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An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

Creator:

Wollert, Edwin Del

Abstract:

While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...

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Dissertation
Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Creator:

Summers, Stephen James

Abstract:

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...

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Honors College Thesis

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lives. Later Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Joseph Conrad will also make use of it before Eliot does here
"Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

Creator:

Delf, Liz

Abstract:

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...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis