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Six Representative Women Novelists of Mexico, 1960-1969
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Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
"""Reading the Middle: US Women Novelists and Print Culture, 1930-1960"" is about feminist protest as a core value of the American bourgeoisie, bringing gender studies, digital humanities, and American literature and print culture together in analyses of a collection of thirty-plus novels of …
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Images of Welsh Women as Portrayed by Anglo-Welsh Women Novelists, 1850-1985.
… models of femininity have directed the lives of women for centuries and this has often been reflected in the literature of each historical period. Classical and biblical literature promoted images of ideal women, while demonstrating also, through representations of their counterparts, the fate of …
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A space for women? Space and place in women's novels, 1790 -1820.
… the emergence of the novel as a writing site for women writers and traces the ways in which women novelists between 1790 and 1820 represented space within their novels. It identifies how women used both the space afforded by the novel, and the representations of space in the novel, to enter the …
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My soul looks back in wonder, how I got over: black women’s narratives on spirituality, sexuality, and informal learning
… qualitative study was to explore how two Black women, born 1946 to 1964, discuss their sexuality in relation to their understanding of spirituality and informal learning. Using the Black Feminine Narrative Inquiry framework informed by womanism, Black feminism, and narrative structures used by …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
In my dissertation, “A Vindication of Fallen Women: Victorian Women Writers Reconceiving Gender,” I argue that nineteenth-century women writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… nineteenth century, particularly in the works of women novelists such as Jane Austen. My final chapter shows how Austen analyzes Wollstonecraft's rhetoric to better explain how feminist goals of increased understanding and moral agency might be attained.
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… Pathology and Sympathy in American Women’s Literature, 1866-1900</em> examines the work of four American women novelists writing between 1866 and 1900 as responses to a dominant medical discourse that pathologized women’s emotions. The popular fiction of Metta Fuller Victor, …
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Writings From the Borderzone: Tales of Recuperation and Transgression in the Works of Malika Mokeddem, Calixthe Beyala, and Evelyne Accad
This study is devoted to three Francophone women writers living abroad whose novels reflect the interconnectedness of the world today in that their writing is both multicultural and transnational. In spite of their various origins these Francophone women novelists, Malika Mokeddem from Algeria, …
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'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
… of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her concerns chime with the …
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Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels
Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels explores how Black women writers engage with their image in dominant Western discourse. Deliberately objectified, their discursive identities have been underwritten and overlooked. Using Sylvia Wynter's argument that the emergence of Black women …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
… reconsideration of strategic humor in popular women’s novels. Spanning the decades between the first successful suffrage laws in Britain and the United States and second-wave feminism of the 1960s, the British and American “modernist middlebrow” novels I examine both challenge and align with …
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The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
… that promoted interracial sexual unions and women’s reproductive rights and forbade religion (as irrational and hypocritical) and marriage (as entrapping and enfeebling to women). She charged the Protestant clergy with conspiring with bankers and lawyers to deny Americans true liberty and …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… which focuses on recovering lost texts by women and rereading women's texts traditionally absorbed in and obscured by the male canon, bears broadening to incorporate insights into the female psyche that come from research in other disciplines. Anthropological studies of primitive cultures …
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Gothic times : feminism and postmodernism in the novels of Angela Carter.
… manifests itself, in contemporary fiction by women, as a conflict between political and aesthetic practices which is ultimately waged upon the ground of subjectivity. Angela Carter's novels offer an extended exploration of subjectivity which utilises, in many ways self consciously, the ongoing …
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The Novelty of Rights: Advocacy for the Marginalized Subject in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… language’ influenced how mid-nineteenth-century novelists advocated for marginalized subjects – namely, women, children, and slaves – in Victorian Britain. Debates about rights, sparked by the Revolutions in America and France, centred on the act of declaring them publicly. The taut, repeatable …
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The spirit of cleavage : pedagogy, gender, and reform in early nineteenth-century British women's fiction
By the end of the eighteenth century, women's education had become a topic of serious cultural debate. In my dissertation I examine the ways in which six early nineteenth-century noncanonical British women novelists--Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Amelia Opie, Hannah More, Sydney Owenson, and Mary …
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Religion, Folk Belief and the Sacred Landscape in Women’s Writing in Wales, 1847 – 1909
… landscape, in twelve novels by six Anglophone women writers in Wales: Anne Beale’s <i>Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry</i> (1849), Eleanor Griffiths’ <i>World Worship</i> (1853), L.M. (Louisa Matilda) Spooner’s <i>Country Landlords</i> (1860), Anne Beale’s <i>Gladys the Reaper …
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Mary, Quite Contrary: The Novels of Mary Davys, 1700–1727
<p>As a relatively unknown author, Mary Davys (1674-1732) has garnered scant scholarly attention and little admiration for her work. Those who have written on Davys’s prose fiction most often mention the last three texts she published, <em>Familiar Letters betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady</em> …
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"A Story in an Obscure Corner of the Front Page": Patricia Highsmith, Pamela Moore, Joyce Johnson and the Negotiatory Politics of Sexual and Gender Insubordination in Post-War America
… in the criticism of the novels written by women in that era. As a result of such scanty inquiry, they are largely absent from literary-critical anthologies on post-war American literature. My research fills this gap by analysing Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 The Price of Salt (Carol), Pamela …