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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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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or

  • Backpacking Through the Canon

    Creator:
    Sauter, Megan E.
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    During summer and fall 2007, I traveled across Europe and studied in Spain. My experiences abroad shaped my reading of certain literary texts as I gained insight into the cultures and settings in which they were produced. In my thesis, I recount some of these experiences and show how my...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Megan E. Sauter for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in English

  • Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

    Creator:
    Snyder, Christin
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    Many queer scholars have made the turn away from orientations that treat Victorian queerness as either “lost” or “hidden.” Adding more complexity to literary theories which center practices of “revealing” queer artifacts, Sharon Marcus, for instance, argues queer encounters exist at the surfaces of Victorian literature. In addition, Anjali Arondekar’s...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward

  • Intertextuality in The Bondwoman's Narrative : structural and individual perspectives of freedom

    Creator:
    Brandt, Anna
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    The Bondwoman’s Narrative, the first novel written by an enslaved Black woman, borrows heavily from other texts and genres to investigate what freedom looks like in the context of slavery. Crafts rewrites characters, scenes, and plots, adapting them to her setting and placing herself as a heroine within them. Scholars...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Perspectives of Freedom. Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Megan

  • Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

    Creator:
    Taylor, Corey
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    In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels

  • An Evental Romanticism

    Creator:
    Webster, Austin
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    The Romantic period sits in a liminal historical space when radically different ideas about the categories of past, future, progress, and change coexisted in popular consciousness. The French Revolution inaugurated the concept of an Event, something that appears to come out of nowhere, and that not even the most well-informed...
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    my thesis committee, Megan Ward and Neil Davison, both for their careful advice and enthusiastic

  • Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

    Creator:
    Foster, Emily S.
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    Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
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    encouragement and critique, and for having faith in me even in the most dubious of moments; Megan Ward, for

  • A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

    Creator:
    Bhogra, Siddharth
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    The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    historical present, e pluribus plurum (Postmodern Condition). And the ‘comic holotrope’ is not necessarily

  • Eaffective Ecopoetics as a Practice for Feeling a World in Crisis

    Creator:
    Platt, Benjamin D.
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    Discussions of ecopoetics often seek to investigate how poetics as a form can be rendered more ecological, often in contrast to nature poetry. These conversations tend to concentrate on this generic contrast and the formal qualities of an ecological poetics. Ecopoetics as a field emerged largely as a response to...
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    scholar and writer. I want to thank the members of my thesis committee, Megan Ward, Kathleen Dean

  • Fostering a Multidimensional, Metacognitive Landscape Through Rhetorical Narrative Analysis

    Creator:
    Breeden, Regan
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    Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those classrooms commonly united under the umbrella of English studies. This thesis explores the role of a particular brand of close reading—one often assessed through text-dependent questions—and critiques its centrality within assessment and curriculum materials for the AP Program...
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    thank Dr. Ehren Pflugfelder, Dr. Megan Ward, and Dr. Kristy Kelly for serving on my committee and