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The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature
… be referred to in this paper as the "Domestic Heroine"--was not only an embodiment of Victorian ideals of domesticity; she was also a literary descendant of the same spirited heroine featured in the adult genre of domestic fiction, from the early half of the nineteenth-century. This paper will …
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Margaret Laurence's treatment of the heroine.
Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1972 .P37. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1972.
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From single mom to supermom : a transformative journey to heroine.
Research tells us that poverty rates are higher for female-headed households compared to other household makeups. Furthermore, women with children are more likely to live in extreme poverty, and over half of all poor children live in families headed by women. The impact of poverty housing is …
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Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics
… and how sexism shaped them. From the earliest heroines of the 40s, the ground-breaking feminist indie comics of the 70s, and the rampant female sexualization of the 90s, examples of brilliance and drudgery will be investigated in order to gain a better understanding of how comics became what …
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Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless
… Haywood present alternate endings for a virtuous heroine tempted by sex and trapped by domestic politics. The different fates of Clarissa Harlowe and Betsy Thoughtless result from not only the difference between tragedy and comedy, but from the differing views of temptation. I wish to investigate …
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The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
… the use of character transformation in her heroines, Jane Austen uses marriage plot novels to romantically idealize the role of being a wife. In particular, heroines Catherine Morland, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse lose autonomy and become more limited within their …
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Esther and the Maccabees: The Creation of a Hellenist Jewish Heroine
<p>The Book of Esther maintains many enigmatic qualities when compared against the other books within the canon of the Hebrew Bible. These unique characteristics stretch through its characters, its developed literary style, and the ideology it espouses. Academics often address individual issues in …
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
<p>This project examines the psychosomatic heroine, a character type I observe emerging throughout the long eighteenth-century who responds to social, domestic, and personal pressures and stressors with mental and emotional preoccupations that lead to physiological symptoms. I demonstrate through …
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The Evolution of The Lone Heroine in The Novels of Ellen Glasgow
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7708994.pdf: 10393082 bytes, checksum: 1e6d53e94d216aea9e718753f2097b1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Between Two Worlds: A Study of the Heroine in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell
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The public school teacher as national hero/heroine in the decade of the 1980's
… teacher in the social role of national hero/heroine in the decade of the 1980's. Using historical background which highlights the traditional attitudes of United States' society toward the school and teacher, the phenomenon of the teacher as a national hero figure in the 1980's is examined. …
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On the Edge of a Knife; The Early Migration into Middle Tennessee and the Heroine Charlotte Reeves Robertson
<p>Curriculum Vitae x-xi</p> <p><strong>Introduction: The Basis for the Study</strong></p> <p> After I chose to write about my distant relative Charlotte Reeves Robertson, my initial research identified a wealth of information on the subject herself as well as on fascinating early Tennessee …
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