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The Trade of Penance: Commercial Practice and Penitential Piety in Late Medieval Literature

Description:

Situated at the intersection of literary, religious, and economic studies, this dissertation examines how late medieval writers used commercial practice to invent new modes of penitential piety. Challenging scholarship that characterizes the relationship between church and commerce as exclusively antagonistic or corrosive, I argue that the convergence of these two...

Keyword:

economic humanities, penance, religious practice, lay piety, and commerce

Subject:

English literature

Creator:

Jiang, Nancy Haijing

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_962361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16416
The Trade of Penance: Commercial Practice and Penitential Piety in Late Medieval Literature

Description:

Situated at the intersection of literary, religious, and economic studies, this dissertation examines how late medieval writers used commercial practice to invent new modes of penitential piety. Challenging scholarship that characterizes the relationship between church and commerce as exclusively antagonistic or corrosive, I argue that the convergence of these two...

Keyword:

economic humanities, penance, religious practice, lay piety, and commerce

Subject:

English literature

Creator:

Jiang, Nancy Haijing

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

03/24/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_962361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16416
Modernism at Play: Games and Sport in Twentieth-Century Literatures of Anglophone Empire, 1913–1971

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This dissertation argues that writers and artists in Britain and its Empire in the first half of the twentieth century turned time and again to games and sports to find images and forms for their literary and artistic interventions. Furthermore, it shows how, in these works, play served as a...

Keyword:

modernism, play, and avant garde

Subject:

English literature

Creator:

Weihl, Harrington

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/16/2023

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_946720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16363
Sympathetic Subjects: Politics, Feeling, and the Space of Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century

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This dissertation examines how eighteenth-century ethics were reimagined by Enlightenment-era and Romantic women writes to better afford the grounds for political revolution and responsive reform. Whereas Adam Smith’s theatrical model of sympathy casts individuals in the passive role of spectators who feel deeply but are not necessarily moved to act,...

Keyword:

Sympathy, Eighteenth century, Narrative , British literature, Romanticism , and Politics

Subject:

English literature

Creator:

Botz, Samantha

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/02/2022

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_851316 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15799
The Greener Inhumanity of Renaissance Pastoral: A Posthumanist Reading of the Bucolic Literature of Early Modern England and Italy

Description:

In a new analysis of Renaissance pastoral that draws on ecocriticism, queer theory, and a historicist approach, this dissertation finds a green and inhuman world that opposes the modern view that humans differ significantly from, and enjoy a right of dominion over, nonhuman species and the environment. Through readings of...

Keyword:

Machiavelli, ecocriticism, Shakespeare, nature, posthumanism, and pastoral

Subject:

Comparative literature, Italian literature, and English literature

Creator:

Pederson, Alicia Sands

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15618 and etdadmin_upload_829081
A Sociable Silence: Silence and Sympathy in the Victorian Novel

Description:

This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...

Keyword:

Environment, Sympathy, Victorian, Literature, Space, and Silence

Subject:

History and English literature

Creator:

Mason, Sarah Michelle

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_838563 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15678
A Victorian Disposition: Emotional Susceptibility in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Description:

This dissertation argues that the nineteenth-century construction of “emotional susceptibility” turned a much-derided quirk of psychology—the long retention of one’s earliest affective impressions—into a basis for radical interventions into thinking about attachment, ethics, and the Victorian novel. I focus in particular on the work of Henry Mackenzie, Charlotte Brontë, George...

Keyword:

Ethics, Impressibility, Susceptibility, and Affect

Subject:

English literature

Creator:

Cogswell, Clay

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15641 and etdadmin_upload_832383
Entertaining Strangers: Hospitality and Early Modern England’s Literary Marketplace

Description:

“Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...

Keyword:

Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts

Subject:

Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature

Creator:

Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

04/15/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923
Geographies of Memory and Pleasure in 20th/21st Century Black Literatures

Description:

My dissertation, Geographies of Memory, Trauma, and Pleasure in African American and Caribbean-American Literature examines the geographies of the cane fields, bodies of water, and the back porch to illustrate the speculative ways anti-black violence, intergenerational trauma, pleasure and Black memory co-exist in Black literature. Examining the aforementioned geographies as...

Keyword:

Black Memory, Geography, Pleasure, and Trauma

Subject:

African American studies, Caribbean literature, and English literature

Creator:

Fetus, Mohwanah Garyne

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15263 and etdadmin_upload_764269
Spectral Empire: Anglo-Ottoman Poetics of Sovereignty

Description:

This dissertation argues that British and Ottoman literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are linked and mutually informed in their representations of sovereignty. My study of the poetry, fiction, chronicles and travelogues from these periods demonstrates that both literary traditions respond to the rivalry between the British and Ottoman...

Keyword:

Mysticism, Political Ontology , Poetics, Sovereignty, and Empire

Subject:

Comparative literature, Middle Eastern literature, and English literature

Creator:

Camoglu, Arif

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_780321 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15391

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