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Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

Creator:

Damschen, Kalli M.

Abstract:

This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...

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Masters Thesis

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: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or
Respect the gap : from big to boutique data through "Laboring-Class Poets Online"

Creator:

Crawford, Cole

Abstract:

This thesis consists of two major components. The first is Laboring-Class Poets Online (LCPO), a database-driven website that provides information about the more than 2,000 British laboring-class poets who published between 1700 and 1900 and their writing, lives, and literary relationships. I developed LCPO to demonstrate the importance of laboring-class...

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Masters Thesis
Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Creator:

Taylor, Corey

Abstract:

In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...

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Masters Thesis

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: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels