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"But A Contraband Is A Free Man:" Civil War Literature And The Figure Of The "Contraband", Mary A. Kardos
"But A Contraband Is A Free Man:" Civil War Literature And The Figure Of The "Contraband", Mary A. Kardos
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis explores Civil War popular literature related to "contraband" individuals by Black and white authors. In May 1861, those who escaped from enslavement to Union territory were deemed "contrabands of war," a label placing them between freedom and property. This purgatorial category delayed freedom and depicts formerly enslaved persons as both intellectual and literal property of white America. Across various poems, essays, speeches, novels, illustrated envelopes, and sketches, Civil War authors debated the function of the “contrabands” within the American social order. Consequently, this thesis explores the patterns through which the uniquely transitory nature of the “contraband" allowed the …
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
I situate Edith Wharton’s guiding idea of “garden-magic” at the center of my thesis because Wharton’s fiction shows how a garden space could naturalize otherwise inadmissible behaviors within upper-class society while helping a character tie such behavior to a greater possibility for escape. To this end, Wharton situates gardens as idealized touchstones within the built environment of New York City, spaces where characters believe they can reach self-actualization within a version of nature that is man-made. Actualization, in this sense, stems from a character’s imaginative escape that is enabled by a perception of the garden as a kind of natural …
Flipping The Castle: Evolution Of Gothic Spaces In The Domestic Sphere, Kate Lucas
Flipping The Castle: Evolution Of Gothic Spaces In The Domestic Sphere, Kate Lucas
Undergraduate Honors Theses
"Flipping the Castle" explores topics of domesticity in Gothic literature over the course of three centuries. The Gothic is a genre with roots in 18th century British literature, but more broadly, it can be described as horror that has a social function, and it is the birthplace of some of the most successful narratives in horror fiction. The aspects of the Gothic this research is concerned with is its themes of unchecked masculine aggression versus repressed femininity, its ability to adapt over time, and its preoccupation with setting, specifically the home, whether that be a medieval castle, a haunted house, …
Science And Imagination In Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855, Sandra Burr
Science And Imagination In Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855, Sandra Burr
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Didactic, scientifically oriented children's literature crisscrossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finding wide popularity in Great Britain and the United States; yet the genre has since suffered from a reputation for being dull and pedantic and has been neglected by scholars. Challenging this scholarly devaluation, "Science and Imagination in Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855" argues that didactic, scientifically oriented children's books play upon and encourage the use of the imagination. Three significant Anglo-American children's authors---Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and Nathaniel Hawthorne---infuse their writings with the wonders of science and the clear message that an active imagination is a …
Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon
Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" And Virginia Woolf: A Study In Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite
Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" And Virginia Woolf: A Study In Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Visions Of Reality: A Comparison Of Narrative Methods And Perspectives In "The Ambassadors" And "The Good Soldier", Rebecca Marie Kleinberg
Visions Of Reality: A Comparison Of Narrative Methods And Perspectives In "The Ambassadors" And "The Good Soldier", Rebecca Marie Kleinberg
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere
The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Time's Ungentle Tide: Disillusion, Isolation And Self-Mastery In Byron And Hemingway, John C. Dashiell
Time's Ungentle Tide: Disillusion, Isolation And Self-Mastery In Byron And Hemingway, John C. Dashiell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton
The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Shock Of Brass On Porcelain: Egotism And "The Sacred Fount", Georgia Taft Pye
The Shock Of Brass On Porcelain: Egotism And "The Sacred Fount", Georgia Taft Pye
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Distinctive Character Types In Henry James' New England Fiction, Karen E. Pilson
The Distinctive Character Types In Henry James' New England Fiction, Karen E. Pilson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Hidden Life In "The Golden Bowl": An Imagery Of Ambiguity, Mary Elizabeth Thompson
The Hidden Life In "The Golden Bowl": An Imagery Of Ambiguity, Mary Elizabeth Thompson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Feminism In Henry James's "The Bostonians", Helen Eugenia Hester
Feminism In Henry James's "The Bostonians", Helen Eugenia Hester
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Heart Of Darkness" And "Benito Cereno": A Comparative Study, Carla Mary Kay
"Heart Of Darkness" And "Benito Cereno": A Comparative Study, Carla Mary Kay
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Voice Of Doubt, The Voice Of Denial: A Comparative Study Of Anne Bradstreet And Emily Dickinson, Eloise Suzanne Owens
The Voice Of Doubt, The Voice Of Denial: A Comparative Study Of Anne Bradstreet And Emily Dickinson, Eloise Suzanne Owens
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Treatment Of Love And Marriage In Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" And Henry James's "The Portrait Of A Lady", Susan Shepeard
The Treatment Of Love And Marriage In Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" And Henry James's "The Portrait Of A Lady", Susan Shepeard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Search For Truth: Narrative Technique In "Lord Jim" And "Absalom, Absalom!", Jacquelyn King Donegan
The Search For Truth: Narrative Technique In "Lord Jim" And "Absalom, Absalom!", Jacquelyn King Donegan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Culture And Radicalism In "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
Culture And Radicalism In "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Kinship Between "Moby Dick" And "The Divine Comedy", Lynne Elizabeth Thornton
The Kinship Between "Moby Dick" And "The Divine Comedy", Lynne Elizabeth Thornton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reaffirmation In The Last Poems Of Stevens And Yeats, Gael Monie O'Brien
Reaffirmation In The Last Poems Of Stevens And Yeats, Gael Monie O'Brien
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.