Browsing by Author "Carolyn Dever"
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Bellonby, Diana Emery (2012-08-01)Department: EnglishThis dissertation recovers the long nineteenth-century history of the magic-portrait story, a forgotten genre of prose fiction that climaxed in 1890 with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I argue that the history ...
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Seymour, Nicole (2008-08-04)Department: EnglishIn this project, I examine a selection of literary and filmic texts produced between 1946 and 1995, a period I refer to as late modernism. I show how, in offering instances of bodily transformativity that we might call ...
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Magical Objects in Victorian Literature: Enchantment, Narrative Imagination, and the Power of Things Fang, Dan (2015-07-27)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the representation of magical objects in Victorian literature. The Victorian period is often characterized as a time of increased secularity. Scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists in the ...
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Freeman, Heather Elizabeth (2013-07-29)Department: EnglishThis dissertation explores the unstable concept of the “proper” name and how mid-Victorian female authors strategically used their legal names to market themselves as professional writers in order to gain and maintain ...
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Meadows, Elizabeth (2010-08-09)Department: English“Morbid Strains” studies the development of morbid formal characteristics in Victorian poetry, novels, and life-writing from the mid-nineteenth century to the fin de siècle. During this period, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth ...
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Kersh, Sarah Erin (2010-12-04)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the form of the nineteenth-century sonnet in order to demonstrate how this poetry reshapes expectations of Victorian desire, love and marriage. The amatory sonnet sequence, a poetic form which ...
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Hines, Emily Bartlett (2012-12-13)Department: EnglishThis dissertation uses insights from narratology and cognitive literary studies to advance a new theory of reference in fictional texts. While reference to real-world entities is a ubiquitous feature of realist fiction, ...
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Epstein, Joshua Benjamin (2008-12-06)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the significance of noise for modernist culture. Noise functions as both a literal and figurative presence in the aural culture of the early twentieth century: as the sounds produced by modern ...
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Hoffer, Lauren Nicole (2009-07-07)Department: EnglishThis dissertation explores the role of the paid female companion in the Victorian novel. As the paid friends of other women, companions were hired to enact the private virtues supposed to be organic to relationships between ...
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Bellonby, Diana Emery (2008-07-31)Department: EnglishMadame Merle is perhaps best known as The Portrait of a Lady’s secret mother, the principal source of mystery for both Isabel Archer and Henry James’s readers. I perceive her character through the lens of another woman’s ...