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"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 ...
"If the heart be moved": the triumph of the heart in Milton, Herbert, and Donne

Perdue, Cori Miller (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

John Milton, George Herbert, and John Donne all struggle to hold onto the heart as the center of man and the place of inspiration and volition. In the seventeenth century, four intertwined challenges to how people think ...
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 ...
Imagining the South: the function of “Dixie” in the United States from 1960-2017

Murray, William P. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This project takes an interdisciplinary approach and explores how the United States used the “South” to protect and project imagined white innocence from 1960-2017. The dissertation intersects with other Southern-focused ...
The Influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge During the Years 1797-1810

Mayfield, Sara (University of Alabama Libraries, 1931)

"Say quick,"quoth he, "I bid thee say – What manner of man art thou?"
Intuition and authority: literary expression and scientific communication

Emerson, Daniel Geoffrey (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

In my dissertation, I investigate how images—whether pictorial, poetic, or narrative—determine and change human intuitions about the natural world. I argue that by adopting form and content from one another, literary and ...
"It is a privilege to see so much confusion": Marianne Moore and revision

Whisenhunt, Eloise Arnold (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Marianne Moore's Complete Poems is not complete; it contains sixty-six poems, which is about one-third of her published work. What has not been omitted has, in most cases, been revised. Such acts of expurgation and ...
Kindred ambivalence: art and the adult-child dynamic in America's Cold War

Marberry, Michael Odell (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The pervasive ideological dimension of the Cold War resulted in an extremely ambivalent period in U.S. history, marked by complex and conflicting feelings. Nowhere is this ambivalence more clearly seen than in the American ...
King of America

Rutherford, Curtis Lance (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This is a collection of poetry and prose by Curtis Rutherford. The majority of this manuscript was written between April 2010 and February 2011.
La mandragola

Crawford, Jacob Andrew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

The current best-selling bilingual edition of Machiavelli’s plays, The Comedies of Machiavelli, edited by David Sices and James B. Atkinson, contains several errors, mistranslations, and historical inaccuracies. Though ...
Landscapes of memory: the cartography of longing

Strong, Frances Justina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Landscapes of Memory: The Cartography of Longing examines three disparate twentieth century writers--Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Virginia Woolf--who use similar fictive strategies for the reclamation and revision ...
“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 ...
"Like life in excrements": natural philosophy, hair, and the limits of the body's vitality in early modern English thought

Geisweidt, Edward James (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This study focuses on early modern understandings of hair as a means to investigate English thought about life, the soul, identity, and the place of the human in the natural world. Hair is a useful body part for exploring ...
Lost in the rift: exploring the rhetoric of immersion and identity in virtual realities

Berge, Peter Sverre (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Rhetorical games scholarship over the past two decades has demonstrated an elaborate fascination with the resonance between players and their digital avatars in the discourse surrounding video games and virtual realities. ...
“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 ...
Making past present: Henry V in contemporary performance

Jobe, Alaina Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Traditionally, Shakespeare's Henry V is viewed as either pro- or anti-war, but the play actually revels in its own political ambiguity. Thus, in order to make some sort of socio-political statement, directors have to, in ...
Making quality contact in the writing center: a collective case study of the relation between writing consultants' discourse community knowledge and genre knowledge

Kane, Erin Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Since the first writing centers were established on college and university campuses, their directors have struggled to convince others of the writing center's role as more than a "fix-it shop" for editing mistakes. Given ...

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