ABSTRACT COMPETITION AND COOPERATION: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, AND JANE EYRE by Brianne P. Epley Master of Arts in English California State University, Chico Spring 2011 This thesis will analyze the re . . .

In literary worlds, as in the actual world, women are often left without a space to call their own. Obliged instead to navigate men’s societal structures and homes, female characters naturally respond to the spaces they inhabit differently than their . . .

This thesis explores the mobility and identity formation of the characters Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea through the lens of human geography and cultural geography, and general space and place studies. This thesis s . . .