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Review Of Women And Authorship In Revolutionary America And Learning To Stand And Speak: Women, Education, And Public Life In America’S Republic, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Two books the 1980s had a deep influence on the study of American women novelists of the early republic and the antebellum era. Mary Kelley’s Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America (1984) presented twelve popular women novelists as deeply conflicted about their role as public producers of culture. The chapters in Cathy Davidson’s Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (1986) that treat women novelists and their readers as worthy of serious analysis significantly altered the course of scholarship on the early American novel. Angela Vietto clearly frames Women and Authorship in Revolutionary …

Review: Return To Good And Evil: Flannery O’Connor’S Response To Nihilism, Leslie R. G. Bullington

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O’Connor’s Response to Nihilism," by Henry T. Edmondson III; contributor Marion Montgomery.

Sati In Philadelphia: The Widow(S) Of Malabar, Jeffrey H. Richards

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Following Tradition: Young Adult Literature As Neo-Slave Narrative, Kaavonia Hinton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

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Review: Creola’S Moonbeam, Sarah Trowbridge

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "Creola’s Moonbeam," by Milam McGraw Propst.

Review: The Meat And Spirit Plan, Teresa Pacheco

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "The Meat and Spirit Plan," by Selah Saterstrom.

Review: A Gentle Rain, Carolann Lee Curry

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "A Gentle Rain," by Deborah Smith."

Review: Abc Safari, Lindy Moore

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "ABC Safari," by Karen Lee.

Review: Bucking The Sarge, Cheryl A. Carter

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult novel "Bucking the Sarge," by Christopher Paul Curtis.

Visual Aid: Teaching H.D.'S Imagist Poetry With The Assistance Of Henri Matisse, Christa Baiada

Publications and Research

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Using The Novel To Teach Multiculturalism, Michelle Loris

English Faculty Publications

Description of a fourteen week course taught by Michelle Loris, professor of English at Sacred Heart University. The course, titled Recent Ethnic American Fictions, introduced students to several concepts from contemporary literary theory. The theories included New Criticism, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, New Historicism, and Feminist Theory. The assumption was that these concepts would give students the tools to become critical readers, which would then provide them with a deeper understanding of these multicultural novels and their particular cultural contexts. For a semester, reading and thinking about these multicultural novels engaged and challenged the students' assumptions about themselves and the America …

Black Girl In Paris: Shay Youngblood's Escape From "The Last Plantation", Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

Twentieth-century African-American writers have shared with their white American counterparts the expectation that in Paris they would find an community of writers and artists. And to varying degrees each did. Much like Edith Wharton, African-American writers viewed the French as a people who value art and creativity, the aesthete and the intellectual. And much like American writers from Hawthorne to Henry Miller, African-American expatriates viewed Paris as an "outlet for repressed sexuality," an unpuritanical place, which would allow, even encourage, people to live and love and create as the pleased. In Black Girl in Paris (2000) these are certainly the …

Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

A Place For Originality Within Intertextuality: The Texts And Intertexts Of Dorothy Gale And The Wizard Of Oz, Savannah Ganster

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

“But Business Is Business, And Business Must Grow”: A Take On The Lorax, Rebecca L. Hahn

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Reading Beyond Modern Feminism: Kate Chopin’S The Awakening, Christina R. Williams

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 10 Fall 2008

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

In Search Of America: Nature, Spirituality, And The Self In American Transcendentalism And Beat Generation Literature, Caitlin Cater

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Motherhood:Portrayals In American Literature, Christine J. O'Leary

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this Thesis is to illustrate five categories of motherhood in American literature. The five categories chosen are: the self-absorbed mother, the self-martyred mother, the child-sacrificing mother, the self-sacrificing mother, and the substitute mother. I chose these five categories because they appear frequently in texts written by people of multiple ethnicities who represent several larger American cultures.

1. The self-absorbed mother lives for her personal pleasures. Her children are a burden. She prefers her happiness over the day to day care of the children.

2. The self-martyred mother believes that she is responsible for all the difficulties …

Female Hysteria Across Cultures And Periods In American Literature, Jessica Daine Droogsma

Honors Program Theses

Modernity would like us to believe we are in control: you can be whatever you want if you work hard enough; you are in charge of your own destiny; practice makes perfect; if you don’t like something, change it; you are what you eat. These popular aphorisms reflect our society’s addiction to self-determinism. We are completely set on the idea that we create and direct our own lives. However, there are larger influences in the world which are sometimes out of our control. The government, the media, society as a collective, and other such establishments have power over the individual. …

Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 31. Manuscripts, letters, writings, etc., of the Thomas family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, including sermons and speeches of Frank Morehead Thomas, Methodist minister (1868-1921); and poems, essays and newspaper articles written by his mother, Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas (1842-1931). Full-text scans are available (Click on "Additional Files" below) for the Spanish-American War letters that Frank Thomas sent home to his family.

Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 30. Correspondence, diaries, writings, business papers, scrapbooks, clippings, genealogical notes, weather records, and photographs of the Calvert, Obenchain, and Younglove families of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1539. Note from Corinne C. McCormack, Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking Lida Calvert Obenchain (pen name "Eliza Calvert Hall") for the donation of her book, "A Book of Hand Woven Coverlets" to the Woman's Library, and Obenchain's reply.

Review: Garden Spells, Carol Malcolm

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "Garden Spells," by Sarah Addison Allen.

Review: Cynthia’S Attic: The Missing Locket, Misty Conger

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult book "Cynthia’s Attic: The Missing Locket," by Mary Cunningham.

Review: Don’T Know Where, Don’T Know When, Rebecca Ziegler

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the middle grade novel "Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When," by Annette Laing.

Review: Elephant On My Roof, Leslie R. G. Bullington

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "Elephant on My Roof," by Erin Harris.

Review: The Messy Monkey Tea Party, Tracy Walker

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "The Messy Monkey Tea Party," by Cheri Bivin Deich.