English Theses and Dissertations

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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
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Abstract of “The Anatomy of Suspense: Rethinking the Victorian Bildungsroman” by Suzy Soomin Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2023 This dissertation argues that the British …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Kim, Suzy Soomin (creator); Anderson, Amanda (Advisor); Armstrong, Paul (Reader); Parker, Ben (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: victorian literature; British literature; novel studies; Nineteenth century; Narrative Theory; Bildungsromans; Suspense fiction
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation explores the transpersonal forms of thinking and feeling that became imaginable in the nineteenth century, when Victorian literature and science together defined the …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Summerhays, Rebecca (creator); Armstrong, Nancy (Director); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Reichman, Ravit (Reader); Ryan, Vanessa (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Victorian fiction; history of the novel; Literature and science; Evolution; Natural theology; Neurosciences; Impulse; Bildungsromans; Domestic fiction
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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