English Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the English department.

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Description:: Against readings of certain World Literature writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Vladimir Nabokov that too quickly aestheticize them in order to privilege a universality of …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Tan, Jerrine Ee-Wen (creator); Kim, Daniel (Advisor); Burrows, Stuart (Reader); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
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Subject:: Literature; Feminism and literature; Contemporary Literature
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Description:: This dissertation examines the metaphorical relationship between home and nation in the twentieth-century English novel. It considers existing theoretical engagements with how nations are narrated, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Rutkowska, Urszula (creator); Reichman, Ravit (Advisor); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
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Subject:: English literature; Forster; Bowen, Elizabeth; Selvon, Samuel; Kamila Shamsie
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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:: As one of history’s greatest losers pointed out, the adage that history is written by the victors “sounds like an order and surely originated with …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Ciccone, Fabrizio (creator); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Reichman, Ravit (Advisor); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Honig, Bonnie (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
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Subject:: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fascism; Great Depression; World War II; Cinema; Political theory; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975; Comedy films; Humorous fiction; Irish literature; Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009); Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in motion pictures; Satire; Capra, Frank, 1897-1991; Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947; Burns, Anna, 1962-; Riley, Boots; Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977; Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018; Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941-; English fiction--Irish authors; Film noir
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Description:: This dissertation argues that depletive affective experiences engendered by reading are crucial for understanding the formal innovations of the Mid-Victorian novel. Unlike their 18th-century predecessors, …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Simundich, Joel Peter (creator); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: victorian literature; English literature; Affect theory
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