Hermione Lee attempts to find the truth about the life of one of the great writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, looking at her art, her madness and her death.
The work of nineteenth-century American poet Phoebe Cary presents a complex puzzle of exigence and purpose that combines social structure, political climate, and personal history. Known for her somber and spiritual sentimental poetry, Cary shocked readers and reviewers alike whe…
This dissertation examines transatlantic women writers and how they chart historiographies of literary trauma. Toni Morrison, Ahdaf Soueif, and Louise Erdrich create narratives of loss and death and commence their stories from sites of traumatic departures. Morrison, Soueif, and…
Since the beginning of recorded history, women have often been relegated to the roles of wife and mother. As such, the workforce has been largely a male-dominated arena; exceptions given for occupations that men viewed as too feminine, such as nurses and educators. Despite many …
The main question we set out to answer in this dissertation is: can Gabrielle de Coignard’s outlook, as perceived through her OEuvres chrestiennes, be described as hedonistic and, if so, to what extent?
“It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918–1958)” argues for a feminist reconsideration of strategic humor in popular women’s novels. Spanning the decades between the first successful suffrage laws in Britain and the United States…
This dissertation demonstrates how nineteenth-century American authors deployed woman-centered fictional narratives to interrogate the rise of materialist epistemology brought about by scientific professionalization. Professionalization, which peaked in the 1840s, transformed Am…
This study focuses on identity formation in three contemporary Arab American women's novels: Alicia Frian's Towelhead , a text written specifically for young adults, Laila Halaby's West of the Jordan , a novel that has been read and embraced by Arab American young adults, and Ev…
This thesis is a study of the British writer Anna Kavan (1901-1968). It begins by tracing Kavan’s life and examining the mythologies around her radical selfreinvention (in adopting the name of her own fictional character), madness and drug addiction. It attempts to map a place f…
The goal of this study was to discover the actual changes in Tunisian women's perception of their role in the family and society through an examination of literary works, in Arabic, of contemporary Tunisian women writers. The study traced the development of the expression of Tun…
Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consum…
Since 1947, the relationship between India and Pakistan has been filled with tension, rooted in a series of land partitions, religious and ethnic violence, racial-based caste and tribal segregation, and repetitive wars over nuclear weapons. The narratives of both nations, the wa…
El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…
Professor and Playwright Dr. Tess Onwueme is a powerful literary voice focusing on the issues affecting women and families in Africa and its diaspora. With the publication of her first play, A Hen Too Soon (1983), a fresh voice was added to challenge traditional beliefs that end…