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Percy Shelley’S Prose Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, The Coliseum, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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History 1, 2, 3, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Decolonizing The Future: Review Of Jessica Langer's Postcolonialism And Science Fiction And Ericka Hoagland And Reema Sarwal's Science Fiction, Imperialism And The Third World, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Sivka-Burka, A Is For Air, Interstate, Notes From A Northern State, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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"Be-Holde The First Acte Of This Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis And Cross-Pollination In Jacobean Drama And The Early Modern Prose Novella, Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith

Dissertations (1934 -)

The role of the early modern novella in the formation of Jacobean drama has been consistently understated in literary criticism. Source study and independent criticism of Elizabethan prose fiction, the two most common areas in which these novellas are discussed, are as quick to reference these works as they are to dismiss them. Using a primarily intertextual lens, it is the purpose of this dissertation to expose the rich relationship between early modern English, Italian, and Spanish novellas and their Jacobean dramatic counterparts. Specifically, my dissertation seeks to examine the deep thematic influences of the early modern novella on Jacobean …

Spirit Of The Psyche: Carl Jung's And Victor White's Influence On Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, Paul Wakeman

Dissertations (1934 -)

Flannery O'Connor's interest in depth psychology, especially as it was presented by Carl Jung and Victor White, a Dominican priest and a "founding member of the C. G. Jung Institute," plays a greater role in her fiction than has been previously noted. O'Connor found parallels with Jung's theory of the unconscious and Catholic dogma, but ultimately found White's Catholicized presentation of the unconscious, which equated the unconscious psyche with the soul, more amenable to her faith.

This research first highlights the attention O'Connor gave to Jung's and White's theories of the unconscious as found in her public lectures, her personal …

Review Of Seo-Young Chu's Do Metaphors Dream Of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory Of Representation, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Hope, But Not For Us: Ecological Science Fiction And The End Of The World In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake And The Year Of The Flood, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Violence And Masculinity In American Fiction, 1950-1975, Magdalen Mckinley

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in fiction published by Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth between 1950 and 1975. Through close literary analysis coupled with a study of race and gender in 20th century American culture, I examine the manner in which gendered existential dilemmas are portrayed in this fiction as arising from a number of external factors, including racism, ethnic stereotyping, and the triumph of white heteronormativity as a model of masculinity. In doing so, I offer a reconsideration of …

Struggle Forever: Review Of Kim Stanley Robinson’S 2312, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Victorian Gothic Drama, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Canonicity And The American Public Library: The Case Of American Women Writers, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

Beginning with an overview of the debate over American women writers and the academic canon, this essay inventories four clusters of American women writers—domestic novelists, regionalists, modernists, and writers of diverse ethnicities—within a representative sampling of small-town public libraries across the Midwest from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The survey reveals some surprising disjunctures that run counter to trends in the academy. It also highlights the role publishers and bibliographers have played in establishing favored texts for a general readership and demonstrates that publishers of literary classics and bibliographies geared toward librarians have not always promoted the same …

Regina Maria Roche’S The Children Of The Abbey: Contesting The Catholic Presence In Female Gothic Fiction, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article examines Regina Maria Roche’s immensely popular gothic novel, The Children of the Abbey (1796), in light of the ideological and political campaigns that occurred in Britain leading up to the passage of the Catholic emancipation bill in 1829. The Children of the Abbey has been the subject of recent critical interpretation by a number of scholars who attempt to argue that it is pro-Catholic. However, by confronting the portrait of her dead mother in the final volume, Roche’s heroine Amanda discovers not a magical representation of the unknowable and inexplicable past that often stands for Catholicism but instead …

Review Of Zombie Politics And Culture In The Age Of Casino Capitalism By Henry A. Giroux And Monsters Of The Market: Zombies, Vampires And Global Capitalism By David Mcnally, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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A Victorian Christmas In Hell: Yuletide Ghosts And Necessary Pleasures In The Age Of Capital, Brandon Chitwood

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation explores how the cultural and literary development – one might argue, creation – of a specifically Victorian Christmas arose in response to social anxieties related to the expansion of industrial capitalism, Darwinian theories of evolution, and the increasingly problematic definition of the family during the nineteenth century in Britain. Using a Lacanian psychoanalytic lens, the dissertation explores how the liminal figure of the ghost pervades the literary narrativization of the Christmas holiday, and how such ghosts provided uncanny comforts to a reading public increasingly horrified by social, economic, and natural forces seemingly beyond their control. The dissertation argues …

Gender Politics In The Novels Of Eliza Haywood, Susan Muse

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study investigates how Eliza Haywood addressed ideological conflicts about gender produced by modernization in early eighteenth-century England. Expanding Michael McKeon's theory of the novel to include "questions of gender," I address a wide sample of novels in order to show how Haywood's writing developed during her long career. Her first preoccupation was the sexual double standard that defined "fallen women" as society's exiles. Influenced by the "she-tragedy" of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, Haywood wrote novels that elicited pity for fallen women and searched for reasons to explain their condition. Haywood's writing became overtly political with her …

Destabilizing Tradition: Gender, Sexuality, And Postnational Identity In Four Novels By Irish Women, 1960-2000, Sarah Nestor

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation examines four novels that represent Irish women and girls confronting the typical narrative of Irish national identity in the twentieth century. The post-independence construction of Irish national identity depended upon prescriptive roles that aligned with its founders’ beliefs about the nation’s ethnic homogeneity and moral superiority. Irish women’s identity and roles as wives and mothers were imperative to upholding this idea of the nation, particularly its morality. Irish women were therefore charged with maintaining well-defined gender roles and the nuclear family in an effort to define a distinctive Irish identity. Thus, when women’s roles are challenged or changed …

Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, And Revisions That Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Jarrod Hurlbert

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation is a study of the revisions Samuel Richardson made to his first novel, Pamela, and its sequel, Pamela in Her Exalted Condition, published within his lifetime. Richardson, who was his own printer, revised Pamela eight times over twenty years, the sequel three times, and the majority of the variants have hitherto suffered from critical neglect. Because it is well known that Richardson responded to friendly and antagonistic "collaborators" by making emendations, I also examine the extant documents that played a role in Pamela's development, including Richardson's correspondence and contemporary criticisms of the novel. Pamela Reworded, then, is an …

A Literature Of Transgression And Subversion: Review Of John Clute's Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika In The World Storm, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Future's Past: Review Of Robert Charles Wilson's Julian Comstock: A Story Of 22nd-Century America, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Illustrating Thomas Holcroft’S A Tale Of Mystery As Physiognomical Tableaux Vivant, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Drama And Catholic Themes, Edwin Block

English Faculty Research and Publications

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The Land Of Give And Take, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

In The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrell’s second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish, professors and proles. Their stories are told by an acute narrator, or often by the characters themselves, and as one poem says, “someone buys the story.” The reader buys these stories for their authenticity and pathos. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the churches claims, but recognizing that nothing else gives weight and meaning to the lives of these transient …

A Multi-Dimensional Pedagogy For Racial Justice In Writing Centers, Rasha Diab, Beth Godbee, Thomas Ferrel, Neil Simpkins

English Faculty Research and Publications

In light of disciplinary conversations and increased attention to anti-racism in writing centers, we see a disciplinary mandate for writing centers to better articulate a pedagogy for racial justice that informs our everyday work, including but not limited to tutoring practice. This mandate, we believe, involves asking: How do we make actionable our commitment to racial justice when working with writers one-with-one? What interactional stances and pedagogical moves enact a pedagogy of anti-racism in writing centers? How do we prepare ourselves to enact this pedagogy? Our answers to these questions center around (1) articulating and frequently re-articulating our commitments to …

Toward Explaining The Transformative Power Of Talk About, Around, And For Writing, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article provides an initial approach for capturing moments of talk about, around, and for writing to explain why writing groups and writing conferences are so often considered “transformative” for the people involved. After describing the widespread and yet disparate transformations so often attributed to collaborative writing talk, I introduce applied conversation analysis (CA) as a method for getting at what is often difficult to identify, document, and explain: the intricacies of moments that underlie, if not directly account for, transformations. At the core of this article, I present a case study of a writer, Susan, and tutor, Kim, and …

Zombies, Reavers, Butchers, And Actuals In Joss Whedon's Work, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Obsessing About The Catholic Other: Religion And The Secularization Process In Gothic Literature, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Stopping At The Joyce Kilmer Rest Stop On A Snowy Evening, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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