Browsing by Subject "Victorian"

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    • Deadly Toys: Mini Worlds and Wars, 1815-1914 
      Stover, Deanna (2020-07-08)
      This dissertation, “Deadly Toys: Mini Worlds and Wars, 1815-1914,” explores British literary representations of toy wars to argue that toy violence helps to illustrate adult-child power structures during the long nineteenth ...
    • Dressing for England: fashion and nationalism in victorian novels 
      Montz, Amy Louise (2009-05-15)
      Victorian women were not merely the symbols of nation nineteenth-century imagery would suggest in an era marked by the images of Queen Victoria and the symbolic representation of Britannia. They also were producers, ...
    • Performative Speech and Minor Characters 
      Snider, Jessi M (2020-05-15)
      This dissertation, utilizing the theories of J. L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Alex Woloch, analyzes performative speech in Victorian novels to highlight its profound illocutionary effects on minor characters ...
    • “What Kinship Should Mean:” An Examination of the Ethnic and Nationalist Themes Within Beowulf Adaptations 
      Nowka, Claire Elizabeth (2017-04-24)
      The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine Beowulf adaptations for moments in which the adapter chooses to emphasize themes of a community drawn along ethnic or national lines. These authorial choices reveal how ...