This thesis analyzes constructions of women holding political power in British fiction from
1870-1890. It focuses in particular on four speculative fictions that depict women ruling …

This thesis analyzes constructions of women holding political power in British fiction from
1870–1890. It focuses in particular on four speculative fictions that depict women ruling …

My dissertation project explores the interplay of gender positioning in the Victorian novel
and the ideology of imperialism governing the English nation and its colonial territories …

How many ways we read now! Sharing a common concern with nineteenthcentury literary
texts as revealers of cultural actuality, the authors of these books paint their subjects in …

My project investigates constructions of female authority in prose texts published between
1680 and 1745. By placing early fiction in its political context, I explore how female activity is …

This dissertation examines nine historical novels by nineteenth-century British and Irish
women writers: The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth; The Rockite and Derry, A Tale of the …

This project links the rhetorical and political poetics of late nineteenth-century British and
American women writers. While almost hysterical antagonism was directed toward …

75 placing the changes in maternal ideals a generation earlier, in the first half of the
eighteenth century. The Augustan preoccupation with motherhood, she argues, reflected …

This dissertation focuses on the triangulated relationship among female sexuality,
patriarchy, and empire and examines literary and historical texts to understand how Britons …

During the end of the seventeenth century, women novelists consistently portrayed their
female characters in what would later be considered non-traditional ways. These …