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  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Christman, Anne Elizabeth (creator)
Readey, Jonathan (thesis advisor)
Stewart, Michael (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Left Behind: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Obsolescence

Description:
This dissertation brings together a range of manifestos, novels, memoirs, and artworks from the first half of the 20th century to trace the emergence of …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Pisanelli, Nicholas (creator)
Bewes, Timothy (Advisor)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Critical theory
Literary theory
Avant-Garde
20th century
Literature and technology
Modernism (Art)
Marxist criticism
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
Joseph Conrad
Lamming, George, 1927-2022
Collection:
English
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Leftovers: A Critical Disability Ethic of Surviving, Healing, and Gathering

Description:
My dissertation, Leftovers: The Arts of Survival, Healing, and Gathering in the Afterfuture, attends to works by contemporary, primarily disabled, activist-artists in North America, including …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Rasch, Hilary D (creator)
Quashie, Kevin (Advisor)
Kim, Daniel (Reader)
Gandhi, Leela (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Autobiography
American poetry
disability
Disability studies
Photography
English literature
Critical Race Studies
media and performance
Chronically ill
black feminist studies
Asian Americans--Study and teaching
Tattooing
Self-help publications
Collection:
English
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Living in the Wake of Transatlantic Slavery: Trauma, Memory, and Disaster in Black Autobiographical Narratives of Disruption

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Howell, Kristin (Author)
Quashie, Kevin (thesis advisor)
Murray, Rolland (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Autobiography--African American authors
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Love and Politics in a Polarized America: Partnership, Partisanship, and Other Romantic Predicaments

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Rosenberg, Julia R. (creator)
Taylor, Elizabeth (thesis advisor)
Imbriglio, Catherine (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Love Language

Description:
long-form memoir discussing a writer's relationship to faith as the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and an atheistic professor of religion. In particular, it addresses …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
McArn, Halley (creator)
Imbriglio, Catherine (thesis advisor)
Stanley, Lawrence (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
English language--Grammar--Theory, etc.
Christianity
Autobiography
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Making a Living Poetry: The Process of Poetic Vocation in Postwar America

Description:
Making a Living Poetry investigates modern and contemporary American poetry’s reworking of the religious and romantic valences of a vocation in order to resist and …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Neilson, Jeffrey P (creator)
Gould, Philip (Director)
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Shoptaw, John (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Modern American poetry; poetics; religion and literature; pragmatism; post-secularism
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Making a Mother: Katherine Mansfield and the Childhood Origins of Domestic Womanhood

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Sciales, Joseph (Author)
Gould, Philip (thesis advisor)
Amanatidou, Elsa (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Malevolent Civility: The Victorian Novel and the Logic of Reform

Description:
This dissertation traces the emergence and development of a new model of villainy in Victorian literature and social discourse. I trace the origins of this …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Gonzalez, Khristina Faith (creator)
Armstrong, Nancy (Director)
Ryan, Vanessa (Reader)
Khalip, Jacques (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
victorian novel
social reform
Dickens
Bronte
Stoker
Hardy
Bentham
civility
Social problems
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Utilitarianism
Character
Courtesy
Hardy, Thomas > 1840-1928
Bentham, Jeremy
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Material Encounters of the English Renaissance

Description:
This dissertation begins with the observation that, during the English Renaissance, matter was a multivalent term, which could refer to the phenomenal world as well …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Beaver, James C (creator)
Kahn, Coppélia (Director)
Feerick, Jean (Reader)
Foley, Stephen (Reader)
Yates, Julian (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
English Renaissance; material culture; Bruno Latour; rhetoric; humanism
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Miscegenated Genres: Interracial Form and the Politics of National Futurity in 1990s Asian American and African American Fiction

Description:
This dissertation investigates the relationship between recent literary paradigms of interethnic repetition and the notion that the U.S. is moving toward a "post-racial" future. Through …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Lee, Wendy A (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Director)
Murray, Rolland (Reader)
Chow, Rey (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Contemporary American fiction
Asian American studies
African American studies
comparative ethnic studies
Asian Americans--Study and teaching
African-American studies
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Not the End for All: Nonhuman Voices in the 21st Century Postapocalyptic Novel

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Ogita, Minako (Author)
Egan, James (thesis advisor)
George, Olakunle (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Apocalyptic fiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Oath of the Downhill

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Metzger, Bria (creator)
Egan, James (thesis advisor)
Schapira, Kate (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Only in Queens: Stories from Life as a New York Mets Fan

Description:
"Only In Queens" begins "The first thing to know about Mets fans is that most of us are insane." From there, it's all downhill. But …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Schapiro, James N. (creator)
Imbriglio, Catherine (thesis advisor)
Taylor, Elizabeth (reader)
Readey, Jon (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Sports
Baseball
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Ordinary Subjects: Being British, the Border and the Bildungsroman.

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
Collection:
English
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Our Kind of Seriousness: The Reintegration of Judgment in Contemporary American Culture

Description:
My dissertation attends both philosophically and historically to the affect of seriousness in contemporary American culture. It focuses specifically on expressions and performances of seriousness, …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Actis, Andrea Camille (creator)
Khalip, Jacques (Advisor)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Smailbegović, Ada (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Affect theory
American literature
Feminism and literature
Poetics
Philosophy and religion--History of doctrines
Critical Race Studies
Collection:
English
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Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Republic, 1776-1865

Description:
This dissertation?"Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Republic, 1776-1870"? explores the relationship between early American literature and the political philosophy of federalism in …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Holt, Kerin (creator)
Gould, Philip (director)
Egan, James (reader)
Armstrong, Nancy (reader)
Nabers, Deak (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
federalism
American literature
Federal government
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Out of Time: Sentimentalism and Temporality in Long Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Description:
This dissertation examines sentimentalism, the body, and time in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction, focusing in particular on the work of Charles Brockden Brown, …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Beach, Matthew Allen (creator)
Gould, Philip (Advisor)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Egan, James (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Disability studies
pain
Affect theory
American literature
Sentimentalism
temporality
body
Time
african american literature
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932
Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
nineteenth-century american literature
Sympathy in literature
Optimism
exhaustion
Historiography
Collection:
English
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Owning Renunciation: Studies in the "Spirit" of Non-Attachment

Description:
This is a dissertation about renunciation in seventeenth-century English texts. Specifically, it is about how renunciation functioned as a measure of civility in English Protestant …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Piduri, Goutam (creator)
Gandhi, Leela (Advisor)
Rambuss, Richard (Reader)
Reichman, Ravit (Reader)
Bains, Tiraana (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Early Modern England,
Postcolonial Studies
Renunciation
Non-Attachment
Brome, Richard, -1652?
Traherne, Thomas, -1674
East India Company
Eliot, John, 1604-1690
Protestantism
Capitalism--Religious aspects--Protestant churches
Collection:
English
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Pained Measures: Forms of Suffering in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne

Description:
Without reliable medical treatment or pain relief, early modern sufferers read and wrote about illness with even greater urgency than sufferers do today. For Edmund …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Tabak, Jessica L (creator)
Rambuss, Richard (Director)
Kahn, Coppelia (Reader)
Kuzner, James (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
medical humanities
early modern literature
disability studies
Spenser
Shakespeare
Donne
affect theory
Collection:
English
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