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Arthur Conan Doyle and British Cosmopolitan Identity: Knights, Detectives, and Mediums 

Fowler, Angela A. (2014-08-19)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle embodies dual identities in most critical discussions of his works: 1) as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a character whose influence far outspans his creator, and 2) as a staunch imperialist who ...

Fighting Culture: Class and the Early English Boxing Novel in Late Victorian Society 

Holzmeister, James R. (2013-12-19)
The early English boxing novel emerges at a critical point in the wider culture of transition that typifies the later Victorian age in England. Evidencing the emergence of an increasingly populist literature and popular ...

"Straight People Are Looking at You:" Heterosexual Privilege and Homonormativity in American Visual Texts 

Blair, Nancy (2013-07-25)
My dissertation deals with the topic of representations of gay men in such American popular texts as film, television, and mainstream theatre. I advance the argument that while the 2000s have seen a dramatic rise in the ...