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"A scene acting that argument": rhetorical revision in Shakespeare's Henriad

Chatham, Bretton Hughes (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In this thesis, I read Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, also known as the Henriad, and examine how King Henry IV revises the history of Richard II in subsequent plays. Henry must revise his rise to the throne in order to ...
Black feminist utopianism and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

Patel, Megha D. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

The feminist utopia was a prominent literary genre for women writers throughout the 1900s. Otherworldly separatist societies in novels such as Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Female Man (1975) by Joanna ...
Burning blushes, weeping water: the perversion of nature and its relation to female agency in Shakespeare’s A Lover’s Complaint

Leisentritt, Emma Eileen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Scholarship on Shakespeare’s enigmatic, female-voiced narrative poem A Lover’s Complaint, which first appeared in the 1609 edition of the Sonnets, often revolves around attempting to definitively determine the poem’s ...
Carnival incarnate: maternal bodies in medieval and early modern literature

Winn, Catherine Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

The female body has long been a contested site of conflict between the sexes, and it has been manipulated, unmade, and reformed many times since the earliest physicians first theorized a model of human anatomy. Common ...
"creeping into the conversation": tracing hip hop literature from margin to center

Dente, Shahara'Tova V. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In “Creeping into the Conversation,” I examine canonical texts from the African American Literary Tradition, including Ann Petry’s The Street (1946) and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), alongside contemporary, oft ...
Engaging the disengaged: detracking English education for 9th and 10th grade students

Kusta, Charly Porter (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This critical ethnographic qualitative case study uses a critical theory lens to discover the implications of academic tracking in a southeastern secondary school and to explore detracking English education for historically ...
Fates of the Hetzerin: the Hetzerin archetype in Beowulf

Pate, Tera Katherine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This thesis argues that the women in Beowulf are constructed as hetzerin, or women who provoke their will, an archetype originating in Norse myth, though Beowulf’s hetzerinnen differ from their Norse analogues due to a ...
God save the queens: interrogating “englishness” through allegory in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and George Macdonald’s Phantastes

Bell, Haden L. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

In 1936, C.S. Lewis published a comprehensive study of medieval love allegory through the ages, culminating in an analysis of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1596). While Lewis’s methodological approach to Spenser’s ...
Hands and seals: ciphered politics in early modern women's writing

DeFurio, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Ciphered Politics offers a history of women’s secret politicking in the early modern period by tracing the practice across literary genres and neglected archival materials. The book includes studies of more than forty ...
"Hear my voice": stories of black women and girls in a historic black town

Holloway, Margaret (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This dissertation uses oral history methodology and grounded theory methods to analyze and examine the stories of Black women and girls from the historic Black town of Hobson City, Alabama with the purpose of recovering ...
"I don't know what I would do but for writing": authorship and the diary of Susan Warner (1850-3)

Lamar, Anne Franklin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Susan Bogert Warner is best known for her novel The Wide, Wide World (1850), a work of domestic fiction that was second only to Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) in its nineteenth-century popularity. In the months before ...
"I will not cease from mental fight": William Blake's Milton and the process of adaptation

Powell, Jared N. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Critics have long pondered William Blake's relationship to his literary predecessors. As both a visual and verbal artist, Blake had a bulk of precedence and tradition at his disposal. Many scholars focus on Blake's ...
Images of race and the influence of abolition in jane eyre and wuthering heights

Tolbert, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s masterpieces, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, respectively, reflect the sisters’ life-long investment in the abolitionist movement. Despite being written over a decade post-abolition, the ...
“Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude”: masculinity and the texts of doctor faustus

Bell, Charles Nathaniel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This thesis is an examination of masculinity in Doctor Faustus that pays special attention to editorial theory and the complicated textual history of Christopher Marlowe’s play, which exists in two substantially different ...
“Madmen and fools": mental illness and disability in Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling

McNamee, Hope Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

Criticism of The Changeling, while abundant, has historically either neglected the madhouse subplot or treated it as a symbolic reflection of the main plot. While some scholars have examined the historical context of the ...
Madness, the supernatural, and child murder in tragedy

Hutchison, Gennifer Arwen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Child murder in modern American drama draws heavily from Greek tragic traditions, both stylistically and thematically. The number of playwrights (and authors) who have chosen to include infanticide in their works in both ...
"Make several kingdoms of this monarchy": place and identity in early modern drama

Ferretti, Alexandra Stewart (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In the phenomenological theory of space and place, best articulated by Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Casey, J.E. Malpas, and Michel de Certeau, an individual’s experiences inscribe a space (or an undifferentiated area) and make it a ...
Mass media critique in Charles Dickens’s "Martin Chuzzlewit" and William North’s "The City of Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls"

Kjoss, Victor (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

The Victorian period is arguably the era when the mass media was born. In the nineteenth century, a myriad of factors allowed newspaper circulations to increase substantially and transformed the paper from something that ...
“Orlando had become a woman”: trans embodiment and temporality in Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Beers, Morgan Danielle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

The protagonist in Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, Orlando, has continually drawn the attention of feminist and queer theorists as a model for the subversive role androgyny and transsexuality can play regarding dominant ...
Scholarly figures and the conventions of mockery on the early modern English stage

Nollert, Theodore (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

In this paper, I argue for the existence of a pervasive atmosphere of hostility toward knowledge workers in early modern England. My evidence consists of plays by Brome, Chapman, Heywood, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Sharpham; ...

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