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Title: The "mental crisis" of John Stuart Mill: The destruction of a mechanical consciousness.
Creator: Dhuwalia, Raj Kumar., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: In Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed...
Show moreIn Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed by Mill scholarship. I shall consider various aspects of Mill's life and thought before and after the crisis as a means of identifying the nature of this fundamental change in Mill. These aspects of Mill's thought include philosophy, economics, epistemology, poetry, and politics, and these aspects of Mill's life include education, his relationship with his father and Bentham, his early activism, his influences, and his perceptions of man and society.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15319
Subject Headings: Mill, John Stuart,--1806-1873--Autobiography, Consciousness in literature, Philosophy in literature, Authors, English--19th century--Biography--History and criticism
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Title: Against the grain: Female detectives and "lawyers in petticoats" in the fiction of Wilkie Collins.
Creator: Fein, Audrey Caming., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: Wilkie Collins (1824--1889) changed the direction of English fiction during his lifetime and created the prototype for a new and lasting genre. "The Diary of Anne Rodway," The Dead Secret, The Woman in White, No Name, and The Law and the Lady all exemplify his skill in crafting tales of mystery and detection, and feature women as detectives. He was one of the most feminist of Victorian writers in his portrayal of women as intelligent, assertive and resourceful, as well as in his attacks on...
Show moreWilkie Collins (1824--1889) changed the direction of English fiction during his lifetime and created the prototype for a new and lasting genre. "The Diary of Anne Rodway," The Dead Secret, The Woman in White, No Name, and The Law and the Lady all exemplify his skill in crafting tales of mystery and detection, and feature women as detectives. He was one of the most feminist of Victorian writers in his portrayal of women as intelligent, assertive and resourceful, as well as in his attacks on gender and class prejudices. His innovative plot devices established him as the founder of English detective fiction. Collins's interest in social and legal reforms, especially of the laws relating to marriage and family, informs his novels foregrounding women as sleuths. Female incursions into masculine domains of law and detection represent a bold departure from convention; his transgressive heroines challenge stereotypes and succeed where men have failed.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12828
Subject Headings: Collins, Wilkie,--1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation., Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism., Women detectives in literature.
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Title: "The Voyage Out": A search for interpersonal relatedness and self-definition.
Creator: Busto, Jennifer Starr., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: In her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf captures the complexity of human relationships and the difficulty of establishing meaningful connections with people. Her main character, Rachel Vinrace, struggles with these issues as she embarks on a discovery of self. Rachel's journey begins with a disrupted childhood, moves through her battle to regain a sense of belonging, and ends with her eventual withdrawal from the human struggle, thereby recreating herself and transcending the...
Show moreIn her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf captures the complexity of human relationships and the difficulty of establishing meaningful connections with people. Her main character, Rachel Vinrace, struggles with these issues as she embarks on a discovery of self. Rachel's journey begins with a disrupted childhood, moves through her battle to regain a sense of belonging, and ends with her eventual withdrawal from the human struggle, thereby recreating herself and transcending the limitations of society and relationships. Rachel's actions throughout the novel mirror an oscillation between the fundamental concerns of personality development. Her behavior reflects the typical ego defense mechanisms employed by people preoccupied by interpersonal relatedness followed by an exaggerated emphasis on self-definition.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15559
Subject Headings: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Voyage out, Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Carnival, sacred and sovereign: The intellectual intersection of Bakhtin and Bataille.
Creator: Lemole, Jared E., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: The common intellectual ground shared by Mikhail Bakhtin and Georges Bataille routinely suffers from a dearth of consideration. Yet Bakhtin's celebrated "carnival" writings are invested in undeniably Bataillean interests---death, excess, transgression, heterogeneity. Both Bakhtin and Bataille inherited the Wagnerian Nietzsche's nostalgia for effusive communal ritual, collapsing the boundaries between bodies and the boundary between life and death (this is "transgression," eroticism ,...
Show moreThe common intellectual ground shared by Mikhail Bakhtin and Georges Bataille routinely suffers from a dearth of consideration. Yet Bakhtin's celebrated "carnival" writings are invested in undeniably Bataillean interests---death, excess, transgression, heterogeneity. Both Bakhtin and Bataille inherited the Wagnerian Nietzsche's nostalgia for effusive communal ritual, collapsing the boundaries between bodies and the boundary between life and death (this is "transgression," eroticism , according to Bataille; too often transgression is spoken of in terms of stealing a pornographic magazine). Thus bodies in Bakhtin and Bataille are "open," mainly in comic and inglorious ways, and death is the cynosure of festival. Death for Bakhtin and Bataille is not negative; it is "sacred" (Bataille's term), serving as communal cement and a celebration of life. Not, however, life in the sense of 401k's and insurance. Rather, life as exuberance and generosity ("sovereignty" according to Bataille).
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13261
Subject Headings: Critical theory, Bataille, Georges,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation, Bakhtin, MM--(Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich),--1895-1975--Criticism and interpretation, Discourse analysis
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Title: Anti-Victorian attitudes in Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure".
Creator: Magrath-Singer, Jennifer Lara., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: Published in 1895, Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy's last novel. With the approach of the turn-of-the-century, Victorian England experienced profound changes in its social structure. The writing of novels about oppressed women was popular in the late nineteenth century. As the narrative voice in Jude, Thomas Hardy sought to challenge the current conditions for women and men in society. His novel explores the reality of these conditions, and his characters, namely Sue Bridehead and Jude...
Show morePublished in 1895, Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy's last novel. With the approach of the turn-of-the-century, Victorian England experienced profound changes in its social structure. The writing of novels about oppressed women was popular in the late nineteenth century. As the narrative voice in Jude, Thomas Hardy sought to challenge the current conditions for women and men in society. His novel explores the reality of these conditions, and his characters, namely Sue Bridehead and Jude Fawley, show readers what can happen when people are unable to adapt to the laws and conventions set forth by society.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12820
Subject Headings: Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Jude the obscure, Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Characters--Women, Sex role in literature
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Title: An atmosphere for "Orthodoxy": A Chestertonian reading of the Marian heroine in Charles Dickens's "Dombey and Son".
Creator: Kriegel, Jill A., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: Considering the fervent Catholicism of convert G. K. Chesterton's societal views, his championship of Charles Dickens, a seemingly avid non-Catholic, may appear misplaced. Upon examination, however, the wisdom of Chesterton's rationale will manifest itself; in fact, rereading Dickens's Dombey and Son through the eyes of Chesterton's Orthodoxy will prove Dickens himself to be a champion, albeit an inadvertent one, of the very core of Catholicism. Presenting Florence Dombey as a heroine, as a...
Show moreConsidering the fervent Catholicism of convert G. K. Chesterton's societal views, his championship of Charles Dickens, a seemingly avid non-Catholic, may appear misplaced. Upon examination, however, the wisdom of Chesterton's rationale will manifest itself; in fact, rereading Dickens's Dombey and Son through the eyes of Chesterton's Orthodoxy will prove Dickens himself to be a champion, albeit an inadvertent one, of the very core of Catholicism. Presenting Florence Dombey as a heroine, as a paragon of religious strength, and as a path to salvation for her misguided father, I present her not only as Dickens's literary and moral contribution to readers of his age, but also as a symbolic Marian model to readers of any age. Through a Chestertonian reading of Dombey and Son, two things become overwhelmingly apparent: Dickens's own "orthodoxy" and his powerful optimism.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13274
Subject Headings: Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Characters., Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Influence., Chesterton, G.K.--(Gilbert Keith),--1874-1936.--Orthodoxy., Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870.--Dombey and Son., Religion in literature.
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Title: The ideological complexity of Kipling.
Creator: Noble, Jonathan D., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: The works of Kipling are generally read under the discursive ideology of Orientalism. According to Edward Said, Orientalism is an institution for dominating the Orient with Foucauldian power/knowledge. While much of Kipling's work falls easily within the lines of Orientalism, important exceptions disrupt this singular reading. The hybrid character Kim, for example, demonstrates an uncertainty concerning the identity of the Anglo-Indian as colonizer constructed along racial lines, where white...
Show moreThe works of Kipling are generally read under the discursive ideology of Orientalism. According to Edward Said, Orientalism is an institution for dominating the Orient with Foucauldian power/knowledge. While much of Kipling's work falls easily within the lines of Orientalism, important exceptions disrupt this singular reading. The hybrid character Kim, for example, demonstrates an uncertainty concerning the identity of the Anglo-Indian as colonizer constructed along racial lines, where white Anglo-Indian represents colonizer and brown Indian represents colonized. This simplified racial division is further problematized by Kipling's attention to social class in other works of prose and verse, which place the lower-class white Anglo-Indians as subjects of the colonial system. In addition, Kipling's work often shows an ambivalence concerning the legitimacy of British rule. Therefore, Bakhtin's heteroglossia more appropriately accounts for Kipling's ideological complexity than does the singular ideology of Orientalism.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13132
Subject Headings: Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936--Criticism and interpretation, Adventure stories, English--History and criticism
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Title: The influence of Eliot's modernism in two early novels and autobiographies of Doris Lessing.
Creator: Burns, M. Catherine., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: There is deep personal and artistic empathy for T. S. Eliot's modernist poetry in Doris Lessing's early novels and two later autobiographies. As Eliot did, Lessing uses the modernist doctrine of difficulty to portray the education and development of the writer-artist as a long, problematic process, involving prodigious, rigorous, energetic reading efforts, and self-conscious reflexive writing. Lessing also frequently quotes other authors, and she thoroughly uses subverted allusive schemes and...
Show moreThere is deep personal and artistic empathy for T. S. Eliot's modernist poetry in Doris Lessing's early novels and two later autobiographies. As Eliot did, Lessing uses the modernist doctrine of difficulty to portray the education and development of the writer-artist as a long, problematic process, involving prodigious, rigorous, energetic reading efforts, and self-conscious reflexive writing. Lessing also frequently quotes other authors, and she thoroughly uses subverted allusive schemes and extrusive structural complications to render realism in her narratives more vividly. Her mature aesthetic sets at a distance a sense of personal displacement, exile, and uncertain cultural identity and echoes Eliot's dictum that the Poet needed to be impersonal and to seek the significant emotion. Her search for moral intelligibility by narrative framing that combines both fiction and autobiography in autobiographical space or 'pact' may also arguably be modernist.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13294
Subject Headings: Eliot, TS--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, TS--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Influence, Lessing, Doris,--1919-2013--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature), Poetry--20th century--History and criticism
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Title: The concept of time in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Creator: Ramnath, Rishi S., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: The concept of time in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is examined from social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, his version of the film, he treats the nature of time as a cyclical process. He eventually explains that the notion of physical time is non-existent or an impermanent illusion. While Clarke's novel interprets time, the film projects and manipulates the nature of space and time, which spectators may experience as...
Show moreThe concept of time in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is examined from social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, his version of the film, he treats the nature of time as a cyclical process. He eventually explains that the notion of physical time is non-existent or an impermanent illusion. While Clarke's novel interprets time, the film projects and manipulates the nature of space and time, which spectators may experience as reality. Time's direction can be viewed or experienced as a cycle from an Eastern philosophical perspective. However, a Western interpretation requires a compromise between two separate directions of time, one as a cycle, the other as linear. The film and novel ultimately negates the direction of linear time through the appearance of the mysterious monolith, which transcends and reincarnates human beings.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13082
Subject Headings: Kubrick, Stanley--Criticism and interpretation, 2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture), Time in literature, Space and time
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Title: G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday": Merging detective fiction with the fantastic.
Creator: Knapp, Steven L., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: G. K. Chesterton is known for writing detective fiction, his Father Brown crime stories being his most popular works. Chesterton, however, wrote more than a hundred books. The Man Who Was Thursday is Chesterton's fictional masterpiece. The novel reveals the author as a creative genius, at least equal to now-better-known writers of his time, such as Conrad and Kafka. Chesterton tells detective Gabriel Syme's tale in the novel, which also exudes an autobiographical flavor, giving fragments of...
Show moreG. K. Chesterton is known for writing detective fiction, his Father Brown crime stories being his most popular works. Chesterton, however, wrote more than a hundred books. The Man Who Was Thursday is Chesterton's fictional masterpiece. The novel reveals the author as a creative genius, at least equal to now-better-known writers of his time, such as Conrad and Kafka. Chesterton tells detective Gabriel Syme's tale in the novel, which also exudes an autobiographical flavor, giving fragments of Chesterton's own story of his escape from fin-de-siecle pessimism. As literary art, the novel merges the detective genre with the genre of the fantastic. The result is a wild tale of fun and romance, with more than a little philosophical argument in the mix. Using Tzvetan Todorov's theory of structuralism, I unveil the many masks of Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. The outcome is a better understanding of G. K. Chesterton's rebellion into orthodoxy.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12913
Subject Headings: Chesterton, G K--(Gilbert Keith),--1874-1936, Detective and mystery stories, English, Fantastic fiction, English
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Title: Crisis in colonialism: The South Seas writing of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Creator: MacLaren, Robert B., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: The South Seas Writing of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals a crisis in colonialism: Stevenson saw how colonial exploitation of natives for their island resources was corrupting the morality of imperial countries, while colonialism also brought disease and conflicts to the remote margins of empire. Stevenson exposes how unfounded was Victorian imperial ideology of cultural and religious superiority. He objects to the colonial powers' policies that tend to wipe out native cultures. His travel...
Show moreThe South Seas Writing of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals a crisis in colonialism: Stevenson saw how colonial exploitation of natives for their island resources was corrupting the morality of imperial countries, while colonialism also brought disease and conflicts to the remote margins of empire. Stevenson exposes how unfounded was Victorian imperial ideology of cultural and religious superiority. He objects to the colonial powers' policies that tend to wipe out native cultures. His travel narratives and fiction not only voice this objection to colonial usurpation, but also stand up for the native peoples who strive to establish a literary voice of their own. In this way Stevenson anticipates the post-colonial age when colonized peoples fight for their independence, and when their own voices help establish their legitimate cultural heritage.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13336
Subject Headings: Stevenson, Robert Louis,--1850-1894--Travel--Oceania, Stevenson, Robert Louis,--1850-1894--Criticism and interpretation, Imperialism in literature, Politics and culture, Colonies in literature, Oceania--In literature
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Title: The villainous spider and the Uebermensch: Nietzschean paradigms in Matthew Lewis's "The Monk".
Creator: Turner, Richard Scott., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: Matthew Lewis's The Monk portrays the catastrophic effects that sexual repression has on Ambrosio, a monk who is raised in a monastery. Lewis also demonstrates the freedom found in sexual fulfillment in the form of Matilda, the woman who seduces Ambrosio and leads him toward his final destruction. A Nietzschean critique of Christianity provides a connection between eighteenth century dissatisfaction with Roman Catholic doctrines and Nietzsche's aversion to the self-abnegation required to save...
Show moreMatthew Lewis's The Monk portrays the catastrophic effects that sexual repression has on Ambrosio, a monk who is raised in a monastery. Lewis also demonstrates the freedom found in sexual fulfillment in the form of Matilda, the woman who seduces Ambrosio and leads him toward his final destruction. A Nietzschean critique of Christianity provides a connection between eighteenth century dissatisfaction with Roman Catholic doctrines and Nietzsche's aversion to the self-abnegation required to save the soul from eternal perdition. Ambrosio is the Nietzschean paradigm of the hypocritical ascetic, who hides his vice beneath the monkish robes of piety. Matilda, on the other hand, is the Ubermensch that Nietzsche discusses in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, because she sheds religious constraints and becomes a sexual being capable of experiencing sexual pleasure without guilt.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15661
Subject Headings: Lewis, MG--(Matthew George),--1775-1818--Monk, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Contributions in concept of the superman, Lewis, MG (Matthew George),--1775-1818--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: The new woman before she was new: Olive Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" and Fanny Fern's "Ruth Hall".
Creator: Richardson, Dana Jo., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: Despite the designation of Olive Schreiner's Lyndall in The Story of an African Farm as the first "New Woman" in literature, the nineteenth-century New Woman, with her high ideals and belief in an androgynous compromise of sex roles, is exemplified by Fanny Fern's heroine Ruth in the novel Ruth Hall. While Lyndall speaks of social injustice done to women, the limitations of her provincial setting preclude her protests from achieving the level of social activism; however, Ruth's protests, in...
Show moreDespite the designation of Olive Schreiner's Lyndall in The Story of an African Farm as the first "New Woman" in literature, the nineteenth-century New Woman, with her high ideals and belief in an androgynous compromise of sex roles, is exemplified by Fanny Fern's heroine Ruth in the novel Ruth Hall. While Lyndall speaks of social injustice done to women, the limitations of her provincial setting preclude her protests from achieving the level of social activism; however, Ruth's protests, in the form of newspaper articles, do reach the level of social activism. Schreiner's androgynous ideal becomes lost in a role reversal rather than role dissolution, while Fern's Ruth achieves the metamorphosis from voiceless stereotype to empowered woman, breaking established gender conventions. Ruth, revealed to the literary world before Schreiner's Lyndall, is not only an earlier New Woman but also a stronger and more successful New Woman.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15771
Subject Headings: Feminism in literature, Schreiner, Olive,--1855-1920--Criticism and interpretation, Schreiner, Olive,--1855-1920--Story of an African farm, Fern, Fanny,--1811-1872--Criticism and interpretation, Fern, Fanny,--1811-1872--Ruth Hall
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Title: Homoeroticism in D. H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" and "The Rainbow" and Ken Russell's film adaptations.
Creator: Elmore, Darrel Richard., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: D. H. Lawrence's companion novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love, both depict homosexual relationships. Lawrence's portrayal of alternative sexual lifestyles, while sometimes negative, still offers the possibility of bisexuality, an option the author himself explored in his personal life as a reaction against repressive Victorian attitudes. Ken Russell, on the other hand, in adapting these novels to film, offers a more traditional, polarized view of homo- and heterosexuality. Though his first...
Show moreD. H. Lawrence's companion novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love, both depict homosexual relationships. Lawrence's portrayal of alternative sexual lifestyles, while sometimes negative, still offers the possibility of bisexuality, an option the author himself explored in his personal life as a reaction against repressive Victorian attitudes. Ken Russell, on the other hand, in adapting these novels to film, offers a more traditional, polarized view of homo- and heterosexuality. Though his first adaptation is more open-minded, having been filmed in the liberated 1960s, his second film is more conservative, since it is a product of the homophobic 1980s. As is the case with Lawrence, Russell's personal life, especially his religion, holds a great deal of influence over his artistic work. Therefore, this analysis argues the close link between biography and artistry, especially when a controversial subject like homosexuality is involved.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15625
Subject Headings: Lawrence, D.H.--(David Herbert),--1885-1930.--Rainbow., Lawrence, D.H.--(David Herbert),--1885-1930.--Women in love., Russell, Ken,--1927---Criticism and interpretation., Homosexuality in literature.
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Title: DEGENERATIVE DECADENCE AND REGENERATIVE MILITARISM IN THE INVASION NARRATIVES OF ROBERT W. CHAMBERS AND ERSKINE CHILDERS.
Creator: Townsend, Lucas C., Buckton, Oliver, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores fin de siècle theories of decadence, degeneration, criminology, and evolutionary biology, and their contemporary application to invasion literature written between 1871 and 1915. While there is significant criticism on early invasion narratives, there is little extant on Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow (1895) and Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands (1903), especially in discussing the importance of their militaristic “calls to action” to convert weak,...
Show moreThis thesis explores fin de siècle theories of decadence, degeneration, criminology, and evolutionary biology, and their contemporary application to invasion literature written between 1871 and 1915. While there is significant criticism on early invasion narratives, there is little extant on Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow (1895) and Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands (1903), especially in discussing the importance of their militaristic “calls to action” to convert weak, aesthetically-inclined men into hard-working patriotic soldiers and public servants. Through this conversion, the characters of Chambers and Childers serve as important role models that exemplify Max Nordau’s ideal “all-American boy” and “right-living Englishman,” convincing decadent, unprepared governments to properly prepare for an imminent Great War. However, as much of Anglo-European society ignores these signs, the warnings outlined by Chambers and Childers predict the destructive consequences of World War I and the psychological disassociation of the Modernist period.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013457
Subject Headings: Fin de siècle, Chambers, Robert W (Robert William), 1865-1933 King in yellow, Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 Riddle of the sands
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Title: The evolution of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights through a study of its receptions and adaptations.
Creator: Gleyzer, Marianna, Buckton, Oliver, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis covers the entire range of British and American film adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, as no cumulative study on this larger selection has been done thus far. However this will not be the only objective of this thesis, as I create a link between the author’s life to her novel, between the novel to the early criticism, and the criticism to later adaptations, forming a chain of transformation down the ages, to the original novel. By linking the adaptations to...
Show moreThis thesis covers the entire range of British and American film adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, as no cumulative study on this larger selection has been done thus far. However this will not be the only objective of this thesis, as I create a link between the author’s life to her novel, between the novel to the early criticism, and the criticism to later adaptations, forming a chain of transformation down the ages, to the original novel. By linking the adaptations to the earlier reception of the novel, a change of social interaction will be uncovered as one of its reasons for surviving. These examples of adaptation will be shown to be just as relevant to popular culture history as its original inspiration. This is the result of an unfolding movement of change and mutation, where each adaptation pushes to connect with the past and future.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004115, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004115
Subject Headings: Brontë, Emily -- 1818-1848 -- Wuthering Heights -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature -- Adaptations -- Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures and literature
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Title: Angels and Monsters: Exploring the Restraining Binary in Late Victorian Fiction.
Creator: Boyar, Michelle, Buckton, Oliver, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the limited economic, professional, and political opportunities for women in the Victorian era and how these roles are perpetuated through literature. Often, the lack of opportunities confined women to two choices: the angel or the monster. While there has been significant research on this binary, Virginia Woolf’s cry to “kill the angel of the house” has not been rectified. To discuss the binary, I have analyzed Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Charlotte...
Show moreThis thesis explores the limited economic, professional, and political opportunities for women in the Victorian era and how these roles are perpetuated through literature. Often, the lack of opportunities confined women to two choices: the angel or the monster. While there has been significant research on this binary, Virginia Woolf’s cry to “kill the angel of the house” has not been rectified. To discuss the binary, I have analyzed Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” to discuss how these female writers reflect their authorial anxieties through Gothic tropes and a close identification with their heroines. Additionally, I have analyzed Thomas Hardy’s Tess of D’Urbervilles and Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets to discuss how these male authors take a naturalistic approach to critique the fallen woman trope.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013719
Subject Headings: Victorian literature, Feminism, Tropes
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Title: GOTHIC CONFESSIONS: CORRUPTION IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AND OSCAR WILDE’S INTENTIONS.
Creator: Prochak, Kennedy R., Buckton, Oliver, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: In 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in Lippincott’s Magazine, and the fate of late-nineteenth century Victorian Britain was forever changed. While over a century's worth of studies have been conducted on aestheticism, the novel’s moral story, and whether or not Dorian Gray and Oscar Wilde are both gay figures, this thesis examines the possible intentions behind the writing of Wilde’s novel. Wilde lived during the time of the 1885 Labouchere Amendment, –under which he himself...
Show moreIn 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in Lippincott’s Magazine, and the fate of late-nineteenth century Victorian Britain was forever changed. While over a century's worth of studies have been conducted on aestheticism, the novel’s moral story, and whether or not Dorian Gray and Oscar Wilde are both gay figures, this thesis examines the possible intentions behind the writing of Wilde’s novel. Wilde lived during the time of the 1885 Labouchere Amendment, –under which he himself would be prosecuted for “gross indecency”– making the novel's contents risky. Alongside this amendment, there were already existing instances of criminalized homosexuality such as the Cleveland Street Scandal, making the novel’s publication all the more dangerous for Wilde. After publication, Wilde received numerous negative reviews attacking his novel and himself; even today, reviewers and critics have not fully understood why Wilde produced a novel with such an apparent and perilous homoerotic theme.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014153
Subject Headings: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Picture of Dorian Gray
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