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Creator:: Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
Abstract:: The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Female of Sensibility. Tradition. Abstract approved: Robert V. Wess The eighteenth-century

Creator:: Kramer, Johanna I.
Abstract:: Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee members: Dr. Robert Wess, whose knowledge of theory has contributed substantially to the

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: development. I also wish to express my gratitude to the other members of my graduate committee, Dr. Bob Wess

Creator:: Zach, Anne M.
Abstract:: The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: English - Robert Wess 1Th Redacted for Privacy C ai an of Department of Communication - C.V. Bennett

Creator:: Vogel, Walter Kevin
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Valerie A. Mosser, Thomas F. Murray, and Charles H. Robert for many helpful discussions; and Glenda Fox

Creator:: Hirschberg, Birgit T.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Robert for many helpful and encouraging discussions. Thanks to Drs. P. Shing Ho, Sonia R. Anderson, W

Creator:: Caster, Peter
Abstract:: First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reading even without the signposts, and Dr. Bob Wess, who showed me that theory can have a sense of

Creator:: Nieberding, Jon
Abstract:: My primary purpose in this thesis is to continue the refocused attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed artistic inferiority, many of these works have been marginalized by American literary critics. However, many contemporary scholars are reconsidering this genre and devoting more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bob Wess for their thoughtful help and advice. Eric Hill provided much-needed computer assistance

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