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Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly Aug 2025

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 May 2024

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 May 2021

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed Dec 2020

Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

"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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

"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 Dec 2020

Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

"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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

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 Dec 2020

Orthodoxy, Textuality, And The "Tretys" Of Margery Kempe, Elizabeth K. Schirmer

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Building A Pillar Of Fame, Robert W. Witt Sep 2020

Building A Pillar Of Fame, Robert W. Witt

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Thomas More And Lucian: A Study In Satiric Influence And Technique, Warren W. Wooden Sep 2020

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 Sep 2020

Villainy In Scott’S Fiction, George W. Boswell

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Inverted Religious Imagery In Hopkins’ ‘Carrion Comfort’, Christina J. Murphy Sep 2020

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 Sep 2020

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 Sep 2020

The Evolution Of The Rose: From Form To Flame, Kathryn Hart Patton

Studies in English

No abstract provided.