Browsing Department of English Literature Graduate Theses by Subject "Identity"
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Aspects of Intimacy: Authority and Integrity in the Modernist Novel
In the following thesis I strive to offer renewed ways of construing “one’s own,” authority, integrity, and intimacy as literary themes, and appropriate form, provisional tonality, and approximate, inexhaustible address ... -
Officious men of state: Early Modern Drama and Early English Bureaucratic Identity
(2007-10-23)This dissertation investigates representations of bureaucracy in early modern drama and culture. Focusing on a group of plays that feature bureaucratic figures among their characters, and reading those plays in the context ... -
The Romantic Insomnia of John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This 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 ... -
Tragic America: Terror, Metaphor, and the Contemporary American Novel
(2012-05-31)Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the literature of the United States has become increasingly concerned with telling tragic stories. While the literature written about the attacks is considerable and operates as ...