English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Block, Daniel Robert (creator); Keach, William (Director); Khalip, Jacques (Reader); Bernstein, Susan (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: British Romanticism; affect studies; Hume; Wordsworth; Scott; Keats; Historiography; Wordsworth, William; Scott, Walter > 1771-1832
Language:: English
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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; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: “Questionable Histories and the Aesthetic of Historiography from Shakespeare to Milton,” examines the aesthetic and political consequences of standardizing history writing during the period of …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Madani, Ali (creator); Newman, Karen (Advisor); Rambuss, Richard (Reader); Lesser, Zachary (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Historiography; literary history; Historical fiction; English literature--Early modern; Renaissance; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Milton, John, 1608-1674; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Paradise lost (Milton, John); Editing
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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