Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Claybaugh, Amanda"

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    • Garden Work: The Horticultural Formation of American Literature, 1850-1930 

      Wierzbicki, Kaye Jocelyn (2014-10-21)
      Garden Work argues that American literature's sense of form developed as part of an ongoing theoretical conversation with the field of garden design. Of particular significance to American writers was a horticultural ...

    • Indignant Reading 

      Goodman, Lesley Anne (2013-09-18)
      In 1871, R. H. Hutton criticized George Eliot for "unfairly running down one of her own characters": Middlemarch's Rosamond Vincy. Hutton blamed Eliot for being cruel to her own creation and used his role as a reader and ...

    • The Miniature and Victorian Literature 

      Forsberg, Laura (2015-09-24)
      The Victorian period is famously characterized by its massiveness, with the vast extent of the British Empire, the enormous size of the nineteenth-century city and the massive scale of the three-volume novel. Yet the ...

    • Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church 

      Weimer, David E. (2016-02-29)
      Even as the Church of England lost ground to political dissent and New England gradually disestablished its state churches early in the nineteenth century, writers on both sides of the debates about church establishments ...