The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Muslim Cultural Resistance, Ibtisam M. Abujad

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Speculative Escapism in Contemporary Fantasy: Labor, Utility, Affect, Liamog Seamus Drislane

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AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITING: A CRITICAL EDITION OF A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF MRS. NANCY PRINCE (1856), Susan E. Landwer

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Disillusionment and Domesticity in Mid-20th-Century British Catholic Literature, Catherine Simmerer

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A LIBERATED WEST?: FEMALE AUTHORS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF THE "REAL AND THE FANTASIZED" ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, Amanda Diane Zastrow

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Lifting the Postmodern Veil: Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Decolonization in Global Fictions of the 21st Century, Matthew Burchanoski

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Gothic Transformations and Remediations in Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Wendy Fall

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Milton’s Learning: Complementarity and Difference in Paradise Lost, Peter Spaulding

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“The Development of the Conceptive Plot Through Early 19th-Century English Novels”, Jannea R. Thomason

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Gonzo Eternal, John Francis Brick

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Intertextuality and Sociopolitical Engagement in Contemporary Anglophone Women’s Writing, Jackielee Derks

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Innovation, Genre, and Authenticity in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel, David Aiden Kenney II

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Reluctant Sons: The Irish Matrilineal Tradition of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Flann O’Brien, Jessie Wirkus Haynes

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Britain's Extraterrestrial Empire: Colonial Ambition, Anxiety, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Literature, Mark Edward Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse, Hailey Whetten

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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When the Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, and Spatial Identities in the Twentieth Century, Danielle Kristene Clapham

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Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Problem Novels, Hunter Nicole Duncan

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Genre and Loss: The Impossibility of Restoration in 20th Century Detective Fiction, Kathryn Hendrickson

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A Productive Failure: Existentialism in Fin de Siècle England, Maxwell Patchet

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Inquiry and Provocation: The Use of Ambiguity in Sixteenth-Century English Political Satire, Jason James Zirbel

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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No Home but the World: Forced Migration and Transnational Identity, Justice Hagan

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The City As a Trap: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and the American Myth of Mobility, Andrew Joseph Hoffmann

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The Fantastic and the First World War, Brian Kenna

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Insane in the Brain, Blood, and Lungs: Gender-Specific Manifestations of Hysteria, Chlorosis, & Consumption in 19th-Century Literature, Anna P. Scanlon

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Reading Multicultural Novels Melancholically: Racial Grief and Grievance in the Joy Luck Club, Beloved, and Anil's Ghost, Jennifer Arias Sweeney

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The Ethos of Dissent: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Democratic Function of American Protest and Countercultural Literature, Jeffrey Lorino Jr

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Literary Cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy, Sunil Samuel Macwan

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The View from Here: Toward a Sissy Critique, Tyler Monson

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The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity and Anglophone Women War Writers of the Great War, Sareene Proodian

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Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots, Adrianne A. Wojcik

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, Bryan Gast

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Gendering Scientific Discourse from 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet, Bridget E. Kapler

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Discarding Dreams and Legends: The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty, Katy L. Leedy

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Saving the Grotesque: The Grotesque System of Liberation in British Modernism (1922-1932), Matthew Henningsen

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The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics in the American Renaissance, Michael William Keller

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A Single Man of Good Fortune: Postmodern Identities and Consumerism in the New Novel of Manners, Bonnie McLean

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Julian of Norwich: Voicing the Vernacular, Therese Elaine Novotny

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Homecomings: Victorian British Women Travel Writers And Revisions Of Domesticity, Emily Paige Blaser

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From Pastorals to Paterson: Ecology in the Poetry and Poetics of William Carlos WIlliams, Daniel Edmund Burke

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Argument in Poetry: (Re)Defining the Middle English Debate in Academic, Popular, and Physical Contexts, Kathleen R. Burt

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Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England, Steven A. Hackbarth

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The Creation of Heaven in the Middle Ages, William Storm

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(re)making The Gentleman: Genteel Masculinities And The Country Estate In The Novels Of Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, And Elizabeth Gaskell, Shaunna Kay Wilkinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, and Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives of Teenage Girls in the 1940s, Carly Anger

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Placed People: Rootedness in G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry, David Harden

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Rhetorics Of Girlhood Trauma In Writing By Holly Goddard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, And Jamaica Kincaid, Stephanie Marie Stella

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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A Victorian Christmas in Hell: Yuletide Ghosts and Necessary Pleasures in the Age of Capital, Brandon Chitwood

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"Be-Holde the First Acte of this Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis and Cross-Pollination in Jacobean Drama and the Early Modern Prose Novella, Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith

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Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, and Revisions that Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Jarrod Hurlbert

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Violence and Masculinity in American Fiction, 1950-1975, Magdalen McKinley

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Gender Politics in the Novels of Eliza Haywood, Susan Muse

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Destabilizing Tradition: Gender, Sexuality, and Postnational Identity in Four Novels by Irish Women, 1960-2000, Sarah Nestor

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Truth Telling: Testimony and Evidence in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, Rebecca Parker Fedewa

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Spirit of the Psyche: Carl Jung's and Victor White's Influence on Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, Paul Wakeman

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Performing the Audience: Constructing Playgoing in Early Modern Drama, Eric Dunnum

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Paule Marshall's Critique of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through the Trope of Travel, Michelle Miesen Felix

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Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis and the Renaissance Epic, Denna Iammarino-Falhamer

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Encompassing the Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, and Inscription in the Fiction of John McGahern, John Keegan Malloy

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Regional Consciousness in American Literature, 1860-1930, Kelsey Louise Squire

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The Ethics of Ekphrasis: The Turn to Responsible Rhetoric in Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetry, Joshua Scott Steffey

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Cognitive Architectures: Structures of Passion in Joanna Baillie's Dramas, Daniel James Bergen

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On Trial: Restorative Justice in the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley Family Fictions, Colleen M. Fenno

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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What's the point to eschatology : multiple religions and terminality in James Joyce's Finnegans wake, Martin R. Brick

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Economizing Characters: Harriet Martineau and the Problems of Poverty in Victorian Literature, Culture and Law, Mary Colleen Willenbring

Submissions from 2008

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"An improbable fiction": The marriage of history and romance in Shakespeare's Henriad, Marcia Eppich-Harris

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Bearing the Mark of the Social: Notes Towards a Cosmopolitan Bildungsroman, Megan M. Muthupandiyan

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The Gothic Novel and the Invention of the Middle-Class Reader: Northanger Abbey As Case Study, Tenille Nowak

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Not Just a Novel of Epic Proportions: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man As Modern American Epic, Dana Edwards Prodoehl

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Recovering the Radicals: Women Writers, Reform, and Nationalist Modes of Revolutionary Discourse, Mark J. Zunac

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Amy M. Amendt-Raduege

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The Games Men Play: Madness and Masculinity in Post-World War II American Fiction, 1946-1964, Thomas P. Durkin

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Denise Levertov: Through An Ecofeminist Lens, Katherine A. Hanson

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The Wit of Wrestling: Devotional-Aesthetic Tradition in Christina Rossetti's Poetry, Maria M.E. Keaton

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Genderless Bodies: Stigma and the Myth of Womanhood, Ellen M. Letizia

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Envy and Jealousy in the Novels of the Brontës: A Synoptic Discernment, Margaret Ann McCann

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Technologies of the Late Medieval Self: Ineffability, Distance, and Subjectivity in the Book of Margery Kempe, Crystal L. Mueller

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"Finding-- a Map-- to That Place Called Home": The Journey from Silence to Recovery in Patrick McCabe's Carn and Breakfast on Pluto, Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier

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Emily Dickinson's Ecocentric Pastoralism, Moon-ju Shin

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The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature, Jacob Hadley Stratman

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Literary Art in Times of Crisis: The Proto-Totalitarian Anxiety of Melville, James, and Twain, Matthew J. Darling

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(Re) Writing Genre: Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

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"Amsolookly Kersse": Clothing in Finnegan's Wake, Catherine Simpson Kalish

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"Do Your Will": Shakespeare's Use of the Rhetoric of Seduction in Four Plays, Jason James Nado

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Woman in Emblem: Locating Authority in the Work and Identity of Katherine Philips (1632-1664), Susan L. Stafinbil

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When the Bough Breaks: Poetry on Abortion, Wendy A. Weaver

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Heroic Destruction: Shame and Guilt Cultures in Medieval Heroic Poetry, Karl E. Boehler

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Poe and Early (Un)American Drama, Amy C. Branam

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Grammars of Assent: Constructing Poetic Authority in An Age of Science, William Myles Carroll III

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This Place is Not a Place: The Constructed Scene in the Works of Sir Walter Scott, Colin J. Marlaire

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Cognitive Narratology: A Practical Approach to the Reader-Writer Relationship, Debra Ann Ripley

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Defoe and the Pirates: Function of Genre Conventions in Raiding Narratives, William J. Dezoma

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Creative Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novel, Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty

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Exclusionary Politics: Mourning and Modernism in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew, Donna Decker Schuster

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Toward a Re-Formed Confession: Johann Gerhard's Sacred Meditations and "Repining Restlessnesse" in the Poetry of George Herbert, Erik P. Ankerberg

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Idiographic Spaces: Representation, Ideology and Realism in the Postmodern British Novel, Gordon B. McConnell

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Reading into It: Wallace Stegner's Novelistic Sense of Time and Place, Colin C. Irvine

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Brisbane and Beyond: Revising Social Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America, Michael C. Mattek

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Christians and Mimics in W. B. Yeats' Collected Poems, Patrick Mulrooney

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Renaissance Roles and the Process of Social Change, John Wieland

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'Straunge Disguize': Allegory and Its Discontents in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Galina Ivanovna Yermolenko