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Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon
(2018-11-27)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public role of women shifted dramatically. Women asserted themselves in politics, education, and work in a way foreign to their Victorian predecessors. Although ...
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916
(2017-05-05)
This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ...
POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES
(2021-08-16)
This dissertation applies posthuman theories to the concept of nurture in American literatures of 1880-1920 and 1980-2020 to explore how writers construct and imagine futurities that increasingly critique the liberal ...