Browsing by Author "Dahlia Porter"
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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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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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Miller, Adam Jason (2010-08-03)Department: EnglishEighteenth-century anthologist Vicesimus Knox’s Elegant Extracts were popular and influential literary collections that played no small part in the formation of the English literary canon. While Knox and his contemporaries ...
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Riviere, Jessica Leigh (2014-04-03)Department: GermanMy project reveals that German women around 1800 used the essay to participate in the emerging public sphere. I build on the work of Rohner, Schärf and McCarthy that positions the German essay as an established literary ...