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1. Writing Diplomacy: Translation, Politics and Literary Culture in the Transpacific Cold War

Bo, Lamyu Maria
2018
Theses
Comparative literatureAmerican literatureLiterature--Translations into EnglishDiplomacyTranslatorsCold War (1945-1989)Literature--Translations into ChineseDiplomatic history

2. "With Double Sense Deluding": Revealing Iteration in Milton's Paradise Regained

Stubbs, Percy
2015
Theses
British literatureIrish literature

3. Willing Slaves: The Victorian Novel and the Afterlife of British Slavery

Sheehan, Lucy Ludwig
2016
Theses
SlaverySlavery--Controversial literatureSlavery in literatureBritish literatureEnglish literatureGender identitySex role

4. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and the Immortalized Artist: On the Successes and Failures of Thomas Sutpen’s Ruthless Design

Gamble, Kate V.
2014
Theses
American literatureFaulkner, William, 1897-1962Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner, William)

5. Wifely Counsel and Civic Leadership in The Canterbury Tales

Rosebrock, Abby
2014
Theses
British literatureIrish literature

6. What Maisie Knew and How Henry James Exploited Her Knowledge: A Sacrifice of Character

Polkes, Aliza J.
2014
Theses
American literature

7. Weeping, Wailing, Sighing, Railing: Shakespeare and the Drama of Complaint

Shortslef, Emily
2015
Theses
English dramaEnglish drama (Tragedy)TheaterLiteratureHistoryBritish literatureIrish literatureShakespeare, William, 1564-1616

8. "We Are the Thing Itself": Embodiment in the Künstlerromane of Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf

Maiwandi, Zarina W
2013
Theses
Literature, ModernAestheticsEthicsBennett, Arnold, 1867-1931Joyce, James, 1882-1941Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

9. Wayward Reading: Women's Crime and Incarceration in the United States, 1890-1935

Hainze, Emily Harker
2016
Theses
Women prisoners--Social conditionsWomen prisoners in literatureReformatories for womenWomen prisonersAmerican literatureWomen's studies

10. Virtual Motion: Dance and Mobility in Early Modern English Literature

Williams, Seth Stewart
2017
Theses
English literatureDance in literatureDanceLiterature, Modern

11. Useful Works: Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Education

North, Samuel Joseph
2013
Theses
Literature

12. Urban Ecology and the Early Modern English Stage

Myers, Bernadette
2021
Theses
English literatureTheaterHistoryEcologyAir--PollutionOverpopulation in literatureEcology in literatureShakespeare, William, 1564-1616

13. Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction

Parker, Ben
2013
Theses
British literatureIrish literature

14. Unfeeling Empire: The Realist Novel in Imperial Britain

Glovinsky, Will
2021
Theses
English literatureRealism in literatureImperialism in literatureNineteenth centuryAusten, Jane, 1775-1817Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863Eliot, George, 1819-1880Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

15. Truth and Conjecture: Forms of Detection in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

Sahni, Rashmi
2015
Theses
English literatureComparative literature

16. True and Home-Born: Domesticating Tragedy on the Early Modern English Stage

Bengtsson, Frederick
2014
Theses
English drama--Early modern and ElizabethanBritish literatureIrish literature

17. Translated Subjects: Visions of Haiti in 19th-Century Literary Exchange

Albanese, Mary Grace
2017
Theses
American literatureAfrican AmericansCaribbean literatureAbstraction in literature

18. Translated Conquests: Archive, History, and Territory in Hemispheric Literatures, 1823-1854

Van Tine, Mary Lindsay
2015
Theses
ImperialismImperialism in literatureNineteenth centuryAmerican literatureHistoryLatin Americans

19. Toward a Supreme Fiction: Dante, Chaucer and the Dream of the Rose

Petracca, Eugene Anthony
2020
Theses
Comparative literatureEnglish literatureFirst person narrativeFiction

20. To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism

Brown, Jeffrey M.
2013
Theses
British literatureIrish literatureTheaterHistory

21. Tilting After the Trenches: The Quixotic Return of Heroism in G.K. Chesterton’s Modernism

Foster, Luke
2015
Theses
English literature

22. The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood

McNeil, Paul
2011
Theses
American literatureGay and lesbian studiesSexual minoritiesAmericansIsherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

23. The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King

Melville, Joan Virginia
2013
Theses
PhotographyTheaterHistoryBritish literatureCameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

24. The Terms of Our Connection: Affiliation and Difference in the Post-1960 North American Novel

James, Jennifer M.
2012
Theses
American literatureGender identitySex roleGay and lesbian studiesSexual minorities

25. The Shapes of Fancy: Queer Circulations of Desire in Early Modern Literature

Varnado, Christine Marie
2011
Theses
LiteratureSexual minorities in literatureLiterature, ModernDesire in literature

26. The Sea Has Many Voices: British Modernism and the Maritime Historical Imagination

Uphaus, Maxwell
2015
Theses
Sea in literatureBritish literatureModernism (Literature)Irish literatureLiterature, Modern

27. The Research Aesthetic: Information and the Form of the Victorian Novel

Eckert, Sierra C.
2020
Theses
English literatureNineteenth centuryAesthetics in literatureFiction--Stories, plots, etc.Abstraction in literature

28. The Psychic Work of Reading: Form and Unconscious Affect in the Wake of Modernism

Amoretti, Valerio
2019
Theses
Comparative literatureLiterary formModernism (Literature)Object relations (Psychoanalysis)SubconsciousnessReader-response criticismBeckett, Samuel, 1906-1989Pavese, CesareRobbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-2008

29. The Progress of Error: or, the Recursive Eighteenth Century

Boone, Alice Lee
2015
Theses
English literature

30. "The Problem of Amusement": Trouble in the New Negro Narrative

Rodney, Mariel
2016
Theses
Blackface entertainersHarlem RenaissanceAfrican AmericansLiteraturePerforming artsHurston, Zora NealeDunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

31. The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction

Llobrera, Kairos
2013
Theses
American literatureEmigration and immigration in literatureNoncitizens in literatureEmigration and immigration

32. The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century

Hay, John Andrew
2013
Theses
Frontier and pioneer life in literatureApocalyptic literatureIndigenous peoples in literatureAmerican literatureNineteenth centuryHistoricism in literature

33. The Poetry of Interpretation: Exegetical Lyric after the English Reformation

Bloomfield, Gabriel
2019
Theses
English literatureReligionHistoryHermeneuticsDevotional poetryCriticism and interpretation

34. The Poetics of Literary History in Renaissance England

McKeen, Christopher Ross
2017
Theses
English literatureEuropean literature--RenaissanceComparative literatureHistory in literatureEnglish poetry

35. The Poetics and Politcs of Translation in Contemporary Drama, 1960s-1990s

Ganguly, Avishek
2012
Theses
British literatureIrish literatureComparative literatureSouth Asians

36. The Pastoral Field: Local Ecologies in Early Modern Literature

McIntosh, Elizabeth Katherine
2021
Theses
English literaturePastoral literature, EnglishLandscapes in literatureEcology in literatureNatural disastersSixteenth centuryEnglish literature--Early modern

37. The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism

Diebel, Anne
2013
Theses
American literature

38. The Ontological Imagination: Living Form in American Literature

Barasch, Benjamin W.
2019
Theses
American literatureOntologyImaginationComparative literatureHumanism in literature

39. The Objectification of Poetry: Textiles, Maps, Documents, and Margins in the Postwar American Avant-Garde

Arkebauer, Sarah Hannan
2019
Theses
American literatureLiteratureAvant-garde (Aesthetics)Poetry

40. The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse

Farrell, Nathaniel Calise
2013
Theses
Literature

41. The Marriage of Man and God: Solomon's Song of Songs and Resurrection in the Divine Comedy

Marx, Janet
1969
Theses
Literature, MedievalReligion in literatureBible and literatureBible. Song of SolomonDivina commedia (Dante Alighieri)

42. The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England

Smith, Kathleen M.
2013
Theses
English literature--Middle EnglishLiterature, MedievalTroilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey)Testimony of William Thorpe (Thorpe, William)Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery)

43. The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction

Winslow, Aaron
2015
Theses
American literatureLiterature, ModernLiterature

44. The Italianate Wordsworth

Seary, Nicole Ariana
2011
Theses
Comparative literatureItalian literatureWordsworth, William, 1770-1850

45. The Feeling of a Line: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Psychology of Imagination

DeSantis, Alicia M.
2013
Theses
American literatureLiterature

46. The Fabulous Grace of God: on revolutions in gay styles of dramatic literature through the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis in America

Mineo, Alessio
2014
Theses
TheaterHistoryGay and lesbian studiesSexual minorities

47. The Constant Paradox: Constancy, Genre, and Literary Tradition in the English Civil Wars

Zhang, Rachel
2018
Theses
English literatureCivil warConstancy in literatureComparative literature

48. The Borderlands Aesthetic: Realism and Governments at the Edges of Nations

Donahue, Timothy Mark
2015
Theses
BorderlandsBorderlands in literatureTerritory, NationalBoundariesAmerican literatureComparative literature

49. Theater of Enigma in Shakespeare’s England

West, Michael
2018
Theses
English literatureTheater audiencesTheaterIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) in literatureShakespeare, William, 1564-1616

50. The Art of Reconciliation in Rwanda

Shepard, Meredith
2019
Theses
African literatureComparative literatureReconciliationHuman rightsArt

51. The Archivist of Affronts: Immigration, Representation, and Legal Personality in Early Twentieth Century America

Munshi, Sherally K.
2014
Theses
Immigrants--Social conditionsEmigration and immigration lawRacismEast Indian AmericansLiteratureLawHistoryGhadiali, Dinshah P., 1873-1966

52. Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism

Stanley, Kate
2013
Theses
American literatureLiterature, Modern

53. Subjects of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare

Lupic, Ivan
2014
Theses
Politics in literatureAdvice in literatureEnglish dramaLiteratureKing Lear (Shakespeare, William)

54. Structures of Feeling: Architecture and Literature in Postwar Britain and Ireland

Cox, Therese Anne
2020
Theses
English literatureArchitectureArchitecture in literatureComparative literatureReconstruction (1939-1951)Postwar reconstructionCity planningHousing--Planning

55. Spectatrices: Moviegoing and Women's Writing, 1925-1945

Gear, Nolan Thomas
2021
Theses
English literatureWomen authorsComparative literatureMotion pictures and literatureHurston, Zora NealeWoolf, Virginia, 1882-1941Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller), 1873-1957Fauset, Jessie Redmon

56. Spatial Denotation: Towards a Schematic Reading of Vito Acconci’s “CONTACTS/CONTEXTS (FRAME OF REFERENCE): ten pages of reading Roget’s Thesaurus (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965)

Fuhrman, Emily
2016
Theses
ReadingSpacePoetryDiscourse analysisCartography--PhilosophyAcconci, Vito, 1940-2017

57. Sovereign Fictions: Self-Determination and the Literature of the Nigeria-Biafra War

Engebretson, Jess
2021
Theses
English literatureAfrican literatureCivil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970)GenocideJournalismPropagandaPopular literature

58. Social Document Fictions: Race, Visual Culture and Science in African American Literary Culture, 1850-1939

Womack, Autumn Marie
2014
Theses
American literature--African American authorsAfrican Americans--Race identityAfrican Americans--Intellectual lifeLiteratureAfrican Americans

59. Skeletal Testimony: Bony Biopolitics in the Early Atlantic

Takahata, Kimberly
2020
Theses
American literatureIndiansIndians of North AmericaSkeletonBones--Collection and preservationColonistsEighteenth centuryApess, William, 1798-1839

60. Site Specifics: Modernist Mediums in Modern Places

Vydrin, Eugene
2013
Theses
Comparative literatureArt

61. Sites of Inscription: Writing In and Against Post-Plantation Geographies

Kelley, Elleza
2021
Theses
African AmericansAmerican literature--African American authorsDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Hurston, Zora NealeBrooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

62. Simulating Fiction: Models of Narrative and Literary Culture

Sack, Graham Alexander
2021
Theses
Comparative literatureLiterature--Theory, etc.CriticismFictionComputer simulationMachine learning

63. Silent Harmony: Music and Time in Wordsworth's Prelude

Kanwischer, Sylvia
1988
Theses
English literatureSenses and sensation in literatureMusic in literatureWordsworth, William, 1770-1850Prelude (Wordsworth, William)

64. Signs of Neon: Racial Capitalism, Technology, and African American Aesthetics in the Long 1960s

Bartell, Brian
2018
Theses
African AmericansAesthetics, BlackCivil rights movementsTechnology--Social aspectsSocial structure

65. Sifuna umlando wethu (We are Searching for Our History): Oral Literature and the Meanings of the Past in Post-apartheid South Africa

Buthelezi, Mbongiseni Patrick
2012
Theses
HistorySouth Africans

66. Secularization and the British Lyric in the Twentieth Century

Stevens, Jeremy
2020
Theses
English literatureLyric poetrySecularism in literaturePoets, EnglishTwentieth century

67. Rum, Rome, and Rebellion: The Reform of Reform in the Political Fiction of the Gilded Age

Fernandez, Matthew Joseph
2022
Theses
American literatureHistoryComparative literaturePolitics in literaturePolitical satire, AmericanAmerican wit and humorNineteenth centuryMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859James, Henry, 1843-1916Adams, Henry, 1838-1918Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Santayana, George, 1863-1952Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895

68. Ruling Appetites: The Politics of Diet in Early Modern English Literature

Crow, Andrea
2018
Theses
English literatureDiet in literatureSocial changePolitics in literatureFood supply--Political aspects

69. Romantic Theology: Contemplating Genre in Late Medieval England

Schoen, Jenna
2021
Theses
Literature, MedievalEnglish poetryReligious poetry, English (Middle)Romances, EnglishChristian ethicsPassion of Jesus ChristPiers Plowman (Langland, William)Saint Erkenwald (Middle English poem)

70. Revisionary Retelling: The Metapoetics of Authorship in Medieval England

Barlow, Gania
2014
Theses
Poetry--AuthorshipEnglish literatureLiterature, MedievalBritish literatureIrish literature

71. Revised Lives: Lineage and Dislocation in Seventeenth-Century English Autobiography

Murphy, Sara Ann
2014
Theses
British literatureIrish literatureBiographyGender identitySex role

72. Remembering Things: Transformative Objects in Texts About Conflict, 1160-1390

Eliott Lockhart, Elizabeth
2014
Theses
LiteratureLiterature, MedievalReligion

73. Reading Autopsy: The Medical Practice of Romantic Literature

Hegele, Arden Alexandra
2016
Theses
RomanticismMedicineReadingEnglish literature

74. Reading and Repair: Fictions of "Mau Mau"

Ross, Elliot
2019
Theses
LiteratureDecolonizationHuman rights in literaturePolitical violence in literatureMau Mau Emergency (Kenya : 1952-1960)Historical fiction

75. Quoynt Soffraunce: Patience and Late Medieval English Literature

Roberts, Aled William
2020
Theses
English literatureLiterature, MedievalMiddle AgesHistoryPatience in literaturePlowman, Piers

76. Quiet Dawn: Time, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Black Radicalism

Cunningham, Nijah N.
2015
Theses
Black people--Social conditionsRadicalismAfrican diaspora in literatureComparative literatureAesthetics

77. Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality

Joseph, Abigail Katherine
2012
Theses
LiteratureGay and lesbian studiesSexual minoritiesGender identitySex role

78. Publishing the Stuarts: Occasional Literature and Politics from 1603 to 1625

Calcagno, Rebecca
2011
Theses
English literatureCourts and courtiersRoyal housesStuart, Charles, King of England, 1600-1649

79. Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry

Smith, Lytton Jackson
2012
Theses
American literatureCitizenshipLiteratureLiterature, Modern

80. Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and the Lives of American Literary Characters

Parra, Jamie Luis
2016
Theses
Characters and characteristics in literatureSlavery in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican AmericansCrafts, HannahTwain, Mark, 1835-1910Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

81. Print, Performance, and the European Avant-gardes, 1905-1948

Buckley, Jennifer Ann
2011
Theses
TheaterHistoryComparative literatureLiterature

82. Presumption and Despair: The figure of Bernard in Middle English imaginative literature

Horn, Adam
2021
Theses
English literature--Middle EnglishLiterature, MedievalMiddle AgesHistoryCanterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)Imagination in literatureBernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153Plowman, PiersMalory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th centuryParson's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey)Prick of conscience

83. Poetic Numbers: Measurement and the Formation of Literary Criticism in Enlightenment England

Swidzinski, Joshua
2015
Theses
British literatureLiterature and scienceEnglish poetryCriticsPoets, EnglishEnlightenmentIrish literature

84. Picturing Reality: American Literary Realism and the Model of Painting, 1875-1900

Roberts, Zachary John
2018
Theses
American literatureArtRealism in literatureComparative literaturePaintingArt in literature

85. Performance as Translation in the Americas: Ana Mendieta's Feminist Ethnographies, 1973-81

Ray, Montana
2021
Theses
EthnologyFeminism in artGender identityFeminist anthropologySex roleTaino IndiansCiboney IndiansArt, CubanMendieta, Ana, 1948-1985Oiticica, Hélio, 1937-1980Ortiz, Fernando, 1881-1969

86. Passive Life: Vitalism and British Fiction, 1820-1880

Newby, Diana Rose
2022
Theses
English literaturePhilosophyVitalism in literatureSpinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876Eliot, George, 1819-1880

87. “Our World-Work”: Gender and Labor in African Diasporic Literatures

Reid, Tiana
2021
Theses
Literature--Black authorsAmerican literature--African American authorsLabor in literatureGender identity in literatureWomen, Black, in literatureDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019

88. Our War Paint is Writer's Ink: Ojibwe Literary Transnationalism

Spry, Adam Michael
2014
Theses
EthnologyOjibwa literaturePolitics and literatureAmerican literatureIndiansIndians of North America

89. “Our Case Is Not Complete”: Sherlock Holmes, Victorian Spiritualism, and the Scientific Use of the Imagination

Ashe, Nathan
2013
Theses
English literatureSpirituality

90. "Oh, Awful Power": Energy and Modernity in African American Literature

Gordon, Walter
2021
Theses
African AmericansPower resourcesLiteratureAmerican literature--African American authorsLiterature, ModernDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953Jones, J. McHenryPetry, Ann, 1908-1997Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977Hairy ape (O'Neill, Eugene)

91. Novel Feelings: Emotion, Duration, and the Form of the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Cunard, Candace
2018
Theses
English literatureBritish literatureEmotions in literatureReaders (Adult)

92. Novel Conversations, 1740-1817

Gemmill, Kathleen Doherty
2017
Theses
Eighteenth centuryEnglish prose literatureSpeech in literatureEnglish literature

93. New Wine in Old Skins: Vernacular Typology in Medieval English Literature, 590-1390

Walton, Audrey Rochelle
2015
Theses
English literatureReligion

94. Networks of Displacement Genealogy, Nationality, and Ambivalence in Works by Vladimir Nabokov and Gary Shteyngart

Darnell, Michael Richard
2016
Theses
Families in literatureMetaphor in literatureNational characteristicsComparative literatureAmerican literatureSlavic literatureShteyngart, Gary, 1972-Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

95. 'Native, Yet Foreign': Spain in the African American Imagination

Pawel, Rebecca Catherine
2020
Theses
African AmericansAmerican literatureComparative literatureHistoriography

96. Narrative Units: The Language of Form in British Fiction, 1749-1819

Paulson, Michael
2010
Theses
English literatureBritish literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Fiction

97. Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan

McArthur, Elizabeth Andrews
2012
Theses
Landscapes in literatureBritish literatureIrish literatureWoolf, Virginia, 1882-1941Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-McEwan, Ian

98. Muslim Literature, World Literature, Tanpinar

Khayyat, Emrah Efe
2014
Theses
Religion in literaturePolitics and literatureIslamic literatureComparative literaturePhilosophy

99. Modernist Unselfing: Religious Experience and British Literature, 1900-1945

Iglesias, Christina
2018
Theses
English literatureReligionModernism (Literature)Religion in literatureSecularism

100. Missing Homes: Poe, Brontë, Dickens and Displacement

Brown, Natalie
2021
Theses
English literatureAmerican literatureComparative literatureHome in literatureHomeless persons in literatureNostalgia in literatureNineteenth centuryPoe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870