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Schoellman, Stephanie.
Dis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire| Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance.
Degree: 2018, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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► This dissertation advances Gothic studies by 1) arguing that Gothic is an imperial discourse and tracing back its origins to imperial activity, 2) by…
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▼ This dissertation advances Gothic studies by 1) arguing that Gothic is an imperial discourse and tracing back its origins to imperial activity, 2) by establishing a Hinterland Gothics discourse framework within the Gothic Imagination, 3) and by defining three particular discourses of Hinterland Gothics: the Gotach (Irish), Gótico (Mexican-American Mestizx), and the Ethnogothix (African Diaspora), and subsequently, revealing how these Hinterland Gothics undermine, expose, and thwart imperial poltergeists. The primary texts that I analyze and reference were published in the past thirty years and are either of the Young Adult or New Adult persuasion, highlighting imperative moments of identity construction in bildungsroman plots and focusing on the more neglected yet more dynamic hyper-contemporary era of Gothic scholarship, namely: Siobhan Dowd’s <i>Bog Child </i> (2008), Celine Kiernan’s <i>Into the Grey</i> (2011), Marina Carr’s <i>Woman and Scarecrow</i> (2006), Emma Pérez’s <i> Forgetting the Alamo</i> (2009), Virginia Grise’s <i>blu</i> (2011), Emil Ferris’s graphic novel <i>My Favorite Thing is Monsters </i> (2017), Gloria Naylor’s <i>Mama Day</i> (1988), Helen Oyeyemi’s <i>White is for Witching</i> (2009), Nnedi Okorafor’s <i>Binti</i> (2015) and <i>Binti: Home</i> (2017), and Nicki Minaj’s 54th Annual Grammy Awards performance of “Roman Holiday” (2012). The cold spots in the white Eurocentric canon where Other presences have been ghosted will be filled, specters will be given flesh, and the repressed will return, indict, and haunt, demanding recognition and justice.
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Schoellman, S. (2018). Dis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire| Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance. (Thesis). The University of Texas at San Antonio. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10814117
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Schoellman, Stephanie. “Dis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire| Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance.” 2018. Thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10814117.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schoellman, Stephanie. “Dis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire| Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Schoellman S. Dis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire| Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Texas at San Antonio; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10814117.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Schoellman S. Dis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire| Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance. [Thesis]. The University of Texas at San Antonio; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10814117
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Chapman University
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Feldman, Lee.
Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature.
Degree: 2018, Chapman University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822281
► In recent years, having evolved beyond solely play-based interactions, it is now possible to analyze video games alongside other narrative forms, such as novels…
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▼ In recent years, having evolved beyond solely play-based interactions, it is now possible to analyze video games alongside other narrative forms, such as novels and films. Video games now involve rich stories that require input and interaction on behalf of the player. This level of agency likens video games to a kind of modern hypertext, networking and weaving various narrative threads together, something which traditional modes of media lack. When examined from the lens of reader-response criticism, this interaction deepens even further, acknowledging the player’s experience as a valid interpretation of a video game’s plot. The wide freedom of choice available to players, in terms of both play and story, in 2007’s <i>Mass Effect,</i> along with its critical reception, represents a turning point in the study of video games as literature, exemplifying the necessity for player input in undergoing a narrative-filled journey. Active participation and non-linear storytelling, typified through gaming, are major steps in the next the evolution of narrative techniques, which requires the broadening of literary criticism to incorporate this new development.
Subjects/Keywords: British & Irish literature
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Feldman, L. (2018). Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature. (Thesis). Chapman University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822281
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Feldman, Lee. “Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature.” 2018. Thesis, Chapman University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822281.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Feldman, Lee. “Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Feldman L. Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. Chapman University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822281.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Feldman L. Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature. [Thesis]. Chapman University; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822281
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Connors, Steven.
The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih.
Degree: 2018, Clark University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841511
► Literary study has long been concerned with the construction of meaning and identity through language. In the realm of postcolonialism, for instance, it is…
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▼ Literary study has long been concerned with the construction of meaning and identity through language. In the realm of postcolonialism, for instance, it is necessary to consider the ways that racism and sexism are hegemonic constructs that are transmitted and solidified through language. Furthermore, literary texts such as <i>Heart of Darkness</i> by Joseph Conrad and <i>Season of Migration to the North</i> by Tayeb Salih engage themselves with revealing the ways that racism, sexism, and colonial discourse function through determinacy or certainty. Moreover, Conrad and Salih are engaged in undermining these enterprises of authoritative discourse by revealing the underlying indeterminacy of language and meaning-making. In other words, they show that meaning exists as humanity constructs it. Thus, it is necessary to consider the ways that they question racism, sexism, and colonialism as movements of thought, discourse, and action that have no rational foundations; and it is necessary to consider the ways that they seek to frame the resistance of these forces in their characters.
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Connors, S. (2018). The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih. (Thesis). Clark University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841511
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Connors, Steven. “The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih.” 2018. Thesis, Clark University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841511.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Connors, Steven. “The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Connors S. The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih. [Internet] [Thesis]. Clark University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841511.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Connors S. The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih. [Thesis]. Clark University; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841511
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

West Virginia University
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Zerne, Lori Halvorsen.
Dwindling into a Wife: Women and the Culture of Marriage in Britain, 1760-1820.
Degree: PhD, English, 2011, West Virginia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4822
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https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4822
► This dissertation examines women and marriage ideology in courtship novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, specifically novels by Sarah Scott, Frances Burney,…
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▼ This dissertation examines women and marriage ideology in courtship novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, specifically novels by Sarah Scott, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Instead of focusing on the heroines of these courtship novels, however, this project explores the marginalized female roles that orbit the courtship narrative: the chaperon, the mother-in-law, the governess, and the spinster. These four roles demonstrate the broad scope of female functions and services in the period while also calling into question the ideology that attempts to limit women only to the role of wife. The chaperon reveals the work necessary to succeed in courtship, which challenges the idea that courtship and marriage are easy and natural; the mother-in-law challenges both the culture of marriage and patriarchal ideology more generally through her maternal authority, which conflicts with male authority; the governess demonstrates the contradiction of teaching her pupils skills that did not lead to her own success on the marriage market; and the spinster calls into question the ideology that the role of wife is inevitable and mandatory. While the narratives of these four roles merit recuperation and attention in their own right, more significantly, this analysis offers a more complete and nuanced examination of the culture of marriage, by exploring alternatives and challenges to marriage, revealing the actual cultural roles of marginalized leisure-class women, and identifying the ways in which the ideology of marriage was both maintained and challenged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Ultimately, this study exposes the cultural pressures and processes by which the concepts of marriage have been shaped and, at times, distorted.
Advisors/Committee Members: Marilyn Francus.
Subjects/Keywords: British & Irish literature
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Zerne, L. H. (2011). Dwindling into a Wife: Women and the Culture of Marriage in Britain, 1760-1820. (Doctoral Dissertation). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4822 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4822
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zerne, Lori Halvorsen. “Dwindling into a Wife: Women and the Culture of Marriage in Britain, 1760-1820.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4822 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4822.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zerne, Lori Halvorsen. “Dwindling into a Wife: Women and the Culture of Marriage in Britain, 1760-1820.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Zerne LH. Dwindling into a Wife: Women and the Culture of Marriage in Britain, 1760-1820. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4822 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4822.
Council of Science Editors:
Zerne LH. Dwindling into a Wife: Women and the Culture of Marriage in Britain, 1760-1820. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2011. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4822 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4822
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Robinson, Sarah E.
The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock.
Degree: 2018, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581
► This thesis examines Sherlock Holmes texts (1886–1927) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and their recreations in the television series <i>Sherlock </i> (2010) and <i>Elementary</i>…
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▼ This thesis examines Sherlock Holmes texts (1886–1927) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and their recreations in the television series <i>Sherlock </i> (2010) and <i>Elementary</i> (2012) through a postcolonial lens. Through an in-depth textual analysis of Doyle’s mysteries, my thesis will show that his stories were intended to be propaganda discouraging the British Empire from becoming tainted, ill, and dirty through immersing themselves in the “Orient” or the East. The ideal Imperial body, gender roles, and national landscape are feminized, covered in darkness, and infected when in contact for too long with the “Other” people of the East and their cultures. Sherlock Holmes cleanses society of the darkness, becoming a hero for the Empire and an example of the perfect British man created out of logic and British law. And yet, Sherlock Holmes’ very identity relies on the existence of the Other and the mystery he or she creates. The detective’s obsession with solving mysteries, drug addiction, depression, and the art of deduction demonstrate that, without the Other, Holmes has no identity. As the body politic, Holmes craves more mystery to unravel, examine, and know. Without it, he feels useless and dissatisfied with life. The satisfaction with pinpointing every detail, in order to solve a mystery continues today in all media versions. Bringing Sherlock Holmes to life for television and updating him to appeal to today's culture only make sense. Though society has the insight offered by postcolonial theory, evidence of an imperial mindset is still present in the most popular reproductions of Sherlock Holmes <i> Sherlock</i> and <i>Elementary</i>.
Subjects/Keywords: British & Irish literature
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Robinson, S. E. (2018). The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock. (Thesis). Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Robinson, Sarah E. “The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock.” 2018. Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Robinson, Sarah E. “The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Robinson SE. The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock. [Internet] [Thesis]. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Robinson SE. The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock. [Thesis]. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Florida Atlantic University
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LeClair, Andrew.
On William Walwyn's Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie.
Degree: 2019, Florida Atlantic University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419063
► During the English Revolution of the seventeenth century, writers like William Walwyn produced documents contesting the restriction of their liberties. This thesis is a…
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▼ During the English Revolution of the seventeenth century, writers like William Walwyn produced documents contesting the restriction of their liberties. This thesis is a critical edition of Walwyn’s <i>Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie,</i> unedited since its original publication in 1646. In this text Walwyn advocates for man’s right to question religious orthodoxy in his search for Truth and urges Parliament not to pass a proposed <i>Bill</i> for the harsh punishment of religious sectarians. Prior to a transcription of the text is an introduction to Walwyn and an attempt to situate the reader in the context of his time. Following that is a style and rhetorical analysis, which concludes that despite his rejection of rhetorical practices, Walwyn’s own use of them is effective. Perhaps this skill is one of the reasons that Parliament passed a milder, non-punitive version of the <i>Bill</i> Walwyn argued against.
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LeClair, A. (2019). On William Walwyn's Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie. (Thesis). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419063
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
LeClair, Andrew. “On William Walwyn's Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie.” 2019. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419063.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
LeClair, Andrew. “On William Walwyn's Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie.” 2019. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
LeClair A. On William Walwyn's Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie. [Internet] [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419063.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
LeClair A. On William Walwyn's Demurre to the Bill for Preventing the Growth and Spreading of Heresie. [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2019. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419063
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Columbia University
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Clark, Anna Elizabeth.
Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.
Degree: 2013, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D87M0G97
► Since Aristotle, we have categorized characters in terms of relative quantity and proportion. From Henry James's "center of consciousness," to E. M. Forster's theory of…
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▼ Since Aristotle, we have categorized characters in terms of relative quantity and proportion. From Henry James's "center of consciousness," to E. M. Forster's theory of "round" and "flat," to Deidre Lynch's "pragmatics of character," to Alex Woloch's influential "one versus many," scaled distinctions between "major" and "minor" characters have remained unchallenged since the Poetics. Yet such classifications don't capture the ways characters claim amounts of interest and consequence that are disproportionate to their textual presence. My book counters these approaches to character by calling attention to how novels concisely render the rich interior fullness of even very minor figures. While literary critics associate representations of consciousness with major characters, I demonstrate that, through the application of narrative techniques such as first-person narration and focalization, the limited amounts of text allotted to minor characters can yield brief flashes of depth. These depictions of consciousness may lack the "exhaustive presentation" that Ian Watt claims is inherent to the novel, but they are nonetheless brimming with the personality and specificity critics typically associate with central characters. Indeed, many canonical novels, especially those of literary realism's highpoint in nineteenth-century Britain, resist the character hierarchy implied by distinctions such as major and minor. In addition to manifest examples such as Wilkie Collins's "experiment" with many narrators in The Woman in White (1859), we can count instances in which the centrality of a major character is disrupted or challenged. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), where the title character's initial prominence is undermined by his creature's arresting autobiography, to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876), in which readerly affections are split between a Jewish hero, an egoistic heroine, and a narrator's attempt to relate "everything" to "everything else," novels that are far from generic outliers fit uneasily into scaled models of characterization, even when their titles and critics imply otherwise. By recuperating the significance of representations of minor characters' consciousnesses, I argue that such novels disrupt the impulse for sustained identification with a single exceptional perspective, directing attention towards characters who might otherwise appear nondescript, inscrutable, threatening, or even inhuman. My rethinking of minor characters' interior fullness allows me to reframe our understanding of the social purpose that Victorian authors such as Dickens and Eliot claim for the novel. As Eliot suggests in "The Natural History of German Life" (1856), literature should "amplif[y] experience and exten[d] our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot," resisting stock figures and stereotypes to produce a form of social sympathy that is deliberate, sustained, and self-reflective. This view of the novel's morally instructive capacity is refracted in recent arguments by scholars such as Martha…
Subjects/Keywords: Literature; British literature; Irish literature
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Clark, A. E. (2013). Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D87M0G97
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Clark, Anna Elizabeth. “Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D87M0G97.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Clark, Anna Elizabeth. “Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Clark AE. Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D87M0G97.
Council of Science Editors:
Clark AE. Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D87M0G97
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Wojcik, Adrianne A.
Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds| Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots.
Degree: 2018, Marquette University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789499
► This study investigates how key Victorian novelists, such as Anne and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot,…
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▼ This study investigates how key Victorian novelists, such as Anne and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, emphasize performativity in their critiques of marriage. Given the performative nature of wedding ceremonies, this project focuses on wedding descriptions in select novels by the aforementioned authors. Such a focus highlights an interesting dilemma. Although we often think of Victorian novels as overwhelmingly concerned with marriage, the few wedding descriptions found in Victorian fiction are aborted, unusually short or announced after the fact. Those Victorian novelists who do feature weddings often describe them as grotesquely theatrical to underscore the empty performativity associated with contemporaneous wedding rituals that privilege form over substance, and to stress deception and inauthentic play-acting in marriage. In these ways, the key Victorian novelists draw attention to a gap between the empty formalism of marriage as a legal, religious and social institution, and the reality of many Victorian marriages. Nevertheless, many of the same novelists who show their general distaste for the empty performativity of weddings, acknowledge that theatricality itself plays a more complex role in their marriage plots, raising questions about authenticity, fraud and pious deceptions in marriage. For example, Wilkie Collins complicates the argument about theatrical weddings by stressing that quiet weddings, performed without much pomp and ceremony, may also signify deceptive marriages. Moreover, Thomas Hardy emphasizes the value of festive public weddings, which solidify the spouses’ connection to their community. Additionally, both the realist and sensation novelists discussed here, especially Anne Brontë, Dickens, Braddon, and Collins, condone temporary play-acting and deception, which extend beyond weddings, if such performances allow their characters to circumvent inflexible and unjust marriage laws. In sum, this dissertation analyzes how key Victorian novelists redefine courtship and marriage by focusing on the performative aspects of marriage as a legal and social institution. Those redefinitions are, at times, non-linear and contradictory. They also relate to the continual enmeshing of two primary modes of Victorian narrative, realism and sensationalism, which complicates the view of performativity in marriages as either artificial or authentic.
Subjects/Keywords: Law; Literature; British & Irish literature
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Wojcik, A. A. (2018). Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds| Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots. (Thesis). Marquette University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789499
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wojcik, Adrianne A. “Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds| Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots.” 2018. Thesis, Marquette University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789499.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wojcik, Adrianne A. “Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds| Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Wojcik AA. Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds| Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots. [Internet] [Thesis]. Marquette University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789499.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Wojcik AA. Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds| Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots. [Thesis]. Marquette University; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789499
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9.
LeJeune, Jeff.
"The Violent Take It by Force"| Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights.
Degree: 2017, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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► In <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, Emily Bronte employs the character Heathcliff as both a real and mythic being in order to challenge class conventions in Victorian…
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▼ In <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, Emily Bronte employs the character Heathcliff as both a real and mythic being in order to challenge class conventions in Victorian society. She shares this societal contention with other Victorian novelists, but where her contemporaries are typically realistic in their works, Bronte creates a concurrent mythic realm alongside the real in order to allow Heathcliff the space and license to be a Revenant, a symbol used in the folk tradition of the Scots, which I contend was a likely influence on Bronte’s work. Heathcliff’s real nature clashes with this symbolic one, especially when reality will not allow him to be with Catherine, the woman he loves. Her rejection of him serves two central purposes: 1) for the author to spotlight the arbitrary nature of the class system and the decisions individuals make inside it; and 2) for the author to provide a pivot point in the story at which she transforms Heathcliff from a real character to a mythic one. Heathcliff spends the latter half of the novel exacting redemptive punishment on all who have wronged him (and the marginalized he represents), including Catherine herself, a reality he struggles with because he still loves her despite her class-motivated marriage to the hated Edgar Linton. In the end, Heathcliff transgresses his symbolic purpose by going too far in punishing the innocent Hareton, at which point Bronte has him die as unceremoniously as she did Catherine earlier in the novel. Young Hareton and Cathy’s relationship is the fruit of the Revenant Heathcliff’s redeeming work, an ending that, for Bronte, seems to merge more than just the two houses; it seems to also reconcile divergent and conflicting ways of thinking inside the class system.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature; British & Irish literature
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LeJeune, J. (2017). "The Violent Take It by Force"| Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights. (Thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276789
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LeJeune, Jeff. “"The Violent Take It by Force"| Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights.” 2017. Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276789.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
LeJeune, Jeff. “"The Violent Take It by Force"| Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
LeJeune J. "The Violent Take It by Force"| Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276789.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
LeJeune J. "The Violent Take It by Force"| Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights. [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276789
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Columbia University
10.
Parker, Ben.
Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction.
Degree: 2013, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SQ8ZX4
► Unhappy Consciousness is a study of recognition scenes in the Victorian novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often…
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▼ Unhappy Consciousness is a study of recognition scenes in the Victorian novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often show a hero's self-discovery as a retrospective identification with things. When, for example, in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer learns the truth about her marriage: "She saw, in the crude light of that revelation... the dry staring fact that she had been an applied handled hung-up tool, as senseless and convenient as mere shaped wood and iron." The retrospective discovery of identity in Victorian novels is often figured as a catastrophic falling-apart of a stable self that is also an economic object or instrument: a bank check, a debt, a forgery, an inheritance, or an accumulated principal. Recognition scenes cannot be considered in the light of a timeless "master plot" or the classical poetics of Aristotelian anagnorisis, but need to be interpreted in terms of historical forms of social misrecognition (such as Marx's analysis of fetishism). Unhappy Consciousness contends that, if we are going to talk about nineteenth century things, we will have to take into account the novelistic misrecognition of the self, insofar as the heroes misrecognize themselves in forms of commodity fetishism. The thing is so often the subject herself insofar as "barred," dispersed among retrospective or delayed object identifications. I respond to the historical contextualization in Victorian cultural studies of "commodity culture," insisting that the economic structure of the commodity is not only a topic for realist notation, but makes up the inner logic of the novel form. Unhappy Consciousness urges a return to questions of novel theory which were perhaps set aside during New Historicism, arguing for a particularly novelistic mode of "objectification" (the form of the hero's activity) seen in interaction with the historical mode of objectification found in the capitalist value-form. I advance this argument through studies of several canonical Victorian works. Chapter One looks at the tension in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit between the ideological closure attained in the "family romance" plot of buried wills and restored parents, and the dead-end of interpretation and retrospection found in the plot of financial crisis and stock swindles. Chapter Two argues that, in Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset, the tautological nature of interest rate is not confined to the urban financial plot but is displaced and affectively diffused over the provincial mystery plot. Chapter Three is a study of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which I read the detective as an exaggerated portrait of the subjective effects of capitalist alienation, a monad whose only intervention in the world is to link predictive results with opaque processes, to "produce" recognition scenes (the solutions to each case) as a salable commodity. He is a machine for retrospection who has no personal past. In Chapter Four, I read Henry James's The…
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Parker, B. (2013). Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SQ8ZX4
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Parker, Ben. “Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SQ8ZX4.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Parker, Ben. “Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Parker B. Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SQ8ZX4.
Council of Science Editors:
Parker B. Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SQ8ZX4

Columbia University
11.
Minsloff, Sarah.
Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel.
Degree: 2014, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V98663
► Invoked as the novel's generic other, poetry is simultaneously central and marginal in our understanding of the Victorian novel. Poetry is the idealism to the…
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▼ Invoked as the novel's generic other, poetry is simultaneously central and marginal in our understanding of the Victorian novel. Poetry is the idealism to the novel's realism, the elevated verse to the novel's prosaic prose, entering into our theories of the novel only so that it can be expelled. Even when we define the novel as the genre of complete inclusion, poetry is singled out as the ultimate expression of monoglossia, which the novel subsumes without altering its own generic identity. In my dissertation, Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel, I argue that Victorian novelists engage poetry not as a simple foil against which to defend the borders of their genre, but as a shifting collection of representational techniques that highlight the limitations of the novel and attempt to transgress them.
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature
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Minsloff, S. (2014). Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V98663
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Minsloff, Sarah. “Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V98663.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Minsloff, Sarah. “Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Minsloff S. Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V98663.
Council of Science Editors:
Minsloff S. Losing the Margin: Poetry and Poetic Form in the Victorian Novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V98663

Columbia University
12.
Rosebrock, Abby.
Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales.
Degree: 2014, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D81Z42KZ
► This dissertation identifies wifely counsel as a major theme in The Canterbury Tales. My analysis of The Tale of Melibee, The Clerk's Tale, The Wife…
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▼ This dissertation identifies wifely counsel as a major theme in The Canterbury Tales. My analysis of The Tale of Melibee, The Clerk's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, and The Wife of Bath's Tale reveals a pattern of women instructing, transforming, and collaborating with their husbands to accomplish important work for both the household and the public sphere. Wife-counselors in the Tales do not merely provide advice; in moments that modern critics too often overlook, these women also supersede their husbands in leadership roles to mediate conflicts and dispense justice. By reading the tales in my study as narratives of wifely counsel, I show how greater critical attention to plots and characters illuminates underexplored arguments about gender, marriage, and women as political agents in the Tales.
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature
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Rosebrock, A. (2014). Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D81Z42KZ
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rosebrock, Abby. “Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D81Z42KZ.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rosebrock, Abby. “Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Rosebrock A. Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D81Z42KZ.
Council of Science Editors:
Rosebrock A. Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D81Z42KZ

Rice University
13.
Demirhan, Basak.
Food for Sympathy:
Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Degree: PhD, Humanities, 2011, Rice University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64420
► The profuse illness and nursing narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide…
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▼ The profuse illness and nursing narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature
sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide
variety of texts ranging from social reform writing to autobiographies, from novels to
poetry, physical suffering was often closely associated with a specific cultural form of
affect called sympathy. While earlier epistemologies of sympathy developed by
Scottish Enlightenment writers defined it as a free agent that autonomously flowed
through individuals, toward the mid-century, this model left its place to formulations
of sympathy as an alignment of affect between clearly separated subjects that could be
achieved through sympathetic imagination. This epistemological and cultural shift is
strongly apparent in both fictional and nonfinctional depictions of sympathy for the
sick. Critical works on the nineteenth-century culture of illness and medical care have
tended to focus on the community-building functions of the sickroom. However, the
illness-nursing dyad constitutes an affective structure through which some less
examined aspects of sympathy for physical suffering, such as the alterity and abjection
of bodies in pain, can be explored. Descriptions of physical suffering usually followed
certain narrative conventions that positioned the sufferers and their nurses as objects
or subjects of sympathy. This particular object-
subject relationship facilitated the
construction, negotiation, and redefinition of collective identities like nationality,
gender, and class. While nursing memoirs and conduct manuals adhered to
conventional ideals of femininity, they also expanded definitions of feminity and
maternalism to include competence. In their war nursing memoirs, unprivileged or
marginalized women who worked as nurses were able to inscribe themselves as
professional women and national subjects by contributing to the national narratives of
the war with soothing narratives of their nursing experience. In Bildungsromans, their
sympathy for disabled male companions enabled socially and economically
disenfranchised male protagonists to reconstruct wounded masculinity as a hegemonic
masculinity model. Destabilized social identities, on the other hand, culminated in
novelistic examples of resistance to sympathy on the level of character or narrative,
which the authors used as a representational strategy to approach dilemmas for which
there are no solutions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Michie, Helena (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: British and Irish literature; Literature
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Demirhan, B. (2011). Food for Sympathy:
Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64420
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Demirhan, Basak. “Food for Sympathy:
Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64420.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Demirhan, Basak. “Food for Sympathy:
Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Demirhan B. Food for Sympathy:
Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64420.
Council of Science Editors:
Demirhan B. Food for Sympathy:
Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64420

University of Kansas
14.
Wetzel, Katherine Eileen.
Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House.
Degree: MA, English, 2012, University of Kansas
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10665
► In this study of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Bleak House, I examine the two forms of violence that occur within the homes: slow…
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▼ In this study of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Bleak House, I examine the two forms of violence that occur within the homes: slow violence through the naturalized practices of the everyday and immediate forms of violence. I argue that these novels prioritize the immediate forms of violence and trauma within the home and the intimate spaces of the family in order to avoid the colonial anxiety and guilt that is embedded in the naturalized practices of the everyday. For this I utilize Rob Nixon's theory on slow violence, which posits that some practices and objects that occur as part of the everyday possess the potential to be just as violent as immediate forms of violence. Additionally, the
British empire's presence within the home makes the home a dark and violent place. Dombey and Son does this by displacing colonial anxiety, such as Mr. Dombey's imperialistic business practices, onto the home through his abuse of his daughter. In Bleak House, the home is full of colonial objects that both decorate the home and unsettle it. While the interactions between colonial and domestic objects seem to disquiet the home, the trauma of abuse and neglect, particularly Esther's childhood abuse, overshadow the slow forms of degradation from the empire that haunt the home.
Advisors/Committee Members: Elliott, Dorice W. (advisor), Neill, Anna (cmtemember).
Subjects/Keywords: British & Irish literature; Literature; British; Colonial; Empire
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Wetzel, K. E. (2012). Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House. (Masters Thesis). University of Kansas. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10665
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wetzel, Katherine Eileen. “Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House.” 2012. Masters Thesis, University of Kansas. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10665.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wetzel, Katherine Eileen. “Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Wetzel KE. Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Kansas; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10665.
Council of Science Editors:
Wetzel KE. Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House. [Masters Thesis]. University of Kansas; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10665

University of California – Berkeley
15.
Townsend, Sarah Lynn.
Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007.
Degree: English, 2011, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6mw4g591
► My dissertation constructs a literary history of global aspiration in twentieth and twenty-first-century Ireland. I show how the sense of having arrived at global modernity…
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▼ My dissertation constructs a literary history of global aspiration in twentieth and twenty-first-century Ireland. I show how the sense of having arrived at global modernity recurs in the literary record, emerging during periods of economic expansion and generating feverish anticipatory desires. Narratives of arrival coincide with the physical arrival of foreign goods and people to a long-impoverished, insular Ireland: imported commodities enter the marketplace, former emigrants return home, or new immigrants arrive. Yet the expectations unleashed in these moments of possibility consistently outstrip what the material landscape can sustain. In my readings of fiction and drama, I examine arrival as a structure of feeling whose fitful longings are as fundamental to Irish modernity as are its certain letdowns.Arrival narratives assume various forms over the twentieth century as they become implicated in discourses about sovereignty, social reproduction, domesticity, and multiculturalism; yet they are united by a common sense of historical "catch up." If belatedness is a persistent condition of the colony and postcolony, then arrival offers to remedy the effects of uneven development in a manner that seems miraculous. The narrative of miraculous arrival extends from literary works to literary-critical, cultural, and economic interpretations of Irish modernity. The literary scholar Pascale Casanova considers Irish modernism a "miracle" and a paradigm for minor world literatures because its emergence from peripherality to world renown occurs so rapidly. Casanova's account of unlikely literary triumph echoes with the diffuse proclamations of economic and cultural triumph that emerged during the Celtic Tiger boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Celtic Tiger was championed until the recent financial downturn as a sudden, unprecedented developmental telos; but as my dissertation shows, the narrative structures underwriting the period's expectations and subsequent collapse have a long literary history that must be excavated.In titling my dissertation "Celtic Arrivals," I call attention to the global-capitalist interests of the Celtic Revival and its heirs, thereby challenging the exceptionalist claims that appear in many nationalist accounts of Irish literature and in more recent postcolonial interpretations of Irish culture as a site of alternative modernities. My dissertation shows instead that the spasmodic desires unleashed by the prospect of global arrival are crucial to understanding the Irish national narrative, as are the failures of those desires to materialize. In Irish literature's many thwarted hopes, I chart another national narrative that develops dialectically with the narrative of arrival. It articulates modernization's ruptures, exclusions, and manifold violence. In my dissertation's trajectory from J.M. Synge's 1907 premiere of The Playboy of the Western World to the play's multicultural centennial adaptation, I engage with theories of nationalism, globalization, and transnational agency to chart the…
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Townsend, S. L. (2011). Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6mw4g591
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Townsend, Sarah Lynn. “Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007.” 2011. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6mw4g591.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Townsend, Sarah Lynn. “Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Townsend SL. Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6mw4g591.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Townsend SL. Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6mw4g591
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The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
16.
Johnson, Jay.
Issues with Reality| Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games.
Degree: 2018, The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10931461
► Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), a genre of transmedia experiences, are a recent phenomenon, with the first recognized ARG being <i>The Beast </i> (2001), a…
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▼ Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), a genre of transmedia experiences, are a recent phenomenon, with the first recognized ARG being <i>The Beast </i> (2001), a promotion for the film <i>A.I.: Artificial Intelligence </i> (2001). This dissertation seeks to more clearly define and investigate contexts of transmedia narratives and games, specifically ARGs. ARGs differ from more popular and well-known contemporary forms of gaming in several ways, perhaps most importantly by intensive use of multiple media. Whereas a player may experience most or all of a conventional video game through a single medium, participants in ARGs must navigate multiple media and technical platforms— networks of websites, digital graphics, audio recordings, videos, text and graphics in print, physical objects, etc.— in order to participate in the experience of the ARG. After establishing a history of ARGs, the author defines both transmedia and ARGs and begins to build typologies to help distinguish individual examples of the genres. Then, after building the above framework for analyzing transmedia and ARGs, the author explores the relevance of the ARG genre within three specific contexts. These contexts serve as tools to excavate potential motivators from creative and participatory standpoints. The author refers to these motivations as three logics of ARGs: industrial, cultural, and educational. The industrial logic examines the advantages of transmedia and ARG production from the entertainment industry standpoint, in terms of an alternative to franchising and as a way to extend intellectual property (IP), as well as offering interactive possibilities to an engaged audience. The cultural logic examines the relationship between the emergence of digital media, transmedia, and ARGs and the aesthetic appeal of the form and genre as paranoia, puzzle-solving, and collective meaning making within a shifting representation of reality through networked embodiment and challenging long-held assumptions of ontological and phenomenological experiences. Finally, the educational logic of ARGs analyzes the potential and use of the genre as an immersive, constructivist learning space that fosters self-motivated individual and collaborative analysis, interpretation, and problem-solving.
Subjects/Keywords: British & Irish literature; Web studies
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Johnson, Jay. “Issues with Reality| Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games.” 2018. Thesis, The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10931461.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Johnson, Jay. “Issues with Reality| Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Johnson J. Issues with Reality| Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10931461.
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Council of Science Editors:
Johnson J. Issues with Reality| Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games. [Thesis]. The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10931461
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Harvard University
17.
Gorman, Sara Elizabeth.
Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, Harvard University
URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11110435
► This dissertation traces the progress of the personified imagination from the twelfth-century De planctu Naturae to the sixteenth-century Faerie Queene, arguing that the transformability of…
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▼ This dissertation traces the progress of the personified imagination from the twelfth-century De planctu Naturae to the sixteenth-century Faerie Queene, arguing that the transformability of the personified imagination becomes a locus for questioning personification allegory across the entire period. The dissertation demonstrates how, even while the imagination seems to progress from a position of subordination to a position of dominance, certain features of the imagination's unstable nature reappear repeatedly at every stage in this period's development of the figure. Deep suspicion of the faculty remains a regular part of the imagination's allegorical representation throughout these five centuries. Within the period, we witness the imagination trying to assert its allegorical position in the context of other, more established allegorical figures such as Reason and Nature. In this way, the history of the personification of the imagination is surprisingly continuous from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. This "continuity" is not absolute but functions as a consistent recombination of a standard set of features of and attitudes toward imagination that rematerializes regularly. In order to understand this phenomenon at any point in these five centuries, it is essential to examine imagination across the entire period. In particular, the dissertation discovers an alternative, more nuanced view of the personified imagination than has thus far been posited. The imagination is a thoroughly ambivalent character, always on the cusp of transformation, and nearly always locked in a power struggle with other allegorical figures. At the same time, as the allegorical imagination repeatedly attempts to establish itself, it becomes a locus for intense questioning of the meaning and process of personification. The imagination remains transformative, uncertain, and at times terrifying throughout this entire period.
Advisors/Committee Members: Simpson, James (advisor), Watson, Nicholas (committee member), Ziolkowski, Jan (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British and Irish literature
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Gorman, S. E. (2013). Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser. (Doctoral Dissertation). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11110435
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gorman, Sara Elizabeth. “Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11110435.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gorman, Sara Elizabeth. “Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Gorman SE. Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11110435.
Council of Science Editors:
Gorman SE. Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Harvard University; 2013. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11110435

Duke University
18.
Giugni, Astrid Adele.
Freedom Under the Law: Milton, the Virtues, and Revolution in the Seventeenth-Century
.
Degree: 2013, Duke University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8019
► John Milton argued that customs are antithetical to rational judgment. My dissertation, Freedom Under the Law, investigates the conception of rationality that underlies the…
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▼ John Milton argued that customs are antithetical to rational judgment. My dissertation, Freedom Under the Law, investigates the conception of rationality that underlies the divorce of tradition and reason in the writings of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum (1642-1660). In this period, republican authors strive to turn English subjects into citizens whose active virtue and rational judgment is unclouded by tradition and habits. This dissertation argues that these writers build their arguments on a paradoxical depiction of the people as both rationally capable of consenting to political association and irrationally bound by custom. In conversation with Alasdair MacIntyre's analysis of the Aristotelian tradition, Freedom Under the Law exposes the tensions that arise in the writings of both canonical and non-canonical seventeenth-century authors as they attempt to re-imagine and represent the individual, the family, and the commonwealth. As this project demonstrates, writers ranging from John Milton to the millenarian John Rogers to the Parliamentarian Henry Parker reveal a residual understanding of political and social community that owes its vocabulary to medieval and classical modes of thinking. However, while Aristotelian models of political association closely link reason, habit, and justice, the authors considered in my project present an understanding of individuals as capable of rational action independent of tradition and custom. This dissertation traces how this revolutionary account of the individual in political association is expressed through a range of often-conflicting formulations of the English nation. Freedom Under the Law begins with Milton's representation of education in the virtues in his early theatrical piece, Comus (1634). This first chapter establishes the guiding question of the project: how is the relationship between individual and community reconfigured in the
literature of the seventeenth-century? In chapters two and three, I situate Milton's domestic and political prose of 1643-49 in the context of Puritan marriage manuals and Parliamentarian and royalist tracts. Through these comparisons, I show that Milton's distrust of customary laws produces a representation of the virtuous individual and the ideal nation as independent of their own history and, ironically, driven to constant iconoclastic self-reformation. Chapter four demonstrates how impoverished accounts of natural law lead to a devaluing of the people's legislative authority in Edward Sexby's call for the killing of Oliver Cromwell in Killing No Murder (1657), apologias of the Cromwellian dissolution of the Parliament in 1653, and the Putney Debates in 1647. Chapter five considers Milton's Readie and Easie Way (1660) alongside Fifth Monarchist pamphlets. This chapter questions J.G.A. Pocock's distinction between a medieval custom-based juristic tradition and a republican understanding of rational political life, a distinction adopted widely in Milton studies. I argue that comparison with Aquinas's Aristotelian…
Advisors/Committee Members: Aers, David (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: British and Irish literature
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Giugni, A. A. (2013). Freedom Under the Law: Milton, the Virtues, and Revolution in the Seventeenth-Century
. (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8019
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):
Giugni, Astrid Adele. “Freedom Under the Law: Milton, the Virtues, and Revolution in the Seventeenth-Century
.” 2013. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8019.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Giugni, Astrid Adele. “Freedom Under the Law: Milton, the Virtues, and Revolution in the Seventeenth-Century
.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Giugni AA. Freedom Under the Law: Milton, the Virtues, and Revolution in the Seventeenth-Century
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8019.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Giugni AA. Freedom Under the Law: Milton, the Virtues, and Revolution in the Seventeenth-Century
. [Thesis]. Duke University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8019
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of California – Berkeley
19.
Martin, Theodore Jacob.
Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre.
Degree: English, 2011, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xf5646x
► What do we mean, this dissertation asks, when we talk about "contemporary literature"? Far from being a fixed category of literary history, the contemporary is…
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▼ What do we mean, this dissertation asks, when we talk about "contemporary literature"? Far from being a fixed category of literary history, the contemporary is always on the move. Just as the "now" when I am writing this abstract is different from the "now" when you are reading it, the contemporary does not so much delimit history as drift across it. So what does it mean to call ourselves contemporary? In "Contemporary Drift," I argue that "contemporary" is more than a name for novelty – it is also an untimely connection to the past. We can best grasp this paradox of contemporary life, I suggest, by reading it through the historical dynamics of genre. More drag than drift, genres stay the same even as they change over time; they are recognizable precisely to the extent to that they're repeatable. The iterations of genre interrupt the fragile immediacy of the contemporary. Reconsidering the fates of the historical novel, the realist novel, the detective novel, and the noir film, I claim that genre shows us what it means – and what it takes – to see ourselves in history.The way we consolidate a sense of the now is intimately connected to larger issues of literary history: how we construct canons, how we distinguish historical periods, how we lay claim to the continued relevance of the past. My project thus aims to reorient our literary present by looking not at new forms but at renewed forms. Each chapter of my dissertation engages the recent "afterlife" of an older genre in order to show how it conjures a complex image of the contemporary. These reanimated genres insist on the present's singularity yet inevitably invoke its continuity with the past. I consider the strange figure of the speaking dead that links classic film noir to the nostalgic repetitions of neo-noir; the entangled politics of waiting, reading, and race that structure the detective fiction of Colson Whitehead, Michael Chabon, and Vikram Chandra; the tension between the distant gaze of periodization and the everyday details of realism staged in the work of Bret Easton Ellis and J.M. Coetzee; and the modes of anachronism that shape historical novels by John Fowles and Tom McCarthy. These ostensibly outdated genres show how the present can encompass days, decades, even centuries. In doing so, they suggest that being contemporary means always being just a little out of date.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature; American literature; British and Irish literature
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Martin, T. J. (2011). Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xf5646x
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):
Martin, Theodore Jacob. “Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre.” 2011. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xf5646x.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Martin, Theodore Jacob. “Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Martin TJ. Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xf5646x.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Martin TJ. Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xf5646x
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

West Virginia University
20.
Speese, Erin K. Johns.
The Modernist Sublime: Parenthood and the Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, West Virginia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.5003
;
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5003
► This project explores how the modern novel restructures traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime through complex depictions of parenthood. Using related strategies of representation, William…
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▼ This project explores how the modern novel restructures traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime through complex depictions of parenthood. Using related strategies of representation, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf rewrite the traditional sublime as an intersubjective experience, dependent upon the recognition of social objectification and an ethics of reciprocal sympathy between mothers and fathers. Ultimately, The Modernist Sublime contributes to modernist scholarship by exploring the dynamics of modernist representations of parenthood and by focusing attention on how modernist authors reconsider the function of the sublime in the modern world.;Juxtaposing traditional aesthetics and Slavoj iek's concept of the "sublime object of ideology" with recent theoretical work regarding identity, I argue that these modern novelists construct what I term a "sublime
subject" (or a person who functions in the space of the traditional sublime object) in order to reveal the possibility of a sublime experience that favors emotional connection over reason. These novelists critique the objectification of the other in favor of a sublime experience that reveals the
subject-shattering power of empathy. Drawing on Agamben's concept of "homo sacer," in As I Lay Dying, Faulkner reveals the mother as "mater sacer," a woman who both enacts and receives acts of violence that show the ideological rituals regarding the abject mother. Employing recent queer theoretical work on the heteronormative family, Forster's Howards End reveals the possibility of a queer family only through the interaction of a "sublime
subject." Perhaps more than any other author in this study, Lawrence presents marriage and the creation of family as a radical experience that results in mutual intersubjective sublime experiences through the generational pairings in The Rainbow. Finally, Woolf promotes sublime interactions between women as part of a feminist polemic embedded in To the Lighthouse. Tracing a transatlantic pattern,
British and American modern novelists explore the possibility of human connection in direct confrontation to the aesthetic practice of objectification in both the traditional sublime and the theoretical discourse surrounding early twentieth century poetics.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lisa Weihman, Gwen Bergner, Ryan Claycomb.
Subjects/Keywords: Modern literature; American literature; British & Irish literature
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Speese, E. K. J. (2013). The Modernist Sublime: Parenthood and the Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf. (Doctoral Dissertation). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.5003 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5003
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Speese, Erin K Johns. “The Modernist Sublime: Parenthood and the Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.5003 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5003.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Speese, Erin K Johns. “The Modernist Sublime: Parenthood and the Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Speese EKJ. The Modernist Sublime: Parenthood and the Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.5003 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5003.
Council of Science Editors:
Speese EKJ. The Modernist Sublime: Parenthood and the Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.5003 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5003

Florida State University
21.
Hause, Marie.
Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Hause_fsu_0071E_13306
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► Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674 explores the relationship between early modern cosmology and poetry in England, arguing…
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▼ Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674 explores the relationship between early modern cosmology and poetry in England, arguing that the way the heavens are treated in poetry relates to the way the process of reading is understood in that poetry. By considering a range of poetic works across a period of about a century, the dissertation demonstrates an early modern poetic connection between ideas about astronomy and about reading. The multiple viewpoints in astronomy and cosmology in this period form a part of a larger history of uncertainty about the heavens that offers the means for poetic exploration of ideas about perception, self-definition, and world-creation. The first chapter considers the related concerns with the human microcosm and linguistic indeterminacy in works by Spenser and Donne. The second chapter deals with the astronomical imagery for reading the gendered other in the lyric sequences of the Sidney family. The third chapter addresses Milton’s attitude toward cosmology as an analogue for his process of interpreting the Bible, the natural world, and the poem. The fourth chapter considers Cavendish’s presentation of the plurality of worlds in the context of her natural philosophy and her poetics. Taken together, these works reveal strong ties between cosmology and the concepts of writing and reading poetry, the self, and the world in early modern English poetry. This dissertation, then, adds to the body of knowledge about early modern reading and perception by connecting the early modern experiences of perceiving the written word and the physical world.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Spring Semester 2016.
April 22, 2016.
astronomy, cosmology, early modern, English, Milton, poetry
A. E. B. Coldiron, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Bruce Boehrer, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, University Representative; Elizabeth Spiller, Committee Member; Gary Taylor, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: A. E. B. (Anne Elizabeth Banks) Coldiron (professor co-directing dissertation), Bruce Thomas Boehrer (professor co-directing dissertation), Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (university representative), Elizabeth Spiller (committee member), Gary Taylor (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Hause, M. (2016). Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Hause_fsu_0071E_13306 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hause, Marie. “Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Hause_fsu_0071E_13306 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hause, Marie. “Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Hause M. Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Hause_fsu_0071E_13306 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Hause M. Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Hause_fsu_0071E_13306 ;

Florida State University
22.
Goolsby, Jesse.
Anchor and Knife.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Goolsby_fsu_0071E_13073
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► This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the American veteran and the veteran family…
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▼ This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the
American veteran and the veteran family experience, Anchor & Knife showcases wide-ranging narratives that challenge conventional
models of war literature by combining fiction and creative nonfiction genres into a single work as well as expanding the aperture of
battle-scene focus to a much larger, holistic investigation of individuals searching for peace while wrestling with their culpability in
violence. As important, this collection explores the close proximity of trauma, not only through the lens of war, but also in family,
religion, sex, and popular American culture.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Spring Semester 2016.
March 21, 2016.
Robert Olen Butler, Professor Directing Dissertation; G. Kurt Piehler, University Representative;
Bob Shacochis, Committee Member; Diane Roberts, Committee Member; Mark Winegardner, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Robert Olen Butler (professor directing dissertation), G. Kurt Piehler (university representative), Bob Shacochis (committee member), Diane Roberts (committee member), Mark Winegardner (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Goolsby, Jesse. “Anchor and Knife.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Goolsby_fsu_0071E_13073 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Goolsby, Jesse. “Anchor and Knife.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Goolsby J. Anchor and Knife. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Goolsby_fsu_0071E_13073 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Goolsby J. Anchor and Knife. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Goolsby_fsu_0071E_13073 ;

Florida State University
23.
Kopka, Keith.
Count Four.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Kopka_fsu_0071E_13053
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► The dissertation manuscript Count Four is a collection of poems that attempts to address the often-conflicting identities of their speakers. Thematically, these poems cover a…
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▼ The dissertation manuscript Count Four is a collection of poems that attempts to address the often-conflicting identities of
their speakers. Thematically, these poems cover a broad array of personal topics such as family, suicide, fame, fear, violence, and
intimate relationships. All of these often-disparate subjects connect with each other, often in the same poem, in order to create an
origin story for a speaker whose life is in constant contradiction with itself. The speaker in these poems has spent his life maneuvering
the space on the fringes of society, and the consequences of this lifestyle have left the speaker to deal with the emotional trauma.
Stylistically, these poems are in direct conversation with the free-verse tradition of American contemporary and confessional poetry.
However, the formal and stylistic choices in this manuscript have the genealogy of a literary mongrel because they draw not only from a
wide range of poetic styles, but also from a large pool of cultural and musical influences that allow the poems to translate personal
experience through the lens of cultural identity.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Spring Semester 2016.
February 5, 2016.
Poetry
Erin Belieu, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lori Walters, University Representative; Barbara
Hamby, Committee Member; James Kimbrell, Committee Member; Daniel Vitkus, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Erin Belieu (professor directing dissertation), Lori Walters (university representative), Barbara Hamby (committee member), James Kimbrell (committee member), Daniel J. Vitkus (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Kopka, K. (2016). Count Four. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Kopka_fsu_0071E_13053 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kopka, Keith. “Count Four.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Kopka_fsu_0071E_13053 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kopka, Keith. “Count Four.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kopka K. Count Four. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Kopka_fsu_0071E_13053 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Kopka K. Count Four. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Kopka_fsu_0071E_13053 ;

Florida State University
24.
Brooks, Amanda Marie.
(Un)Sure Writers: Potential Fluctuations in Self-Efficacy during the Writing Process.
Degree: MA, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Brooks_fsu_0071N_13375
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► In “Some Thoughts about Feelings,” Susan McLeod encourages teachers to develop a “theory of affect” that could account for the various emotional processes that students…
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▼ In “Some Thoughts about Feelings,” Susan McLeod encourages teachers to develop a “theory of affect” that could account for the various emotional processes that students encounter while writing (433). One contribution to such a theory concerns self-efficacy, a mechanism by which students interpret this emotional, sensory input. Self-efficacy plays a crucial role in understanding how students write as both a cognitive and affective activity. As students engage with various texts, they enter into a process wherein they must mediate and interpret the skills they possess. These interpretations, and the beliefs on which they are based, can significantly enable or hinder writers as they engage in the composing process. Therefore, students' self-efficacy beliefs are vital to their success as writers, both inside and outside of the classroom. Although a significant amount of research explores self-efficacy as related to motivation and performance outcomes, little has been done to map the potential fluctuations of students’ self-efficacy beliefs throughout the composing process. As students progress through a writing assignment, they encounter challenges to their self-efficacy, such as reading the assignment sheet, drafting, receiving feedback, revising, and assessment. These challenges suggest that self-efficacy is not a stable phenomenon; rather, self-efficacy very probably fluctuates as students engage with the challenges presented by a specific task. Understanding the nature of potential fluctuations is important, then, both in a theory of self-efficacy and in teaching writing. Accordingly, this study seeks to determine if, how, when, and from what causes students’ self-efficacy fluctuates over the course of a single writing assignment involving multiple drafts. To examine potential fluctuations in students’ self-efficacy, I conducted a case study with two students enrolled in a single section of ENC 1101. I interviewed each of the participants face to face twice—once before they reviewed the assignment and again after they submitted the assignment to be graded—in order to create a narrative arc of their sense of self-efficacy throughout the assignment. These interviews were supplemented by self-assessment questionnaires that were completed by students at four designated moments chosen by the researcher and one spontaneous moment chosen by the subjects. The questionnaires consist of two parts: a quantitative self-assessment and a qualitative reflection. The quantitative self-assessment operates as a self-efficacy scale in order to determine how students perceive their abilities at specific moments in the writing process. Following each of the five quantitative assessment occasions, students were then asked to respond to a prompt designed to engage them in a qualitative reflection. These qualitative reflections were coded to determine self-efficacy fluctuations, sources of self-efficacy beliefs, and strategies that students evolved to cope with potential fluctuations. I triangulated these data to generate a rich description…
Advisors/Committee Members: Kristie S. Fleckenstein (professor directing thesis), Michael R. Neal (committee member), Kathleen Blake Yancey (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Education; British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Brooks, A. M. (2016). (Un)Sure Writers: Potential Fluctuations in Self-Efficacy during the Writing Process. (Masters Thesis). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Brooks_fsu_0071N_13375 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Brooks, Amanda Marie. “(Un)Sure Writers: Potential Fluctuations in Self-Efficacy during the Writing Process.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Brooks_fsu_0071N_13375 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Brooks, Amanda Marie. “(Un)Sure Writers: Potential Fluctuations in Self-Efficacy during the Writing Process.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Brooks AM. (Un)Sure Writers: Potential Fluctuations in Self-Efficacy during the Writing Process. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Brooks_fsu_0071N_13375 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Brooks AM. (Un)Sure Writers: Potential Fluctuations in Self-Efficacy during the Writing Process. [Masters Thesis]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Brooks_fsu_0071N_13375 ;

Florida State University
25.
Stephens, Jaclyn Anne.
Whirlwind into Heaven.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Stephens_fsu_0071E_13106
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► Some saints have poverty. Others, the ill or indigent. Evelyn Ellenberger has herself. This novel deals with themes of asceticism and sainthood as the main…
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▼ Some saints have poverty. Others, the ill or indigent. Evelyn Ellenberger has herself. This novel deals with themes of
asceticism and sainthood as the main character, Evelyn, experiences mystic visions of St. Catherine of Siena and tries to prove to her
family and to herself that she, too, is destined for sainthood. As a young girl, Evelyn Ellenberger experiences a freak accident with a
neighbor's bull. Though she miraculously survives the encounter, the incident leaves her permanently scarred and inspired. Throughout her
adolescence Evelyn is isolated and ostracized for a mysterious illness, which her psychiatrist father diagnoses as a case of Anorexia
Mirabilis, a miraculous lack of appetite most commonly seen among medieval saints. Initially, her father is her only supporter until he
tries to exploit his daughter's extreme asceticism for personal gain. Years later, Evelyn Ellenberger suspects that she is pregnant and
risks her relationship with her husband to pursue her own veneration as the saint she believes she is destined to become. A semi-recovered
and pregnant Evelyn returns to her childhood home just as Hurricane Sandy is about to hit. Convinced that her pregnancy is the second
miracle needed for sainthood, Evelyn scours her father's home and office determined to prove her case for canonization. Over the course of
the novel, the characters discover that no one is as pure and holy as they claim to be. At the height of the storm, Evelyn realizes that
saints aren't extraordinary people but ordinary people who do extraordinary things and that all of us could be saints if you catch us in
the right moment.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of
Philosophy.
Spring Semester 2016.
February 2, 2016.
Robert Olen Butler, Professor Directing Dissertation; Robert Contreras, University
Representative; David Kirby, Committee Member; Barbara Hamby, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Robert Olen Butler (professor directing dissertation), Robert J. (Robert John) Contreras (university representative), David Kirby (committee member), Barbara Hamby (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Stephens, J. A. (2016). Whirlwind into Heaven. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Stephens_fsu_0071E_13106 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stephens, Jaclyn Anne. “Whirlwind into Heaven.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Stephens_fsu_0071E_13106 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stephens, Jaclyn Anne. “Whirlwind into Heaven.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Stephens JA. Whirlwind into Heaven. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Stephens_fsu_0071E_13106 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Stephens JA. Whirlwind into Heaven. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SP_Stephens_fsu_0071E_13106 ;

Florida State University
26.
Kim, Heejin.
Revision and Collaboration in the Henry VI Plays.
Degree: PhD, English, 2018, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Kim_fsu_0071E_14703
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► Since 1928 The First Part of the Contention and Richard Duke of York (texts printed separately in the 1590s) have been regarded as memorial reconstructions…
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▼ Since 1928 The First Part of the Contention and Richard Duke of York (texts printed separately in the 1590s) have been regarded as memorial reconstructions of two texts printed in 1623 in the folio edition of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, where they are instead identified as Henry the Sixth, Part Two and Henry the Sixth, Part Three. Although recent scholarship has called into question the validity of the memorial reconstruction hypothesis in general and has demonstrated aesthetic differences between the “bad quartos” and the 1623 Folio as a sign of distinctive authorial engagements, most reference works and critical editions of the Henry VI plays maintain the 1928 view. This dissertation challenges the validity of textual evidence presented in support of the memorial reconstruction hypothesis and argues that Contention and Duke of York are based on authentic manuscripts and Folio Henry VI plays are based on revised, collaborative texts. The alleged signs of memorial corruption are also found in contemporary authorial manuscripts of other plays, and an examination of textual disruptions in the Henry VI texts shows signs of authorial engagements. A number of passages unique to the earlier printings contain independent references to chronicle sources, which disputes the memorial reconstruction hypothesis that piratical actors improvised the passages that are absent in the Folio when their memory failed. Because the memorial reconstruction hypothesis was, from its origins, committed to the idea that Shakespeare was the sole author of all the Henry VI plays, the dissertation also critically reviews external and internal evidence in regard to the authorship and date of the Henry VI plays, ranging from contemporary documentary evidence to most recent computational analyses. It also examines the implication of collaborative intersection between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in the plays written before the 1594 formation of the Chamberlain’s Men texts; in particular, it compares the two texts printed in the 1590s with the 1623 Folio texts by showing that Queen Margret in the Folio is a Shakespearean adaptation of an earlier Marlovian portrayal.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Summer Semester 2018.
June 18, 2018.
Authorship, Christopher Marlowe, Collaboration, Henry VI, Revision, William Shakespeare
Gary Taylor, Professor Directing Dissertation; Theresa Mategrano, University Representative; Bruce Boehrer, Committee Member; Barry Faulk, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gary Taylor (professor directing dissertation), Terri Bourus (university representative), Bruce Thomas Boehrer (committee member), Barry J. Faulk (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Kim, H. (2018). Revision and Collaboration in the Henry VI Plays. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Kim_fsu_0071E_14703 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kim, Heejin. “Revision and Collaboration in the Henry VI Plays.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Kim_fsu_0071E_14703 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kim, Heejin. “Revision and Collaboration in the Henry VI Plays.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kim H. Revision and Collaboration in the Henry VI Plays. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Kim_fsu_0071E_14703 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Kim H. Revision and Collaboration in the Henry VI Plays. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2018. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Kim_fsu_0071E_14703 ;

Florida State University
27.
Anderson, Paula Jean.
Evolving Constructions of Love and Marriage in Austen, Eliot, and Wilde.
Degree: PhD, English, 2018, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Sp_Anderson_fsu_0071E_14293
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► British literature of the long nineteenth century, exemplified by three authors who lived and wrote in England from the late eighteenth to the turn of…
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▼ British literature of the long nineteenth century, exemplified by three authors who lived and wrote in England from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth centuries, was deeply focused on understanding human relationships and increasing equality between the sexes. From the novels of Jane Austen in the late Romantic period, through George Eliot’s Victorian novels, to the prose and plays of Oscar Wilde written on the cusp of a new century, constructions of love and marriage matured within and throughout the authors’ life experiences and art, affecting and reflecting cultural changes in all levels of English society but most notably through the changing mores of the rising middle class. Attesting to their lasting universality in depicting male and female emotions, social standards, and cultural goals, the written works of Austen, Eliot, and Wilde influenced a century of contemporary readers and continue to draw audiences for their timeless understandings of, and insightful approaches to, human relationships. Through detailed analysis of the authors’ selected works, with references to contemporary and modern critical interpretations, I will focus on these ever evolving individual and collective constructs of love and marriage, from Austen’s practical approach to love and sometimes deceptively witty arguments for equal partnership in marriage, through Eliot’s complex studies of individuality and redefined concepts of marriage, to Wilde’s insistence that love, marriage, and partnership be redefine by and true to self, despite pressure to conform. Throughout this detailed study of increasing realism in English society and fiction, changing gender roles and rights, developing relationships between the sexes, and the evolution of conceptions of love, the institution of marriage, a partnership between and within the sexes, this dissertation will focus on the long-term effects of the literary contributions of Austen, Eliot, and Wilde to ever evolving constructions of love and marriage in nineteenth-century England and their enduring effects on the Western World.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Spring Semester 2018.
January 18, 2018.
Austen, Eliot, Love, Marriage, Wilde
Candace Ward, Professor Directing Dissertation; Aimee Boutin, University Representative; Barry Faulk, Committee Member; Eric Walker, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Candace Ward (professor directing dissertation), Aimée Boutin (university representative), Barry J. Faulk (committee member), Eric C. Walker (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Anderson, P. J. (2018). Evolving Constructions of Love and Marriage in Austen, Eliot, and Wilde. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Sp_Anderson_fsu_0071E_14293 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Anderson, Paula Jean. “Evolving Constructions of Love and Marriage in Austen, Eliot, and Wilde.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Sp_Anderson_fsu_0071E_14293 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Anderson, Paula Jean. “Evolving Constructions of Love and Marriage in Austen, Eliot, and Wilde.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Anderson PJ. Evolving Constructions of Love and Marriage in Austen, Eliot, and Wilde. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Sp_Anderson_fsu_0071E_14293 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Anderson PJ. Evolving Constructions of Love and Marriage in Austen, Eliot, and Wilde. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2018. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Sp_Anderson_fsu_0071E_14293 ;

Florida State University
28.
Day, Patrick V.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century: Transmission, Translation, Reception.
Degree: PhD, English, 2017, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2017SP_Day_fsu_0071E_13770
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► The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of an intense interest in Anglo-Saxon history and artifacts that accompanied the transcription, translation, and dissemintation of…
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▼ The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of an intense interest in Anglo-Saxon history and artifacts that accompanied the transcription, translation, and dissemintation of the contents of England's monastic libraries following the Reformation begun in the 1530s. The tide of religious reform turned to more secular, legal concerns under the two early Stuart kings, and the pre-Norman past was used to simultaneously legitimize and criticize early-seventeenth-century monarchy and its ancient privileges by free monarchists and constitutionalists, respectively. Much of the modern criticism surrounding the constitutional crises of the reigns of James VI and I and Charles I as it relates to the Anglo-Saxon past focuses on Bede and the Benedictine Reformers of the tenth century. The present study, however, considers an often-cited text typically relegated to the periphery: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Chronicle makes its debut in print under the direction of Abraham Wheelock and the Cambridge University Press in 1643. The annalistic history appears alongside Bede's Historia Ecclesisatica, and, in the 1644 reprint and augmentation, the laws from Ine to Alfred and the later Anglo-Norman kings. Wheelock's editio princeps of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle appears at the height of the First English Civil War in 1643, and it is often treated by modern critics as an appendix to the Old English Historia to which it is attached. This dissertation argues that the Chronicle is not peripheral, and that it participates in a larger royalist campaign to establish the West Saxons as the institutional forbears of the first two Stuart kings. The opening chapters establish Wheelock and his literary circle as participants in the ongoing constitutional debate that culminated in the Personal Rule of Charles in 1629 and the opening years of the Civil Wars a decade later. After the political alleigances of those who surround the production of the 1643 Chronicle have been thoroughly considered, the focus of this study then turns to the text of the Chronicle itself. Wheelock inserts himself into the Chronicle's narrative by means of excision, substitution, and inconsistent translation so that the Chronicle may more easily conform to early modern perceptions of kingship. Specifically, his intervention into and manipulation of the genealogical West Saxon Regnal Table and his interpretation of the advisory body of the Anglo-Saxons known as the witan provide a lens through which to read the medieval Chronicle as a polticial document suitable for seventeenth-century purposes. Lastly, this dissertation traces the influences of the 1643 edition upon the only other Chronicle printed in that century—the 1692 version compiled and edited by Bishop Edmund Gibson. This final chapter argues that Gibson, like Wheelock, uses the Chronicle for political, and in the latter antiquary's case, nationalistic ends.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Spring…
Advisors/Committee Members: David F. (David Frame) Johnson (professor directing dissertation), Charles E. (Charles Everett) Brewer (university representative), A. E. B. (Anne Elizabeth Banks) Coldiron (committee member), Bruce Thomas Boehrer (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Day, P. V. (2017). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century: Transmission, Translation, Reception. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2017SP_Day_fsu_0071E_13770 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Day, Patrick V. “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century: Transmission, Translation, Reception.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2017SP_Day_fsu_0071E_13770 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Day, Patrick V. “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century: Transmission, Translation, Reception.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Day PV. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century: Transmission, Translation, Reception. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2017SP_Day_fsu_0071E_13770 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Day PV. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century: Transmission, Translation, Reception. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2017. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2017SP_Day_fsu_0071E_13770 ;

Florida State University
29.
Murphy, Taylor Lynn.
Negative Bonds: White Creoles and Affect in Romantic Women’s Fiction.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_FA2016_Murphy_fsu_0071E_13518
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► This dissertation examines the unique social relationships formed between white Creole characters and their Anglo-English counterparts in Romantic-era women’s fiction. Guided by Adam Smith’s Theory…
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▼ This dissertation examines the unique social relationships formed between white Creole characters and their Anglo-English
counterparts in Romantic-era women’s fiction. Guided by Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, my dissertation terms these social
relationships "negative bonds," which are defined as affective exchanges of both sympathy and negative feeling. Guilt, disgust, and
shame—all negative affects—occur in tandem with sympathy during moments when white Creole characters attempt to assimilate to British
culture. Through their eventual failure, white Creole characters engender sympathy and experience negative affects from the Anglo-English
characters, creating negative bonds that reinforce racial binaries and national boundaries. In using Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings to
further conceptualize negative bonds, I extend the discussion to include contemporary theories of affective exchanges. While Ngai’s text
explores figures who are oppressed by negative affects, my dissertation looks to the oppressors themselves, illuminating the role that
affect plays within racialized discourse. Thus, analysis of negative bonds puts pressure upon texts that participate in maintaining social
systems that continually exclude women from social equality and political rights. Negative bonds are most explicitly rendered through
interactions with white Creole characters because they exist in geographical (Caribbean/Britain), national
(Anglo-English/British-Caribbean), and racial (white/black) liminal spaces. Initially accepted into the ranks of elite social circles,
white Creole characters threaten the "purity" of British society and test the limits of inclusionary and abolitionist discourse. While
Romantic-era women’s fiction should position white Creole characters to dismantle social, racial, and economic systems of oppression,
negative bonds confirm the Anglo-English characters’ superiority through affective exchanges with the "other." Ultimately, negative bonds
solidify the white Creole’s "otherness" and maintain social order by ensuring the reproduction of British social
hierarchies.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Fall Semester 2016.
October 19, 2016.
Eric Walker, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lisa Wakamiya, University Representative; Meegan
Kennedy Hanson, Committee Member; Candace Ward, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Eric . Walker (professor directing dissertation), Lisa Wakamiya (university representative), Meegan Hanson (committee member), Candace Ward (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Murphy, T. L. (2016). Negative Bonds: White Creoles and Affect in Romantic Women’s Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_FA2016_Murphy_fsu_0071E_13518 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Murphy, Taylor Lynn. “Negative Bonds: White Creoles and Affect in Romantic Women’s Fiction.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_FA2016_Murphy_fsu_0071E_13518 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Murphy, Taylor Lynn. “Negative Bonds: White Creoles and Affect in Romantic Women’s Fiction.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Murphy TL. Negative Bonds: White Creoles and Affect in Romantic Women’s Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_FA2016_Murphy_fsu_0071E_13518 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Murphy TL. Negative Bonds: White Creoles and Affect in Romantic Women’s Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_FA2016_Murphy_fsu_0071E_13518 ;

Florida State University
30.
Nance, John V.
The Uniqueness of Shakespeare's Prose.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Nance_fsu_0071E_13387
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► Most early modern playwrights exploit the tonal and representational advantages of prose on stage, and this is especially true of Shakespeare: with the exception of…
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▼ Most early modern playwrights exploit the tonal and representational advantages of prose on stage, and this is especially true of Shakespeare: with the exception of King John and Richard II, all of Shakespeare’s unassisted plays incorporate dramatic prose speeches as a complement to and deviation from dramatic verse. Yet despite the incontrovertible ubiquity of dramatic prose in Shakespeare’s works and on the early modern stage more generally, we currently lack the analytical and methodological terminology necessary to describe how Shakespeare’s prose is different from anyone else’s. This descriptive lapse becomes especially important when we realize that with the exception of 1 and 3 Henry VI, every play with a contested attribution to Shakespeare incorporates dramatic prose speeches. My dissertation examines three separate but interrelated problems in early modern studies: what constitutes dramatic prose? What specific forms does it assume in Shakespeare’s canon? And can we differentiate Shakespeare’s dramatic prose from dramatic prose written by his contemporaries? Drawing on a sustained engagement with the dramatic prose of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, my project illuminates the critical and literary grounds for determining the unique characteristics of Shakespeare’s dramatic prose. The structure and scope of my analysis position this aspect of Shakespeare’s style on interconnected critical and computational trajectories with marked theoretical and empirical outcomes.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Spring Semester 2016.
April 21, 2016.
attribution, dramatic prose, Marlowe, Shakespeare
Gary Taylor, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mary Karen Dahl, University Representative; Anne Coldiron, Committee Member; David Gants, Committee Member; Elizabeth Spiller, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gary Taylor (professor directing dissertation), Mary Karen Dahl (university representative), A. E. B. (Anne Elizabeth Banks) Coldiron (committee member), David L. Gants (committee member), Elizabeth Spiller (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Irish literature; English literature
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Nance, J. V. (2016). The Uniqueness of Shakespeare's Prose. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Nance_fsu_0071E_13387 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Nance, John V. “The Uniqueness of Shakespeare's Prose.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Nance_fsu_0071E_13387 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Nance, John V. “The Uniqueness of Shakespeare's Prose.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Nance JV. The Uniqueness of Shakespeare's Prose. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Nance_fsu_0071E_13387 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Nance JV. The Uniqueness of Shakespeare's Prose. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2016SU_Nance_fsu_0071E_13387 ;
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