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  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

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    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    lend support to such an interpretation” (21). L. McGrath, on the other hand, views Lanyer‟s marriage

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    snake was dancing / at the end of a stick” (l. 18-20), due to the imbalance of her “infant head

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

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    Damschen, Kalli M.
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    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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    fairy-tale writings of George MacDonald, L. Frank Baum, and Oscar Wilde, Zipes claims that “In essence

  • Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

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    Bromley, Michele Joy
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    Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...
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    having fashioned the faerie queene in character and grace after the English Queen Elizabeth I is a