Browsing Department of English Literature Graduate Theses by Author "Fanning, Christopher"
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The Author's Farce: Satiric Agency, Authority, and the Performance of Eighteenth-Century Satire on Film and the Stage
Oryschak, Breanne (2016-01-18)This dissertation investigates how dramatic performance affects satire, its forms of authorisation, adaptation, and interpretation. Focusing on Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatic satires and film adaptations of ... -
Erasmus Darwin’s Deistic Dissent and Didactic Epic Poetry: Promoting Science Education to a Mixed Audience Under the Banner of Tolerance
Martin, Kirsten (2012-07-09)Erasmus Darwin’s task as a Deistic Dissenter poet who wished to promote science education to a mixed audience was complex. There was mainstream concern over what Deists and Dissenters actually believed about God, their ... -
A Poetics of Annotation: Alexander Pope's Footnotes
Bourne, Donald (2016-09-28)Studies of Alexander Pope's poetry tend to examine only the footnotes to his Dunciads, if they examine his footnotes at all. This dissertation will address this deficit in our understanding of Pope's poetics through an ... -
Richardson Among the Philosophers: Interiority, Perspective, and Formal Irony In the Fiction of Samuel Richardson
Krahn, DanielSamuel Richardson developed a narrative technique that recreates the epistemological and ontological conditions of selfhood theorized by empiricist philosophy; these conditions are the complex interplay between interior ... -
The Romantic Insomnia of John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hunt, KatieThis dissertation seeks to reestablish insomnia as an essential category of consciousness in the Romantic period on both local and universal scales. First, I establish the medical and cultural history of the disorder in ...