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Loyola University Chicago
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Hastings, Justin A.
“Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian
Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Loyola University Chicago
URL: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2283 
► This dissertation explores the ways in which Old and Middle English poets made use of the poetic corpus of the Roman Augustan Age poet…
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▼ This dissertation explores the
ways in which Old and Middle English poets made use of the poetic
corpus of the Roman Augustan Age poet Horace (Quintus Flaccus
Horatius) and the medieval commentary tradition that accrued around
it. It considers especially the Late Antique commentaries of
Porphyry and PseudoAcro as well as the scholia transmitted in Bern
MS Bernensis 363 and Paris, BnF MS Latin 17897. The Old English
elegies in the Exeter Book (Exeter Cathedral MS 3501) are the
subject of the second chapter. Subsequent chapters focus on William
Langland’s Piers Plowman, John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and
Geoofrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (with especial emphasis on
Fragments VIII and IX).
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Hastings, J. A. (2016). “Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian
Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry. (Doctoral Dissertation). Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved from https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2283
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hastings, Justin A. ““Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian
Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Loyola University Chicago. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2283.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hastings, Justin A. ““Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian
Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry.” 2016. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hastings JA. “Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian
Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Loyola University Chicago; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2283.
Council of Science Editors:
Hastings JA. “Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian
Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Loyola University Chicago; 2016. Available from: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2283
Wilfrid Laurier University
2.
Hroncek, Susan.
Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction.
Degree: 2016, Wilfrid Laurier University
URL: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1854
► This dissertation examines how depictions of chemistry in Victorian literature are influenced by concerns regarding the history of chemistry and its relationship to the occult.…
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▼ This dissertation examines how depictions of chemistry in Victorian literature are influenced by concerns regarding the history of chemistry and its relationship to the occult. Among these depictions, I consider non-fiction writings of the period, such as histories of science and articles from periodicals, but I focus on novels that prominently feature chemistry, including Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s A Strange Story (1862), Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), George Griffith’s Olga Romanoff (1894), T. Mullet Ellis’s Zalma (1895), and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897). These texts link chemistry with its origins in alchemy, the occult, and the East in order to question chemistry’s legitimacy as a professional, materialist science and to critique the rapid progress of chemistry by foregrounding the threat that experimental substances posed to society. The frequency of negative depictions of chemistry during the Victorian period indicates how, despite discoveries that revolutionised industry and medicine, the British public regarded the science and its practitioners with suspicion. During a period as fascinated with origins as with progress, these texts expand upon the uncertainties of a society struggling with the tumultuous relationship between chemistry’s past, present, and future.
Popular fiction responded to societal concerns about the origins of chemistry with speculative narratives that depict a collision between chemical innovations and elements of chemistry’s occult or Eastern past. In A Strange Story and Jekyll and Hyde, this clash results in nineteenth-century reinterpretations of the traditional alchemical quest for the Elixir of Life and prompts re-evaluations of the nineteenth-century vitalist debates and discourses on the existence of the soul. Meanwhile, Olga Romanoff, Zalma, and The Beetle depict the monstrous return of chemistry’s marginalised histories—namely, of female and Eastern practitioners—to reclaim authority over chemical knowledge and new technologies, including chemical weapons and mind-altering potions. These five novels explore how the “nightmare” of chemistry’s origins—as early science historian Thomas Thomson dubbed them—not only influence contemporaneous chemical practice, but also impact future progress. Ultimately, these texts do not critique chemistry itself, but rather how scientists and governing bodies employed chemistry prior to both the popularisation of science fiction and the first recorded instance of atomic transmutation—when chemistry’s future, not its past, became the new nightmare.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Hroncek, S. (2016). Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction. (Thesis). Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved from https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1854
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hroncek, Susan. “Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction.” 2016. Thesis, Wilfrid Laurier University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1854.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hroncek, Susan. “Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction.” 2016. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hroncek S. Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction. [Internet] [Thesis]. Wilfrid Laurier University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1854.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hroncek S. Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction. [Thesis]. Wilfrid Laurier University; 2016. Available from: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1854
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Nevada – Las Vegas
3.
Anders, Katherine.
Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth – Century British Detective Fiction.
Degree: PhD, English, 2014, University of Nevada – Las Vegas
URL: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2163
► My dissertation argues that within the mid- to late-nineteenth-century British detective novel, the abductive arguments used to build circumstantial evidence (indirect evidence), or "clues,"…
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▼ My dissertation argues that within the mid- to late-nineteenth-century
British detective novel, the abductive arguments used to build circumstantial evidence (indirect evidence), or "clues," form the method of the detective, but those arguments are not logically certain. In order to resolve the mystery of the detective novel, to discover how the crime was committed and who committed it, circumstantial evidence proves insufficiently conclusive, so confessions, a more logically conclusive (direct) form of evidence, begins to appear frequently in detective novels. Confessions conclusively confirm the events of the crime, the guilt of the criminal, and reveal the inner workings of the criminal mind. Yet by also investigating the larger category of testimony as both direct and indirect evidence, I also show how receiving evidence from people instead of things complicates the detection process.
I look to the legal philosophy of Jeremy Bentham for much of the schema of evidence that I use. In my first chapter, I argue that lawyers in detective fiction should receive more critical attention than they currently receive. Both lawyers and legal language frequently appear in detective novels of the 1850s-1870s, and the rational, evidentiary methodology of the lawyer is also that of the detective. Both use abductive arguments, namely those arguments based on inferences that explain a set of circumstances, to create narratives about the events of a crime. I investigate the literary and historical circumstances that account for the prevalence of legal matters and lawyers in detective fiction of the 1850s-1870s.
In the second, third, and fourth chapters I lay out the argument concerning circumstantial evidence, testimony, and confession that I stated above. The second chapter examines the logical underpinnings of circumstantial evidence, drawing on C. S. Peirce's observations on logic. I demonstrate that the production of circumstantial evidence via abductive reasoning is the detection method not only of Edgar Allan Poe's legendary Auguste Dupin, but of nearly all mid- to late-
British detectives as well. By analyzing ,The Notting Hill Mystery, a novel in which the only form of evidence offered to the reader is circumstantial evidence, I explore how insufficient such evidence and the abductive reasoning out of which it is built ultimately turn out to be, failing to be logically conclusive enough to satisfy the reader concerning the resolution of the criminal investigation.
In the third chapter, I examine two categories of testimony, indirect and direct, in Wilkie Collins's novelsThe Law and the LadyandThe Moonstone, arguing that though it might seem that direct – or eyewitness – testimony is more reliable than indirect testimony, or circumstantial evidence,The Moonstonesuggests that even eyewitness testimony might be unreliable, because there is the possibility that a person cannot accurately interpret his or her own experiences.
The final chapter considers a special form of direct testimony, the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Kelly Mays, Anne Stevens, Denise Tillery, Michelle Tusan.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Anders, K. (2014). Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth – Century British Detective Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2163
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Anders, Katherine. “Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth – Century British Detective Fiction.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2163.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Anders, Katherine. “Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth – Century British Detective Fiction.” 2014. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Anders K. Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth – Century British Detective Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2163.
Council of Science Editors:
Anders K. Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth – Century British Detective Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2014. Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2163
4.
Mock, Charles.
Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England.
Degree: MA, English, 2012, University of Mississippi
URL: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/990
► This thesis attempts to figure witchcraft practices within a larger economic context whereby cursing and maleficent acts in general might be read as a means…
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▼ This thesis attempts to figure witchcraft practices within a larger economic context whereby cursing and maleficent acts in general might be read as a means of political protest against the political and economic destabilization of common rights. By reading cursing and prophecy as epistemological weaponry, the thesis establishes a theory of early modern terror that corresponds to the effects of these tactics on local and national levels. Readings of traditional witchcraft literature and Shakespeare's Macbeth will hopefully allow for an understanding of witchcraft that is heavily concerned over the nature of agency within the period, particularly with regard to the ways in which magic and prognostication stimulated local economies. These "occult economies," in turn, can be read as interactive systems whereby local agents can generate larger effects within a national discourse by utilizing feedback loops generated through local interactions between magic and markets.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ivo Kamps, Joseph Ward, Karen Raber.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Mock, C. (2012). Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England. (Masters Thesis). University of Mississippi. Retrieved from https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/990
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mock, Charles. “Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England.” 2012. Masters Thesis, University of Mississippi. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/990.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mock, Charles. “Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Mock C. Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Mississippi; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/990.
Council of Science Editors:
Mock C. Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England. [Masters Thesis]. University of Mississippi; 2012. Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/990
Eastern Illinois University
5.
Myrick, Leslie Sweet.
Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Degree: MA, English, 2013, Eastern Illinois University
URL: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1109
► Ulysses can be read as a bar crawl; three episodes and part of a fourth are set in public houses, while various characters walk…
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▼ Ulysses can be read as a bar crawl; three episodes and part of a fourth are set in public houses, while various characters walk to and from drinking activities and establishments throughout the day. However,
Ulysses' main character, Leopold Bloom, is an extremely moderate drinker and not considered "a regular" patron at any public house. His practicing of temperance is one example of how Bloom does not embody the typical Irish masculinity. However, the drinking culture in
Ulysses has not been fully explored in context of the temperance movement which was an ongoing cause in 1904 Dublin despite Guinness's Brewery being the city's largest industry, occupying 40 acres and employing 3,000. Therefore, this thesis discusses how James Joyce, in his focus on drinkers in
Ulysses, is reexamining his wholly negative depiction of paralyzed drunks in
Dubliners and reacting against the moralistic judgment of the temperance movement. Due to his own sympathy towards, yet difficulties with, drinking, as well as Dublin's troubles with, yet reliance on, the industry, Joyce shows a complex relationship between drinking and Ireland in 1904. In
Ulysses, drinking is so strongly tied to Irishness that a non-drinker (Bloom) cannot fully identify as an Irish man and is troubled to find male bonding without overindulging or treating. Yet Bloom does find a bond at the end, as he and Stephen share not alcohol but coffee then cocoa. Stephen then walks back out into the city having gained a father figure who exemplifies moderate drinking behavior based on logic rather than social reform. Thus, the conclusion shows hope for Ireland's move from the inebriated despair portrayed in
Dubliners towards a more inclusive masculinity and temperate nationalism.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ruth Hoberman, Michael Loudon, Christopher M. Wixson.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Myrick, L. S. (2013). Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses. (Masters Thesis). Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved from https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1109
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Myrick, Leslie Sweet. “Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Eastern Illinois University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1109.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Myrick, Leslie Sweet. “Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses.” 2013. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Myrick LS. Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1109.
Council of Science Editors:
Myrick LS. Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses. [Masters Thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2013. Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1109
Eastern Illinois University
6.
Pfeiffer, Debora L.
The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear.
Degree: MA, 2015, Eastern Illinois University
URL: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2396
► The courtiers Edmund and Edgar are critical to the action of King Lear, yet there has been little scholarship which has treated these characters…
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▼ The courtiers Edmund and Edgar are critical to the action of King Lear, yet there has been little scholarship which has treated these characters in depth. I argue that one way to comprehend them and their significance in the play's action is to analyze their behavior according to the standards of the Renaissance conduct books that were circulating in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century when the play was written. Baldassare Castigligone's
The Book of the Courtier, Niccolo Machiavelli's
The Prince, and Desiderius Erasmus's
The Education of a Christian Prince each sheds light on important themes in Renaissance courtiership and statecraft from three different world views. Though the brothers' applications of these theories is different and their goals vary, Edmund and Edgar both exhibit in their speech and behavior counsel from all three conduct books at various points in the play. My study aims to promote a greater understanding of these characters and foreground their importance to the play and its themes for the casual reader, the scholar, and the playgoer, as well as the director of the play.
Advisors/Committee Members: Melissa M. Caldwell.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Pfeiffer, D. L. (2015). The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear. (Masters Thesis). Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved from https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2396
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pfeiffer, Debora L. “The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear.” 2015. Masters Thesis, Eastern Illinois University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2396.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pfeiffer, Debora L. “The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear.” 2015. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Pfeiffer DL. The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2396.
Council of Science Editors:
Pfeiffer DL. The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear. [Masters Thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2015. Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2396
Clemson University
7.
Williams, Derek.
The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette.
Degree: MA, English, 2011, Clemson University
URL: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1186
► ABSTRACT Although there has been a deafening critical silence regarding Charlotte Bront‘'s representation of Continental identity in Jane Eyre (1847), this thesis argues that the…
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▼ ABSTRACT Although there has been a deafening critical silence regarding Charlotte Bront‘'s representation of Continental identity in Jane Eyre (1847), this thesis argues that the Continental identity, as it appears in Jane Eyre, is a collection of negative cultural traits stereotypical of the Latinate countries and Germany. By creating associations between characters that embody English national identity and those that are an emblem of Continental identity, Bront‘ de-legitimizes the notion of national identity. Furthermore, her novels, specifically Jane Eyre and Villette (1853) highlight the fact that both France and Germany, elements of the Continental identity, are a central presence in the culture and history of England. This thesis argues that the same Continental-English connection can be traced in Villette. In addition, Bront‘ gives new form to the Continental identity in Villette. Instead of it being an ubiquitous presence, Bront‘ presents it as a poisonous, cultural attitude that values the external observance of rules, laws, and liturgy over all things internal, like the cultivation of virtues. By drawing from numerous references to the Latinate cultures, and by comparing Bront‘'s two representations of the Continental identity and the overlap between these identities and certain characters, this thesis argues that Bront‘ builds a case against the notion of national identity, and more specifically against the notion of English identity as it is popularly conceived. Bront‘ serves to demonstrate that the creation of Continental identity and English identity is England's denial of its cultural constitution.
Advisors/Committee Members: Manganelli, Kimberly, Chapman , Wayne, McGrath , Brian.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Williams, D. (2011). The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette. (Masters Thesis). Clemson University. Retrieved from https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1186
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Williams, Derek. “The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Clemson University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1186.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Williams, Derek. “The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette.” 2011. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Williams D. The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Clemson University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1186.
Council of Science Editors:
Williams D. The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette. [Masters Thesis]. Clemson University; 2011. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1186
University of Arkansas
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Treese, Allison.
A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans.
Degree: MA, 2018, University of Arkansas
URL: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2715
► With the introduction of the printing press to England around the mid-fifteenth century, English authors were not only writing under the lingering influence of…
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▼ With the introduction of the printing press to England around the mid-fifteenth century, English authors were not only writing under the lingering influence of Chaucer and the conventions of established medieval genres, but now had to confront the implications for reading and readership that printing brought with it along with the already turbulent political climate of the fifteenth century. Though this cultural shift was arguably a gradual one, with the earliest printers taking special care to remain faithful to the manuscripts they were copying, and conventional scribes likewise being commissioned to make copies of printed works, there were nevertheless radical innovations in text production and formatting being experimented with well before 1500 (Eisenstein 51-52). It was into this literary scene that The Book of St. Albans was published, a collection of treatises on hawking, hunting, and “other dyuers playsaunt materes belongynge unto noblesse” traditionally attributed to the Prioress Julyans Barnes (Barnes, rev. d viij). In spite of the book’s contemporary popularity, scholarship on the text has conventionally been limited to exploring the authenticity of the book’s authorship or relaying what the text reveals about the practicalities of late medieval sport. There has been a noticeable lack of analyses which read the collection as a cohesive literary text, which will be my endeavor throughout this project. Through this literary analysis, I hope to break free of the common trappings of previous scholarship and to showcase that The Book of St. Albans is a fascinating piece of secular literature in its own right which exemplifies the shifting consciousness of fifteenth century English society.
Advisors/Committee Members: William Quinn.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Treese, A. (2018). A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans. (Masters Thesis). University of Arkansas. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2715
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Treese, Allison. “A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2715.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Treese, Allison. “A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans.” 2018. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Treese A. A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2715.
Council of Science Editors:
Treese A. A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans. [Masters Thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2018. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2715
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Gast, Bryan.
Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.
Degree: 2016, Marquette University
URL: https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/617
► Founded in England in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rebelled against Victorian artistic convention and sought to recapture a medieval style of painting believed by its…
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▼ Founded in England in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rebelled against Victorian artistic convention and sought to recapture a medieval style of painting believed by its members to have existed before Raphael. That style was a significant departure from the prevailing Royal Academy style, however, and—as many critics note—ahead of its time. Among the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris were unique for their creative output as both poets and painters. This dissertation examines the representation of the body in some poems and paintings by Rossetti and Morris and analyzes the impact of the Pre-Raphaelites on habits of thinking about the body. The mainstream Victorian habit of thinking about the (especially female) body was generally to respond negatively: the body was dirty, shameful, sinful, and not a topic for polite society. Victorian responses to the body—in the flesh or represented—tend to be restrictive, moralistic, and didactic. Using recent discoveries in the study of habit formation and habit change, this dissertation analyzes how the poems and paintings of Rossetti and Morris keep what one researcher calls the same cues and rewards but substitute a different routine in the habit loop. That different routine enables thinking about the body in more positive ways: the Pre-Raphaelite body can be seen as natural, active, dynamic, and worth seeing as it is. Tracing how the body is represented in the poems and paintings of Rossetti and Morris as well as in their creative context, this dissertation establishes seven categories for describing the representation of the body: narrative gaze, privileged body parts, clothing and drapery, color, gesture, posture, and facial expression. Rossetti and Morris typically use the last six corporeal categories to defamiliarize the body and surprise the audience, bringing readers and viewers to the “inner standing point.” When that surprise wears off, readers and viewers are led to re-evaluate their view of the body from a more distanced, critical perspective. The process traced in this dissertation often results in acceptance of the new Pre-Raphaelite idea of the body by readers and viewers, at least on the individual level.
Advisors/Committee Members: Block, Edwin, Boly, John, Jeffers, Thomas.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Gast, B. (2016). Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. (Thesis). Marquette University. Retrieved from https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/617
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gast, Bryan. “Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.” 2016. Thesis, Marquette University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/617.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gast, Bryan. “Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.” 2016. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gast B. Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. [Internet] [Thesis]. Marquette University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/617.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Gast B. Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. [Thesis]. Marquette University; 2016. Available from: https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/617
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
10.
Herbener, David Alden.
The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil.
Degree: MA, English, 2015, South Dakota State University
URL: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1839
► J.R.R. Tolkien’s contribution to the medieval and linguistic scholarship is only surpassed by his contribution to fantasy fiction. In his Middle-earth, readers experience a…
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▼ J.R.R. Tolkien’s contribution to the medieval and linguistic scholarship is only surpassed by his contribution to fantasy fiction. In his Middle-earth, readers experience a wealth of interwoven characters within an elaborate tapestry of his sub-created world; however, some of Tolkien’s most fascinating creations are evil. Much of the scholarship on Tolkien addresses his philosophical approach to evil in the world, and this thesis attempts to convince readers that Middle-earth is wholly Boëthian in its construction. Through an examination of several evil characters in Tolkien’s novels, with special attention paid to the Ring of Power, this argument states that many authors correctly interpret Tolkien’s theology on the origins of evil, yet some authors have proposed that elements within Middle-earth are Manichaean in construction. This thesis attempts to discount those interpretations, illuminating instances of Tolkien’s sophisticated approach to evil under an exclusively Boëthian tent. Readers will examine the Ring of Power in closest depth, since this becomes the focal antagonist in The Lord of the Rings and also because critics often point to passages about the Ring when asserting that portions of Tolkien’s work are Manichaean. By exploring the Ring’s creation and its effects on the characters around it, this thesis illuminates how Tolkien designed the Ring as a study on addiction as well as power. Through this thesis, readers will understand that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, vii along with Tolkien’s extensive posthumously produced works, all fit within the structure of Boëthius’s original teachings.
Advisors/Committee Members: Michael Nagy.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English; British Isles
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Herbener, D. A. (2015). The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil. (Masters Thesis). South Dakota State University. Retrieved from https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1839
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Herbener, David Alden. “The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil.” 2015. Masters Thesis, South Dakota State University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1839.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Herbener, David Alden. “The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil.” 2015. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Herbener DA. The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. South Dakota State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1839.
Council of Science Editors:
Herbener DA. The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil. [Masters Thesis]. South Dakota State University; 2015. Available from: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1839
University of Warwick
11.
Byrom, Natalie Louise.
Exploring the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act [2012] on vulnerable people : the experience of law centres.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Warwick
URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106387/
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752516
► This thesis explores the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (2012) (“LASPO”)…
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▼ This thesis explores the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (2012) (“LASPO”) on the ability of those who are vulnerable to access justice. In doing so it focuses on the experience of UK Law Centres, a network of not-for-profit providers of legal advice and representation. Law Centres were established in the 1970’s as a response to acknowledged deficiencies in the legal aid scheme that existed at this time. Principal amongst these deficiencies was the failure of the scheme to provide legal assistance to those individuals who were most in need of it. Since their inception Law Centres have developed a reputation for specialising in the delivery of legal services to marginalised communities, making them an ideal lens through which to observe the impact of cuts to legal aid on the vulnerable. This thesis explores the relationship between the Law Centres movement and the legal aid scheme; characterising this as one of reluctant yet increasing dependency. By the time LASPO was introduced, contracts for the delivery of legal aid comprised 46% of the funding for Law Centres in England and Wales, leaving Law Centres highly exposed to the swingeing cuts brought about by this legislation. The thesis seeks to understand the impact of LASPO on Law Centres as a movement, and in particular on their ability to deliver services to those individuals who are most vulnerable. In the absence of a consensus definition of what a Law Centre is, the thesis reviews the extant literature on the Law Centres movement to propose an “ideal type” framework of Law Centre values, which can be used as a tool against which to evaluate the impact of different strategies for surviving the cuts. It proposes a novel definition of vulnerability, to assist in assessing whether the strategies adopted by Law Centres in response to LASPO are likely to prove more or less effective in enabling the movement to prioritise delivering their services to those who are in greatest need. The thesis then uses these analytical tools to evaluate the three most popular funding models adopted by Law Centres in response to the cuts, drawing on original empirical research. The thesis concludes that if Law Centres wish to retain both their unique position within the landscape of legal service providers and their ability to support those in greatest need, their response to LASPO must by driven by cognisance of and fidelity to the values that render them distinctive.
Subjects/Keywords: 340; KF Common Law, British Isles
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Byrom, N. L. (2018). Exploring the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act [2012] on vulnerable people : the experience of law centres. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Warwick. Retrieved from http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106387/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752516
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Byrom, Natalie Louise. “Exploring the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act [2012] on vulnerable people : the experience of law centres.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Warwick. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106387/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752516.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Byrom, Natalie Louise. “Exploring the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act [2012] on vulnerable people : the experience of law centres.” 2018. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Byrom NL. Exploring the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act [2012] on vulnerable people : the experience of law centres. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Warwick; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106387/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752516.
Council of Science Editors:
Byrom NL. Exploring the impact of the cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act [2012] on vulnerable people : the experience of law centres. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Warwick; 2018. Available from: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106387/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752516
University of Exeter
12.
Morgan-Owen, David Gethin.
The invasion question : Admiralty plans to defend the British Isles, 1888-1918.
Degree: PhD, 2013, University of Exeter
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13581
► This thesis presents a new analysis of British naval policy before and during the First World War which challenges both orthodox and revisionist interpretations of…
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▼ This thesis presents a new analysis of British naval policy before and during the First World War which challenges both orthodox and revisionist interpretations of the period and highlights a highly significant yet much neglected facet of Admiralty planning. It argues that safeguarding the British Isles from invasion was one of the Admiralty’s prime concerns between 1888 and 1918 and that these defensive considerations played a hitherto unappreciated role in shaping British naval strategy. By exploiting source material generally overlooked by previous writers, it demonstrates that, contrary to popular historical belief, Britain’s naval leadership planned extensively to ensure the inviolability of the British coastline during this period. Before 1900, these plans were characterized by relying upon an extensive flotilla of small vessels, supported by a small number of old armoured warships, to secure the position in the Channel and North Sea, while the Navy’s most modern warships focused upon the main French Fleet in the Mediterranean. The Admiralty’s willingness to rely primarily upon flotilla craft for home defence ended after 1900, however, when German displaced France as Britain’s primary naval rival. Germany posed a very different threat to Britain than had previously been the case with France, since it possessed a merchant marine large enough to transport a significant military force without major disruption to the normal operation of its commerce and had her naval forces concentrated in northern waters. Despite the paucity of German planning for the invasion of the United Kingdom, the Admiralty became haunted by the possibility of a ‘surprise’ German invasion attempt, launched before the outset of war and escorted by a strong German Fleet. The Admiralty identified the danger of a surprise German raid or invasion by early 1907 and formed a series of highly secretive plans to deploy the Navy’s most modern armoured warships into the North Sea at the outset of war to meet this danger. These plans were updated constantly between 1910 and 1918 as perceptions of the German threat developed. The nature and extent of these plans has highly significant implications for our understanding of naval policy throughout the period, and for our appreciation of the role of sea power during the First World War.
Subjects/Keywords: 942.08; Admiralty; Invasion; British Isles; Navy; Fisher
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Morgan-Owen, D. G. (2013). The invasion question : Admiralty plans to defend the British Isles, 1888-1918. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Exeter. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13581
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Morgan-Owen, David Gethin. “The invasion question : Admiralty plans to defend the British Isles, 1888-1918.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Exeter. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13581.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Morgan-Owen, David Gethin. “The invasion question : Admiralty plans to defend the British Isles, 1888-1918.” 2013. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Morgan-Owen DG. The invasion question : Admiralty plans to defend the British Isles, 1888-1918. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13581.
Council of Science Editors:
Morgan-Owen DG. The invasion question : Admiralty plans to defend the British Isles, 1888-1918. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13581
13.
Hope, Douglas George.
Whatever happened to 'rational' holidays for working people c.1919-2000? : the competing demands of altruism and commercial necessity in the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship.
Degree: PhD, 2015, Lancaster University
URL: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/1770/
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693416
► The focus of this thesis is on two pioneering organisations that were at the forefront of the provision of ‘rational’ holidays for the working-class during…
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▼ The focus of this thesis is on two pioneering organisations that were at the forefront of the provision of ‘rational’ holidays for the working-class during the early twentieth century: the Co-operative Holidays Association (CHA) and the Holiday Fellowship, founded by Thomas Arthur Leonard in 1893 and 1913 respectively. This research seeks to establish how these pioneers of recreative and educational holidays for working people dealt with the far-reaching changes in social, economic and cultural conditions during the period 1919-2000. It makes a significant original contribution to twentieth-century leisure and tourism history, especially that of the outdoor movement. Utilising important original source material, the research analyses the continuities and changes in these two organisations during the period 1919-2000 and the linkages and differences between them. The thesis explores the way the CHA and Holiday Fellowship dealt with the often conflicting demands of altruism and commercial necessity as the twentieth century progressed and assesses the extent to which they drifted away from their original ideals in order to combat the challenges of consumerism. The research takes a cultural history perspective, contextualising both organisations within a wider history of leisure, with specific reference to ‘rational’ recreation and the Victorian principles of respectability, co-operation and collectivism, and voluntarism. The research shows that the CHA and Holiday Fellowship were distinguishable from other ‘rational’ holiday providers; they had a distinct rural focus and the emphasis of their holidays was on healthy recreation and quiet enjoyment. They were almost unique in that they were equally attractive to women and men. However, both eventually served the middle classes rather than the working class for whom they were originally intended. Nevertheless, these pioneers of recreative and educational holidays unquestionably made a significant contribution to the democratisation of the countryside as a leisure space.
Subjects/Keywords: 941 British Isles (incl. Irish history)
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Hope, D. G. (2015). Whatever happened to 'rational' holidays for working people c.1919-2000? : the competing demands of altruism and commercial necessity in the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship. (Doctoral Dissertation). Lancaster University. Retrieved from http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/1770/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693416
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hope, Douglas George. “Whatever happened to 'rational' holidays for working people c.1919-2000? : the competing demands of altruism and commercial necessity in the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Lancaster University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/1770/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693416.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hope, Douglas George. “Whatever happened to 'rational' holidays for working people c.1919-2000? : the competing demands of altruism and commercial necessity in the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship.” 2015. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hope DG. Whatever happened to 'rational' holidays for working people c.1919-2000? : the competing demands of altruism and commercial necessity in the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Lancaster University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/1770/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693416.
Council of Science Editors:
Hope DG. Whatever happened to 'rational' holidays for working people c.1919-2000? : the competing demands of altruism and commercial necessity in the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Lancaster University; 2015. Available from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/1770/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693416
14.
BONADIO, RAFFAELE.
Broadband Surface Wave Tomography of Ireland, Britain and Other Regions.
Degree: School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2019, Trinity College Dublin
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/90896
► Over the last decades, seismic surface-wave studies have produced increasingly detailed images of the Earth s structure at a regional scale. In this study, we…
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▼ Over the last decades, seismic surface-wave studies have produced
increasingly detailed images of the Earth s structure at a regional scale.
In this study, we have tuned well-established techniques and when
required implemented new ones in order to investigate regions in which
important debates are still ongoing, regarding the structure and the evolution
of the Earth beneath them.
Several studies suggested that the Paleogene uplift of parts of Britain
and Ireland was caused by a lateral branch of the Iceland mantle plume,
which played a fundamental role in the evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean
over the past 60 M.y. Alternatively, among competing hypothesis, it was
suggested that the uplift could be due to the far-field stress associated with
the Alpine and Pyrenees Orogenies, with reactivation of old Variscan and
Caledonian faults across Ireland and Britain. A major part of this study is
aimed at gaining new insights into the seismic structure of the
British Isles,
which can help us answer these open questions. Teleseismic earthquakes
and ambient noise, recorded at densely spaced seismic stations in the region,
were used to determine the surface-wave dispersion across the
British Isles
and construct detailed images of the seismic structure beneath the area. The
measurements, obtained using independent surface-wave analysis techniques
(cross-correlation of teleseismic surface waves, multimode waveform fitting,
and ambient noise interferometry), were applied to produce the first 3D
shear-velocity model of the lithosphere and the asthenosphere of the entire
region including Ireland, Britain, and the Irish Sea. The application of different
methodologies yielded complementary frequency bands of the measurements,
sensitive to different depths, from the shallow crust to the deep upper mantle.
Abundant, newly available data was used to image the region with higher
resolution than previously. The highly uneven station coverage resulted in a
considerably irregular distribution of the measurements in the area; this, and
the effects of errors on the measurements, required the development of a new,
multi-resolution tomographic scheme. This scheme allows us to maximize the
information extracted from the data and reach an optimal target resolution of
the model at each knot, minimizing the effects of uneven data sampling and
of the propagation of systematic errors.The multi-resolution phase-velocity maps, obtained at densely spaced
periods, were inverted, point by point, for shear-velocity structure in order
to produce a 3D, shear-velocity model of the lithosphere and asthenosphere.
The optimal resolution tomography offers important new insights into the
structure and evolution of the
British Isles. A robust, low-velocity anomaly
beneath the Irish Sea and its surroundings persists in the models from ~60
to at least 140 km depth, indicating an anomalously thin lithosphere. The
area that exhibits the low velocity anomaly corresponds to where uplift and
volcanism are evidenced by geological data. Our results also show a striking…
Advisors/Committee Members: Chew, David.
Subjects/Keywords: Surface wave; Seismic structure; British Isles
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BONADIO, R. (2019). Broadband Surface Wave Tomography of Ireland, Britain and Other Regions. (Thesis). Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2262/90896
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
BONADIO, RAFFAELE. “Broadband Surface Wave Tomography of Ireland, Britain and Other Regions.” 2019. Thesis, Trinity College Dublin. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/90896.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
BONADIO, RAFFAELE. “Broadband Surface Wave Tomography of Ireland, Britain and Other Regions.” 2019. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
BONADIO R. Broadband Surface Wave Tomography of Ireland, Britain and Other Regions. [Internet] [Thesis]. Trinity College Dublin; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/90896.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
BONADIO R. Broadband Surface Wave Tomography of Ireland, Britain and Other Regions. [Thesis]. Trinity College Dublin; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/90896
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Nevada – Las Vegas
15.
Eckert, Ken.
Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation.
Degree: PhD, English, 2011, University of Nevada – Las Vegas
URL: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1036
► Middle English romance has never attained critical respectability, dismissed as ―"vayn carpynge" in its own age and treated as a junk-food form of medieval…
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▼ Middle English romance has never attained critical respectability, dismissed as ―"vayn carpynge" in its own age and treated as a junk-food form of medieval literature or kidnapped for political or psychoanalytical readings. Chaucer‘s Tale of Sir Thopas has been explained as an acidly sarcastic satire of the romances‘ supposedly clichéd formulas and poetically unskilled authors. Yet such assumptions require investigation of how Chaucer and his ostensible audience might have viewed romance as a genre. Chaucer‘s likely use of the Auchinleck manuscript forms a convenient basis for examination of the romances listed in Thopas. With the aid of a modern translation, the poems turn out to form a rich interplay of symbolical, theological, and historical meanings. Viewed in a more sensitive light, the Middle English romances in turn give Thopas new meaning as a poem written affectionately to parody romance but chiefly to effect a humorous contrast. Rather than condemning romances, Chaucer uses their best examples to heighten Thopas‘ comic impotence as a knight and to provide self-deprecating carnival laughter at Chaucer the narrator‘s failed story
Advisors/Committee Members: John Bowers, Chair, Philip Rusche, Julie Staggers.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English, British Isles; Medieval Studies
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Eckert, K. (2011). Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1036
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Eckert, Ken. “Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1036.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Eckert, Ken. “Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation.” 2011. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Eckert K. Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1036.
Council of Science Editors:
Eckert K. Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2011. Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1036
Eastern Illinois University
16.
Brown, Jonathan G.
Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre.
Degree: MA, 2016, Eastern Illinois University
URL: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2432
► More definitive answers about the creation and form of the modern True Crime genre narrative can be found by exploring, not the creators of…
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▼ More definitive answers about the creation and form of the modern True Crime genre narrative can be found by exploring, not the creators of True Crime narratives, but by following reader expectations and examining the social situation from which True Crime narratives were able to arise. Theorists in the genre field such as Lloyd Bitzer Carolyn Miller and Amy Devitt have introduced and refined the view of genre as a social action. In this view, genre does not come about as a set of rules imposed upon types of literature to bring order, but as a societally accepted creation constructed to respond to a recurring situation or as Bitzer calls it, a social "exigency." The elements of a genre, further, come about through resultant reader, not creator, expectations. When genre is created through social action, it is often in the form of loose sets of genre having a nexus of commonality.
This thesis argues that though the term would not be coined until decades later and a continent away, the True Crime genre and the core characteristics that comprise it can be found in pre-Victorian and Victorian England, coming about as a social response to a confluence of circumstances that occurred for the first time in human history: unprecedented freedom, literacy, and access to literature accompanied by concerns about newer, more complex crimes.
This is shown as primary True Crime non-fiction elements, followed through several case studies herein, appear and develop through the nineteenth century. These elements include the use of classical and modern persuasive rhetorical theory, an interactive element of public participation, a broader external question that engages the public in a wider conversation.
Advisors/Committee Members: Donna J. Binns.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English, British Isles; Modern Literature
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Brown, J. G. (2016). Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre. (Masters Thesis). Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved from https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2432
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Brown, Jonathan G. “Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Eastern Illinois University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2432.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Brown, Jonathan G. “Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre.” 2016. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Brown JG. Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2432.
Council of Science Editors:
Brown JG. Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre. [Masters Thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2016. Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2432
University of Arkansas
17.
LeBert, Phyllis.
“A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s.
Degree: MA, 2019, University of Arkansas
URL: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3164
► This paper uses gender studies to understand the themes of gender performance further, and more specifically, femininity, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It also explores the…
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▼ This paper uses gender studies to understand the themes of gender performance further, and more specifically, femininity, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It also explores the many ways feminine gender performance has changed as society has changed. Thus, proving gender is performative rather than innate. It does this by examining first the text within the context of Elizabethan society. Moreover, by examining three pivotal performances of Lady Macbeth through history within the context of their social structures as well. The three performances are that of Sarah Siddons in the Late 18th Century, Ellen Terry in the 19th Century, and Judy Dench in the 20th century.
Advisors/Committee Members: Joseph Candido, Robert Cochran, John DuVal.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature in English, British Isles; Women's Studies
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LeBert, P. (2019). “A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s. (Masters Thesis). University of Arkansas. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3164
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
LeBert, Phyllis. ““A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3164.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
LeBert, Phyllis. ““A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s.” 2019. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
LeBert P. “A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3164.
Council of Science Editors:
LeBert P. “A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s. [Masters Thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2019. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3164
McMaster University
18.
MacKichan, Mark B.
Composed in Darkness: Trauma and Testimony in Seamus Heaney's North.
Degree: MA, 2012, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12607
► This thesis examines how Seamus Heaney’s North attempts to bear witness to the prolonged political conflict in Ireland known as the Troubles. Drawing upon…
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▼ This thesis examines how Seamus Heaney’s North attempts to bear witness to the prolonged political conflict in Ireland known as the Troubles. Drawing upon the intersecting discourses of trauma and testimony as theorized by Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, it argues that North operates as an experimental enterprise evaluating diverging methods of poetically representing and working through the experience of trauma. Though these methodologies seek to convey the Irish Troubles, neither is wholly effective and both are ultimately eschewed by the poet. My first chapter examines Part I and the invocation of representative models—which are at times historical, imaginative and mythical—in order to render legible the experience of trauma. I suggest that the poem’s invocation of human remains exhumed from Jutland bogs as one such model may not be ethical and then read this representation within a broader sense historiographical writing supplied by Michel de Certeau’s The Writing of History. My second chapter looks at Part II and the poet’s assertion of an autobiographical “I” in order to engage directly with the Troubles. I read this part of the collection primarily as a meditation on the limitations of community and poetry, which undercuts the poet’s attempt to deliver testimony. In my conclusion, I suggest Heaney’s testimonial enterprise may not fulfill its whole potential because of its publication in the midst of the Troubles, which forecloses the possibility of futurity, a criticism which may not hold true for the poet’s later collections.
Master of Arts (MA)
Advisors/Committee Members: O`Connor, Mary, Donaldson, Jeffrey, Kehler, Grace, English and Cultural Studies.
Subjects/Keywords: Heaney; North; Ireland; Trauma; Testimony; Troubles; Literature in English, British Isles; Literature in English, British Isles
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MacKichan, M. B. (2012). Composed in Darkness: Trauma and Testimony in Seamus Heaney's North. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12607
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
MacKichan, Mark B. “Composed in Darkness: Trauma and Testimony in Seamus Heaney's North.” 2012. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12607.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
MacKichan, Mark B. “Composed in Darkness: Trauma and Testimony in Seamus Heaney's North.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
MacKichan MB. Composed in Darkness: Trauma and Testimony in Seamus Heaney's North. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12607.
Council of Science Editors:
MacKichan MB. Composed in Darkness: Trauma and Testimony in Seamus Heaney's North. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12607
McMaster University
19.
Kay, Ailsa C.
TRADE IN FEELINGS: SHAME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.
Degree: PhD, 2012, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12761
► “Trade in Feelings: Shame in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” traces a genealogy of shame, a difficult feeling which is transformed and reworked in eighteenth-century narratives and…
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▼ “Trade in Feelings: Shame in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” traces a genealogy of shame, a difficult feeling which is transformed and reworked in eighteenth-century narratives and which provides a ground for the self-reflective interiority required of commercial subjects. The stakes of this project are twofold. First, while cultural critics (e.g., Ahmed, Probyn, and Sedgwick) have recently theorized shame and suggested its potential for political activism, histories of this feeling have yet to be written. Reading narratives of shame in George Lillo’s London Merchant ( 1731) , Eliza Haywood’s The British Recluse (1722), multiple editions of Defoe’s Roxana (1724, 1730, 1745[49]), Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747-48), and Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), this chronologically organized study supplies one part of such a history. As such, the analysis builds on and reframes Foucault’s historical narrative of the emergence of the modern disciplined and divided self-consciousness by focusing on the affects that produce and re-produce it, particularly the affect of shame. Second, while Michael McKeon has identified the formative force of questions of virtue and truth on the novel, this thesis suggests that these questions are critically condensed in narratives of shame. The dissertation argues that private shame and the psychological interiority of the eighteenth-century novel are mutually productive. Once a passion which could lead to vice and even murder, by the late eighteenth century shame becomes a feeling which is internalized, and which divides the self. Connected both to the question of truth and the question of virtue, as well as to the status of passion itself, shame informs our sense of emotions as interior, yet remains inextricable from questions of reputation, credit, and civility.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Advisors/Committee Members: Walmsley, Peter, Zuroski-Jenkins, Eugenia, Brophy, Sarah, English.
Subjects/Keywords: history of the novel; affect theory; Literature in English, British Isles; Literature in English, British Isles
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Kay, A. C. (2012). TRADE IN FEELINGS: SHAME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12761
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kay, Ailsa C. “TRADE IN FEELINGS: SHAME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12761.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kay, Ailsa C. “TRADE IN FEELINGS: SHAME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kay AC. TRADE IN FEELINGS: SHAME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12761.
Council of Science Editors:
Kay AC. TRADE IN FEELINGS: SHAME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12761
McMaster University
20.
Mayberry, Thomas R.
Visions2011: [Re]solving the Rebus of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
Degree: MA, 2011, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11134
► Lost-and-found purity is central to William Blake’s illuminated book Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). In Visions, Blake’s central character Oothoon embraces the…
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▼ Lost-and-found purity is central to William Blake’s illuminated book Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). In Visions, Blake’s central character Oothoon embraces the otherness of her sexual desires, flies off to be with her lover Theotormon, but not before being brutally raped and impregnated by Bromion. The assault leads to Theotormon’s refusal to be with Oothoon because of her putatively compromised state. Today, in the shadow of queer conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and virginity, how do we understand Blake’s narrative of loss and rejection, of injurious force and sexual violence? This thesis lays the critical groundwork for a queer reading of the text that is more than critical – i.e. that is a re-visioning of the text’s details, and is re-writing of its narrative premise. Through unconventional scholarly approaches, this thesis tackles issues of identity in Blake’s Visions from three separate vanguards that each further break open the heuristic and speculative possibilities in Blake’s work. Approaching Blake’s Visions from a Numerological perspective via deconstructing the central characters’ names and explicating the poem through their respective algorithms, the first section examines eighteenth century conceptions of the soul and its place within literature through locating and recognizing the souls of Blake’s poetry of lost souls. Considering sexual essentiality and the potential recovering of virginity, the second section reads Visions from the vantage of Schizosexuality (a fourth component to the hetero-/homo-/bisexual paradigm) to liberate Oothoon from both literal and metaphorical chains. From these critical approaches of Numerology and Schizosexuality, the thesis concludes with a visual book. Through inverting the gender axes of the love triangle central to Blake’s Visions, the visual book queerly re-visions Visions by following a male-Oothoon (Oathe13) flying off to be with his male lover (a homo-oriented Theotormon – Zucchicarro34) but not before being accosted by a female-Bromion (Aquabolt21). The critical chapters together with the visual book complete this thesis’ queer re-vision of Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
Master of Arts (MA)
Advisors/Committee Members: Donaldson, Jeffery, Jenkins, Eugenia Zuroski, Walmsley, Peter, English and Cultural Studies.
Subjects/Keywords: William Blake; Romanticism; Numerology; Schizosexuality; Virginity; Literature in English, British Isles; Literature in English, British Isles
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Mayberry, T. R. (2011). Visions2011: [Re]solving the Rebus of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11134
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mayberry, Thomas R. “Visions2011: [Re]solving the Rebus of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” 2011. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11134.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mayberry, Thomas R. “Visions2011: [Re]solving the Rebus of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” 2011. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Mayberry TR. Visions2011: [Re]solving the Rebus of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11134.
Council of Science Editors:
Mayberry TR. Visions2011: [Re]solving the Rebus of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11134
McMaster University
21.
Gaster, Matthew.
Metaphorical Angst: The Influence of the Theological Aesthetic on the Metaphors of Robert Southwell and John Donne.
Degree: Master of English, 2012, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12054
► This thesis examines the metaphorical expressions of Robert Southwell and John Donne in light of the instability created in metaphorical thought by Reformational debates.…
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▼ This thesis examines the metaphorical expressions of Robert Southwell and John Donne in light of the instability created in metaphorical thought by Reformational debates. I argue that the theological doctrines regarding the Eucharist and Biblical interpretation had associated consequences for figurative thought and that the violence with which these doctrines were interrogated in early modern England created a crisis of figurative representation that contributed to the elaborate experimentation of metaphor (layerings, argued conceits, rapid transitions between tropes, etc.) found within the poetry of Southwell and Donne. My first chapter traces the theological landscape of early modern England, noting the continental Catholic and Protestant positions which defined the Reformational debates, as well as roughly locating the position of the English Church in the centre of these debates. While each of these doctrinal positions contains certain understandings about metaphorical thought, this chapter argues that it is the general uncertainty and the society-wide fluctuations between these ideas that defines my concept of the “theological aesthetic.” In my final two chapters I look at specific metaphors in the works of Robert Southwell (“Saint Peter’s Complaint,” “Christ’s bloody sweat,” and “The prodigal childs soule wracke”) and John Donne (“The Cross,” “Holy Sonnet 10: Batter my heart, three- personed God,” and “Holy Sonnet 2: I am a little world made cunningly”). Close analysis of these poems reveals that Southwell’s poetry often combines imagery and tropes in complicated ways to form multifaceted metaphors, while Donne’s poetry often functions as a meditation upon the possibilities of figurative language to create meaning. This thesis does not attempt to form a comprehensive theory of early modern metaphor, but rather examines how the theological debates of the Reformation questioned the representational efficacy of figurative language, allowing metaphor to be redefined by the experiments of early modern poets like Southwell and Donne.
Master of English
Advisors/Committee Members: Silcox, Mary, Gough, Melinda, Grisé, Cathy, English and Cultural Studies.
Subjects/Keywords: Aesthetics; Figurative Language; Early Modern England; Reformation; Eucharist; Biblical Interpretation; Literature in English, British Isles; Literature in English, British Isles
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Gaster, M. (2012). Metaphorical Angst: The Influence of the Theological Aesthetic on the Metaphors of Robert Southwell and John Donne. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12054
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gaster, Matthew. “Metaphorical Angst: The Influence of the Theological Aesthetic on the Metaphors of Robert Southwell and John Donne.” 2012. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12054.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gaster, Matthew. “Metaphorical Angst: The Influence of the Theological Aesthetic on the Metaphors of Robert Southwell and John Donne.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gaster M. Metaphorical Angst: The Influence of the Theological Aesthetic on the Metaphors of Robert Southwell and John Donne. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12054.
Council of Science Editors:
Gaster M. Metaphorical Angst: The Influence of the Theological Aesthetic on the Metaphors of Robert Southwell and John Donne. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12054
McMaster University
22.
Sopher, Robin E.
Peripheral Sympathies: Gender, Ethics, and Marginal Characters in the Novels of George Eliot.
Degree: PhD, 2012, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12289
► This dissertation explores the connections between sympathy, gender, and characterization in four novels by George Eliot. It contributes to studies of George Eliot’s work…
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▼ This dissertation explores the connections between sympathy, gender, and characterization in four novels by George Eliot. It contributes to studies of George Eliot’s work by offering readings of minor characters in Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Focusing on these characters, who have tended to be ignored in critical studies of the novels, this dissertation argues for a re-evaluation of the relationship between gender and sympathy as understood by George Eliot. Taking into consideration a number of characters who exhibit a range of gendered behaviours and identities, this study explores how both normative and non-normative expressions of masculinity and femininity inform individuals’ sympathy. It uses the concepts of sympathetic economies and sympathetic ethics to demarcate the tension between realism and idealism in George Eliot’s representations of sympathy. The goal of this dissertation is to begin to map out some of the ways in which careful attention to peripheral characters can enhance readings of sympathetic ethics and economies in George Eliot by showing the subtle and challenging ways in which sympathy inflects, and is in turn inflected by, discourses about femininity and masculinity.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Advisors/Committee Members: Kehler, Grace, English and Cultural Studies.
Subjects/Keywords: George Eliot; sympathy; characterization; gender; Victorian literature; Literature in English, British Isles; Literature in English, British Isles
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Sopher, R. E. (2012). Peripheral Sympathies: Gender, Ethics, and Marginal Characters in the Novels of George Eliot. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12289
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sopher, Robin E. “Peripheral Sympathies: Gender, Ethics, and Marginal Characters in the Novels of George Eliot.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12289.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sopher, Robin E. “Peripheral Sympathies: Gender, Ethics, and Marginal Characters in the Novels of George Eliot.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Sopher RE. Peripheral Sympathies: Gender, Ethics, and Marginal Characters in the Novels of George Eliot. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12289.
Council of Science Editors:
Sopher RE. Peripheral Sympathies: Gender, Ethics, and Marginal Characters in the Novels of George Eliot. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12289
University of Colorado
23.
Kingsley, Erin Michelle.
Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950.
Degree: PhD, English, 2014, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/54
► “Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950” explores three ways British novels engage with the rise of the “culture…
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▼ “Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the
British Novel, 1900-1950” explores three ways
British novels engage with the rise of the “culture of pregnancy,” an extreme interest in reproduction occurring during the modernist movement. This culture of pregnancy was intimately facilitated by the joint explosion of dailies and periodicals and the rise of “experts,” ranging from doctors presiding over the birthing chamber to self-help books dictating how women should control their birth-giving.
In response to this culture of pregnancy, some modernist writers portray the feminine reproductive body as a suffering entity that can be saved by an alignment with traditionally-coded masculine aspects of the mind. Analyzing Virginia Woolf's
Orlando (1928),
A Room of One's Own (1929), and
Three Guineas (1938); Enid Bagnold's
The Squire(1938); and Naomi Mitchison's
We Have Been Warned (1936), I argue that these writers encoded a “bloodless” model of reproduction in their texts, injecting the feminine body with a healthy dose of masculinity by wresting reproductive processes out of the physical domain and relocating them in the mental.
The second dominant literary response to the culture of pregnancy was concerned with the burgeoning presence of “improper” births by racialized women. Texts like
Voyage in the Dark (1934) and
Good Morning, Midnight (1939) by Jean Rhys, and
Spleen (1930) by Olive Moore are thus highly engaged in issues of reproductive power(lessness) at the intersections of race, class, and cultural displacement.
Finally, the third response occurs in science fiction texts that seek to ameliorate the transgressive female body by repairing it via the masculine scientific gaze. Charlotte Haldane's
Man's World (1926), Susan Ertz's
Woman Alive (1936), Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World (1937), and Katharine Burdekin's
Swastika Night (1937) portray scientific reproduction as a critical project to rescue humanity from the female body, rooted as it is in uncontrollable fluctuations.
These modernist novels imagine alternative worlds, yet they remain worlds in which the female reproductive problem is at the center. For these reasons, pregnancy in modernism must be reconceptualized as a primary modality of modernism itself and a central tenet of the movement.
Advisors/Committee Members: Jane Garrity, Laura Winkiel, Karen Jacobs, Janice Ho, Deepti Misri.
Subjects/Keywords: Birth; Body; Childbirth; Modernism; Pregnancy; Reproduction; Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America; Literature in English, British Isles
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Kingsley, E. M. (2014). Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/54
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kingsley, Erin Michelle. “Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/54.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kingsley, Erin Michelle. “Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950.” 2014. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kingsley EM. Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/54.
Council of Science Editors:
Kingsley EM. Deliver Me: Pregnancy, Birth, and the Body in the British Novel, 1900-1950. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2014. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/54
University of Colorado
24.
Harding, Charles Borromeo, IV.
Mobile Texts between the Two World Wars: Transportation, Leisure, and Literature in Interwar Britain.
Degree: PhD, English, 2015, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/81
► This dissertation highlights the historical intersections of mobile technologies, leisure, and British literature of the period between the two world wars. During this time,…
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▼ This dissertation highlights the historical intersections of mobile technologies, leisure, and
British literature of the period between the two world wars. During this time, Britain faced political turbulence in Europe, imperial unrest in India, and social and economic crises at home, but it also witnessed an unprecedented increase in mobility due to higher wages, greater leisure time, and expanded access to rail, bus, and automobile transport. This study explores the ways in which interwar texts respond to and are molded by a mobile and unsettled Britain. Applying the history and theories of transportation and human movement, this dissertation aims to pursue in literary studies what has been called the “mobility turn” in the social sciences. It examines such works as Arnold Bennett’s
Accident, J. B. Priestley’s
English Journey, George Orwell’s
Coming Up for Air, Graham Greene’s
Brighton Rock, and Virginia Woolf’s
The Waves to argue that modernist literature features “mobile texts” that are marked by shifting perspectives, anxious narratives, and generic blending. The first chapter treats authors who represent the railway as a trope for a conventionally linear model of narrative that is disturbed or modified during a time of social crises and rapid transport. The next chapter examines Woolf’s deployment of the railway as a figure for both linear progression and circulation in
The Waves. This double mobility has implications for the characterizations, imperial and political shadings, and narrative structure of the novel. Chapter 3 analyzes shifting perspectives in travelogues and travel-themed novels that seek to recuperate or define Englishness in rural regions. Finally, the fourth chapter deals with interconnections of mobility, leisure, and housing in Greene’s fiction, which subverts the ideal home as it was imagined in interwar advertisements, town planning, and housing policies.
Advisors/Committee Members: Jane Garrity, Laura Winkiel, Janice Ho, Kelly Hurley, Jan Whitt.
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Interwar; Leisure; Modernism; Transportation; Comparative Literature; Literature in English, British Isles
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Harding, Charles Borromeo, I. (2015). Mobile Texts between the Two World Wars: Transportation, Leisure, and Literature in Interwar Britain. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/81
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Harding, Charles Borromeo, IV. “Mobile Texts between the Two World Wars: Transportation, Leisure, and Literature in Interwar Britain.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/81.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Harding, Charles Borromeo, IV. “Mobile Texts between the Two World Wars: Transportation, Leisure, and Literature in Interwar Britain.” 2015. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Harding, Charles Borromeo I. Mobile Texts between the Two World Wars: Transportation, Leisure, and Literature in Interwar Britain. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/81.
Council of Science Editors:
Harding, Charles Borromeo I. Mobile Texts between the Two World Wars: Transportation, Leisure, and Literature in Interwar Britain. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2015. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/81
25.
Janes, Jennifer M.
British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature.
Degree: MA, English, 2015, U of Denver
URL: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/314
► Political and economic turmoil in 1930s Britain gave rise to a home-grown fascist movement led by the controversial Oswald Mosley. Literature of this period…
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▼ Political and economic turmoil in 1930s Britain gave rise to a home-grown fascist movement led by the controversial Oswald Mosley. Literature of this period by Joseph O’Neill and Rex Warner mirrored the internal nature of the
British fascist movement by depicting fascist-like societies embedded under or entrenched within the English countryside. Their metaphors of fascism rising as a solution to fear and disorder conjure the threat of fascism that was rising in Europe in that period. The metaphors are made more particularly relevant by the fact that the forces of Italian, German, and
British fascism were not invasions from without, but growths from within. Furthermore, the recipe of severe political and economic downturn combined with the rise of a charismatic group leading their distressed people toward fascism is still relevant today in Greece and other European countries.
Advisors/Committee Members: Eleanor McNees, Ph.D..
Subjects/Keywords: British; Dystopia; Fascism; Novel; English Language and Literature; Literature in English, British Isles
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Janes, J. M. (2015). British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature. (Thesis). U of Denver. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/314
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Janes, Jennifer M. “British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature.” 2015. Thesis, U of Denver. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/314.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Janes, Jennifer M. “British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature.” 2015. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Janes JM. British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. U of Denver; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/314.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Janes JM. British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature. [Thesis]. U of Denver; 2015. Available from: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/314
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Purdue University
26.
Watkins, Adam Edward.
The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, Purdue University
URL: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/18
► This dissertation argues that a new paradigm of selfhood emerged in nineteenth-century British literature, one that recognized the individual will and environmental influence not…
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▼ This dissertation argues that a new paradigm of selfhood emerged in nineteenth-century
British literature, one that recognized the individual will and environmental influence not as antithetical but as dialectical forces in the formation of the self. The concept of an externally negotiated
subject challenges both the inward and socially determined conceptions of self that have dominated the relevant criticism. Informed by empiricist, associationist, and evolutionary theories of the mind, the portrayals of
subject-formation in this study highlight the radical changes occurring in the human environment in nineteenth-century, which catalyzed the conception of a malleable yet self-forming
subject. Along with the increased variability of the modern environment, the urban sphere afforded an array of cultural artifacts and spatial tools by which human subjects could shape their cognitive tendencies and affective states of being. With an emphasis on human adaptability and agency, nineteenth-century literature espouses the paradigm of environmental self-fashioning and develops a form of psychological realism predicated less on depictions of interiority than on increasingly sophisticated portrayals of mental and behavioral engagement with external conditions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dino Franco Felluga, Dino Franco Felluga, Manushag Powell, Emily Allen, Ruth Livesey.
Subjects/Keywords: adaption; associationism; bildungsroman; british literature; environment; evolution; Environmental Sciences; Evolution; Literature in English, British Isles
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Watkins, A. E. (2013). The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). Purdue University. Retrieved from https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/18
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Watkins, Adam Edward. “The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Purdue University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/18.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Watkins, Adam Edward. “The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.” 2013. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Watkins AE. The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Purdue University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/18.
Council of Science Editors:
Watkins AE. The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Purdue University; 2013. Available from: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/18
University of Tennessee – Knoxville
27.
Jones, Whitney Elaine.
Innocent Artists: Creativity and Growing Up in Literatures of Maturation, 1850-1920.
Degree: 2014, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
URL: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2890
► This project combines three subgenres of the novel—children’s literature, the Bildungsroman, and the Künstlerroman—under a new comprehensive category I term “literatures of maturation,” or texts…
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▼ This project combines three subgenres of the novel—children’s literature, the Bildungsroman, and the Künstlerroman—under a new comprehensive category I term “literatures of maturation,” or texts that share a concern with the inner and outer formation of the individual, with growing up, and with childhood. By reading British literatures of maturation from both the Victorian and modern eras (that is, within the time frame of the Golden Age of children’s literature), I reveal that, creativity disrupts literary plots of growth and development, and that social integration and artistic maturation battle for dominance in the child’s journey to adulthood, resulting in a narrative and in a developmental outcome that reflects the changing historical plot of childhood itself. When the recognition of adolescence as a developmental stage interrupts the linear historical plot of maturation at the beginning of the twentieth century, so too does creativity’s disruption of fictional plots of maturation increase, causing a shift from the social integration of the Bildungsroman to the artistic triumph of the Künstlerroman.
This study is organized by gender and time because these two contexts greatly affect patterns of maturation. The four major chapters of Innocent Artists read a Bildungsroman or a Künstlerroman and a work of children’s literature that fall between, or right outside of the dates 1850-1920. Each combined reading shows how the necessity of social maturation suppresses the child’s creativity or how the child flees the social in pursuit of artistic maturation. Addressing the centrality of the creative child and the process of growing up in literatures of maturation reveals how changing historical plots of childhood reorganize literary genres and how the creative child’s liberation from narratives of social integration and from adulthood itself is crucial for the formation of the Künstlerroman.
Subjects/Keywords: creativity; childhood; growing up; bildungsroman; kunstlerroman; British; Literature in English, British Isles
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Jones, W. E. (2014). Innocent Artists: Creativity and Growing Up in Literatures of Maturation, 1850-1920. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Retrieved from https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2890
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jones, Whitney Elaine. “Innocent Artists: Creativity and Growing Up in Literatures of Maturation, 1850-1920.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2890.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jones, Whitney Elaine. “Innocent Artists: Creativity and Growing Up in Literatures of Maturation, 1850-1920.” 2014. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Jones WE. Innocent Artists: Creativity and Growing Up in Literatures of Maturation, 1850-1920. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Tennessee – Knoxville; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2890.
Council of Science Editors:
Jones WE. Innocent Artists: Creativity and Growing Up in Literatures of Maturation, 1850-1920. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Tennessee – Knoxville; 2014. Available from: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2890
28.
Rivera, Jackson A.
Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983).
Degree: MA- English, English, 2019, Stephen F. Austin State University
URL: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/273
► This master’s thesis explores Fay Weldon’s implementation of Menippean satire in her 1983 novel, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. The present discussion…
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▼ This master’s thesis explores Fay Weldon’s implementation of Menippean satire in her 1983 novel,
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. The present discussion argues Weldon utilizes this specific satiric mode within her novel in order to convey a story of radical female empowerment and evolution that critiques gendered stereotypes of marriage and female roles in society. To make this argument, this thesis applies satire theory, most prominently Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas about Menippean satire, as well as marriage and family psychology, to Weldon’s characterization of wives, husbands, and mistresses throughout the novel. Through this discussion, Rivera demonstrates the effectiveness of Weldon’s social commentary and refutes criticism that deems Weldon’s work anti-feminist in nature.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Elizabeth Tasker-Davis, Dr. Michael Martin, Dr. Ericka Hoagland.
Subjects/Keywords: satire; Bakhtin; Menippean; irony; Fay Weldon; British satire; feminist literature; Literature in English, British Isles
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Rivera, J. A. (2019). Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). (Masters Thesis). Stephen F. Austin State University. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/273
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rivera, Jackson A. “Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983).” 2019. Masters Thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/273.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rivera, Jackson A. “Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983).” 2019. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Rivera JA. Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Stephen F. Austin State University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/273.
Council of Science Editors:
Rivera JA. Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). [Masters Thesis]. Stephen F. Austin State University; 2019. Available from: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/273
Loyola University Chicago
29.
O'Keefe, Emily.
The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in
Thirties British Fiction.
Degree: PhD, School of
Education, 2012, Loyola University Chicago
URL: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/374
► This dissertation analyzes the appeal of things in thirties British literature. I argue that in a time in which a catastrophic and world-changing war…
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▼ This dissertation analyzes the
appeal of things in thirties British literature. I argue that in a
time in which a catastrophic and world-changing war seemed to be on
the way, many writers saw seemingly unshakable material things as a
source of comfort. Drawing on thing theory, I explore thirties
writers' recognition of the duality of things, their alienness to
human society even as people invest great significance in them.
Therefore, I show that despite this frequent appeal to the material
world as a place of stability and comfort, many of these writers
also recognized conflicting aspects of things, knowing (and
fearing) that even seemingly impenetrable things could change as
the world was changing around them. Yet although furnishings such
as tables and chairs could warp, decay, become lost, or perish in
the bombs of war, their ultimate remoteness from human society made
them appealing and seemingly safe from the traumatic political and
cultural changes that seemed to be on their
way. Many critics have analyzed the importance of
things to modernist writers, but few have addressed the
representation of things in the works of the slightly younger
generation associated primarily with the thirties – the generation
of Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Bowen, and Evelyn Waugh.
Thirties writers have long been either neglected or associated
primarily with political commitments, though this has begun to
change. I argue that thirties writers often position things as an
alternative to politics, religion, or even ideas. Though the
writers I discuss have significant differences, they share a
fixation on the things that may outlive competing ideologies.
Chairs, tables, and knickknacks – simple things, often ugly things,
without great monetary or aesthetic value – persist after the fall
or death of the people who own them and the societies in which they
function.
Subjects/Keywords: interwar; objects; thing theory; thirties; Literature in English, British Isles
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O'Keefe, E. (2012). The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in
Thirties British Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved from https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/374
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
O'Keefe, Emily. “The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in
Thirties British Fiction.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Loyola University Chicago. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/374.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
O'Keefe, Emily. “The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in
Thirties British Fiction.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
O'Keefe E. The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in
Thirties British Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Loyola University Chicago; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/374.
Council of Science Editors:
O'Keefe E. The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in
Thirties British Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Loyola University Chicago; 2012. Available from: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/374
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Timms, Rhys.
Developing a refined tephrostratigraphy for Scotland, and constraining abrupt climatic oscillations of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (ca 16-8 ka BP) using high resolution tephrochronologies.
Degree: PhD, 2016, Royal Holloway, University of London
URL: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/developing-a-refined-tephrostratigraphy-for-scotland-and-constraining-abrupt-climatic-oscillations-of-the-last-glacialinterglacial-transition-ca-168-ka-bp-using-high-resolution-tephrochronologies(8fb21be3-5600-435d-a544-b595e215646b).html
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► Understanding the abrupt climatic oscillations that characterised the Last Glacial to Interglacial Transition (LGIT, ca. 16-8 ka) requires an ability to precisely correlate the archives…
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▼ Understanding the abrupt climatic oscillations that characterised the Last Glacial to Interglacial Transition (LGIT, ca. 16-8 ka) requires an ability to precisely correlate the archives within which such transitions are recorded. One way in which to scrutinise the timing of abrupt events in the LGIT is tephrochronology, a technique which exploits the isochronous potential of tephra horizons derived from the geologically 'instantaneous' settlement of volcanic ash. In NW Europe, macro- and crypto-tephra layers of varying age and provenance have become increasing utilised as a means to correlate palaeoclimate records, and to test the spatial and temporal synchronicity of key climatic transitions. At present, however, tephrostratigraphies in NW Europe are limited by: 1) the number of horizons that have robust chronological constraint, and 2) our abilities to trace these tephras across multiple sites. As a result, the potential of generating continental-scale tephra lattices is greatly restricted, and a spatial disparity in the number and type of tephras has emerged. It is hypothesised that part of this disparity may relate to the resolution at which sequences are studied and the inconsistent manner in which methodologies are applied. In order to test this hypothesis, five terrestrial basins from western Scotland were examined in detail for tephra content. Four of the sites were examined contiguously at high resolutions, whilst the fifth was examined using traditional 'scan and resample' strategies. Three new tephras for the LGIT are identified, and several existing tephras previously unknown in the British Isles were also detected. The results from this tephrostratigraphic study suggest that the series of eruptive episodes impacting Northern Britain through the LGIT is richer than appreciated hitherto. Results also indicate that tephras may have been missed in previous tephrostratigraphic investigations due to: 1) incomplete stratigraphic refinement, 2) a propensity to focus on tephras of greatest concentration, and 3) a conflation of horizons. Using the high-resolution site-tephrostratigraphies, a composite tephrochronological age model was developed. The purpose of this exercise was to establish whether age models constructed exclusively from tephra horizons could provide a viable means to constrain abrupt climatic oscillations in sites which traditionally are difficult to date e.g. carbonate basins. The resulting age model achieves centennial-decadal scale precision through the early Holocene, and is used to accurately constrain the first record incidence of the 10.3 ka event in the British Isles. This study emphasises the importance of contiguous high resolution refinement, and demonstrates that this approach is essential if the true tephrostratigraphic complexity of NW Europe is to be fully understood, and if tephras are to be used successfully in constraining abrupt climatic events.
Subjects/Keywords: Tephrochronology; Tephrostratigraphy; Abrupt climate change; Late Glacial; Holocene; British Isles; Scotland
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Timms, R. (2016). Developing a refined tephrostratigraphy for Scotland, and constraining abrupt climatic oscillations of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (ca 16-8 ka BP) using high resolution tephrochronologies. (Doctoral Dissertation). Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved from https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/developing-a-refined-tephrostratigraphy-for-scotland-and-constraining-abrupt-climatic-oscillations-of-the-last-glacialinterglacial-transition-ca-168-ka-bp-using-high-resolution-tephrochronologies(8fb21be3-5600-435d-a544-b595e215646b).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792602
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Timms, Rhys. “Developing a refined tephrostratigraphy for Scotland, and constraining abrupt climatic oscillations of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (ca 16-8 ka BP) using high resolution tephrochronologies.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London. Accessed January 23, 2021.
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/developing-a-refined-tephrostratigraphy-for-scotland-and-constraining-abrupt-climatic-oscillations-of-the-last-glacialinterglacial-transition-ca-168-ka-bp-using-high-resolution-tephrochronologies(8fb21be3-5600-435d-a544-b595e215646b).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792602.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Timms, Rhys. “Developing a refined tephrostratigraphy for Scotland, and constraining abrupt climatic oscillations of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (ca 16-8 ka BP) using high resolution tephrochronologies.” 2016. Web. 23 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Timms R. Developing a refined tephrostratigraphy for Scotland, and constraining abrupt climatic oscillations of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (ca 16-8 ka BP) using high resolution tephrochronologies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Royal Holloway, University of London; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 23].
Available from: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/developing-a-refined-tephrostratigraphy-for-scotland-and-constraining-abrupt-climatic-oscillations-of-the-last-glacialinterglacial-transition-ca-168-ka-bp-using-high-resolution-tephrochronologies(8fb21be3-5600-435d-a544-b595e215646b).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792602.
Council of Science Editors:
Timms R. Developing a refined tephrostratigraphy for Scotland, and constraining abrupt climatic oscillations of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (ca 16-8 ka BP) using high resolution tephrochronologies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Royal Holloway, University of London; 2016. Available from: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/developing-a-refined-tephrostratigraphy-for-scotland-and-constraining-abrupt-climatic-oscillations-of-the-last-glacialinterglacial-transition-ca-168-ka-bp-using-high-resolution-tephrochronologies(8fb21be3-5600-435d-a544-b595e215646b).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792602
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