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Showing 1 to 20 of 238 for “"Women writers"”.
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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other. The first …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… and what it shows is that, at a time when women writers did not possess political power, some, such as Riddell, exerted cultural authority through the natural sciences. Natural history (comprising the fields of botany, zoology, and geology) dramatically rose in popularity in the latter half …
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Appropriations of the Gothic by Romantic-era women writers
… the multifarious ways in which Romantic-era women writers appropriated the Gothic for genres other than the novel, and to explore the implications of these appropriations. I look at different manifestations of the Gothic written by women in non-novelistic texts –– such as drama, …
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Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn
<p>Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn</p><p>This dissertation explores body aesthetics and anxieties through analyses of contemporary fiction by women. Framed in terms of "the male gaze," it analyzes the ways in which women writing today negotiate and reappropriate the …
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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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Prior Commitments: Multiply Affiliated Women Writers and Modernism's Shifting Boundaries
… strong affiliation with one high-profile group, women and members of other ""marginal"" groups often had multiple commitments to modernist and nonmodernist circles, both by choice and of necessity. This dissertation considers how modernist impulses combine with an array of other commitments and …
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Post-Soviet women writers and the national imaginary, 1989-2009
This project is a case study of how post-Soviet women writers have attempted to renegotiate women's (and women writers') traditional roles in and vis-à-vis their newly independent postcommunist nations through fiction that engages the questions of gender and national identity in the post-Soviet …
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Madness in 20th and 21st century francophone Caribbean women writers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
<p><italic>American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism<italic> reads American literary regionalism through its visual vocabularies--such as sketches, photographs and portraits. Though critics often deemed this genre inferior or unfinished, using visual …
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"Sometimes Folk Need More": Black Women Writers Dwelling in the Beyond
The 1970s were a prolific era for Black women's writing. During what is now referred to as the Black Women's Literary Renaissance, Black women writers worked to center Black women's experiences in American and African American literary "traditions" that had theretofore excluded them. This project …
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Coming to Terms: Nineteenth -Century British Women Writers and Their Publishers
… marketplace, focusing particularly on four women writers and their dealings with the London publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son between the years 1860 and 1895. My primary sources include novels and biographies as well as contractual agreements, reader's reports, and personal and …
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Women Writers of In Morte Poetry: Negotiating Grief in Renaissance Italy
… thesis focuses on in morte poetry by Renaissance women writers, examining the cases of Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, Laura Battiferri, Chiara Matraini, and Francesca Turina. It explores how these women negotiated space and legitimacy for their poetic voices in relation to the previous …
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The other end of history : three women writers and the romance
… processes as it negotiates the position of women as wives and mothers in domestic worlds ordered by patriarchy. I trace these mediations through three texts. Wuthering Heights, I argue, enacts a bold disruption of the organisation of the unregulated libidinal energy of its protagonists …
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Growing Cold: Postwar Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960
Growing Cold: Postwar American Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960, examines how women writers developed, negotiated, and struggled with representing adolescent girl selfhood in the novel of development – also termed the Bildungsroman – during the early postwar era. By examining …
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Women Writers in Revolution: Feminism in Germaine de Staël and Ding Ling
… in the writings of the two revolutionary women, Germaine de Stael, who lived and wrote during the French revolutionary era, and Ding Ling, who lived and wrote during the Chinese Communist revolutionary era. The main theme of the essay is to determine whether the feminism in their work is …
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Rewriting a Mythic Nation : Welsh Women Writers Recovering Welsh Myth and Folklore
… and twenty-first-century Anglophone Welsh women writers who choose to engage with such source material. Its aim is to provide a critical response to those recoveries through feminist and postcolonial theoretical readings.<br/><br/>Spanning a century, between 1914 and 2013, its chapters …
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Women writers on art and perceptions of the female connoisseur, 1780-1860
It has been suggested that women were broadly excluded from the art world of the eighteenth century because of prevailing views on female taste, which considered them incapable of appreciating high art. Satirical representations of women spectators suggest a vulgar mode of art-viewing, associated …
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In Ruin Unreconciled: Women Writers and the End of the British Empire
… and historical scholarship on the roles o f women in colonial societies in the twentieth century, this dissertation examines the works o f four women writers who wrote important novels that reflect on the wider historical condition o f British imperial contraction and late colonial settler …
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A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910
… traditions. <em>A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910</em> seeks to provide a framework by which we can explore the Victorian cookbook as a literary text appropriated by writers responding to and advocating for cultural, educational, and artistic reform …
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Creating the Appalachian Woman: An Anthology of Appalachian Women Writers, 1865-1884.
<p>This anthology of nineteenth-century women’s regional fiction, written in the mode of canon revision, explores how persistent stereotypes of Appalachian women originated. These stereotypes are not merely identified but are also considered in the context of women’s studies. Works by the following …
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