English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Affecting Labors: The Novel and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Production traces the emergence of a set of negative affects in literature written in the last …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Ramamurthy, Rithika (creator); Anderson, Amanda (Advisor); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Copjec, Joan (Reader); Kornbluh, Anna (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Literary theory; victorian literature; British literature; Affect theory; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Marxist criticism; Cultural theory; James, Henry, 1843-1916
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Description:: This dissertation undertakes an examination of the role of monolithic national ‘ordinariness’ in the fin de siècle Bildungsroman. It offers a new reading of the …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Stefanik, Eleanor (creator); Katz, Tamar (Advisor); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Scarry, Elaine (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Immigration; Nationalism; British literature; English literature; Literature and transnationalism; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Bildungsromans; Race and Ethnicity; Postcolonial Studies; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986; Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
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Description:: This dissertation project began as an investigation of the moral, sociological, and material dimensions of George Eliot’s literary realism. Scholars of Victorian literature have long …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Kim, Peter Hyun (creator); Redfield, Marc (Advisor); Richter, Gerhard (Reader); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863; Middlemarch (Eliot, George); Adam Bede (Eliot, George); Silas Marner (Eliot, George); Barry Lyndon (Thackeray, William Makepeace)
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Description:: Describes the curious, personable, and ironic narrators of Emma, by Jane Austen; The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, by George Eliot; and Howards End, …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Michaud, Paul (creator); Parker, Benjamin (thesis advisor); Armstrong, Paul (reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Irony; ironic; narrator; narratology; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970; Lukács, György, 1885-1971; Booth, Wayne C.
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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