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Seeking the Supernatural: The Exorcisms of John Darrell and the Formation of an Orthodox Identity in Early Modern England
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines the questions raised by Darrell‘s exorcisms and the ways in which they were shaped by relations of power. I hope that it will shed new light on the ways in which people formed their religious and ideological identities in this pivotal period in English history. -
Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe image of the witch and the vehicle of the theatre seem to be a natural fit. The spectacle inherent in the supernatural aspects of the witch provided a wealth of vivid opportunities for the employing the latest in scenic and technical advances and for experimenting with the possibilities for new special effects. -
Constructions of Infanticide in Early Modern England: Female Deviance During Demographic Crisis
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsNewborn child murder may have been rare in early modern England, but there is little doubt that it happened. Evidence of it exists in the judicial records, as it was criminalized by the legal code. -
Victorian Governesses : A Look at Education and Professionalization
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsHistories and fictions explore the lives of Victorian governesses. The governess appeared lonely, depressed, and unwanted, yet thousands of women entered the profession. Victorian governesses experienced changing social and economic conditions. -
A Crisis in Regal Identity: The Dichotomy Between Levinia Teerlinc’s (1520-1576) Private and Public Images of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsTeerlinc’s career began with an invitation to serve as official court painter to Henry VIII (1491-1547). After his death in 1554, she worked for Edward VI (1547-1553), Mary I (1516-1558), and finally Elizabeth I (1533-1603). -
Courtship and Marriage Rituals in Seventeenth Century England
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will examine the more personal side of courtship and marriage, through the use of seventeenth century diaries and letters. -
Imagining the pain and peril of seventeenth-century childbirth: travail and deliverance in the making of an early modern world
Posted on January 23, 2012 | No CommentsAlice Thornton’s accounts of the pains and perils of childbirth, including this passage on the birth of her fifth child, have attracted the attention of a number of recent historians as particularly detailed and evocative examples of personal testimony to the experience of giving birth in the early modern period. -
The Last Nun
Posted on January 17, 2012 | No CommentsOne spring day in 1539, twenty-six women were forced to leave their home— the only home most had known for their entire adult lives. The women were nuns of the Dominican Order of Dartford Priory, in Kent. -
Working with the body : subjectivity, gender, commodification and the labouring body in Victorian England
Posted on December 20, 2011 | No CommentsThe dissertation’s contrapuntal structure places middle-class texts against working-class texts. -
“Like Spiders’ Webs for Flies”: False Confinement in Nineteenth-Century English Asylums
Posted on December 20, 2011 | No CommentsIn the eighteenth century, many people feared being taken by some unscrupulous person, be he family member, friend, or stranger, to a madhouse to be locked away forever to the detriment of their health, wealth, and sanity. ..By the early nineteenth century, enough legislation had been passed and enough investigations were being carried out that this fear should perhaps not have been so pressing. -
Victoria’s feminist Legacy: how nineteenth-century women imagined the queen
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsI am interested in women who inspire their fellow women to challenge gender roles without explicitly being feminists themselves. Examples—real and fictional—as varied as Joan of Arc, Jane Eyre, and Janis Joplin have had a powerful emotional resonance with women, and the fact that they avoid articulating political positions about gender makes them available to a wider audience. -
An ideal woman : literary, parliamentary, and sexual representations of model femininity in mid-Victorian England
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsMiddle-class women of the Victorian era experienced isolation from various aspects of society, in favor of removal to the “woman‟s sphere” of hearth and home. -
Ophelia’s Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsAn examination of her relationship with Polonius and Laertes will culminate with an inspection of the relationship between Ophelia and Laertes, using the feminist theory employed by Virginia Wolf -
Margaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsMargaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends Rachel Warburton – Lakehead University Session: “English Epistolary Friendships” Paper given at the conference: Friendship In Pre-Modern Europe (1300-1700) This paper analysed Margaret Cavendish’s sociable letters. They... -
Promoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Times
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsPromoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Times Ellis, Steven G. (National University of Ireland, Galway) Tolerance and Intolerance in Historical Perspective, (University of Pisa, 2003) Like states everywhere, the 16th-century English monarchy regulated... -
The Life Of Jane Dormer Duchess of Feria
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe Life Of Jane Dormer Duchess of Feria Departamento de la Lengua Inglesa Intramuros – Studia: Commemrorative Booklet (1995) Abstract Acera del estilo de vida de una viuda de la... -
Ophelia, the Singing Corpse: Pleasure and the Gaze in Where the Wild Roses Grow
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsOphelia, the Singing Corpse: Pleasure and the Gaze in Where the Wild Roses Grow Zeleny, Rachael Baitch (University of Delaware, USA) Neo-Victorian Studies 3:2 (2010) Abstract This essay deconstructs a very... -
Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsInventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope Warnicke, Retha M. (Arizona State University) Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association,... -
The Education of Princess Mary Tudor
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsThe Education of Princess Mary Tudor Pierret Perkins, Katherine Lee M.A. Thesis, History, Louisiana State University, December(2007) Abstract Mary Tudor, the first officially crowned queen regnant of England, received a... -
The case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper?
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper? S. K. Lekh, A. Langa, P. Begg and B. K. Puri Psychiatric Bulletin (1992), 16:786-788 Abstract The Whitechapel murders of... -
The Madonna and the Whore: The Victorian Wife and the Victorian Prostitute, a Collision of Virtue and Vice
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Madonna and the Whore: The Victorian Wife and the Victorian Prostitute, a Collision of Virtue and Vice Coressel, Patti Lourdes College Online Narrative History Journal, Volume 9 (2011) Abstract... -
Bearded Women in Early Modern England
Posted on June 16, 2010 | No CommentsBearded Women in Early Modern England By Mark Albert Johnston Studies in English Literature, Vol.47:1 (2007) Introduction: “An old man, whose beard was all ouer-growne with gray haires, ask’d a... -
Women, performance, and the household in early modern England, 1580-1660
Posted on May 21, 2010 | No CommentsWomen, performance, and the household in early modern England, 1580-1660 By Sara Mueller PhD Dissertation, Queen’s University, 2007 Abstract: The texts and records of the household performances of early modern... -
‘The Good and Bad of that Sexe’: Monstrosity and Womanhood in Early Modern England
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments‘The Good and Bad of that Sexe’: Monstrosity and Womanhood in Early Modern England By Alletta Brenner Online work (2004) – Winner of the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition... -
Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century English Women Dramatists
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsLove, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century English Women Dramatists Corporaal, Marguérite Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) Abstract In tragicomedies by seventeenth-century English women, such as Lady... -
Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish’s Plays
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsFemale Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish’s Plays Devlin Mosher, Joyce Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) Abstract In Cavendish’s life and in her plays, lavish confections and transsexual... -
Women, Children, and the Rhetoric of Milton’s Divorce Tracts
Posted on March 9, 2010 | No CommentsWomen, Children, and the Rhetoric of Milton’s Divorce Tracts van den Berg, Sara Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) Abstract In his divorce tracts, Milton uses vignette, metaphor, and... -
Does Beatrice Joanna Have a Subtext?: The Changeling on the London Stage
Posted on March 9, 2010 | No CommentsDoes Beatrice Joanna Have a Subtext?: The Changeling on the London Stage Nicol, Dave & Barker, Roberta Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) Abstract Middleton and Rowley’s tragedy The... -
Elizabeth Cary’s Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsElizabeth Cary’s Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason Hamlin, William M. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract Most discussions of Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam have concentrated... -
Romancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsRomancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World Wagner, Geraldine Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract By exploring the mutually constitutive relationship between... -
“New Sects of Love”: Neoplatonism and Constructions of Gender in Davenant’s The Temple of Love and The Platonick
Posted on March 7, 2010 | No Comments“New Sects of Love”: Neoplatonism and Constructions of Gender in Davenant’s The Temple of Love and The Platonick Dawson, Lesel Early Modern Literary Studies 8.1 (May 2002) Abstract This article... -
The Pitfalls of Female Leadership: The Power and Subversion of Gender Identity
Posted on February 27, 2010 | No CommentsWomen’s History Symposium 2009 lecture by Gillian Hendershot 3/25/09; Hendershot discusses the challenges faced by Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England in “The Pitfalls of Female Leadership:... -
Isabella Whitney’s “Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith”
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsIsabella Whitney’s “Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith” Martin, Randall Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 (May 1997) Abstract In two notes published several years ago, R.J. Fehrenbach speculated that... -
Women (Authors) on Top
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsWomen (Authors) on Top Crawford, Julie Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract Of the essays and books that have been particularly influential in the study of early modern women... -
A Case for Credit: Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament” and the Mock Testament Tradition
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsA Case for Credit: Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament” and the Mock Testament Tradition Ingram, Jill P. Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract The speaker in Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll... -
Conning the “Overseers”: Women’s Illicit Work in Behn’s “The Adventure of the Black Lady”
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsConning the “Overseers”: Women’s Illicit Work in Behn’s “The Adventure of the Black Lady” Ferguson, Margaret Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract Having spent some fifteen years thinking (off... -
When Women Ruled the World: The Glorious Sixteenth Century
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsWhen Women Ruled the World: The Glorious Sixteenth Century Quilligan, Marueen Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract From approximately the middle of the 16th century to close to its... -
The Case of Moll Frith: Women’s Work and the “All-Male Stage”
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe Case of Moll Frith: Women’s Work and the “All-Male Stage” Korda, Natasha Early Modern Culture, No. 4 (2004) Abstract Recent scholarship on women’s involvement in theatrical production in early... -
Domestic Shebas: A Response to Ann Rosalind Jones, “Needle, Scepter, Sovereignty”
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsDomestic Shebas: A Response to Ann Rosalind Jones, “Needle, Scepter, Sovereignty” Summit, Jennifer Early Modern Culture, No. 3 (2003) Abstract In “Needle, Scepter, Sovereignty: the Queen of Sheba in Englishwomen’s... -
Needle, Scepter, Sovereignty: The Queen of Sheba in Englishwomen’s Amateur Needlework
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsNeedle, Scepter, Sovereignty: The Queen of Sheba in Englishwomen’s Amateur Needlework Jones, Ann Rosalind Early Modern Culture, No. 3 (2003) Abstract In this essay, I want to propose a similar... -
What Do You Do With a Woman Warrior?: A Response to “‘Effeminate Dayes’”
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsWhat Do You Do With a Woman Warrior?: A Response to “‘Effeminate Dayes’” Rackin, Phyllis Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Banks and Holderness make a convincing argument that... -
‘Effeminate Dayes’
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments‘Effeminate Dayes’ Banks, Carol & Holderness, Graham Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Whilst acknowledging that these accounts, or primary historical sources, are observations and possible generalisations from a... -
Satire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsSatire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap Johns-Putra, Adeline Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010) Abstract This article examines the work of four... -
Fast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsFast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany Moruzi, Kristine Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 14, No 1 (2009) Abstract The Girl of the Period... -
“A Study in Starvation”: The New Girl and the Gendered Socialisation of Appetite in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments“A Study in Starvation”: The New Girl and the Gendered Socialisation of Appetite in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book Dennis, Abigail Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 12, No 1... -
Purging the Self: Entering the Abject in Victorian Texts of Vaginal Exploration
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsPurging the Self: Entering the Abject in Victorian Texts of Vaginal Exploration McManus, Nicole Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 13, No 1 (2008) Abstract In the second half of... -
Ephemeral Journalism and Its Uses: Lucie Cobbe Heaton Armstrong (1851–1907)
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsEphemeral Journalism and Its Uses: Lucie Cobbe Heaton Armstrong (1851–1907) Mitchell, Sally Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract Both the anonymity of much nineteenth-century journalism and... -
Figures in Silk: A Novel
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsFigures in Silk: A Novel By Vanora Bennett Publisher: Harper Collins, October 20, 2009 ISBN: 9780061689840 Two sisters discover passion during the War of the Roses-one in the arms of... -
“Remembering Cynthia: The Legacy of Elizabeth I in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Diana Primrose”
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No Comments“Remembering Cynthia: The Legacy of Elizabeth I in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Diana Primrose” Kim, Younkyung Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 1 (2007) Abstract... -
Questioning Men’s Love in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No CommentsQuestioning Men’s Love in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Cañadas, Ivan Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 13 (2005) Abstract The...