This thesis juxtaposes the characters of Lavinia and Tamora in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (1594) and Beatrice-Joanna and Isabella in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling (1622) to examine the plays’ treatment of female tran . . .

Jane Austen is often lauded for her ability to create relatable, strong, and endearing heroines in her novels and her male characters are written with the same level of talent and virtue. This paper focuses on illustrating Austen’s male characters in . . .

This thesis analyzes existential crises and existential choices in Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road. Living in post-apocalyptic chaos where the characters constantly suffer from starvation and fleeing from cannibal cults, life’s worth is called into . . .

This study explores Shakespeare’s use of experimentation in three plays: Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice. In each play, the female protagonist dons a disguise to experiment with her love interest, testing his suitabili . . .

In this project, I explore the concept and usage of sentiment and sensibility in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century, with particular focus on the coinciding presence of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on the empire. . . .

Although there is a surfeit of scholarship on Emily Dickinson, with topics ranging from the obvious focus on her reclusiveness to more rarefied topics such as her passion for flowers and baking, there is a dearth of academic writing using the psychoan . . .

The issues with women and wrongful institutionalization, questions about their intelligence, and confining feminine gender roles are often elusive. Using a neo-Victorian approach, this work studies wrongful institutionalization of women in Victorian l . . .

This thesis builds on existing scholarship surrounding the literary vampire in “Carmilla,” Dracula, and “Shambleau” to examine changing notions of subjectivity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using Julia Kristeva’s theory of . . .

In the late nineteenth century, novels like Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897) used the vampire figure as a means to explore the social and political anxieties present in late-Victorian England. Specifi . . .

This thesis uses Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the Third Space as a space for discourse in order to examine identity development and authorization in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. These novels use the epistolary genre . . .