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Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

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Green, Paisley

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In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...

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Masters Thesis
The Legends of a Traveler : Excavating a Transnational Past through Storytelling in Irving's Alhambra

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Lammers, Jack

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To the chagrin of his American comrades, Washington Irving would spend much of his life in Europe as a writer and cross-cultural explorer, including a stay in the halls of the Alhambra. This experience led to the completion of Tales of the Alhambra (1832), a collection of sketches, anecdotes, and...

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Honors College Thesis
Redefining “The Romance of Travel” in Edith Wharton’sA Motor‐Flight Through France

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Balleby, Breanna

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In the beginning of her travelogue, A Motor‐Flight Through France (1908), Edith Wharton declares that “the motor‐car has restored the romance of travel.” Many scholars have taken this statement as an index to the book’s themes. However, my reading closely examines particular moments of travel (specifically Wharton’s visits to Beauvais...

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Honors College Thesis
Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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Kondrack, Kayleen Rose

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This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...

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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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Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

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Larsen, Haley A.

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This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...

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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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American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

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Evans, Laura A.

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Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...

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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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Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

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Bacon, Julie M.

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This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...

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Betjemann, Peter J.12

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Oregon State University. Graduate School10
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Adams, Nick (Fictitious character)1
Autonomy (Psychology) in literature1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950. Tarzan of the apes1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Professor's house1
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