Browsing Department of English by Subject "Women"
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Becomes a Woman Best: Female Prophetic Figures in Shakespeare's Plays
(2015-12-09)This dissertation argues that female characters in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, Richard III, Macbeth, and 1 Henry VI function as prophets in the style of the Old Testament. In a culture that venerates Holy ... -
DEVOTION, DOMESTICITY, AND HEALING AMONG EARLY MODERN WOMEN: WRITING RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN PERSONAL MANUSCRIPTS
(2017-11-27)The establishment of the Church of England in the sixteenth century instigated a period of turbulence as religious practices transitioned from medieval Catholicism to post-Reformation Protestantism. Protestant theology ... -
Italian American Literature and Food: A Match Made in the Kitchen A Handbook
(2018-12-10)Food is a recurrent theme in Italian American literature and authors have used it to highlight the importance of family, women, and the community at large and to teach about Italian customs to the U.S. public. Oftentimes, ... -
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 ...