Browsing 2016 Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "History (UMKC)"
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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The Victorians didn’t invent the culture of mourning. But they certainly codified how the culture of grief should be one largely shouldered and sustained by women. Mourning rules for women were characterized by restraint ... -
The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, ...