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Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, I argue some contemporary authors intermingle modes of satire and transparency to encourage a twenty-first century reading ...
(Re)Contextualizing gender representation in Hamlet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation "(Re)Contextualizing Gender Representation in Hamlet" argues that all Hamlets reflect their historically specific gender crisis, which ...
Modalities of literacy and Anglo-Saxon interpretive cultures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation focuses on the reception of Anglo-Saxon texts in both Anglo-Saxon and Reformation England. Its four case studies span developments ...
Into the forest: reading trees in nineteenth-century American literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Nineteenth-century American nature writing considers nature from the multiple perspectives of the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction landscapes. ...
The theology of Lancelot Andrewes's Wonderfull Combate
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Since his death in 1626, Lancelot Andrewes has been constantly interpreted as a "Caroline divine." This misleading interpretation (Andrewes was alive ...
British women novelists and the review periodical, 1790-1820 /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Between 1790 and 1820, women published more novels than men -- unlike any period before or after. It is remarkable that women assumed dominant authorship ...
Show-me ambiguity : an ethnographic study of Missouri Civil War reenactment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This thesis examines Civil War reenactment as it is practiced and performed by residents of Missouri. Using fieldwork (interviews and participant observation) conducted by the researcher at reenactment events, the thesis ...
Thundering out of the shadow: modernism and identity in the novels of Felipe Alfau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Felipe Alfau (1902-1999), a Spanish novelist who lived in the United States, was forgotten for many years. Critics writing on Alfau in the late 1980s and early 1990s argued for the literary value of his novels by comparing ...
The miniature room
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This collection of original poems is entitled The Miniature Room, at least in part to reflect its attempt at mining even the smallest detail for a larger truth. The poems themselves, brief and lyric in nature, function as ...
Michelangelo's seizure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The following is a book of poems based on the lives of several classic and contemporary painters, including Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Magritte and many others. While the poems participate ...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Of the Burning" is a hybrid collection of nonfiction essays and sermon-poems. The narrative threads weaved through the collection include original ...
A subject so shocking: the female sex offender in Richardson's Clarissa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Richardson's Clarissa is notable for the shocking rape of it's title character, but what is often critically overlooked about the plot is the presence of female accomplices during the crime. Clarissa's recollection of the ...
Souvenirs of America: American gift books, 1825-1840
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Token and The Atlantic Souvenir, two of the most popular and successful American gift books between 1825 and 1840, balance claims about the merit and possibility of American literature and art while exploring Americans' ...
This is not Dickens: fidelity, nostalgia, and adaption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
In this project, I examine the responses of filmgoers to three adaptations of Victorian novels: Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005), Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist (2005), and Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations (1998). ...
Reflective gazes: character and audience perception in Wycherley's the Plain Dealer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
In his final dramatic work, William Wycherley eschews the typical standards of Restoration comedy in order to provide his audience with more than just a few good laughs and a reassuring message of social superiority. Instead ...
Assembling comics : the house style and legacy of RAW books and graphics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to construct a narrative history of the founding and development of RAW Books and Graphics while providing a critical ...
When the evening comes : a novel, and And it begins like this : essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
When the Evening Comes explores African American experience in the rural North Carolina south. The book centers around the interracial relationship of two characters--Ben Groves and Mary Holden--after they find the body ...
Escalations : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The stories in "Escalations" cover a range of formal and dramatic content and operate on a sliding scale with regards to realism and surrealism: a woman ...
Perspective : cultural contexts, little magazines, and networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "This essay has surveyed a broad swath of criticism of little magazines, established both critical and cultural contexts for Perspective, assessed ...
Narrative as archive : ethno-historical paratexts in British literature, 1760-1830
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Narrative as Archive contributes to the small-but-growing body of scholarship on paratexts -- specifically footnotes -- in imaginative literatures of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. I argue that these ...