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…
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“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 attempts to establish a tradition of Spanish Lay Women Writers from the early literature to the Seventeenth Century. Chapter I is divided in two sections that analyzes Feminist Criticism from a male and female perspective. Chapter II explores the origins of wom…
My dissertation focuses on the two best-known works by Clara Reeve, the novel The Old English Baron (1777) and the critical treatise The Progress of Romance (1785), reading The Progress of Romance as Reeve's effort to outline a feminine, Christianized narrative tradition to serv…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
This dissertation explores comparative representations of displacement, exile, and diaspora in twentieth-century writing by women. While numerous studies have addressed the particularities of modernist exile for male writers from Europe and the United States, far less has work h…
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 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…
Reading poetry in Yiddish, Hebrew and English from across the twentieth century, this dissertation examines how literary lineage is constructed and challenged by Jewish women in Eastern Europe, America and Mandatory Palestine. Between Jewish women's limited access to the past an…
The last thirty years have been a time of considerable change in both Canadian religious life and in Canadian women's lives, as well as in the interrelationships between the two. While Canadian society has undergone a process of increasing secularization, Canadian women have bee…
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…
My dissertation explores the socio-political effect of minority literature on the Western concept of culture and its subsequent recasting of cultural boundaries. In my examination of philosophical and literary texts, my focus is on moments of literary inter- or transculturation …
The partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the `two nation solution,' however, was accompanied by an unprecedented occurrence of mass migration to and from areas that would become…
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…
This dissertation, Careering Through the Village: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura Riding, and the Greenwich Village Poetry Market, investigates the professional strategies of two women who sought careers as American poetesses during the early 20th century. It analyzes their earli…
This dissertation examines the migratory experiences of the protagonists from four African diasporic novels: Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy (1999), Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta (1994), Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994), and The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982). …
The thesis defines Lady Mary's evolving “I am” statement from its first appearance in juvenilia to its last, novel-based. Using feminist and new historicist methods, the study penetrates a multi-voiced epistolary self to her imaginary works' personae. The early chapters are arra…
The dissertation examines the transmission of cultural values in a selection of African women's texts, written in English and published between 1966 and 1986. Focusing on a range of works by Kenyan, Nigerian and South African women, the study explores modes of memory and examine…