Browsing by Author "Ezell, Margaret"
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Jeon, Seenhwa (2012-10-19)This dissertation examines how postmodernist narratives of memory in Graham Swift's Waterland, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines retrieve the stories of those who have been lost or ...
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The Art of Cookery: A Culinary Search for Cultural and National Identity in Great Britain, 1750-1850 Schmidt, Elizabeth (2014-04-23)This thesis discusses how published cookbooks reflect the complicated attitudes toward identity in Great Britain between 1750 and 1850. Focusing on cookbooks produced as commercial products, we are able to see how gender, ...
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Ozment, Kate Elizabeth (2018-03-01)Writing from the end of the seventeenth century through the mid-eighteenth century in England, the fair triumvirate of wit—consisting of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood—are pivotal figures in the history ...
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Heil, Jacob Allen (2011-02-22)In examining examples of prologues, inductions, and choruses from early modern drama, Authors, Audiences, and Elizabethan Prologics tries to frame a more comprehensive picture of dramatists’ relationships with the plays ...
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Park, Jae Young (2012-02-14)This dissertation examines Byron's Don Juan and his attitude towards profits from the copyright money for publishing his poems. Recent studies on Don Juan and Byron have paid great attention to the poem especially in terms ...
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Dezort, Steven Michael (2017-05-08)In a popular article for History Today (2004), Mark Goldie sketches how John Locke was portrayed and received in the British and American contexts as an “icon” for liberty from the time of his death in 1704 to the present. ...
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Bose, Soham (2015-08-12)This thesis analyzes the political, social, legal and metaphysical aspects of the “black experience of incarceration” through Angela Davis’s controversial work, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2010). By concentrating on the ‘nature ...
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Hagstrom-Schmidt, Nicole E. (2019-07-09)Evidence and Epistemology in Early Modern English Drama focuses on ways of knowing in a period before the disciplinary paradigms that we use today crystallized. Operating in a period of epistemological flux, writers in ...
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Moore, Shawn William (2017-05-17)This dissertation takes a heuretic approach to the study of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), focusing on her dramatic anthology Plays, Never before Printed (1668). This dissertation argues that the ...
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Pfannkoch, Thomas Andrew (2019-05-20)This study explores practices of forgiveness in post-Reformation England in light of the rejection of the Sacrament of Penance. I argue that forgiveness for 16th-century English Protestants was a communal technology and a ...
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Kholinar, Andani (2020-07-21)In this dissertation, “An Inclusive Approach to Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century,” I use the lens of critical pedagogy and critical race theory to examine the ways teachers teach Shakespeare in American ...
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Liebe, Lauren Elizabeth (2021-06-29)Inheriting the Stage: Pre-Interregnum Drama in the Restoration is a study of the intersection of Restoration politics and the appropriation of early modern drama on stage and in print. I examine how publication, performance, ...
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Willis, Aaron Lukefahr (2009-05-15)This thesis explores reactions to the Quebec Act of 1774 in pamphlets and newspapers within Britain and the American colonies. The Quebec Act was signed by George III in June of 1774, the bill instituted French Civil Law, ...
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Van Note, Beverly Marshall (2012-10-19)This dissertation attempts to fill a void in early modern English drama studies by offering an in-depth, cross-gendered comparative study emphasizing representations of women’s discursive agency. Such an examination ...
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Garcia, Patricia Marie (2009-05-15)This study examines the role of religious poetry and pedagogy in maintaining the English Catholic community during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. English Catholics faced legal sanctions, social isolation, and ...
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Beggs, Courtney Beth (2011-10-21)This dissertation shows that early modern female playwrights were shaped by and helped to shape commercial literary marketplaces that were increasingly affected by the rise of credit, shifting exchange values, and unstable ...
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Streeter, Michael T. (2010-07-14)This thesis argues that 17th century polymath Sir Kenelm Digby treats his scientific discourses as psychological romances in his works Loose Fantasies and Two Treatises, with his use of courtly romantic tropes, and that ...
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Luna, JillianMy research looks at how the influence and importance of Shakespeare has changed throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by reviewing the popularity of works and phrases. Many studies have focused specifically ...
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Earhart, Amy; Ives, Maura; Burkart, Patrick; Ezell, Margaret; Harner, James; Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Vieira de Castro, Filipe; Morris, Jeff; Dox, Donnalee; Urbina, Eduardo; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Carpenter, B. Stephen II; Davis, Trina J.; Yadav, Manjit; Herbert, Bruce; Akleman, Ergun; Furuta, Richard; Shipman, Frank; Vedlitz, Arnold (2009)We propose the creation of a Center for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture (formerly titled Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media). The Center will address two related grand challenges: the need to investigate ...
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Baca, Michaela (2022-07-26)This work, “‘Thys boke ys myn’: Evolutions of Queenly Literary Authority, 1460-1603,” conducts a study of Tudor queens and the development of a community of queenly literary practitioners. This project examines Elizabeth ...