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"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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friendships with Mary Robinson and Kit Ansthruther-Thomson, and who explored the slippage of culturally
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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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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An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

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Wollert, Edwin Del

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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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deformities, Mary Ann Lund observes how “in Richard’s case, this purported link between physique and

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Oregon State University. Graduate School3

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950. Tarzan of the apes1
Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation1
Diseases -- Epidemiology -- England1
Diseases -- Religious aspects -- England -- History1
Forests in literature1
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