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“THE GOD OF THE AGE”: RELIGION AND SERVITUDE IN THE WORKS OF AUGUSTA JANE EVANS
(2016-05-16)
Despite her widespread popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, Augusta Jane Evans and her novels went largely unnoticed for most of the twentieth century. It was not until Nina Baym included a chapter on Evans in her ...
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 ...