Browsing by Author "Rachel Teukolsky"
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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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Mitchell, Lauren Ashley (2019-07-19)Department: EnglishAlienating Aesthetics considers the relationship between surgical practice and anatomical displays in museums, performance art, theatre, avant-garde film, and medical fictions. This project looks at the purpose of art ...
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Carter, Sari Lynn (2015-10-29)Department: EnglishObedience is a concept without much purchase in the modern academy, often assumed to be synonymous with totalitarian regimes and restrictive ideologies. Yet obedience itself, when closely examined, emerges as a content-less ...
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Cienki, Thomas Joseph (2017-12-19)Department: EnglishWhat we talk about when we talk about refusal is decidedly masculine in focus and perspective. Standard accounts of refusal locate it in Herbert Marcuse’s avowal that refusal represents the “protest against that which is” ...
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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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Williams, J'Nese Nicole (2018-07-31)Department: HistoryMany works on the history of science and the British empire, including histories of botanic gardens in the British colonies, focus on the motivations and actions of people and institutions in metropolitan centers for ...
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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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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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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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McColl, Kimberly M (2011-07-28)Department: EnglishThis dissertation argues that slapstick film’s conventions, including the gag, humiliation and violence, and comic business, produce the screen figure body-object, which operates as the substrate and the cause of slapstick. ...
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Phelan, James Blackwell (2018-07-26)Department: EnglishThe Literature of Information Overload considers modernist literature’s complicated involvement in the history of the encyclopedia—that is, in the history of formal solutions to the problem of information overload that ...
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Smeele, Wietske Maria (2018-05-17)Department: EnglishThis dissertation explores representations of monstrous bodies in Victorian literature, culture, and scientific discourse through a posthuman lens. I argue that Victorians were fascinated by bodies that violated the norms ...
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Fang, Dan (2011-06-30)Department: EnglishThis paper is concerned with the status of the object in late Victorian England. It involves a close analysis of Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation of “Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp” from his Thousand Nights and One ...
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Hovanec, Caroline Louise (2013-07-23)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the relationship between literature and zoology in early twentieth-century Britain, arguing that modernist literature’s representations of animals drew on and revised zoological understandings ...