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"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

Creator:: Hiatt, Bryan
Abstract:: Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Bryan Hiatt for the degree of

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

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 18, 2017. Title: Reasserting Moral Boundaries: Representations of Fame in George Eliot’s Daniel

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

Creator:: Jensen, Timothy Ward
Abstract:: Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: November 14, 1995. Title: "My Nonsense is Only Their Own Thought in Motley:" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

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:: of Master of Arts in English presented on June 11, 1998. Title: George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones Abstract approved

In Pursuit of Literacy

Creator:: Freemole, George Maynard
Abstract:: My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy, especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: George Maynard Freemole for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in English

Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

Creator:: Larsen, Haley A.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity —Henry

Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

Creator:: Rust, Stephen
Abstract:: Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Right under the George W. Bush administration in the wake of the American "Culture Wars" of the

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

Creator:: Schmuhl, Emily J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Dickens’s Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure as unsympathetic, no matter her

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

Creator:: Wylie, Lynne S.
Abstract:: Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contemporary of Dickens, Henry Mayhew in his work London Labour and the London Poor. I show that Dickens

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"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

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

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

In Pursuit of Literacy

Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

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

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

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