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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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A Dictionary of the Characters of Maria Edgeworth's Novels
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Sophia and Harriet Lee
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'Present All in All': Multiplicity and Self-Construction in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)Critical attention to Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South (1854-55), and to nineteenth-century British women's writing as a whole, has tended to reduce its tensions into polarized conflicts: the "public sphere" versus ... -
The Dramatic Career of Bulwer-Lytton
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Conception of Death and Immortality in the English Monodies From 1485 to 1784
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The Relation of the One-Act Play to the Short Story
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The Unique Place Given to Nature in the Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy
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The Scarlet Letter: A Study in Sin and its Atonement
(University of Kansas, 1914-06-01)OUTLINE University of belief in atonement. Simplicity of the story. The ... -
The Indebtedness of William Morris to Chaucer
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Isle of Man
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This five-act comedy presents an isolated community of men thirty years after being stranded on a desert isle in circumstances reminiscent of Lord of the Flies. In the decades since, the schoolboys cum social pioneers have ... -
Three Blue Nuns
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)In this dialogue-only novel, two characters sit on a balcony and discuss what they see in the night. Other topics include wine, memories, vacations, relationships, and insects. -
Collapse: Language, Real Estate, Material Culture, and the Poetics of Interior Space
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Collapse is a poetry manuscript that explores place and identity, space and confinement, socioeconomic conditions, family structures, gender roles, natural disasters, building, re-building, and collapse, all against the ... -
Poetic Acts: Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry, 1840-1880
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)My dissertation explores representations of performance (theatrical, oratorical, domestic, and social) in works by canonical poets Emily Dickinson and Sarah Piatt, popular performers Fanny Kemble and Adah Menken, and ... -
[F]ilthy, bestial, and abominable corruptions: Reassessing Gothicism and Antebellum Reform in The Blithedale Romance
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)My essay will explore the narrating character Miles Coverdale as the primary Gothic subject of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (1852), and moreover it will tie in aspects of the Gothic environment, showing how ... -
Ecclesiastical Influence on the Legend of the Holy Grail
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Speaking on Behalf of Others: Understanding "Students' Right to Their Own Language" Through an Alternate Frame
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)ABSTRACT In 1974, the Conference on College Composition and Communication passed "Students' Right to Their Own Language" (SRTOL), a statement which encouraged teachers of English to "have the experiences and training that ... -
Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This dissertation investigates depictions of the medieval virgin in both pre- and postmodern literature and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae ... -
The Geography of Narrative: Representations of Place in African Literature
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Questions of geography have been prominent in the criticism of both African literature in particular and postcolonialism in general, including, for instance, issues regarding the nation, globalization, and the urban. Yet ... -
The Phenomenology Of The Reader In Autobiographical Poetry By Stein, Hejinian, And Scalapino
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)Conceptions of the subject in existential phenomenology need to be considered when defining the revolutionary reading practices called for by the Language poets of the 1970s and 1980s. Such terms expand the scholarship of ...