Browsing Department of English Literature Graduate Theses by Author "Berg, Maggie"
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Animals, Animality, and Violence: Reading Across Species in J. M. Coetzee's Writing
Denike, Jaime (2013-06-12)This thesis examines the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee in order to explore pressing issues that have emerged in literary, philosophical, and theoretical approaches to animal studies. These include animals as ... -
Impossible Speech: 19th-century women poets and the dramatic monologue
Luu, Helen (2008-06-30)This study seeks to redress the continued exclusion of women poets from the theorization of the dramatic monologue. I argue that an unacknowledged consensus on the definition of the dramatic monologue exists, in spite of ... -
Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904
Smith, Shannon (2012-08-09)In Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904 I examine the representation of the figure of the Victorian sportsman in different areas of nineteenth-century popular culture – newspapers, ... -
Neo-Victorian Women: The Other Side(s) of Jane Eyre
Friars, RachelWith Charlotte Brontë’s bicentennial in 2016, neo-Victorian texts that seek to retell the narratives of Jane Eyre’s marginalized characters have emerged. These texts engage with Brontë’s most famous novel in ways that ... -
"Too Heavy is the Load": Representations of Women and Suicide in 19th-Century British Literature
Hastings-Truelove, AmberAs British alienists and sociologists in nineteenth-century Britain sought to understand suicide as a disease of the mind, coroners, jurors and lay people became increasingly sympathetic to those who ended their own lives. ...