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Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

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Kennedy, Tallon R.

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This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...

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Masters Thesis

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the applicability of this theory through a reading of Jane Eyre’s (1848) Bertha Mason as a “mad
The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

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West, Rex Alan, 1967-

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A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...

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Masters Thesis

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'. Instead of a poet, Leopold picks a frontiersman for his example. He says Daniel Boone saw the forests
Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

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Simpson, Taylor

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The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...

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Masters Thesis

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, psychoanalysis, alienation, and character over plot. Jane Marcus begins the tradition of reading Barnes