Browsing by Author "Bridget Orr"
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Kim, Jeongoh (2007-12-27)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation, I conceive of three interlocking developments in geography: the revolution of infrastructure, the circulation of goods and print, and the completion of the map of the world. The enclosure of lands and ...
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Duques, Matthew Eliot (2008-08-14)Department: EnglishJohn Dennis’s Liberty Asserted is an early English effort to dramatize conquest and assimilation in divided North America. The play centers on an Iroquois abducted Huron mother and son whose affiliations with the French ...
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Miller, Adam Jason (2014-08-05)Department: EnglishThis dissertation applies the phenomenological insights of Martin Heidegger to the history of eighteenth-century Britain in order to produce new readings of that period’s fiction and poetry. I argue that diverse authors ...
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Wanninger, Jane Miller (2008-08-03)Department: EnglishFirst published as a novella by Aphra Behn in 1688, Oroonoko is known for its invocation of the Noble Savage, for its potentially proto-feminist politics, and for its ambiguous entanglement with arguments about slavery. ...
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Wood, James Hunter (2005-03-09)Department: EnglishOnce considered the great listeners and tellers of a community's stories of illness and recovery, physicians have ostensibly been displaced from their role and have therefore become less effective practitioners of empathetic ...
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Quigley, Killian Colm (2016-07-29)Department: EnglishEighteenth-century British culture expressed ideas of Nature – aesthetic, scientific, and otherwise – that have exerted colossal influence ever since. Studies of the era’s natural imagination have tended to prioritize such ...
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"Restless and still Unsatisfied We Roam": Politics and Gender in Eliza Haywood's <i>The Fair Captive Gould, Rachel Elizabeth (2015-11-20)Department: EnglishThe first of Eliza Haywood’s dramas, The Fair Captive remains a widely overlooked work in her oeuvre. Yet this play engages in a tradition of feminocentric Islamicate dramas in order to reflect on current cultural concerns ...
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Baca, Beau Yancy (2010-08-05)Department: EnglishThis study looks at Pathetic Drama alongside contemporary changes in thinking about the nature of knowledge and the attendant changes in thinking about the relation of self to the material world. Empiricism and aesthetics ...
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Quigley, Killian Colm (2011-08-01)Department: EnglishThat theater and theatrical modes of presentation held enormous cultural, political, and social significance for eighteenth-century English, Irish, and American publics has been convincingly demonstrated. Peter Reed and ...