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

    Creator:
    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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    is today. I’d also like to thank Evan Gottlieb and Tara Williams, whose early input at my

  • Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

    Creator:
    Harrington, Erin R.
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    In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female...
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    . Additionally, I am grateful to Dr. Evan Gottlieb for agreeing to join the committee in my final year