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  • "Pretty When You Cry": Feminine Melancholia in the Age of Social Media

    Creator:
    Hurwitz, Madeline
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    This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young women who identify and present themselves as inherently melancholic people online. I position the internet community of the Sad Girl, which spans across three social media platforms, Tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram, within a larger history...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young

  • Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

    Creator:
    Snyder, Christin
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    Many queer scholars have made the turn away from orientations that treat Victorian queerness as either “lost” or “hidden.” Adding more complexity to literary theories which center practices of “revealing” queer artifacts, Sharon Marcus, for instance, argues queer encounters exist at the surfaces of Victorian literature. In addition, Anjali Arondekar’s...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward

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

    Creator:
    Kennedy, Tallon R.
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    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...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis

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

    Creator:
    Damschen, Kalli M.
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    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...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or

  • Respect the gap : from big to boutique data through "Laboring-Class Poets Online"

    Creator:
    Crawford, Cole
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    This thesis consists of two major components. The first is Laboring-Class Poets Online (LCPO), a database-driven website that provides information about the more than 2,000 British laboring-class poets who published between 1700 and 1900 and their writing, lives, and literary relationships. I developed LCPO to demonstrate the importance of laboring-class...
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  • Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

    Creator:
    Taylor, Corey
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    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...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels

  • "Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

    Creator:
    Surface, Samara
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    The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice