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Elizabeth Drinker's Revolution
… eighteenth century is to study individual women. Elizabeth Drinker is an ideal individual to study in this regard because of the diary she wrote from 1758-1807. The first chapter concentrates on the entries she wrote before the American Revolution, the second, on the years during the war, and the …
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Comedy and the middlebrow novel :Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim.
… examines the critical reception of the novels of Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) and Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) as part of a 'feminine middlebrow'. They are frequently read as offering merely light entertainment and an implicit endorsement of a conservative status quo, and I argue that this is …
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Representations of Elizabeth I
… to examine some contemporary representations of Elizabeth I. Beginning with an outline of how the queen struggled to construct her feminine power within and beyond dominant patriarchal discourse, I go on to explore closely three modern filmic treatments of the queen: The Virgin Queen (1955), …
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Elizabeth Tudor: Reconciling Femininity And Authority
Elizabeth Tudor succeeded to England's throne during a time when misogynist societal ideology questioned the authority of a female monarch. Religious opposition to a woman ruler was based on biblical precedent, which reflected the general attitude that women were inferior to men. Elizabeth's …
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The wonderful discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer
… Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer’ is a novel about conflicting narratives of salvation set in the early modern period. It is a fictional account of real people who were born into Elizabethan England and died during the Stuart era. The novel’s storyline explores how …
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Maternal Realism: Public Mothering in the Work of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
"This project explores the place of women writers generally excluded from studies of literary realism. Writing in response to the same cultural and economic changes taking place in America as more conventional realists, Phelps, Gilman, and Hopkins retain elements of popular domestic fiction to …
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Robert Browning's Poetry
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
In 1926 Elizabeth Madox Roberts published her first novel, The Time of Man, a work that plunged her into the literary limelight. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and hailed by some as the "most beautiful piece of writing to come out of America," the novel established her as a major American …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
Elizabeth Bishop‘s poetics of description has been the object of numerous critical studies. These most often focus on questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
Elizabeth Bishop‘s poetics of description has been the object of numerous critical studies. These most often focus on questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I …
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Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality
This thesis is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with artists, and her knowledge of modern and traditional aesthetics are formative …
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A COURTIER'S LEGACY: CASTIGLIONE'S LITERARY INFLUENCE ON ELIZABETH ENGLAND
… that the Courtier had a profound influence on Elizabethan England and its cultural development. I achieve this goal by examining various genres of literature during this period, and analyze Castiglione’s effect on the author’s writing and attitudes exhibited in the works. In examining a …
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The Journal of Elizabeth Maxwell Alsop Wynne, 1862-1878
… transcription and annotation of the journal of Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Maxwell Alsop Wynne, written from March 4, 1862, through March 20, 1878. During her most intense period of writing from 1862 to 1866, Lizzie Alsop recorded the effects of the American Civil War on an extensive network of friends …
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The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American poet who did not produce much published work in her career. This was partly due to her low confidence, depression, alcoholism, and difficult personal life, but it was also due to her meticulousness as a poet. Colleagues and critics …
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