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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Timothy Bewes. Free Indirect: The Novel In A Postfictional Age. Columbia U.P., 2022., Emily Hall
Timothy Bewes. Free Indirect: The Novel In A Postfictional Age. Columbia U.P., 2022., Emily Hall
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Timothy Bewes. Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age. Columbia U.P., 2022. 315 pp.
The Evans Family: Familial Relationships In George Eliot's Life And Fiction, Hailey S. Fischer
The Evans Family: Familial Relationships In George Eliot's Life And Fiction, Hailey S. Fischer
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Biographers of George Eliot, when writing about her childhood, have focused on her close and complicated relationships with two of the most important men in her life, her father Robert Evans and brother Isaac Evans. Less discussed are Eliot’s relationships with her immediate female family members, her mother Christiana Pearson Evans and her sister Christiana (Chrissey) Evans Clarke. This thesis reviews the predominant interpretations of Eliot’s relations with her father and brother. It also pulls together the known information about Christiana and Chrissey from several major biographies and adds new insights from Eliot's letters in combination with two of her …
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Girlhood In The Creation, Content, And Consumption Of Victorian Children’S Literature, Betsy Barthelemy
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Girlhood In The Creation, Content, And Consumption Of Victorian Children’S Literature, Betsy Barthelemy
English Honors Projects
The Golden Age of (British) Children’s Literature was famous not only for the proliferation of fiction it hosted, but also for how much of that work featured young heroine protagonists. Starting with the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and examining two other fantasy works compared with three realistic children's novels from this half-century period, this project elucidates the differences between these genres and examines how authors used the characteristics of each to empower their heroines. It argues that these fictitious heroines influenced real-world readers to create progressive futures by providing examples of rebellious girl characters finding happy endings.
The Meaning In The Music: Music And The Prose Of Chopin, Joyce, Baldwin And Egan, Colin Perry
The Meaning In The Music: Music And The Prose Of Chopin, Joyce, Baldwin And Egan, Colin Perry
Senior Theses
Kate Chopin, James Joyce, James Baldwin, and Jennifer Egan are collectively gifted in the art of prose, yet each author also experiments with music in their literary works. An analysis of Chopin's The Awakening, Joyce's "The Dead," Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," and Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad reveals a trend of authors utilizing music to enrich their texts and convey major themes.
Romantic Theology As Revelation Through Tom Bombadil And Goldberry In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Brandon Best
Romantic Theology As Revelation Through Tom Bombadil And Goldberry In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Brandon Best
Augsburg Honors Review
In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Tom Bombadil initially appears to be merely an eccentric, episodic character. Yet, upon close reading his enchanting spirit embodies moral significance throughout the trilogy when members in the war against Sauron recall his spirit in moments of hope and despair. Though he only appears to the Hobbits within the Old Forest, Bombadil represents ideals present throughout the entire story. As Tolkien wrote, “[Bombadil] represents something that I feel important, though I would not be prepared to analyze the feeling precisely. I would not, however, have left him in, if he …
Sense And Sensibility: A Sermon On Living The Examined Life, Sarah J. Mejias
Sense And Sensibility: A Sermon On Living The Examined Life, Sarah J. Mejias
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Jane Austen’s novels remain an essential component of the literary canon, but her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is frequently neglected. However, in Sense and Sensibility is the genesis of Austen’s technique through which her major characters cultivate and reveal a strong inner life, demonstrated through the character of Elinor Dashwood. This technique is a characteristic she incorporates in each of her succeeding novels. Her approach to literature centers on the interiority of her characters and their ability to change, but it her first novel Austen takes a unique approach. Following the structure of an eighteenth-century sermon, Austen …
"The Sudden Thrill Of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision, Cyrus Seaberry Frost
"The Sudden Thrill Of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision, Cyrus Seaberry Frost
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Although scholarly commentary of the last decade has engaged more intensively than ever with the content of George Eliot's ideas concerning nineteenth-century British culture, the devices and techniques Eliot employs in the transmission of those ideas remain less explored. Consequently, room exists for a study as attentive to the formal characteristics of Eliot's messages as recent scholars have been to the content of those messages. This dissertation seeks to elucidate the ways in which specific formal techniques that characterize Eliot's fictional work evince her engagement with the thinking of social theorists, particularly Ludwig Feuerbach. The project contends that Eliot internalizes …
Mcwilliams, Ellen. Women And Exile In Contemporary Irish Fiction, Maureen T. Reddy
Mcwilliams, Ellen. Women And Exile In Contemporary Irish Fiction, Maureen T. Reddy
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
No abstract provided.
Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
Eliza Haywood’s novels and political writings are often considered in isolation from each other; however, there is a discursive thread that links her fictional and political works: her engagement with secret history. Across her career, in her novels as well as her political pamphlets and periodicals, Haywood deploys two important narratological tropes of the secret historian: the tendency to reveal the secrets of public figures while concealing the author’s own political position and the tendency to muse self-reflexively about the author’s own role as a writer of history. Haywood’s facility in deploying these dual narratological devices of concealment and confession …
Clarissa: An Abridged Version (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
Clarissa: An Abridged Version (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Monstrosity, Karen N. Wohlgemuth
Monstrosity, Karen N. Wohlgemuth
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The Early Gothic Period of English Literature was widely scrutinized for its sensationalism. This thesis explores the value of the genre by offering an alternative view of the monster typically portrayed. A close textual analysis of The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, and Frankenstein prove that the real monster is society, and more importantly ourselves. While this thesis dissects the innate characteristics of humankind in the novels, the author hopes that the readers will recognize the same themes in contemporary society. As students of the learned world, we all can acknowledge that Gothic fiction can teach us more …
Historical Butches: Lesbian Experience And Masculinity In Bryher's Historical Fiction, Haley M. Fedor
Historical Butches: Lesbian Experience And Masculinity In Bryher's Historical Fiction, Haley M. Fedor
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This project analyzes three of Bryher's historical novels, while also providing background on the shadowy figure of Bryher herself. Looking at Gate to the Sea, Roman Wall, and Ruan, each serves to represent lesbianism in a variety of coded or metaphorical ways. Various geographical locations or landscapes serve to either represent or depict homosexual desire, and also construct queer spaces for characters to traverse. Limited scholarship exists on any of Bryher's works, particularly that which looks at lesbian sexuality. The genre Bryher writes in allows for a cross-writing of lesbian characters, or gendering lesbian characters as male, and displays awareness …
Fear And Loathing In Nineteenth-Century England: Monsters, Freaks, And Deformities And Their Influence On Romantic And Victorian Society, Valerie Falk
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Carrollian Language Arts & Rhetoric: Dodgson's Quest For Order & Meaning, With A Purpose, Madonna Farjado Kemp
Carrollian Language Arts & Rhetoric: Dodgson's Quest For Order & Meaning, With A Purpose, Madonna Farjado Kemp
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of everyday language issues can be traced back to his personal quest for order and meaning; the logician and teacher has uncovered the accepted language and language practices that can result in verbal confusion and ineffective speech, as well as the accepted practices that can help us to avoid verbal confusion and social conflict—all of which reveals a …
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo
Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Open, Clear Decisions: Virginian Woolf's Orlando And Clarissa Dalloway As Bisexuals, Sarah Brey
Open, Clear Decisions: Virginian Woolf's Orlando And Clarissa Dalloway As Bisexuals, Sarah Brey
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
In Orlando Virginia Woolf, shows Orlando as a person with a clear conscience who knows what he/she wants. Like Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway, who is also often regarded as a lesbian because she loves Sally fondly her whole life but chooses to marry Richard, Orlando loves Sasha regardless of what changes her body undergoes, but chooses to marry Shel. Neither Clarissa nor Orlando is forced into marriage. Both choose to marry and abandon their active lesbian tendencies because they know what is most comfortable for them. As bisexuals they show the confusion of desiring both sexes, and instead of …
Elizabeth Goudge Revisited: The Lost Art Of Happily Ever After, Anne A. Salter
Elizabeth Goudge Revisited: The Lost Art Of Happily Ever After, Anne A. Salter
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article focuses on the works of novelist Elizabeth Goudge. Her style of writing has been described as adult fairy tales. Her works were greatly influenced by the Victorian Period. Goudge's book "The White Witch" presents the historical backdrop of the English Civil War. Writer Josephine Lawrence stated in her review of the novelist's book "Gentian Hill" that the Victorian side of Goudge makes it appealing.
Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo
Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo
Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Preliminary Calendar Of The Nevil Shute Norway Manuscripts Microfilm, Howard L. Applegate
Preliminary Calendar Of The Nevil Shute Norway Manuscripts Microfilm, Howard L. Applegate
The Courier
In 1971 Syracuse University Library made an agreement with the National Library of Australia, whereby the National Library microfilmed the complete manuscript collection of Nevil Shute Norway's papers in its possession and sent the microfilm to the Arents Library of Syracuse University. Syracuse makes this film available to responsible scholars with the understanding that users of the microfilm will cite the National Library of Australia as the repository owning the original manuscripts and will make all references to the numbering identification system prepared by the National Library.
Social Problems In The Fiction Of Benjamin Disraeli, Harriet Uhler Simpson
Social Problems In The Fiction Of Benjamin Disraeli, Harriet Uhler Simpson
English Language and Literature ETDs
The main purpose of this study is to present the political and social ideas which Benjamin Disraeli expressed through his fiction. His novels have been said to be a means whereby Disraeli clarified his ideas in his own mind before he attempted direct political or practical action. Since Disraeli was a statesman as well as a novelist, the question of whether or not, or to what extent, Disraeli's ideas were put into action is a more valid question, perhaps, than in the case of any other English author.
Household Words, Vol. 14-19 (Part 2), Charles Dickens
Household Words, Vol. 14-19 (Part 2), Charles Dickens
Household Words, 1850-1859
Household Words, taking its name from a line William Shakespeare's Henry V ("Familiar in his mouth as household words"), was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens running from 1850-1859. The serial featured fiction and non-fiction, including excerpts of Dickens' novel Hard Times. Its non-fiction components focused on the plight of the working classes and other social issues.
Household Words, Vol. 14-19 (Part 1), Charles Dickens
Household Words, Vol. 14-19 (Part 1), Charles Dickens
Household Words, 1850-1859
Household Words, taking its name from a line William Shakespeare's Henry V ("Familiar in his mouth as household words"), was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens running from 1850-1859. The serial featured fiction and non-fiction, including excerpts of Dickens' novel Hard Times. Its non-fiction components focused on the plight of the working classes and other social issues.
Household Words, Vol. 8-13 (Part 2), Charles Dickens
Household Words, Vol. 8-13 (Part 2), Charles Dickens
Household Words, 1850-1859
Household Words, taking its name from a line William Shakespeare's Henry V ("Familiar in his mouth as household words"), was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens running from 1850-1859. The serial featured fiction and non-fiction, including excerpts of Dickens' novel Hard Times. Its non-fiction components focused on the plight of the working classes and other social issues.
Household Words, Vol. 8-13 (Part 1), Charles Dickens
Household Words, Vol. 8-13 (Part 1), Charles Dickens
Household Words, 1850-1859
Household Words, taking its name from a line William Shakespeare's Henry V ("Familiar in his mouth as household words"), was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens running from 1850-1859. The serial featured fiction and non-fiction, including excerpts of Dickens' novel Hard Times. Its non-fiction components focused on the plight of the working classes and other social issues.
Household Words, Vol. 1-7, Charles Dickens
Household Words, Vol. 1-7, Charles Dickens
Household Words, 1850-1859
Household Words, taking its name from a line William Shakespeare's Henry V ("Familiar in his mouth as household words"), was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens running from 1850-1859. The serial featured fiction and non-fiction, including excerpts of Dickens' novel Hard Times. Its non-fiction components focused on the plight of the working classes and other social issues.