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Defying Categorization: Stray Objects and Women’s Material Practices in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 

Miller, Robyn (2018-04-24)
This dissertation engages nineteenth century material objects that fall outside of established categorization and those objects’ associations with contemporary, women-authored texts. A common link between these “stray ...

Men Playing (at) Women: Categorical Consequences of Cross-Dressing on the Early Modern English Stage 

Haberstroh, Amanda (2012-12-05)
Early modern English stage customs normalized the practice of cross-dressing boy actors to play female characters; the boys who portrayed female characters demonstrated the performativity of gender as an act that can be ...

Speaking Silences: Lyric Poetry in the Narrative Strategies of Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Jane Barker 

Kinsley, Jamie (2015-03-20)
This dissertation is an exploration of how Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Jane Barker co-opted Philip Sidney’s prose romance interpolated with poems, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. I explore how each writer uses ...