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Filtering by: Creator Cullinan, Grace L. Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.) Subject Women in literature

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

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McGrory, Suzette L.

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Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...

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Masters Thesis

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womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Suzette L
Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

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Larsen, Haley A.

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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 --...

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portrait—and this occurs through “the beams of her living grace” (134). Lily’s overall presence in her
The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

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Schmuhl, Emily J.

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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published stories with titles such as “The Heiress of Wellwood” or “Grace Barton, Heiress of Smithills