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Breathing in the other : enthusiasm and the sublime in eighteenth-century Britain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This project assesses enthusiasm and the sublime as important eighteenth-century phenomena for establishing the limits and bases of reason and polite discourse. My research focuses eighteenth-century and current sources to try to recover what has...
Big gorgeous jazz machine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
how the wide range of comics that fit under the umbrella of comics poetry remediate modernist practices in poetry and painting, foregrounding simultaneity and materiality over transparency and narrative. This introduction considers seminal works...
Thoreau and eastern spiritual texts: the influence of sacred sound in the writings of Henry David Thoreau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Henry David Thoreau articulated his beliefs through Eastern spiritual ideas of nature and its cycles. From his own account, he was an iconoclast and bore no one religious stamp; however, the Hindu idea that nature is our ...
Beautiful phantoms British literature, political economy, and biopolitics from 1780-1855
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation explores the literary engagement with economics from 1780-1855. These years are critical to the development of both the novel and the discipline of political economy. This dissertation builds on previous ...
Bury the key : a book of houses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
abundant evidence to the contrary. Through personal narrative, research, observation, and speculation, I tell the stories of houses and the people in them. I draw from my experience growing up in a family of homebuilders and consider subjects like history...
A banished Adam : Mark Twain and the father of the human race
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
While Mark Twain has long been viewed as irreligious, scholarship in recent years has underscored the fact that Christianity, the God of the Bible, and the Presbyterianism of his youth play an integral part in his work. ...
Sir Philip Sidney : contrasting views on the value and morality of rhetoric and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
in that strategy has to do with techniques, with the practical, business-like, craftsmanship of the orator. Psychology has to do with knowing when to use these strategic weapons, on whom, and how. The morality of rhetoric is a completely different area of concern...
The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This thesis applies Gilbert's and Gubar's feminist theory evident in The Madwoman in the Attic to the male-dominated, gender biased fantasy genre that works to support and embolden evidence of an existing "anxiety of authorship" among modern women...
Eighteenth-century sensibility and the subversive female body
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
's actions: indeed they were behaviors that marked women as feminine and that women were expected by men to perform. This allowed women a covert means through which to access and increase their power. Actions of sensibility became part of a common body-based...
This is not Dickens: fidelity, nostalgia, and adaption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
argue that fidelity discourse can be a constructive evaluative method, particularly amongst citizen critics. I also contend that contemporary filmgoers' nostalgia for the Victorian past feeds much of the fidelity discourse evident in these reviews...
Tools of a trade : guilt as a rhetorical device in conduct literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Guilt as a rhetorical device is an aspect of the study of rhetoric that is largely ignored by the academic community. It has been used effectively, as in the case of conduct literature, for a number of years and continues ...
Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Dues Rex Judaeorum has been primarily discussed by literary scholars as a protofeminist text, one that celebrates and defends female community. While such readings have illuminated Lanyer's radical ...
Comic pattern in the novels of Smollett
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
This dissertation focuses upon the disparity between the bodies of Smollett's novels and their endings. The former is set in a society which historians identify as the "real world" of eighteenth-century London, a world ...
Time-binding in African American verbal art as a salve for post-traumatic slave syndrome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
colonial/neo-colonial forces and 4) to establish a new or to reconnect African Americans to a African-based spiritual/communal worldview. By establishing continuity between the ancestral past and the present, I make the claim that verbal artisans strive...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...
The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker is a book largely unstudied by critics. Barker prepared A Collection of Poems Refering to the times ...
The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Though O. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other. One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by ...
Some English words of interest, derived from the French, based on Aiol and La Chanson de Roland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
The greater number of English words derived from French probably came into the language either in the period of intercourse between the two countries preceding the Norman conquest, or subsequent to the conquest and as a ...
Feminist Applepieville: architecture as social reform in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman used her fiction to supplement, or "flesh-out," her theories on the necessity for women's economic independence and emancipation from household work. Women's place, she believed, was alongside men ...
Composing aromanticism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The term "aromantic" describes those who experience little to no romantic attraction to other people, marking a queer identity hardly referenced in either scholarship or popular conversation. Aromanticism's obscurity doesn't ...