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The Weckerlin Family’s Commitment to a Monastic Vow: Medieval Bookmaking in Nineteenth-Century Alsace
(Benedictine Sisters - Mount St. Scholastica, 2016)This article examines the 1887 Weckerlin illuminated manuscript housed at Mount St. Scholastica, a Benedictine convent in Atchinson Kansas. -
Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)Francis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of ... -
Critical Realism and the Biographical Film Project
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)This paper explores aspects of a critical realist approach that have practical application to biographical documentary filmmaking as an ontological and methodological guide in the planning, production, and editing processes. ... -
“I Cannot Rule Myself” The Pitfalls of Sensibility in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
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Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)It has long been debated whether the scientific writing of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) provided the seeds for the theory of evolution. Scholars have argued both sides with equal passion. German biologist ...