Browsing by Subject "early modern"
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(2013-07-16)Department: EnglishScholarly responses to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s 1611 city comedy, The Roaring Girl, usually attend to the play’s captivating depictions of gender anxiety, female eroticism, vocal power, and material consumption. ...
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(2013-07-19)Department: EnglishThis dissertation analyzes the early modern emergence of a provisional narrative and imagistic mode which suspends the linear progress of time through past, present, and future as it evokes multiple and simultaneous ...
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(2018-08-01)Department: EnglishRaw Metaphors concerns itself with the uses and functions of cannibalism as a literary figure in the work of four major early modern poets, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton. While cannibalism ...
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(2018-07-22)Department: EnglishThe literature of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries express a pervasive feeling that its authors were living through “strange times.” Largely inspired by the widely recognized religious, political, and ...
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(2021-06-13)Department: HistoryFar from the idealized eighteenth-century discourse on “toleration,” the process by which early modern Anabaptists won any level of societal inclusion was characterized by pragmatic financial concerns and extensive legal ...
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(2017-07-25)Department: EnglishWhat does “virtue” have to do with “the virtual,” in any senses of these terms we now recognize? While the virtual seems a contemporary term and preoccupation, this dissertation argues that through the prism of virtue, ...