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Angels Of Many Houses: Reconciling Domesticity In 19th-Century Victorian Literature, Amanda Vierra May 2023

Angels Of Many Houses: Reconciling Domesticity In 19th-Century Victorian Literature, Amanda Vierra

College Honors Program

The rise of the Victorian middle class is known for solidifying a separation of gender roles, with women operating in the private, domestic sphere and men in the public sphere. This historical value placed on domesticity is reflected in the rise of domestic fiction, the dominant genre of Victorian literature, which commonly depicts young, middle-class women making their way in the world. The plot of these narratives revolves around women perfecting or contending with their place in the domestic sphere through courtship, marriage, and family. Scholars on domestic fiction have continued to argue over whether domestic fiction reflected the oppressive …


Through Her Eyes: Learning And Teaching About Racism Through "To Kill A Mockingbird" And "The Bluest Eye", Sloane Larsen May 2023

Through Her Eyes: Learning And Teaching About Racism Through "To Kill A Mockingbird" And "The Bluest Eye", Sloane Larsen

English Honors Theses

This thesis argues that Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird both merit a place in te United States’ secondary education systems by using use them in the classroom to encourage students to recognize and challenge their biases, perspectives, and choices. One of the many complex questions this thesis addresses is the efficacy of teaching students about racism using such novels. Teaching these novels through Critical Race Theory could help create a new generation of students who are more likely to address and challenge their biases and privilege. At the same time, this approach requires …


Heurodis's Body: Reading "Sir Orfeo" With Three Significant Losses, Grace J. Bromage May 2023

Heurodis's Body: Reading "Sir Orfeo" With Three Significant Losses, Grace J. Bromage

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Narratives Of Feminist Resistance: Women's Bodily Autonomy And The Dystopian Mode, Grace J. Bromage May 2023

Narratives Of Feminist Resistance: Women's Bodily Autonomy And The Dystopian Mode, Grace J. Bromage

English Honors Theses

This undergraduate thesis examines how dystopian fiction has responded to the sociopolitical issue of restrictions on women’s bodily autonomy, a question that has become more timely since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in Summer 2022. Particularly, I aim to understand how readers can use dystopian novels to shape real-world dialogue and how authors can use narrative strategies to encourage readers to resist oppression. My first chapter takes a broad approach, tracing the development of dystopian fiction from a genre to a mode and using Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) as a case study of how …


The (Ir)Reverent Social Roles Of Religion In The Work Of James And Wharton, Jannette Kazlauskas May 2023

The (Ir)Reverent Social Roles Of Religion In The Work Of James And Wharton, Jannette Kazlauskas

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


What Is The Right Feeling? Keat's Poetic Representations Of Agentive Femininity, Brendan Bonner May 2023

What Is The Right Feeling? Keat's Poetic Representations Of Agentive Femininity, Brendan Bonner

The Criterion

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The Criterion (2023) May 2023

The Criterion (2023)

The Criterion

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“A Disputant Of The Landscape:” Redefining The English Landscape In “To Autumn”, John Sager May 2023

“A Disputant Of The Landscape:” Redefining The English Landscape In “To Autumn”, John Sager

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Bawdy Works: Vulgar Humor And Bodily Autonomy In Austen's "Mansfield Park" And Fielding's "The History Of Tom Jones", Sloane Larsen May 2023

Bawdy Works: Vulgar Humor And Bodily Autonomy In Austen's "Mansfield Park" And Fielding's "The History Of Tom Jones", Sloane Larsen

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


The Gendered Shackles Of Clarissa Dalloway And Septimus Warren Smith, Abigail Coburn May 2023

The Gendered Shackles Of Clarissa Dalloway And Septimus Warren Smith, Abigail Coburn

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Tension In The Eye: Milton And Surveillance, Joseph Abrams May 2023

Tension In The Eye: Milton And Surveillance, Joseph Abrams

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Fated By A Fallen World, Danielle Dentremont May 2023

Fated By A Fallen World, Danielle Dentremont

The Criterion

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Enigmatic Nashe And The Subversion Of Romance, Louie Alexandris May 2023

Enigmatic Nashe And The Subversion Of Romance, Louie Alexandris

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Ownership Is Power, Madeleine Moino May 2023

Ownership Is Power, Madeleine Moino

The Criterion

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The Exile Enigma And The Cycle Of Haunting, Caroline Boardman May 2023

The Exile Enigma And The Cycle Of Haunting, Caroline Boardman

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Awareness In Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush", Caroline Coffey May 2023

Awareness In Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush", Caroline Coffey

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


Christian Humanism In Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", Grant Ward May 2023

Christian Humanism In Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", Grant Ward

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


In A State Of Nervous Conditions: Gender Relations In Tsitsi Dangarembga’S Groundbreaking Novel, Evan Garcia Apr 2023

In A State Of Nervous Conditions: Gender Relations In Tsitsi Dangarembga’S Groundbreaking Novel, Evan Garcia

Montserrat Annual Writing Prize

This paper is analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Conditions. It examines the oppressive system of colonial patriarchy in Southern Rhodesia and the suffocating conflicts faced by African women living under the legacy of colonial rule.