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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:: : The Relationship of Charles Dickens' Street People to the Victorian Concept of Home. Abstract

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Creator:: Franks, Tricia May
Abstract:: In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: '" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing" AN

Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

Creator:: Killips, Lisa M.
Abstract:: My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Introductions, Autonomy, and Domestic Spaces in Two Works by Henry James

"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

An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

Creator:: Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
Abstract:: This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . and Pattern in Henry David Thoreau's Later Work. Abstract approved: David Robinson This thesis

Child guidance attitudes of parents who have children in cooperative nursery schools and those who do not

Creator:: Pehrson, June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to Dr. Henry D. Schalock, Associate Professor of Family Life, for guidance during this study, both

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:: Zimmerman, Katharine
Abstract:: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Lawrence Farber Mina Carson The publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin

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:: heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Charles

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

Creator:: Taylor, Corey
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: —Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays

A preliminary study of expressed preferences and task efficiency in differing communication networks

Creator:: Weimer, Robert Edward, II
Abstract:: The present study is an attempt to investigate some of the relationships between certain personality characteristics and expressed preferences for various communication structures; it is also an examination of the relative efficiency of the networks used. Subjects drawn from the university population participated in experimentally formed five-person groups. These groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Palmateer H, ACKNOWLEDGMENT To Dr. Charles S. Goetzinger and Dr. Milton A. Valentine: . . . . for

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

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

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

An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

Child guidance attitudes of parents who have children in cooperative nursery schools and those who do not

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

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

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

A preliminary study of expressed preferences and task efficiency in differing communication networks

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