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  • A Thematic Analysis of Three Women Elect : Their Life Stories Via Autobiography

    Creator:
    Monnier, Brittany O'Dessa
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    Women being elected into public office, a recent occurrence, raises questions and concerns about what it means to have women in office. Concerns include: policy differences women in office might produce, changing the image of what it means to be a leader, and ultimately the fear of a shifting society....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Bhutto, Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice by Mary Robinson, and This Child will be Great by Ellen

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

    Creator:
    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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    “Sobriety and Propriety,” Deborah Anna Logan expresses a common critique of Rochester—that he is

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

    Creator:
    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    Wentworth lifts the child off Anne's back, he "relieves Anne's body through the agency of his physical