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University of California – San Diego

1. Farr, Jason S. Queer Deformities : : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction – Haywood, Scott, Burney.

Degree: Literature, 2013, University of California – San Diego

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sq8k58m

► In this study, I argue that certain novels and archival sources of the eighteenth century depict deafness, disfigurement, and other forms of physical disability in… (more)

▼ In this study, I argue that certain novels and archival sources of the eighteenth century depict deafness, disfigurement, and other forms of physical disability in unexpectedly empowering ways, and I demonstrate how these representations intersect with, and are informed by, unauthorized – or queer – genders and sexualities. Moreover, I show that the fiction of Eliza Haywood, Sarah Scott, and Frances Burney challenge ahistorical assumptions that disabled people have only been thought of as powerless, uneducated, and asexual in previous eras. My contention that eighteenth-century physical disability is constructed along a parallel cultural continuum to that of queerness engages with, and intervenes in, contemporary debates in queer theory and disability studies. The Introduction sets the theoretical terms of my project, exploring the etymology of commonly-used Georgian terms such as "deformity" and "defect," which connote corporeal variability and represent a nascent codification of bodily difference. Chapter One reveals that deafness, one kind of eighteenth-century 'defect,' was not always thought of as freakish or marginal. On the contrary, Eliza Haywood's A Spy upon the Conjurer (1724) portrays a deaf protagonist as strong, attractive, and sexual. In Chapter Two, I argue that Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1764) poses same-sex desire and communal families of choice as solutions to the abuses of patriarchy. The novel's alignment of disability with sexuality demonstrates that the British culture of spectacle impacts in violent ways women and the physically disabled. In Chapter Three, I argue that an earlier novel of Scott's, Agreeable Ugliness (1754) problematizes the kinds of common assumptions about deformity that can be found in a previously-neglected archival source The Ugly Club Manuscript (1743-54). Agreeable Ugliness depicts a young woman's coming-of-age and sexual agency in the context of her own deformity. In Chapter Four, I examine Frances Burney's novel Camilla (1796) alongside widely- read eighteenth-century biographies about Æsop, the Classical fabulist. I argue that Camilla extends the "monster-as-genius" trope found in Æsop's biographies to women through the heroine Camilla's younger, disfigured sister, Eugenia. In the conclusion, I pose some research questions that may guide my future work on this project as I develop it into a book

Subjects/Keywords: English fiction History and criticism Themes motives 18th century; Women authors English fiction History and criticism 18th century; Disabilities In literature History and criticism 18th century; Disabilities Terminology History 18th century; People with disabilities in literature History and criticism 18th century; Sex in literature History and criticism 18th century; Homosexuality in literature History and criticism 18th century; Ugliness in literature History and criticism 18th century

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Farr, J. S. (2013). Queer Deformities : : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction – Haywood, Scott, Burney. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sq8k58m

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Farr, Jason S. “Queer Deformities : : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction – Haywood, Scott, Burney.” 2013. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sq8k58m.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Farr, Jason S. “Queer Deformities : : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction – Haywood, Scott, Burney.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Farr JS. Queer Deformities : : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction – Haywood, Scott, Burney. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sq8k58m.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Farr JS. Queer Deformities : : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction – Haywood, Scott, Burney. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2013. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sq8k58m

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University College Cork

2. Murphy, Carmel Patricia. History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age.

Degree: 2013, University College Cork

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1203

► “History, Revolution and the British Popular Novel” takes as its focus the significant role which historical fiction played within the French Revolution debate and its… (more)

▼ “History, Revolution and the British Popular Novel” takes as its focus the significant role which historical fiction played within the French Revolution debate and its aftermath. Examining the complex intersection of the genre with the political and historical dialogue generated by the French Revolution crisis, the thesis contends that contemporary fascination with the historical episode of the Revolution, and the fundamental importance of history to the disputes which raged about questions of tradition and change, and the meaning of the British national past, led to the emergence of increasingly complex forms of fictional historical narrative during the “war of ideas.” Considering the varying ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which English Jacobin novelists inserted the radical critique of the Jacobin novel into the wider arena of history with anti-Jacobin deployments of the historical to combat the revolutionary threat and internal moves for socio-political restructuring. I argue that the use of imaginative historical narrative to contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the Revolution, and offer political and historical guidance to readers, represented a significant element within the literature of the Revolution crisis. The thesis also identifies the diverse body of historical fiction which materialised amidst the Revolution controversy as a key context within which to understand the emergence of Scott’s national historical novel in 1814, and the broader field of historical fiction in the era of Waterloo. Tracing the continued engagement with revolutionary and political concerns evident in the early Waverley novels, Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), William Godwin’s Mandeville (1816), and Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823), my discussion concludes by arguing that Godwin’s and Shelley’s extension of the mode of historical fiction initially envisioned by Godwin in the revolutionary decade, and their shared endeavour to retrieve the possibility enshrined within the republican past, appeared as a significant counter to the model of history and fiction developed by Walter Scott in the post-revolutionary epoch. Advisors/Committee Members: Allen, Graham.

Subjects/Keywords: French revolution debate; Romantic fiction; Genre; Political literature (Jacobin / Anit-Jacobin); Historical fiction, English – History and criticism.; English fiction – 18th century – History and criticism.; English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism.; Political fiction, English – History and criticism.

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Murphy, C. P. (2013). History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age. (Thesis). University College Cork. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1203

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Murphy, Carmel Patricia. “History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age.” 2013. Thesis, University College Cork. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1203.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Murphy, Carmel Patricia. “History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Murphy CP. History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age. [Internet] [Thesis]. University College Cork; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1203.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Murphy CP. History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age. [Thesis]. University College Cork; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1203

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of British Columbia

3. Butler, Sydney. Masks of reality : the rhetoric of narration in the eighteenth-century English novel.

Degree: PhD, English, 1974, University of British Columbia

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18947

► The development of the English novel during the eighteenth century is illustrated in this thesis by the concept of the author's "mask of reality," or… (more)

▼ The development of the English novel during the eighteenth century is illustrated in this thesis by the concept of the author's "mask of reality," or the rhetorical stance adopted by the novelist for the telling of his story. The novelist creates and populates a fictional world, or Kosmos, and the success of his work depends on his power to invest this illusory world with an air of reality. Through the medium of the printed word, he convinces the reader of the truth of his vision. My examination of the modes of narration in the major novels of the period clarifies their authors' use of the mask of reality. Defoe's novels seem to exclude the author from the life of the novel, allowing him to appear only on the title-page and in the editor's prefaces. Defoe uses his heroes and heroines as narrators to conceal his own presence as the creator of their world of perceptual experience. Nevertheless, the themes, images, syntactic patterns, and diction, which recur throughout the Defoe canon, enable the reader to discern, behind the mask, the existence of the author who controls and evaluates the fictional Kosmos. In Richardson's novels this authorial presence becomes more explicit in the critical prefaces and postscripts surrounding the fictional letters. Moreover, Richardson's correspondents themselves exemplify the process of fiction as they record and evaluate their fictional experiences through the medium of writing, while their letters, becoming a part of the action of the novel, bridge the gap between the fictional world of the Kosmos and the actuality of the printed text - the two realities of life and art. In Fielding's and Sterne's novels the role of the narrator becomes still more explicit with the result that the reader's attention is diverted from the contemplation of the imaginary life of the Kosmcis to the consideration of the work as a piece of fiction. The novelist's rhetoric involves the reader in the process of fiction by making him conscious of the novel as a created artifice rather than as the simple verbal representation of the world of imaginary or real experience. This pattern of development which shows the eighteenth-century English novel becoming increasingly self-conscious is examined in this thesis in relation to Cervantes' Don Quixote, which achieved renown during this period. Cervantes' influence is shown both in the minor and major works of English fiction. Charlotte Lennox, Smollett, and Richard Graves use the quixotic theme mainly to pit the presumed reality of their contemporary world against the literary fantasies of their protagonists. Fielding, however, emulates the perspectivism of his Spanish predecessor in the creation of his narrator-historian as his mask of reality, achieving a more complex, ironic view of the fictional Kosmos. Sterne, too, borrows many elements from Cervantes. His narrative mask of Tristram demonstrates the interaction between language and experience, as the novel displays its form in the dialogue between novelist and reader. The self-consciousness of Tristram…

Subjects/Keywords: Narration (Rhetoric); English fiction – 18th century – History and criticism

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Butler, S. (1974). Masks of reality : the rhetoric of narration in the eighteenth-century English novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18947

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Butler, Sydney. “Masks of reality : the rhetoric of narration in the eighteenth-century English novel.” 1974. Doctoral Dissertation, University of British Columbia. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18947.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Butler, Sydney. “Masks of reality : the rhetoric of narration in the eighteenth-century English novel.” 1974. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Butler S. Masks of reality : the rhetoric of narration in the eighteenth-century English novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of British Columbia; 1974. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18947.

Council of Science Editors:

Butler S. Masks of reality : the rhetoric of narration in the eighteenth-century English novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of British Columbia; 1974. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18947

University of Oxford

4. Egan, Grace. Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter.

Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b22283d-1b7b-46bc-8bbe-fdda16b20323 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711915

► My thesis investigates the dialogic aspects and literary qualities ascribed to letters during the long eighteenth century. In part this involves documenting the correspondence between… (more)

▼ My thesis investigates the dialogic aspects and literary qualities ascribed to letters during the long eighteenth century. In part this involves documenting the correspondence between letters and other genres, such as the novel. Being in correspondence encouraged writers such as Burney and Johnson to express the relationship between sender and recipient in interesting ways. I posit that the letter offered a sophisticated means for writers, including those in Richardson's circle, to represent speech and thought, and mimic (with varying degrees of indirection), that of others. I consider the editorial habits and typographical conventions that governed letter-writing during the period, honing in on Richardson's contributions. I link his claim that letters were written 'to the Moment' with broader tropes of 'occasional' style, and show how this manifests in letters' intricate modulations of tense and person. Chapter 1 details the conventions that prevailed in letters of the period, and their interactions with irony and innovation. I compare convention in the epistolary novels of Smollett and Richardson, and look at closure in the Johnson-Thrale correspondence. Chapter 2 demonstrates that various methods of combining one's voice with others were utilized in letters (such as those of the Burney family), including some that took advantage of the epistolary form and its reputation as 'talking on paper'. Chapter 3 shows the role of mimesis in maintaining the dialogic structure of letters, and links it to contemporary theories of sympathy and sentiment. Chapters 4 and 5 apply the findings about epistolary tradition, polyphony and sentimentalism to the letters of Sterne and Burns. In them, there is a mixture of sentiment and irony, and of individual and 'correspondent' styles. The conclusion discusses the editing of letters, both in situ and in preparation for publication. The twin ideals of spontaneity and sincerity, I conclude, have influenced the way we choose to edit letters in scholarly publications.

Subjects/Keywords: 826; Authors; English – 18th century – Correspondence; English letters – 18th century – History and criticism; Great Britain – Intellectual life – 18th century

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Egan, G. (2015). Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b22283d-1b7b-46bc-8bbe-fdda16b20323 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711915

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Egan, Grace. “Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b22283d-1b7b-46bc-8bbe-fdda16b20323 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711915.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Egan, Grace. “Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Egan G. Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b22283d-1b7b-46bc-8bbe-fdda16b20323 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711915.

Council of Science Editors:

Egan G. Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b22283d-1b7b-46bc-8bbe-fdda16b20323 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711915

University of California – San Diego

5. Filkow, Amie Bess. To rise by Enterprize : : Opportunism and Self-Interest in British Atlantic Literature, 1700-1854.

Degree: Literature, 2014, University of California – San Diego

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0253c3bv

► This dissertation examines representations of self- interested colonial agency in British, American and Anglo- Caribbean literature written between 1700 and 1854. The eighteenth-century Atlantic world… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines representations of self- interested colonial agency in British, American and Anglo- Caribbean literature written between 1700 and 1854. The eighteenth-century Atlantic world was one of unprecedented mobility and exchange, where the trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas created a global enterprise in sugar and slaves, and gave rise to new industries, identities and insecurities. By analyzing the entrepreneurial activities of illegitimate, denigrated or disenfranchised Atlantic figures – pirates, planters, slaves and free men of color – I argue that capitalist fantasies were widely invoked in the pursuit of freedom, and that this ambition enabled the self-making of the colonial other into both an economic producer and an agent of collective political resistance. Characterized by this duality, the Atlantic entrepreneur complicates and reworks the ideologies that cohere British national identity at a time of increasing imperial power. To demonstrate this, the three dissertation chapters consider different incarnations of the Atlantic entrepreneur alongside the emergence of nation-building narratives of legitimacy, sensibility and progress. Chapter one reads Daniel Defoe's novels Colonel Jack and Captain Singleton, and John Gay's ballad opera Polly, and argues that pirates were not only entrepreneurial in their profit-seeking plundering, but also in the strategies they employed to challenge legitimate forms and create themselves as useful subjects. Chapter two uses sentimental novels by Sarah Robinson Scott and Henry Mackenzie, as well as Richard Cumberland's stage comedy The West Indian, to argue that the planter's profitable self-interest enabled his charitable benevolence, which in turn constructs him as an "Atlantic" man of feeling. Chapter three examines Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative, Martin Delany's The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, and Trinidadian writer Maxwell Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted Life, A Tale of the Boucaneers, to reveal the opportunistic voice of a black Atlantic collective – an ambitious individualism that imagines racial emancipation. The dissertation seeks to demystify the liberal narratives of opportunism and self- made success by exploring how the violent, unstable and transformative Atlantic experiences of slavery, piracy, creolization and revolution inform economic individualism and enable the modern construction of the entrepreneurial "free" agent

Subjects/Keywords: Entrepreneurship in literature History and criticism 18th century; Imperialism in literature History and criticism 18th century; Economic history In literature History and criticism 18th century; Themes, motives History and criticism British literature 18th century; Caribbean literature (English) Themes, motives History and criticism 18th century

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Filkow, A. B. (2014). To rise by Enterprize : : Opportunism and Self-Interest in British Atlantic Literature, 1700-1854. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0253c3bv

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Filkow, Amie Bess. “To rise by Enterprize : : Opportunism and Self-Interest in British Atlantic Literature, 1700-1854.” 2014. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0253c3bv.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Filkow, Amie Bess. “To rise by Enterprize : : Opportunism and Self-Interest in British Atlantic Literature, 1700-1854.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Filkow AB. To rise by Enterprize : : Opportunism and Self-Interest in British Atlantic Literature, 1700-1854. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0253c3bv.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Filkow AB. To rise by Enterprize : : Opportunism and Self-Interest in British Atlantic Literature, 1700-1854. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2014. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0253c3bv

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Texas Christian University

6. Downs, Jack Matthew. "The morals and taste of a nation".

Degree: PhD, 2011, Texas Christian University

URL: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4302

Subjects/Keywords: English fiction 18th century History and criticism.; English fiction 19th century History and criticism.; English language Rhetoric.; Rhetoric History 18th century.; Literary form History 18th century.; Literature and society Great Britain History 18th century.

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Downs, J. M. (2011). "The morals and taste of a nation". (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas Christian University. Retrieved from https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4302

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Downs, Jack Matthew. “"The morals and taste of a nation".” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas Christian University. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4302.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Downs, Jack Matthew. “"The morals and taste of a nation".” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Downs JM. "The morals and taste of a nation". [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas Christian University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4302.

Council of Science Editors:

Downs JM. "The morals and taste of a nation". [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas Christian University; 2011. Available from: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4302

University of Oxford

7. Cox, Octavia. Pope's poetic legacy, 1744-1830.

Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:236ec8eb-4d21-43c6-b4eb-8c7b349447ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712502

► Jerome McGann observes that 'Deceptive apparitions haunt romantic writing'. This thesis investigates one such haunting apparition; it analyses the ways in which selected eighteenth- and… (more)

▼ Jerome McGann observes that 'Deceptive apparitions haunt romantic writing'. This thesis investigates one such haunting apparition; it analyses the ways in which selected eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poets engage with the poetry of Alexander Pope. The received view of "Romantic" anti-Popeanism is expressed in comments such as that of William Hazlitt's 'I do not think there is any point of sympathy between Pope and the Lake School: on the contrary, I know there is an antipathy between them'. There is plenty of evidence to suggest some Romantic writers had an aversion to the previous literary age. In a letter to his brother and sister-in-law in March 1819, for example, Keats reviews a play by mocking that it 'was bad even in comparison with ... the Augustan age'. Pope had been the pre-eminent figure of Augustan poetry. Hence, the argument runs, Pope was rejected wholesale by Romantic poets. Such an understanding of literary history is, however, too dogmatic. Rather than accepting the view that the progression from Pope's era to the Romantic period involved a sudden pivot in taste, I explore how Popean poetic principles filtered into the development of his successors' literary aesthetics and ideas about poetry. The central questions I ask are how, and in what ways, Pope's successors used Pope's poetry to formulate their own poetic visions. I address these questions in four main chapters. In the first, I analyse Joseph Warton's An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope. I show that Warton's Essay on Pope should not be taken as a denigration of Pope's poetic achievement, and suggest ways in which Pope's work permeates his, and his brother Thomas', poetry. In the second, I examine the response to Pope's Iliad, a text which prompted conflicting reactions among his successors. In particular, I appraise William Cowper's response to Pope's translation, not only as contained in his prose discussion of it, but also as revealed by his own translation. My third chapter considers ways in which Wordsworth plays with Pope's poetic legacy, and acknowledges Pope's contribution to the formulation of his own ideas of what constitutes good poetry. In the final chapter, I illustrate that even in the poetry of Keats - who, at times, vociferously rejects Pope as a mere handicraftsman - there is a sympathy in song between brother-poets. Literary criticism has often stressed the prominence of authors such as Lord Byron, Erasmus Darwin and George Crabbe in Pope's poetic reception and legacy. Yet Pope haunts other writers in subtler, but no less compelling, ways. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge observes, in Biographia Literaria, 'many ... formed ... their notions of poetry, from the writings of Mr. Pope'. What I try to give colour to here are some of the ways in which subsequent 'notions of poetry' were 'formed' from 'the writings of Mr. Pope'.

Subjects/Keywords: 821; English poetry – 18th century – History and criticism; Romanticism

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Cox, O. (2015). Pope's poetic legacy, 1744-1830. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:236ec8eb-4d21-43c6-b4eb-8c7b349447ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712502

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cox, Octavia. “Pope's poetic legacy, 1744-1830.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:236ec8eb-4d21-43c6-b4eb-8c7b349447ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712502.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cox, Octavia. “Pope's poetic legacy, 1744-1830.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Cox O. Pope's poetic legacy, 1744-1830. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:236ec8eb-4d21-43c6-b4eb-8c7b349447ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712502.

Council of Science Editors:

Cox O. Pope's poetic legacy, 1744-1830. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:236ec8eb-4d21-43c6-b4eb-8c7b349447ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712502

Rutgers University

8. Fesi, Joshua Israel, 1981-. Enlightenment phenomenology: the focalization of perceptual experience in eighteenth-century urban narrative.

Degree: PhD, Literatures in English, 2016, Rutgers University

URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/51285/

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This dissertation examines the development of focalization as it occurs in urban narratives over the course of the British eighteenth century, specifically urban observer narratives… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Phenomenology; English literature – 18th century – History and criticism

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Fesi, Joshua Israel, 1. (2016). Enlightenment phenomenology: the focalization of perceptual experience in eighteenth-century urban narrative. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/51285/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fesi, Joshua Israel, 1981-. “Enlightenment phenomenology: the focalization of perceptual experience in eighteenth-century urban narrative.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/51285/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fesi, Joshua Israel, 1981-. “Enlightenment phenomenology: the focalization of perceptual experience in eighteenth-century urban narrative.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Fesi, Joshua Israel 1. Enlightenment phenomenology: the focalization of perceptual experience in eighteenth-century urban narrative. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/51285/.

Council of Science Editors:

Fesi, Joshua Israel 1. Enlightenment phenomenology: the focalization of perceptual experience in eighteenth-century urban narrative. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2016. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/51285/

University of California – San Diego

9. Rosenthal, Jamie Ellen. Of bonds and bondage : gender, slavery, and transatlantic intimacies in the eighteenth century.

Degree: Literature, 2012, University of California – San Diego

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/652486x7

► This dissertation examines women's autobiographical texts as key sites for understanding the variety of intimate, everyday practices through which the transatlantic slave system was constituted… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines women's autobiographical texts as key sites for understanding the variety of intimate, everyday practices through which the transatlantic slave system was constituted and challenged. I analyze journals, letters, slave narratives, and religious writings by women of different social and racial backgrounds who traveled or lived in the Anglophone Caribbean during the long eighteenth century. I focus on the writings of Janet Schaw, Maria Nugent, Eliza Fenwick, Elizabeth Hart Thwaites, Anne Hart Gilbert, and Mary Prince. These women's writings demonstrate that colonial control was exercised not only through formal state institutions, but also through the intimate interactions, alliances, and social norms produced by individuals in everyday life. At the same time, they show that colonial power was not only challenged through organized, collective action, but also by individuals who rejected or reinterpreted social norms regarding race, class, gender, and sexuality. Arguing against traditions of scholarship that minimize the centrality of intimate spheres in the constitution of the political, the complex positions of female colonists, and the theoretical and material contributions of slaves to the overthrow of the colonial slave system, I argue that intimacies produced within and across lines of social difference in the Caribbean were both productive of colonial power and the basis for unique forms of everyday resistance to the ideologies and material structures of the slave plantation economy. By reading women's narratives in relation to unpublished archival sources, historical records, and other literary texts, I trace the ways that everyday practices within spaces such as homes, plantations, schools, and churches were implicated in transatlantic circulations of power, violence, and ideas concerning the form and future of the slave system. My project demonstrates that an appraisal of the intimate in colonial relations helps redefine politics by critiquing the binary logic that understands power primarily in terms of public, rather than private, acts

Subjects/Keywords: English-speaking Caribbean Women colonists History 18th century; English-speaking Caribbean Social conditions History Women 18th century; English-speaking Caribbean Social conditions Women slaves History 18th century; Slaves' writings History and criticism 18th century; English-speaking Caribbean Social aspects History Slavery 18th century; English-speaking Caribbean Political aspects History Slavery 18th century; English-speaking Caribbean Biography Women 18th century

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Rosenthal, J. E. (2012). Of bonds and bondage : gender, slavery, and transatlantic intimacies in the eighteenth century. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/652486x7

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rosenthal, Jamie Ellen. “Of bonds and bondage : gender, slavery, and transatlantic intimacies in the eighteenth century.” 2012. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/652486x7.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rosenthal, Jamie Ellen. “Of bonds and bondage : gender, slavery, and transatlantic intimacies in the eighteenth century.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Rosenthal JE. Of bonds and bondage : gender, slavery, and transatlantic intimacies in the eighteenth century. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/652486x7.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Rosenthal JE. Of bonds and bondage : gender, slavery, and transatlantic intimacies in the eighteenth century. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2012. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/652486x7

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

10. Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina, 1978-. A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders: The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders.

Degree: 2011, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

URL: http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270173

► Abstract: To what extent is it possible that an author over the same decade had written two novels about the same central theme, but from… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?1731 - Roxana; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 - Moll Flanders; Literatura inglesa; Ficção inglesa - Sec XVII - História e crítica; Mulheres - História - Séc. XVIII - Ficção; Daniel Defoe - Roxana; Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English fiction; Women - History - 18th century - Fiction

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Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina, 1. (2011). A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders: The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders. (Thesis). Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Retrieved from http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270173

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Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina, 1978-. “A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders: The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders.” 2011. Thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270173.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina, 1978-. “A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders: The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina 1. A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders: The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders. [Internet] [Thesis]. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270173.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina 1. A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders: The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders. [Thesis]. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; 2011. Available from: http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270173

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Rhodes University

11. Letellier, Robert Ignatius. The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle.

Degree: Faculty of Humanities, English, 1977, Rhodes University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006920

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the Gothic novel, a much neglected and misunderstood school, as a unified literary cycle. Attention has been… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Gothic revival (Literature); English fiction – 18th century – History and criticism; English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism

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Letellier, R. I. (1977). The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006920

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Letellier, Robert Ignatius. “The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle.” 1977. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006920.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Letellier, Robert Ignatius. “The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle.” 1977. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Letellier RI. The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 1977. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006920.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Letellier RI. The intensifying vision of evil: the Gothic novel (1764-1820) as a self-contained literary cycle. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 1977. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006920

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Rutgers University

12. O'Kane, Erin Aileen. Recent scholarship in the eighteenth-century sentimental novel.

Degree: MA, English, 2010, Rutgers University

URL: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10005600001.ETD.000053086

► A bibliographic study of recent scholarship (1999-2010) on the sentimental novel of the 18th century, with focus on issues of race, gender, childhood studies and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Sentimentalism in literature; English literature – 18th century – History and criticism; Fiction – 18th century – History and criticism

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O'Kane, E. A. (2010). Recent scholarship in the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. (Masters Thesis). Rutgers University. Retrieved from http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10005600001.ETD.000053086

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

O'Kane, Erin Aileen. “Recent scholarship in the eighteenth-century sentimental novel.” 2010. Masters Thesis, Rutgers University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10005600001.ETD.000053086.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

O'Kane, Erin Aileen. “Recent scholarship in the eighteenth-century sentimental novel.” 2010. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

O'Kane EA. Recent scholarship in the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Rutgers University; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10005600001.ETD.000053086.

Council of Science Editors:

O'Kane EA. Recent scholarship in the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. [Masters Thesis]. Rutgers University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10005600001.ETD.000053086

University of Alberta

13. Zuk, Rhoda J. Liberalism and eighteenth-century fiction: a socialist feminist inquiry.

Degree: PhD, Department of English, 1987, University of Alberta

URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/p8418r12h

Subjects/Keywords: English fiction – 18th century – History and criticism.; Women in literature.

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Zuk, R. J. (1987). Liberalism and eighteenth-century fiction: a socialist feminist inquiry. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/p8418r12h

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Zuk, Rhoda J. “Liberalism and eighteenth-century fiction: a socialist feminist inquiry.” 1987. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/p8418r12h.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Zuk, Rhoda J. “Liberalism and eighteenth-century fiction: a socialist feminist inquiry.” 1987. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Zuk RJ. Liberalism and eighteenth-century fiction: a socialist feminist inquiry. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alberta; 1987. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/p8418r12h.

Council of Science Editors:

Zuk RJ. Liberalism and eighteenth-century fiction: a socialist feminist inquiry. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alberta; 1987. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/p8418r12h

University of Oxford

14. Guthrie, Neil. A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels.

Degree: PhD, 1990, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b08473d6-9cae-4a14-b7a7-3e40cf7bb283 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304964

► This thesis examines the figure of the rake as portrayed in the eighteenth-century English novel, a character strangely neglected in critical studies. The first chapter… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: 800; English fiction : History and criticism : Libertines in literature : 18th century

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Guthrie, N. (1990). A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b08473d6-9cae-4a14-b7a7-3e40cf7bb283 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304964

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Guthrie, Neil. “A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels.” 1990. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b08473d6-9cae-4a14-b7a7-3e40cf7bb283 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304964.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Guthrie, Neil. “A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels.” 1990. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Guthrie N. A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 1990. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b08473d6-9cae-4a14-b7a7-3e40cf7bb283 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304964.

Council of Science Editors:

Guthrie N. A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 1990. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b08473d6-9cae-4a14-b7a7-3e40cf7bb283 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304964

University of Oxford

15. Moore, Paul Henry. Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800.

Degree: PhD, 1986, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5def918a-a899-4650-8850-efcacf3f4bf1 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371720

► This thesis examines the development of the novel in the eighteenth century in relation to changing attitudes to death, and looks at how far shifting… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: 800; Death in literature : English fiction : History and criticism : 18th century

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Moore, P. H. (1986). Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5def918a-a899-4650-8850-efcacf3f4bf1 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371720

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Moore, Paul Henry. “Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800.” 1986. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5def918a-a899-4650-8850-efcacf3f4bf1 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371720.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Moore, Paul Henry. “Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800.” 1986. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Moore PH. Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 1986. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5def918a-a899-4650-8850-efcacf3f4bf1 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371720.

Council of Science Editors:

Moore PH. Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 1986. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5def918a-a899-4650-8850-efcacf3f4bf1 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371720

Rutgers University

16. Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James, 1971. The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2009, Rutgers University

URL: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051372

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While pity had been seen traditionally as an untrustworthy rhetorical effect, beginning in the late seventeenth century, it is celebrated as a powerful and authenticating… (more)

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While pity had been seen traditionally as an untrustworthy rhetorical effect, beginning in the late seventeenth century, it is celebrated as a powerful and authenticating affect. My dissertation examines the historical rationale for the "rise" of pity in the eighteenth century and the ways in which its new sociopolitical status inspires formal innovation and alternative visions of ethical communion in contemporary literature. Anxious about change but eager to develop a vision of human nature and social coherence antithetical to the Hobbesean version, a growing number of writers made pity both the highest moral value and the central telos of aesthetic experience. Pity's defenders came to see in pity a providentially designed reflex built into the human body, a natural law of commonality, like gravity, that could draw otherwise hierarchically differentiated and self-interested individuals into a unified field of intimacy and social consensus. Pity, many felt, could transform suffering into a vehicle of spiritual reformation, social communion, and private moral orientation in a time of rapid change. As the century progressed, an increasing effort to define its parameters suggests that pity had become a dangerously flexible category. Recent critical efforts have typically treated eighteenth-century pity as having one of what I argue are a multitude of competing political and aesthetic functions: as a dubious vehicle of bourgeois ideology, for example, or as a support or mask for traditional hierarchies, or, alternately, as a positive Enlightenment ideal capable of effecting a new kind of relationship between equality and freedom. At the crossroads of progressive and conservative ideologies, pity provides literary history with an index of alternative visions of social order. My project begins by tracing a history of pity from Aristotle to Hobbes, including a discussion of the conditions that led to its unprecedented moral status in the eighteenth century. I then turn to argue, through a close analysis of works by Samuel Richardson, Henry Mackenzie, and William Wordsworth, that each author creates an aesthetic specific to his own aims, thereby reconstructing the category of pity for diverse political and literary ends.

Advisors/Committee Members: Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James, 1971 (author), McKeon, Michael (chair), Diamond, Marie (internal member), Galperin, William (internal member), Festa, Lynn (outside member).

Subjects/Keywords: English fiction – 18th century – History and criticism; Sympathy in literature

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Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James, 1. (2009). The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051372

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James, 1971. “The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051372.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James, 1971. “The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction.” 2009. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James 1. The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051372.

Council of Science Editors:

Loewen-Schmidt, Chadley James 1. The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051372

Texas A&M University

17. Osbourne, Lacie. The "Improperly Educated" Woman in British Novels, 1790-1801.

Degree: PhD, English, 2012, Texas A&M University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11466

► This dissertation identifies the character type of the "improperly educated" woman, who is both rationally educated and passionately outspoken, and examines the delineation of this… (more)

▼ This dissertation identifies the character type of the "improperly educated" woman, who is both rationally educated and passionately outspoken, and examines the delineation of this recurring figure, in relation to the female education continuum, within the evolving discourse on female learning during the period of 1790-1801. British women writers, who opposed the deficient education offered to females, contributed their voices to collectively challenging the notion that education deprived the female sex of their femininity. Consequently, women novelists exploited the "improperly educated" female character as a means to explore alternatives to the existing curriculum, specifically rational and classical knowledge and to consider the negative effects of restrictive gender identities on female education. I employ feminist literary history and criticism to evaluate the participation of Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Hays, and Maria Edgeworth in this continuing educational debate through their advocation for restructuring of the educational system and their effective use of versions of the "improperly educated" woman to portray women as intellectually capable. Challenging the conception of "feminine" as a natural state, Inchbald, Hays, and Edgeworth used fictional narratives to show the difficulties of strict adherence to proper femininity and to portray the irony of an education that does not enlighten but rather restricts and censors. Inchbald's A Simple Story, Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Edgeworth's Belinda respectively demonstrate the important role played by this character type in regards to eighteenth and early nineteenth-century women writers' efforts to promote improvements in female instruction, encourage female autonomy, and demonstrate women's capabilities for self-improvement. Undeterred by traditional custom, women novelists renewed literary efforts to display similarities between women of diverse social classes and levels of learning, thus exposing the adverse consequences of the conventionally transitory and inferior education, which the majority of the female sex experienced. This character makes a significant impact in promoting improvement in the educational system and revising the definition of proper feminine behavior within British society. Advisors/Committee Members: Griffin, Robert (advisor), Ezell, Margaret J.M. (committee member), Mandell, Laura (committee member), Rosenheim, James (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: English Literature – 18th Century; Feminism in Literature; Elizabeth Inchbald – Criticism; Mary Hays – Criticism, Maria Edgeworth – Criticism; Feminist Literary History and Criticism

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Osbourne, L. (2012). The "Improperly Educated" Woman in British Novels, 1790-1801. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11466

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Osbourne, Lacie. “The "Improperly Educated" Woman in British Novels, 1790-1801.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11466.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Osbourne, Lacie. “The "Improperly Educated" Woman in British Novels, 1790-1801.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Osbourne L. The "Improperly Educated" Woman in British Novels, 1790-1801. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11466.

Council of Science Editors:

Osbourne L. The "Improperly Educated" Woman in British Novels, 1790-1801. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11466

Texas Tech University

18. Reed, Ronald Lee. The function of folklore in selected English Gothic novels.

Degree: English, 1971, Texas Tech University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2346/17316

Subjects/Keywords: English fiction – 18th century; Supernatural in literature; English fiction – 19th century; History and criticism

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Reed, R. L. (1971). The function of folklore in selected English Gothic novels. (Thesis). Texas Tech University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2346/17316

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Reed, Ronald Lee. “The function of folklore in selected English Gothic novels.” 1971. Thesis, Texas Tech University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2346/17316.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reed, Ronald Lee. “The function of folklore in selected English Gothic novels.” 1971. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Reed RL. The function of folklore in selected English Gothic novels. [Internet] [Thesis]. Texas Tech University; 1971. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2346/17316.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Reed RL. The function of folklore in selected English Gothic novels. [Thesis]. Texas Tech University; 1971. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2346/17316

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Rhodes University

19. Kgame, Mbali. A skin that took them through.

Degree: Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2020, Rhodes University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147638

► This project comprises of interlinked fictional short stories capturing experiences of the “invisibilised’’ young people- the street kids, drug addicts, cashiers, childminders, the sick, first… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: South African fiction (English) – 21st century; African fiction (English) – History and criticism; Short stories, South African (English) – 21st century; Diaries – Authorship

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Kgame, M. (2020). A skin that took them through. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147638

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kgame, Mbali. “A skin that took them through.” 2020. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147638.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kgame, Mbali. “A skin that took them through.” 2020. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Kgame M. A skin that took them through. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147638.

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Kgame M. A skin that took them through. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147638

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Rhodes University

20. Ngubelanga, Xolisa. Hope in a small town.

Degree: Faculty of Humanities, English Language and Linguistics, 2020, Rhodes University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145089

► Writing has always experienced as the elite relative in the family of arts, especially among African artists and art consumers. Somehow writing has in past… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: South African fiction (English) – 21st century; South African fiction (English) – History and criticism; Short stories, South African (English) – 21st century

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Ngubelanga, X. (2020). Hope in a small town. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145089

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ngubelanga, Xolisa. “Hope in a small town.” 2020. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145089.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ngubelanga, Xolisa. “Hope in a small town.” 2020. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ngubelanga X. Hope in a small town. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145089.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Ngubelanga X. Hope in a small town. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145089

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Oxford

21. Hone, Joseph. The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne.

Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d847a561-130a-42f0-b78f-2463e9e65535 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713976

► This thesis provides the first full-length account of the political and cultural significance of the accession of Queen Anne. It offers a critical reassessment of… (more)

▼ This thesis provides the first full-length account of the political and cultural significance of the accession of Queen Anne. It offers a critical reassessment of the politics of the royal image across a spectrum of texts, events, and artefacts - from panegyrics, newspapers, sermons, royal progresses, and processions to medals, coins, and playing cards. Recent scholarship has emphasized the importance of party politics to the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century. This thesis nuances that assumption by arguing: (1) that the principal focus of partisan texts was competing representations of monarchy; and (2) that the explosion of partisanship at the start of the eighteenth century was triggered by unrest about the royal succession. Anne was the last protestant Stuart. She had no surviving children. This thesis explores how authors such as Daniel Defoe, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, and a great many lesser known and anonymous writers and propagandists conceptualized the end of the Stuart dynasty. Anne's accession forced writers to conjecture on the future succession. There were two rival claimants to the throne after Anne's death: the protestant Electress Sophia of Hanover and Anne's Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward. Sophia's claim was statutory, James's hereditary. Factions emerged in support of both claimants. Almost all topical writing took a stance on the issue. Many sided with the government, supporting Hanover. Yet some writers favoured the illegal but hereditary claim of James Francis Edward; they had to express support in covert ways. This succession crisis triggered not only printed polemic, but also swathes of clandestine manuscript literature circulating in the Jacobite underground. The government took a hard line on Jacobite writers and printers; this thesis documents both their persecution and the techniques they used to evade the law. The thesis concludes by suggesting that this oppositional literary culture only disintegrated after the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion, and the consequent settlement of the Hanoverian succession, in late 1716. After this point, royal succession ceased to be a major source of political discontent.

Subjects/Keywords: 820.9; Politics and literature – Great Britain – History – 17th century; Politics and literature – Great Britain – History – 18th century; Political parties – Great Britain – History – 17th century; Political parties – Great Britain – History – 18th century; English literature – Early modern; 1500-1700 – History and criticism; English literature – 17th century – History and criticism

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Hone, J. (2015). The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d847a561-130a-42f0-b78f-2463e9e65535 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713976

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hone, Joseph. “The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d847a561-130a-42f0-b78f-2463e9e65535 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713976.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hone, Joseph. “The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Hone J. The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d847a561-130a-42f0-b78f-2463e9e65535 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713976.

Council of Science Editors:

Hone J. The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d847a561-130a-42f0-b78f-2463e9e65535 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713976

Texas State University – San Marcos

22. Merritt, Lisa D. Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture.

Degree: MA, History, 2013, Texas State University – San Marcos

URL: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4706

► Throughout the latter decades of the eighteenth century, popular print culture was a central arena for the negotiation of competing societal discourses. As the cultural… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Gender; Sexuality; Print culture; Courtesans; England; Eighteenth century; London; English literature – Criticism, Textual; Women – History – 18th century; Women and literature – Great Britain – History – 18th century

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Merritt, L. D. (2013). Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture. (Masters Thesis). Texas State University – San Marcos. Retrieved from https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4706

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Merritt, Lisa D. “Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Texas State University – San Marcos. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4706.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Merritt, Lisa D. “Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Merritt LD. Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4706.

Council of Science Editors:

Merritt LD. Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture. [Masters Thesis]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2013. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4706

Rutgers University

23. Holm, Melanie D., 1977-. Useful fictions and necessary idols: the comedy of Enlightenment understanding.

Degree: Comparative Literature, 2011, Rutgers University

URL: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063458

Subjects/Keywords: Enlightenment; English literature – 18th century – History and criticism; English literature – 18th century – Humor

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Holm, Melanie D., 1. (2011). Useful fictions and necessary idols: the comedy of Enlightenment understanding. (Thesis). Rutgers University. Retrieved from http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063458

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Holm, Melanie D., 1977-. “Useful fictions and necessary idols: the comedy of Enlightenment understanding.” 2011. Thesis, Rutgers University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063458.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Holm, Melanie D., 1977-. “Useful fictions and necessary idols: the comedy of Enlightenment understanding.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Holm, Melanie D. 1. Useful fictions and necessary idols: the comedy of Enlightenment understanding. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rutgers University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063458.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Holm, Melanie D. 1. Useful fictions and necessary idols: the comedy of Enlightenment understanding. [Thesis]. Rutgers University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063458

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Texas State University – San Marcos

24. Brieske, Victoria M. The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature.

Degree: MA, Literature, 2017, Texas State University – San Marcos

URL: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6592

► The Golden Age of children's literature (1860s-1910s) was a period in literary history that saw the publication of many a beloved and, now, classic children's… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Children's Literature; English literature – 19th century – History and criticism; English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism; Heroines in literature; Women in literature; Children's literature, English – History and criticism

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Brieske, V. M. (2017). The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature. (Masters Thesis). Texas State University – San Marcos. Retrieved from https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6592

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brieske, Victoria M. “The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature.” 2017. Masters Thesis, Texas State University – San Marcos. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6592.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brieske, Victoria M. “The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Brieske VM. The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6592.

Council of Science Editors:

Brieske VM. The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature. [Masters Thesis]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2017. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6592

Rhodes University

25. Ndlebe-September, Thobeka Veronica. A tribute to you.

Degree: Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2020, Rhodes University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144989

► My collection of short stories reflects my interest in narrative biblical fiction, allegorical stories about people and nature that resonate with our daily lives. I… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: South African fiction (English) – 21st century; South African fiction (English) – History and criticism; Short stories, South African (English) – 21st century; Xhosa fiction – 21st century; Xhosa fiction – History and criticism; Short stories, Xhosa – 21st century; Diaries – Authorship

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Ndlebe-September, T. V. (2020). A tribute to you. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144989

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ndlebe-September, Thobeka Veronica. “A tribute to you.” 2020. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144989.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ndlebe-September, Thobeka Veronica. “A tribute to you.” 2020. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ndlebe-September TV. A tribute to you. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144989.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Ndlebe-September TV. A tribute to you. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144989

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Oxford

26. Brazil, Kevin. The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001.

Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711713

► 'The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001' explores the responses of postwar novelists to visual art by focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett,… (more)

▼ 'The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001' explores the responses of postwar novelists to visual art by focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, William Gaddis, John Berger and W.G. Sebald. In doing so, it opens up a new approach to understanding the relationship between fiction and art in the postwar period as a whole, for what distinguishes these writers is that they use an engagement with visual art in order to historicize their own work as distinctly 'postwar' fiction. This thesis shows that in the writings of these novelists, long running aesthetic issues in the study of the relationship between text and image are reformulated and transformed: medium specificity; ekphrasis; and visual representation as a model for literary realism. Drawing throughout on original archival research, The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001 traces what T.J. Clark terms the 'processes of conversion and relation' between art, its contexts and its commentators, and it is by studying these mediations that the literary consequences of the work of art for these writers are shown. With a historicizing approach throughout, and an interest in the ways in which postwar novelists mediate their engagement with art through history, this thesis contributes to a new understanding of the literature and art of the postwar era, or what Amy Hungerford has called 'the period formerly known as contemporary'. This thesis offers a revisionary account of a relationship previously subsumed under the dominant logic of postmodernism, which according to Fredric Jameson was defined by a 'waning of historicity'. In returning historicity as method and theme to the study of the relationship between literature and art since 1945, The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001 shows the diverse ways in which postwar writers historicized their writing, and reflected on their techniques, in dialogue with visual art. Concerning itself with the distinct challenges posed by focusing on what Hannah Ardent called the 'most recent' past, this thesis also develops new ways of thinking more broadly about the relationships between literature, art and history. Chapter 1, 'Reviewing Postwar Fiction', situates this thesis within recent debates in literary studies surrounding what Mark McGurl has termed a discipline-wide 'hegemony of history'. Chapter 2, on Samuel Beckett, argues that Beckett's postwar art criticism responds to a specific strand of Marxist humanist aesthetics developed after the war, and it studies Beckett's manuscripts to show the relationship between this criticism and the composition of The Unnamable. Chapter 3 discusses William Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions, arguing that the novel pivots around some of the central cruxes of postwar American aesthetic debate: Clement Greenberg's theory of abstraction, and Michael Fried's identification of the problem of 'art and objecthood'. Chapter 4 discusses the work of the British art critic and novelist, John Berger. It shows that Berger's critical account of Cubism shaped the narrative forms of his novels A…

Subjects/Keywords: 823; English fiction – 20th century – History and criticism; Art in literature; Aesthetics

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Brazil, K. (2014). The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711713

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brazil, Kevin. “The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711713.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brazil, Kevin. “The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Brazil K. The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711713.

Council of Science Editors:

Brazil K. The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2014. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711713

Rhodes University

27. Collett, Jenna Lara. 'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner.

Degree: Faculty of Humanities, English, 2011, Rhodes University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002291

► This thesis investigates acts of ‘re-telling’ in four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner.Re-telling, as I have defined it, refers to the re-imagining… (more)

▼ This thesis investigates acts of ‘re-telling’ in four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner.Re-telling, as I have defined it, refers to the re-imagining and re-writing of existing narratives from mythology, fairy tale, and folktale, as well as the re-visioning of scientific discourses and historiography. I argue that this re-telling is representative of a contemporary cultural phenomenon, and is evidence of a postmodern genre that some literary theorists have termed re-visionary fiction. Despite the prevalent re-telling of canonical stories throughout literary history, there is much evidence for the emergence of a specifically contemporary trend of re-visionary literature. Part One of this thesis comprises two chapters which deal with Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Weight (2005) respectively. In these chapters, I argue that, although the feminist and historiographic elements of her work are significant, there exist further motivations for Winterson’s acts of re-telling in both Sexing the Cherry and Weight. In Chapter One, I analyse Winterson’s subversion and re-imagining of historiography, as well as her re-telling of fairy tale, in Sexing the Cherry. Chapter Two provides a discussion of Winterson’s re-telling of the myth of Atlas from Greek mythology, in which she draws on the discourses of science, technology, and autobiography, in Weight. Part Two focuses on Warner’s first two novels, Morvern Callar (1995) and These Demented Lands (1997). In both novels, Warner re-imagines aspects of Christian, Celtic and pagan mythology in order to debunk the validity of biblical archetypes and narratives in a contemporary working-class setting, as well as to endow his protagonist with goddess-like or mythical sensibilities. Chapter Three deals predominantly with Warner’s use of language, which I argue is central to his blending of mythological and contemporary content, while Chapter Four analyses his use of myth in these two novels. This thesis argues that while both Winterson and Warner share many of the aims associated with contemporary re-visionary fiction, their novels also exceed the boundaries of the genre in various ways. Winterson and Warner may, therefore, represent a new class of re-visionary writers, whose aim is not solely to subvert the pre-text but to draw on its generic discourses and thematic conventions in order to demonstrate the generic and discursive possibilities inherent in the act of re-telling.

Subjects/Keywords: Warner, Alan Criticism and interpretation; Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- – Criticism and interpretation; English fiction – 20th century – History and criticism

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Collett, J. L. (2011). 'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002291

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Collett, Jenna Lara. “'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner.” 2011. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002291.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Collett, Jenna Lara. “'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Collett JL. 'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002291.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Collett JL. 'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002291

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Adelaide

28. Kenny, Virginia Christine. Tenants at will : the country-house ethos as a unifying motif in works that deal with both personal retreat and national expansion in early eighteenth-century English literature, 1688-1750.

Degree: 1975, University of Adelaide

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20924

Subjects/Keywords: English literature 18th century History and criticism.

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Kenny, V. C. (1975). Tenants at will : the country-house ethos as a unifying motif in works that deal with both personal retreat and national expansion in early eighteenth-century English literature, 1688-1750. (Thesis). University of Adelaide. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20924

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kenny, Virginia Christine. “Tenants at will : the country-house ethos as a unifying motif in works that deal with both personal retreat and national expansion in early eighteenth-century English literature, 1688-1750.” 1975. Thesis, University of Adelaide. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20924.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kenny, Virginia Christine. “Tenants at will : the country-house ethos as a unifying motif in works that deal with both personal retreat and national expansion in early eighteenth-century English literature, 1688-1750.” 1975. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Kenny VC. Tenants at will : the country-house ethos as a unifying motif in works that deal with both personal retreat and national expansion in early eighteenth-century English literature, 1688-1750. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 1975. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20924.

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Council of Science Editors:

Kenny VC. Tenants at will : the country-house ethos as a unifying motif in works that deal with both personal retreat and national expansion in early eighteenth-century English literature, 1688-1750. [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 1975. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20924

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University of British Columbia

29. Furberg, Jon. Principles of interaction between romantic poems and reader.

Degree: MA- MA, English, 1970, University of British Columbia

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35003

► The thesis undertakes to examine the dimensions of involvement that may exist between the reader and the Romantic poem. The introductory chapter briefly explores some… (more)

▼ The thesis undertakes to examine the dimensions of involvement that may exist between the reader and the Romantic poem. The introductory chapter briefly explores some of the grounds for the mis-conception and denigration of Romantic poetry. Some of the problems in differentiating between Romantic modes of conception and the "normal" results of discursive reasoning as applied to Romantic poetry are introduced. Romantic conception points to an order of interaction with the world that is beyond the capacity of ordinary linear thinking. This chapter suggests the primary significance of the experience of Romantic poets as informing their thought. It also stresses the relation that exists between the "subject" matter of Romantic poems and metaphysical doctrines not usually connected with "historical" Romanticism. The active principles that initiate both Romantic poems and Romantic thought are the same principles that inform the reading experience. The introduction concludes by suggesting the "formal" similarity between the original experience of the poet and the response which a reader may have in any given poem. The reader is often carried beyond what a linear conception of the poem would indicate. The second chapter picks up the theme of detachment from normal, pre-defined codes of awareness, as this occurs in the historical context of the Romantic movement. Mainly, the chapter explores the existential implications of the Romantic withdrawal from the Enlightenment cultural and intellectual milieu. The condition of vulnerability, which disorientation from conventional values engendered in the poets, becomes the central construct for the ensuing pages. For it is believed that vulnerability initiates the possibility of openness, and that it is from this ground of receptivity that the poets emerge as discoverers. The real dynamics of human life and awareness are not to be found in the world of conceptual thinking, but in the immediate relations a man has with the concrete things in the environment. The discovery of things, in a state of total receptivity, leads to a dramatic new conception of being, as well as to a new poetic presentation of those dynamics. But it is in a particular culture that these trans-cultural ideas are fostered. It is the impetus of an entire cultural milieu which compels the re-valuation of conceptual and non-conceptual experience that we know as Romanticism. Chapter Three contains a discussion of the theoretical relation of a reader to Blake's THE SICK ROSE, in order to illustrate the requirement of a suspension of disbelief. The central idea here is that the search for the "meaning"of a poem must begin, and does begin, in the very experience a reader "has" while he is engaged in the poem. The principles of the reader's engagement in the activity of the poem are paralleled with the principles of the poet's original discovery of certain energies. The reader actually repeats the Romantic disorientation, and thus comes to make the Romantic discovery. The chapter stresses the necessity of a high…

Subjects/Keywords: Romanticism – England; English poetry – 18th century – History and criticism

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APA (6^th Edition):

Furberg, J. (1970). Principles of interaction between romantic poems and reader. (Masters Thesis). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35003

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Furberg, Jon. “Principles of interaction between romantic poems and reader.” 1970. Masters Thesis, University of British Columbia. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35003.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Furberg, Jon. “Principles of interaction between romantic poems and reader.” 1970. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Furberg J. Principles of interaction between romantic poems and reader. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of British Columbia; 1970. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35003.

Council of Science Editors:

Furberg J. Principles of interaction between romantic poems and reader. [Masters Thesis]. University of British Columbia; 1970. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35003

Rutgers University

30. Squibbs, Richard J. Conversing with books: reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America.

Degree: PhD, Literatures in English, 2007, Rutgers University

URL: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16781

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The periodical essay is the sole British literary genre to have emerged and declined within the chronological eighteenth century. It appeared in London during the… (more)

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The periodical essay is the sole British literary genre to have emerged and declined within the chronological eighteenth century. It appeared in London during the reign of Queen Anne, and by the end of the century had virtually disappeared amidst a new culture of magazine publication. This study charts the various guises the genre assumed across the eighteenth century as essayists in Edinburgh, Philadelphia and Manhattan adapted the worldviews expressed in the earlier London essays to the particular circumstances of their cities. What the English essayists and their readers had regarded as timely, topical conversations in print about manners and culture became something more to their Scottish and American avatars. The periodical essay for them became a medium for witnessing historical change, a genre centrally concerned with what might have been. Each of the first three chapters focuses on a particular figure within the periodical essay tradition, showing how each one articulates a moral relationship to civil society that the essays' authors encourage their readers to adopt. The Censor in chapter one represents a certain manner of reading, one that means to prompt social self-reflection in the name of a broader, more comprehensive civic awareness. Chapter two takes the whimsical essayistic persona as its subject, reading whimsicality as a principled resistance to the rationalizations of time management in a developing market society, and as a direct challenge to the herd mentality periodical writers see as the real face of liberal individualism in its consumer-market guise. My third chapter shows how the Templar, a young law student who finds himself drawn increasingly to literature, comes to figure in Scottish and American essay series a perception that belletristic writing must assume a law-like moral function in recording for posterity these writers' exemplary resistance to civic decline. My final chapter then reads Washington Irving's History of New York as self-consciously drawing upon these elements of the periodical tradition to create a sort of literary conscience for a new American polity seemingly intent on reducing all of civic life to an imaginatively impoverished market for consumer goods.

Advisors/Committee Members: Squibbs, Richard J. (author), Dowling, William (chair), Galperin, William (internal member), Jehlen, Myra (internal member), Potkay, Adam (outside member).

Subjects/Keywords: English essays – 18th century – History and criticism

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Squibbs, R. J. (2007). Conversing with books: reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16781

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Squibbs, Richard J. “Conversing with books: reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16781.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Squibbs, Richard J. “Conversing with books: reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America.” 2007. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Squibbs RJ. Conversing with books: reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2007. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16781.

Council of Science Editors:

Squibbs RJ. Conversing with books: reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2007. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16781

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