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

Creator:: Kennedy, Tallon R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the applicability of this theory through a reading of Jane Eyre’s (1848) Bertha Mason as a “mad

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:: Victorian heiress figure, specifically Great Expectations’ Miss Havisham and Jane Eyre’s Bertha Mason

Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

Creator:: Grabinsky, Lisa
Abstract:: For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mtra. Ana Bertha Pérez Lizaur, both of whom were directly involved with the development of the NOM

Internal Migration : The Role of Discrimination and Regionalism in Southern Italians' Self Construction of Identity

Creator:: Spiese, Caroline E.
Abstract:: Italian nationalism and an ‘Italian’ identity were constructed during Italy’s unification movement in the mid 1800’s. However, consensus on a national identity is still weak across Italy today. Instead, a polarization of Northern and Southern regions have contributed to discrimination, institutional racism and exclusion. This thesis demonstrates the multifaceted aspects...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Italian regions formed a united nation-state in 1870 under the monarch King Emmanuel II (Pugliese 2008

Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

Creator:: Damschen, Kalli M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: request a baby—not because she and the King are having difficulties conceiving, 12 but simply

Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

Creator:: Zinck, Jaime
Abstract:: Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , sought after largely because whomever she chose to wed would become de facto King of England. As a

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 1 Barbara Harvey quoted in Colin Platt, King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late

Claims to Universal Possessiveness through Exclusive Discourses Medieval and Early-Modern Narratives of Othering

Creator:: Abu Aiada, Eman
Abstract:: This thesis examines the discursive seeds of the European endeavor to supremacy and dominance by tracing the germination of Eurocentrism and European exceptionalism in two different eras. Through close attention to textuality, I suggest a rhetorical continuity between the medieval and the early modern eras by focusing not directly on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: he claims that Mohammad deceived his wife and took her money, and he wanted to be a king, the

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

Creator:: Bacon, Julie M.
Abstract:: This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by characters like Gus Trenor, who overtly desires sexual consumption, and Bertha Dorset, who uses

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

Creator:: Halleran, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Native America tribes and community members throughout Oregon have asserted a strong opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to expand railways, build pipelines, and construct refineries, holding facilities, and export terminals. Despite the limited presence of fossil fuel infrastructure in the state, however, the industry is actively pursuing permits...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

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

Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

Internal Migration : The Role of Discrimination and Regionalism in Southern Italians' Self Construction of Identity

Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Claims to Universal Possessiveness through Exclusive Discourses Medieval and Early-Modern Narratives of Othering

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

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