Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - English by Title
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"A Madonna and a Woman of the World": Disrupting the Ideologies of the Angel in the House and the New Woman in Grand, Gissing, and Woolf
(Georgetown University, 2022)The Angel in the House and the New Woman were two opposing ideologies surrounding women in the late Victorian era. One described what might be considered the perfect homemaker, the other the perfect rebel. These notions ... -
A Novel Collaboration: The Role of Editing in 20th Century American Literature
(Georgetown University, 2021)Editors’ contributions to literary creation are too often understated or overlooked. Most of the existing conversation in regards to editors is either purely biographical in nature or else discusses editing as a practice ... -
A Tradition of Gay Shame: Hart Crane, Thom Gunn, and Richard Siken
(Georgetown University, 2019)Why do many gay poets often stew in darkness? Gay shame led to Hart Crane’s death (1899-1932). For young Thom Gunn (1929-2004), gay shame played the role of an unwelcome bedmate that would persist well into the poet’s ... -
Adam Bede's Challenge to Miltonic Autonomy
(Georgetown University, 2014)This thesis argues that George Eliot's Adam Bede redeploys Miltonic narrative techniques and characterization in order to problematize the ideology of individual autonomy inscribed in Victorian law. Eliot was writing the ... -
Adapting The Juice: Performances of Legal Authority through Representations of the O.J. Simpson Trial
(Georgetown University, 2018)This thesis explores how legal authority is performed through film. While existing theories on adaptation, historical filmmaking, and genre are helpful in considering representations of court cases in film, this project ... -
The Adultery of Delicate Objects
(Georgetown University, 2011)This essay explores medieval ideas of art and objecthood (to borrow Michael Fried's phrase) through the works of Martin of Laon, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Hugh of Saint Victor, Thomas of Britain, Jacques Lacan, and others. ... -
Afro-Filipino Archives and Architectures: Jessica Hagedorn and Ntozake Shange's Feminist and Poetic (Re)Visions
(Georgetown University, 2018)During the 1970s Third World Liberation and Black Arts movements, Black and Asian American writers created transnational and artistic alliances. In particular, Filipino artist Jessica Hagedorn and Black feminist writer ... -
Against a Reality Unbearable: The Problems of Nostalgia's Disavowals in Plantation Reminiscences
(Georgetown University, 2014)This thesis examines how black and white writers memorialized slavery of the American South, first through slave narratives, then through nostalgic memoirs written by former slaveholding women. The writing subjects of both ... -
All Business: Confronting the Ethical Dilemmas of Financial Evolution in Gilded Age Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2012)William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser observe the deteriorating ethics of modern American capitalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Financier, these authors ... -
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Women and First-Class Performances in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
(2008-04-08)Though critics have analyzed Tennessee Williams' plays in light of class conflict, little attention has been paid to women through the working-class studies lens. This paper seeks to explore ways in which gender complicates ... -
The ambivalent Catholic modernity of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock and the Power and the Glory
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American Nanny: Locating the Marginalized Third World Laborer Through Contemporary Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2017)Motherhood, feminism, and domestic labor have been topics of significant debate for years. Despite the growth of feminist ideals, child-care is still a sensitive topic, especially for women who consider hiring a personal ... -
American tragedies of dehumanization : a reevaluation of the social protest novel
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An American Tale: New Working-Class Literature at the Wake of the Taxi Medallion Crisis
(Georgetown University, 2022)In a broader context, this thesis was written to understand the compelling role of personal narratives. When there is a concerted effort to bring public attention to them, what can personal accounts communicate that ... -
An analysis of emotion in two English naturalists' popular scientific narratives
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And They Lived Happily Ever After. The End? Postfeminism and the Rebranding of the Disney Princesses
(Georgetown University, 2017)This thesis uses the framework of postfeminist theory to critically examine the marketing materials and modern merchandise associated with the classic-era Disney Princesses, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and ... -
Animal Possessions: Queer Time and Queer Morphologies in the Cinema of Kelly Reichardt
(Georgetown University, 2012)This thesis provides a reading of two films by American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy (2006) and Wendy and Lucy (2008), exploring the animal, or animality, as a figure articulating queer lives refused or refusing ... -
Approaching the Chora : enacting (un)place in the composition classroom
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The Audible Future: Dolby Atmos and the Immersive Sound of Science Fiction in Contemporary Science Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2015)This thesis examines the aesthetics and ideology of the recent wave of so-called "immersive" sound formats designed for cinematic exhibition. Focusing on the Dolby Atmos format, this paper contextualizes contemporary ...
