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Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Creator:: Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
Abstract:: Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Fayad Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus

Ms. Miles is missing

Creator:: Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
Abstract:: Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Stephanie E. Wisniewski for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on May 2, 2007

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:: : Issues of Sympathy and Ownership in Victorian Literature. Abstract approved

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

Creator:: Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: educational and respectable reading material for young women and men alike. Yet as I shall argue in the

'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:: , adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in

Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

Creator:: Larsen, Haley A.
Abstract:: 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 --...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contemporary framework that structures my underlying interest in electrified social spaces occupied by women

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

Creator:: Monnier, Brittany O'Dessa
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: primarily done by women in the public presence. All the literature reviewed was published in the last

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: King, Michelle L.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short

Constructing identities : analyzing dress, appearance, and mental illness in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White

Creator:: Haas, Rachael E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine how the popular writer Wilkie Collins used dress and appearance to bring to light concerns about mental illness in his 1859-60 sensation novel The Woman in White. The method of narrative analysis was used to complete this study. Data sheets were developed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: perspectives related to the role of literature in suggesting social change. Through analysis of two central

Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

Creator:: Harrington, Erin R.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Renaissance Literature Abstract approved: Rebecca R. Olson In this thesis, I use modern concepts of

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Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Ms. Miles is missing

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

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

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

Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

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

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Constructing identities : analyzing dress, appearance, and mental illness in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White

Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

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