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Filtering by: Creator Bergen, Jeannette R. Degree Field Women Studies

Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Creator:

Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-

Abstract:

Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Creator:

Steinert, Laura

Abstract:

Within The Lamplighter, a novel written in 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins defines a version of the sentimental novel that significantly differs from the prescriptive analysis male critics have offered for the genre. This thesis argues that feminist theory and recent rhetorical theory have caused a critical paradigm shift that has...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis