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The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:

Schmuhl, Emily J.

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This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...

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Masters Thesis

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Emily J. Schmuhl for the
From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Creator:

Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.

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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....

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Masters Thesis

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sensibility tradition AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica M. Mosher-Knoshaug for the degree of Master of
'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:

McGrory, Suzette L.

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Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...

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Masters Thesis