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1. Found Things: Variations in information density in long-form narrative

Bohannon, Catherine Ridder
2022
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LiteratureCognitive psychologyReading--Physiological aspectsLong-term memoryJoyce, James, 1882-1941Orwell, George, 1903-1950Agee, James, 1909-1955Portrait of the artist as a young man (Joyce, James)

2. 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

3. Archepollycyes: Fiction and Political Institution around Philip Sidney

Lundy, Timothy
2021
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English literatureClassical literaturePoetryMonarchyPolitics and literatureSidney, Philip, 1554-1586Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628Gorboduc (Norton, Thomas)Baptistes (Buchanan, George)Arcadia (Sidney, Philip)

4. Black Lyric: Trauma and Poetic Voice in Contemporary Irish Drama

McHugh, Meadhbh
2021
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TheaterIrish dramaDramatists, IrishPain in the performing artsMcDonagh, MartinCarr, Marina, 1964-Murphy, Thomas, 1935-2018

5. Circulating Knowledges: Literature and the Idea of the Library in Renaissance England

Windhauser, Kevin Joseph
2021
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English literatureEuropean literature--RenaissanceLibrariesRenaissanceProtestantismBodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674

6. Consuming the Word: Figures of Vernacular Translation in Late Medieval Christian Poetry

Saretto, Gianmarco Ennio
2021
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Literature, MedievalComparative literatureChristian poetry, English (Middle)HistoryMiddle AgesDante Alighieri, 1265-1321Plowman, PiersLibro de buen amor (Ruiz, Juan)Convivio (Dante Alighieri)De vulgari eloquentia (Dante Alighieri)

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

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

8. Miss Marjoribanks’s Pronouns; or, the General, the Particular, and the Novel

Gray, Erik I.
2021
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British literatureLiterary formComparative literatureOliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897

9. "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)

10. “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