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The Evolution Of The Spinster: Austen And Woolf's Single Women Characters, Naomi Stewart Apr 2020

The Evolution Of The Spinster: Austen And Woolf's Single Women Characters, Naomi Stewart

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

This thesis explores the single woman's situation in the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines changes to the role of the woman in these times, and what has not changed.


"Sufficient To Have Stood, Though Free To Fall": Free Will In John Milton's Paradise Lost, David Martineau Jan 2020

"Sufficient To Have Stood, Though Free To Fall": Free Will In John Milton's Paradise Lost, David Martineau

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

In Book I of Paradise Lost, John Milton (1608-1674) asserts his intent to “justifie the wayes of God to men” (Paradise Lost1 I 26), paving the way for a revolutionary discussion of human nature, divinity, and the problem of evil, all couched in an epic retelling of Satan’s fall from grace, his temptation of Adam and Eve, and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, as recounted in the Book of Genesis. In his treatment of the biblical account, Milton necessarily broaches a variety of subjects which were both relevant during his time and remain relevant in …