Browsing by Subject "Nineteenth Century"
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Patriarchal Physicians and Dismembered Dames: Edgar Allan Poe and Nineteenth-Century Representations of Gender
(2020-04)Patriarchal Physicians and Dismembered Dames analyzes how author Edgar Allan Poe utilizes nineteenth-century medical discourse to characterize the relationship between men and women in several of his Gothic short stories, ... -
Social Organisms: Biology and British Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
(2018)My argument is that the rise of biology at the start of the nineteenth challenged the individualism of the Enlightenment, and that it fell to the novel to enable readers to reimagine themselves in light of the resulting ... -
The Diary of Mary McKeon, an Irish American Domestic Servant in Nineteenth Century America
(2016-08-31)What did young, single, unaccompanied Irish women experience when immigrating to the United States in the late nineteenth century? In this final project, I will explore primary and secondary sources that address ...
