Browsing by Author "Carroll, Alicia"

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The Arbitress of Passion and of Contract: Eliza Haywood and the Legality of Love

Stuart, Lashea (2006-12-15)

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, ...

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 ...

Enchanted Geographies of the New Republic, 1789 - 1846

Williams, Bryan (2022-04-27)

Rhetorical depictions of otherworldliness abound in antebellum American literature. Such images and tropes of otherworldly enchantment have recently been studied by scholars of nineteenth-century America in an effort to ...

The Evolution of the South: Eliza Frances Andrews, General William T. Sherman, and Green Interpretations of the Civil War

Bruch, Tamara (2009-04-28)

This essay examines representations of nature in the journal written by Eliza Frances Andrews during the last year of the Civil War. Andrews utilizes an evolutionary metaphor to justify the Old South, explain the Civil ...

From Tonic to Toxin: Medicinal Plants in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Anderson, Caitlin (2020-04-27) ETD File Embargoed

My dissertation, From Tonic to Toxin: Medicinal Plants in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, explores the reclassification of herbs in nineteenth-century British literature and culture from potent allies to ...

'In Some Respects Peculiar': Representations of Citizenship in the British and Anglophone Novel

Pulling, Sharyn (2008-08-15)

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, ...

'A Participant in the World': Identity, Change, and the Closet in Angels in America

Blair, Nancy (2008-05-15)

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays that examine the lives of a group of gay men living in New York City during the mid-1980s. Kushner revised Perestroika, the second play, in 1995, and made further ...

Pink Lemonade: An Autoethnographic Fantasia

Arnberg, Benjamin (2020-04-29) ETD File Embargoed

Pink Lemonade provides a campus climate study of queer experience on a rural, Southern campus in the United States. The researcher employs autoethnographic methods under a post- qualitative paradigm to explore the lives ...

"The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating": Sweeney Todd and the Modern Revenge Tragedy

Mechler, Mary M. (2010-04-02)

Revenge tragedies create a world where corruption leads to retribution through personal rather than civil channels. Although many have connected Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and the revenge tradition, few have explored ...

Surviving the Storm: The Representation of African Americans from Gee's Bend to Hurricane Katrina

Finch, Heather (2007-05-15)

The representation of African Americans has been a difficult subject to discuss and a difficult problem to solve. Different ways of approaching the representation of African Americans are shown in news feeds, newspapers, ...

The Threat of Mesmerism

Aldridge, Todd (2010-04-07)

This thesis examines how mesmerism and its practitioners invoke social anxieties about gender roles in nineteenth century America in view of two texts. Confessions of a Magnetiser, anonymously published in 1845, and “A ...