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Language acquisition of same-sex, multiple-birth siblings: A nature/nurture study
(2008-09-09)
This retrospective study considers the extent to which nature and nurture influence early first language acquisition. Data sets that address rate of grammatical acquisition, acquisition of regional dialect features, and ...
Anti-Catholic Polemic in Jacobean Print Culture: Contextualizing Westward for Smelts (1620)
(2008-09-09)
The 1620 anonymous prose fiction Westward for Smelts does not identify itself as a participant in the popular anti-Catholic polemic rampant in Jacobean England. Instead, Smelts relies heavily upon stereotyped caricatures ...
The Fabulous Nabob: Miscegenations of Empire and Vocation in Eighteenth Century British Literature
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation has grown out of my interest in literary representations of the Nabob, a British Returnee from India who appeared in the aftermath of the 1757 Battle of Plassey.The representations of the Nabob in popular ...
Huck Finn Rides Again: Reverberations of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in The Twentieth-century Novels of Cormac McCarthy
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation examines the intertextual significance of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the works of a major contemporary American writer: Cormac McCarthy. As many scholars have noted, Twain’s novel ...
Truth and Method on Black Mountain: The Hermeneutic Stances of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation examines the poetry and poetics of three poets (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan) who taught at Black Mountain College, an experimental art school, in the 1950s. It examines these poets’ ...
Drawn Into Unknown Lands: Frontier Travel and Possibility in Early American Literature
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation explores the symbolic meanings contained in literary depictions of journeys to the American frontier written during the late 1700s and early 1800s. I argue that these depictions work to create and advance ...
The Arbitress of Passion and of Contract: Eliza Haywood and the Legality of Love
(2009-02-23)
My dissertation is a cultural studies exploration of how the eighteenth-century British author Eliza Haywood legitimizes women’s presence in the legal landscape through illustrations of women’s experiences with contract, ...
Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess
(2009-02-23)
The 20th century literary archetype of the Maternal Goddess had its most locatable beginnings in the late Victorian landscape of poetry and prose. Although goddess imagery had been historically manipulated to serve Victorian ...
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(2009-02-23)
This thesis is a creative work comprised of two short stories preceded by a critical introduction. Both of the stories deal with difficult transitions in the lives of young women; details and images play an important role ...
'In Some Respects Peculiar': Representations of Citizenship in the British and Anglophone Novel
(2009-02-23)
This dissertation analyzes representations of citizenship in five British novels that were written over a period of 260 years. Read together, these novels chart the ways in which citizenship has been coveted, accepted, ...