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Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

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Killips, Lisa M.

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My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...

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Masters Thesis

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Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a
Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

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Butcher, Ian

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This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...

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Masters Thesis

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: _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Betjemann This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors
Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

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Davis, Caryn M.

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At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...

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of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann At first glance, Edgar