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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Women's fiction"”.
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"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres
The theatre of the Victorian era is often ignored in literary studies or denigrated when it is discussed. This project, however, seeks to provide a framework within which we can explore the power of Victorian theatre as it responded to and shaped ideas in London between 1848 and 1882. Looking …
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Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
… separation between public and private that ""women's issues"" have not been considered political topics in Irish literary history and therefore women's writing has been profoundly neglected. The inclusion of women writers demands that we rewrite Irish literary history under a broader …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… to larger discussions of masculinity, women’s writing, and feminist literary studies in the Romantic period. I address a gap in Romantic-era scholarship by interrogating how proto-Byronic and Austenian heroes reflect societal and authorial attitudes toward men and often incompatible …
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Kinship and Collectivity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction
… eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American women's literary response to the emergent modern family. This social ideal decreed that the 'proper' family consisted of a married couple and their biological children living under a single roof. The father was to function as this unit's primary …
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Fashion, Class, and Labor: Clothing in American Women's Fiction, 1840-1913
… to clothing highlights her central concern with women's economic dependence on men and the ways industrialism exploits women's labor. In her fiction, clothing brings the reader back to the material conditions of women's lives as they conflict with idealized representations. In The Minister's …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk. The first chapter …
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Cartographies of undomesticated ground: Nature and feminism in American women's fiction and theory
"My dissertation examines how American women writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have rearticulated the gendered ideologies of nature. Insights from feminist theory, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary postmodern theories of nature enable me to reveal how women's texts …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
… and the Making of the Middle-Class in Modern Women's Fiction," I analyze the social anxieties surrounding domestic servants that permeated both popular and canonical archives in the United States during the early half of the twentieth century. I contend that a feminized and racialized brand of …
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
By marking out a pattern of retreat in the works of American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public …
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Reconcilable differences: Double proposals and the renegotiation of marriage in American women's fiction, 1850-1890
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:52:39Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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The Queen of the Household: Mothers, Other Mothers, and Female Genealogy on the Plantation in Postslavery Women's Fiction
… relationship and privileges the voices of women over the voices of male characters. These texts focus on female genealogy rather than a traditional patriarchal understanding of genealogical history. Tracing female genealogy makes space to see alternate foci of power on the postslavery …
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Rewriting the nation: a comparative study of Welsh and Scottish women's fiction from the wilderness years to post-devolution
… exciting literary works by Welsh and Scottish women writers, produced as the boundaries of nationality were being dismantled and ideas of nationhood transformed. This comparative study brings together, for the first time, Scottish and Welsh women writers’ literary responses to these historic …
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Contemporary Canadian women's fiction a jungian reading of Ying Chen's L'ingratitude, Christiane Frenette's La terre ferme, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your knees, and Anne Michaels' Fugitive pieces
… the traditional boundaries set for the mother in fiction and rescues the fictional mother from her marginalized place as one and the same as the silent unconscious.
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The Myth of Superwoman: A Comparative Study of Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States
In the last ten or fifteen years, women's bestselling fiction has assumed important financial and ideological dimensions in the publishing centers of major industrialized countries. Linked to the bestseller system, contemporary women's fiction in France and the United States provides women with …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in …
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Shadows Hold Their Breath
<p>In 1979, after suffering the loss of her dear friend and sister-in-law, Kat Hunter begins to question everything about her traditional life. With a backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement, Kat decides the only way she can discover who she was meant to be is to leave her husband and her three …
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Pricked
<p>A chilling domestic thriller about a young couple who discover that neither is who they pretend to be. Amy Jesionowski's novel Pricked tells the eerie story of a codependent relationship with dangerous twists. Twenty-four year old Jane Pluckett is an aspiring fashion designer in the hustle and …
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Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
… Maternal Narratives and Articulations of Black Women's Diaspora Identity is an intervention in black diasporic criticism and black feminism. It highlights black women's diaspora literature, maternal narratives, and interrogations of identity. I employ a black feminist diaspora literary lens to …
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