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Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly
Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly
Honors Theses
This thesis is a literary analysis of the use of gardens and garden imagery in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to subvert Victorian novel conventions. This work is part of the larger conversation of how female authors in the literary canon express dissatisfaction with or resistance to Victorian social mores. This thesis is divided into three chapters, each focusing on one novel, and it primarily evaluates how gardens are employed by the Brontës to challenge plot and genre conventions. The work examines concerns surrounding the Victorian marriage institution, female …
Feminism And Female Identity In Adaptations Of Pride And Prejudice Throughout The 20th And 21st Centuries, Emily Suh, Emily Suh
Feminism And Female Identity In Adaptations Of Pride And Prejudice Throughout The 20th And 21st Centuries, Emily Suh, Emily Suh
Honors Theses
To many of her fans in the world, Austen is undeniably a feminist author, especially for her time in the nineteenth century. In a time where women were dependent upon male family members for their livelihoods, most of Austen’s heroines exhibit a sort of independence and strong will with a mind of their own, including in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is the model for what an independent woman is, a woman who is not so concerned with the monetary value of matrimony and only falls in love because she wants to. Furthermore, female audiences tend to like Elizabeth more than …
Story And Sorority: How Sisters Shape The Novels Of Jane Austen, Morgan Elizabeth Reid
Story And Sorority: How Sisters Shape The Novels Of Jane Austen, Morgan Elizabeth Reid
Honors Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact and use of sisters and sorority in the novels of Jane Austen, answering the question of how they are shaping the narratives of the stories. Focusing in particular on Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility, I highlight the ways that Austen’s writing crafts plots that rely upon sisters to function. Austen also uses sister figures to reveal the characteristics of her main protagonists and to express the themes she is most concerned about within each story. I also show Austen’s pattern of affirming the value and importance of …
The Novelist And The Critics: Frances Burney's Manuscript Corrections And Additions To The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties, Robert L. Mack
The Novelist And The Critics: Frances Burney's Manuscript Corrections And Additions To The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties, Robert L. Mack
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Through The Floors Of Perception: Huxley, Benjamin, And Drugs, Rajeev S. Patke
Through The Floors Of Perception: Huxley, Benjamin, And Drugs, Rajeev S. Patke
Journal X
No abstract provided.
A "Black, Black, Black Man": Aaron's Represented Blackness On Stage And Screen, Kevin Crawford
A "Black, Black, Black Man": Aaron's Represented Blackness On Stage And Screen, Kevin Crawford
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey
Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss
Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed
The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy
The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy
Journal X
No abstract provided.
"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek
"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek
Journal X
No abstract provided.
The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala
The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala
Journal X
No abstract provided.
"Straight From Your Heart": Convention, Sincerity, And Sexuality In Donne's Early Verse Letters, Ben Saunders
"Straight From Your Heart": Convention, Sincerity, And Sexuality In Donne's Early Verse Letters, Ben Saunders
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf
Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela
Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Rethinking The Canon: Ulysses: Modernist — Postmodernist — Minor, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Rethinking The Canon: Ulysses: Modernist — Postmodernist — Minor, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Sighting Utopia In The Lens: Reading Praxis In Johannes Kepler And Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth A. Spiller
Sighting Utopia In The Lens: Reading Praxis In Johannes Kepler And Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth A. Spiller
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Othello's Monsters: Kenneth Burke, Deleuze And Guattari, And The Impulse To Narrative In Shakespeare, Bruce Boehrer
Othello's Monsters: Kenneth Burke, Deleuze And Guattari, And The Impulse To Narrative In Shakespeare, Bruce Boehrer
Journal X
No abstract provided.
"Blood Will Have Blood": Power, Performance, And Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble, Cristina León Alfar
"Blood Will Have Blood": Power, Performance, And Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble, Cristina León Alfar
Journal X
No abstract provided.
The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, And The Troubled Dreams Of Nationhood, Michael Valdez Moses
The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, And The Troubled Dreams Of Nationhood, Michael Valdez Moses
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Failings Of Form In Salman Rushdie's Shame, Leonard G. Finn
Failings Of Form In Salman Rushdie's Shame, Leonard G. Finn
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Tears And Blood: Lady Wilde And The Emergence Of Irish Cultural Nationalism, Marjorie Howes
Tears And Blood: Lady Wilde And The Emergence Of Irish Cultural Nationalism, Marjorie Howes
Journal X
No abstract provided.
The Representation Of Narrative: What Happens In Othello, Lisa Hopkins
The Representation Of Narrative: What Happens In Othello, Lisa Hopkins
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Orthodoxy, Textuality, And The "Tretys" Of Margery Kempe, Elizabeth K. Schirmer
Orthodoxy, Textuality, And The "Tretys" Of Margery Kempe, Elizabeth K. Schirmer
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Building A Pillar Of Fame, Robert W. Witt
Thomas More And Lucian: A Study In Satiric Influence And Technique, Warren W. Wooden
Thomas More And Lucian: A Study In Satiric Influence And Technique, Warren W. Wooden
Studies in English
No abstract provided.
Villainy In Scott’S Fiction, George W. Boswell
Villainy In Scott’S Fiction, George W. Boswell
Studies in English
No abstract provided.
Inverted Religious Imagery In Hopkins’ ‘Carrion Comfort’, Christina J. Murphy
Inverted Religious Imagery In Hopkins’ ‘Carrion Comfort’, Christina J. Murphy
Studies in English
No abstract provided.
Fact And Fiction In Bacon’S Henry Vii, Michael Landon
Fact And Fiction In Bacon’S Henry Vii, Michael Landon
Studies in English
No abstract provided.
The Evolution Of The Rose: From Form To Flame, Kathryn Hart Patton
The Evolution Of The Rose: From Form To Flame, Kathryn Hart Patton
Studies in English
No abstract provided.