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Crossing Over: Interactions with(in) the Permeable Screen
(2017-04-20)
Within American culture, the television is arguably one of the more common modes of social discourse and entertainment. However, there are a number of literary responses to the medium (as well as other screen devices) that ...
Vital Grace: Bodies and Belief in American Fiction
(2019-04-29)
This dissertation challenges a persistent association of religious thought with an emphasis on transcendence that denies the
importance of bodies. The authors whose work I explore—Flannery O’Connor, John Updike,
Andre ...
Transatlantic Nationalisms and Parallel Performances: Afterlife Texts of the Revolutionary Era
(2019-12-05)
This dissertation traces the rise to public prominence of Major John André, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, and Mary Robinson during the American Revolution, and it examines the ways in which they each inspire an afterlife ...
“Being sexless, wilt thou be”: Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and the Challenge of the Androgynous Mind
(2019-04-24)
This dissertation occasions a recognition and discussion of androgyny by taking on the challenge of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s nineteenth-century claim that “a great mind must be androgynous.” Drawing on Judith Butler’s ...
Justice You Shall Pursue: Jewish American Pragmatism
(2017-04-25)
Pragmatist thinkers like Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, and John Dewey advocated for greater inclusivity in our democracy, urging Americans to an understanding of democracy as process. Nevertheless, pragmatist philosophy has ...
From Trauma to Testimony: Resilience in Four Contemporary Novels
(2017-07-25)
As the work of eminent literary trauma theorists Cathy Caruth and Elaine Scarry has persisted as integral to the field, literary trauma studies now has a twenty-year legacy prioritizing the silencing and shattering impact ...
'Fellowship of sense with all that breathes': Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, War, and the Environment
(2011-04-29)
In “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” environmental historian William Cronon writes that in order to live responsibly with nature, we must learn to recognize nature in our own backyards. ...
Gothic Travel: Captivity, Monstrosity, and Emotion in Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Literature
(2016-05-06)
In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between captivity narratives and the Gothic in eighteenth-century transatlantic literature. I move from examining traditional captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson and ...
Reconsidering Jessie Pope: The Writer Before "A Certain Poetess"
(2015-12-10)
In four chapters, I present a case study of Jessie Pope’s early career, focusing on her use of women in her writing for adults. Her women are smart, and their situations are orchestrated by Pope in ways that lay bare ...
Embodiment and the African Diaspora in the Fiction of Paule Marshall
(2016-07-22)
Paule Marshall’s fiction is characterized by narration of the body in relation to African diasporic identity. My dissertation project, "Embodiment and the African Diaspora in the Fiction of Paule Marshall," seeks to examine ...