Browsing by FAS Department "English"
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"Revenge Should Have No Bounds": Poison and Revenge in Seventeenth Century English Drama
(2015-05-11)The revenge- and poison- filled tragedies of seventeenth century England astound audiences with their language of contagion and disease. Understanding poison as the force behind epidemic disease, this dissertation considers ... -
Shakespeare and Chaucer: Influence and Authority on the Renaissance Stage
(2016-05-17)Over the course of Shakespeare’s career, plays written for the commercial theatre were increasingly being published and read as literary works. This dissertation argues that Shakespeare’s own complex response to the changing ... -
Social Science and the Realist Novel’s Turn to Character
(2018-09-06)From Marxist criticism to network theory, literary scholarship conceives of social representation in the realist novel as a function of narrative scope. In this reading, novelists illustrate our existence within a social ... -
Stages of Subscription, 1880–1930
(2017-01-05)Subscription redistricted turn-of-the-century British and Irish theater audiences in seemingly contradictory ways, alternately appealing to coteries or crowds. At a time when women, the working classes, and the Irish were ... -
Staging the Air: BBC Radio and Modern British Drama
(2018-05-12)Studies of radio drama have tended to focus on those elements that set it apart from stage drama. This dissertation argues instead that radio plays have both drawn on and influenced the twentieth-century stage. In particular, ... -
State-Funded Fictions: The NEA and the Making of American Literature After 1965
(2015-05-18)This dissertation studies the effects of a patronage institution, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program, on American literary production in the postwar era. Though American writers had long cultivated ... -
This Year in Jerusalem: Israel and the Literary Quest for Jewish Authenticity
(2016-08-29)This dissertation investigates how Israel is imagined as a literary space and setting in contemporary literature. Israel is a specific place with delineated borders, and is also networked to a whole galaxy of conversations ... -
Typical People in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
(2015-05-19)We usually encounter objects as instances: a pen, a tree, a stream. We approach them as logically subsumed. But George Eliot's Saint Theresa or Charles Dickens’s Mr. Turveydrop is not an instance of something but rather ... -
Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance
(2016-02-02)Taking as its starting point the ut pictura poesis tradition of artistic theory, this dissertation examines how the poets and dramatists of the English Renaissance transformed mimetic strategies originally developed in the ...