Browsing by Author "Colin Dayan"
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August, Emily Maude (2014-07-26)Department: EnglishDuring the nineteenth century, the rise of surgery and the transatlantic institutionalization of medicine contributed to an epistemological redefinition of the human body as an animated corpse. As medical schools restructured ...
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DeGuzman, Kathleen Rose (2015-07-16)Department: English“Economies of Entanglement” argues that the Victorian period is an essential context for understanding anglophone Caribbean literature. It frames the ongoing relationship between Britain and the Caribbean in terms of ...
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Barter, Faith Elizabeth (2012-07-19)Department: EnglishThroughout Moby-Dick, Herman Melville describes successive pairs of animals—man and man, man and whale, whale and whale—in which the two animals maintain a connection via a physical line, whether it be harpoon line, tow ...
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Higgs, Stephanie Erin (2016-08-17)Department: EnglishWith a series of technological innovations in cotton cultivation and production, a booming transatlantic cotton economy sprang into life in the early decades of the nineteenth century, an economy that depended on the forced ...
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Passino, Sarah McAuley (2010-08-12)Department: EnglishABSTRACT Pirating Human Rights studies critical theorists’ and activists’ insights on rights in order to bring these two differently situated traditions into productive relation. Arguing the left’s critique of rights has ...
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Covington, Elizabeth Reeves (2011-08-03)Department: EnglishThis project explores the relationship of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature to the experimental sciences of memory. Many critics have demonstrated the effect of psychoanalysis on literary thought, ...
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Samuel, Petal Kimberly (2016-07-26)Department: EnglishTiming to Descant examines the role of sound in tactics of colonial governance and strategies of Afro-Caribbean anticolonial resistance in the twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean. British colonial authorities in the ...
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Duques, Matthew Elliot (2013-06-04)Department: English'To a Certain Degree' uses an understudied archive of formal education materials from New England and Mid-Atlantic states as a lens to disclose how the early U.S. novel dealt with social, political and economic anxieties ...
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Pexa, Christopher John (2013-07-09)Department: EnglishThis project seeks to understand the complex ways in which Dakota people have responded creatively to the pressures of modernity and colonization to create cultural continuity and ways of belonging across the violent ...
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Adelsberg, Geoffrey Aaron (2016-07-26)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I respond to the question: “What should institutions of criminal justice provide to persons aggrieved by murder?” I argue that a common response of victims’ rights advocates—that support for aggrieved ...