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Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon
(2018-11-27)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public role of women shifted dramatically. Women asserted themselves in politics, education, and work in a way foreign to their Victorian predecessors. Although ...
DEVOTION, DOMESTICITY, AND HEALING AMONG EARLY MODERN WOMEN: WRITING RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN PERSONAL MANUSCRIPTS
(2017-11-27)
The establishment of the Church of England in the sixteenth century instigated a period of turbulence as religious practices transitioned from medieval Catholicism to post-Reformation Protestantism. Protestant theology ...
Becomes a Woman Best: Female Prophetic Figures in Shakespeare's Plays
(2015-12-09)
This dissertation argues that female characters in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, Richard III, Macbeth, and 1 Henry VI function as prophets in the style of the Old Testament. In a culture that venerates Holy ...