Browsing ENG Theses by Subject "Electronic thesis"
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Middle-class identity and corporeal attachments in The Wide, Wide World
(Wichita State University, 2015-12)Early nineteenth century industrialization and capitalism stimulated growth in public labor forces and consumer markets. Though largely conceived as a male-centered history, industrialization upended the lives of women; ... -
Prankster narrative in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)The opening lines of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel recall the title imagery and central metaphor of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks: [t]hey're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to ... -
The Victorian masculine woman in Wives and Daughters, Middlemarch, and Jude the Obscure
(Wichita State University, 2015-07)According to Judith Butler, both today's progressive society and the industrialized British Victorian era use binary genders to create a system of heterosexual reproduction that ensures the survival of the species. In ... -
Walden and A New Home, Who'll Follow?: Recovering Eve in nineteenth-century nature writing
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)Canonization of nineteenth-century American authors often separates Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Henry David Thoreau's Walden into diverse literary genres. Although the authors wrote in different but ... -
You better watch out...: White myths and matrices of oppression in Invisible Man
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)