-Samplers,
2022
Georgia Southern University
A Form Of Our Own: An Examination Of Black Sonnet-Samplers, Lavonna D. Wright
College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations
This study responds to the need for understanding and terminology regarding Black poets’ engagement with the sonnet form. Referring to sampling strategies in Hip-Hop to analyze Black sonnets, this study disputes limiting ideas about sonnets as ineffective mediums to portray Black narratives and honors strategies maintained in Hip-Hop culture that define Black narrative expression, resistance to assimilation, and social reflection. Black sonnets are an ever-evolving vehicle of resistance to elitist ideas about traditional forms, Black aesthetics, and the ways that poetic strategies can be defined. This study names past and present Black sonneteers’ adherence to, remixing in, and rejection of …
On Cleopatra Vii: From Horace And Shakespeare To Self-Representation,
2022
Bucknell University
On Cleopatra Vii: From Horace And Shakespeare To Self-Representation, Silja M. Hilton
Honors Theses
This thesis explores and analyzes Horace’s Ode 1.37 and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra in context of their poetic and theatrical narratives, word choice, and grammatical structures in an effort to form a clearer image of Cleopatra VII. While each work is placed within its historical settings, I do not pursue their historical ‘truths.’ Rather, I draw from the authors’ literary conceptions about the Ruler, from Horace’s inpotens (“a woman lacking in self-control”) to fierce agency in deciding death (“deliberata morte ferocior”), to Shakespeare’s ‘othering’ of Cleopatra as tawny, gypsy, and whore, to his portrayals of her as Goddess …
Throwing The Snake,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interview With Nicole Sealey,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Reprise,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
What Reading Thomas Merton Will Do,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cuttings,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Things That Collapse,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Different Birds Maybe 1,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Prufrock Villanelle,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vultures,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Featured Poet: Nicole Sealey,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Featured Poet: Nicole Sealey, Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Birmingham Poetry Review
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In The Belly,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Fallout,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Migration,
2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
