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"'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:: female historically as a figure in American literature, tracing her beginnings as the "tragic

Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

Creator:: Gentry, Sally A.
Abstract:: The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and behaviors. Results of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: literature, or its effect upon their memory for story material. In an effort to address this issue, the

Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

Creator:: Owen, Lois Darling
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological approach which would tap the contribution of the literary artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would yield data which was complimentary, if not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Porterfield, 1957) have pointed out that literature, and specifically fiction, might provide a source of in

Zora Neale Hurston : freedom from the inside out

Creator:: Rasmussen, Patricia Ann, 1947-
Abstract:: Zora Neale Hurston was a Black American writer during the period of the Harlem Renaissance. The purpose of this study is to show that three of her four novels form a protracted discussion of a particular type of freedom which was of especial interest to Hurston. The study seeks to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Patricia A. Rasmussen for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

Creator:: Thomas, Jane McCauley
Abstract:: Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Jane McCauley Thomas for the degree of Master of Arts in English

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:: degree of Master of Arts in English presented on July 25, 2001. Title: An Autumn Journey: Time. Place

The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

Creator:: Peake, Natasha C.
Abstract:: As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in

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:: . Her expertise in the area of Victorian literature, her love of Dickens, her incredible teaching

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

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Suzette L

"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:: Whitman among others, for giving American literature a measure of world respectability late in the 19th

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"'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"

Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

Zora Neale Hurston : freedom from the inside out

Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

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

The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

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

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

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

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