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Rewriting empire: Rewriting canonical British texts from a postcolonial perspective.
(2001)
In this dissertation, I examine several postcolonial texts that rewrite or revise an earlier English work. My objective here is to uncover the reasons why this is such a popular method of writing for postcolonial authors ...
A genealogy of eccentricity.
(1998)
Finally, in the Victorian era, the eccentric lost yet more cultural power and even began to disappear. Eccentricity was idealized by many, but this only made the eccentric seem a mere (and foolish) idealist. Additionally, ...
From ambivalence to acquiescence :
(1981)
A novelist's success depends a great deal on the reader's memory. Although a work of fiction must tell its own story, the use of structural patterns and devices found in previous and contemporary works can be used by a ...
Severall Coloured Ribbons :
(2000)
The dissertation establishes a connection between Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's system of natural philosophy and her theory of creativity, her conception of the free use of the imagination. In her natural ...
'Daughter of Zion': Elizabeth I and the relationship of virginity to monarchical power.
(2000)
The argument of the dissertation involves the meanings of virginity and the representations of Elizabeth I during her reign and in the century after her death. Elizabeth has long been associated with the term "Virgin Queen, ...
Timely materialisms: Modernism, subjectivity, and language.
(2001)
In Timely Materialisms: Modernism, Subjectivity, and Language I examine some major figures in literary modernism in relationship to the critique of scientific positivism, particularly as it plays out in the human sciences. ...
The "supramundane": The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson.
(1998)
Failure of understanding is the basis of Kant's theory of the sublime. As shown in the Critique of Judgement, this painful experience allows insight into the sublime. The failure delineates the limitations of our capacity ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)
This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...