• Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body 

  Simpson, Lucas (2022-08-17)

  This thesis argues that the scope of Richard Hooker’s critique in his Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie extends beyond its ostensive target of Elizabethan presbyterianism to what he saw as a more general dissolution of a ...
• Building digital literary geographies: modelling and prototyping as modes of inquiry 

  El Khatib, Randa (2021-10-14)

  The mode of carrying out literary spatial studies—or literary geography—has largely shifted to embrace digital methods and tools, culminating in the field of geospatial humanities. This shift has affected the scope of ...
• Transforming hags: old women in Canadian fiction 

  Matthews, Carol (2021-10-06)

  From pre-literate folklore and myth to the modern novel, old women in literature are powerful figures who defy stereotypes. Although they are doubly marginal, as female and elderly, they resist being classified as object, ...
• Offcut zone parchment in manuscript codices from later medieval England 

  Lahey, Stephanie Jane (2021-09-27)

  This dissertation engages with the production and use in late medieval England (c.1200–c.1500) of manuscript codices copied, in whole or in part, on offcuts: cheap, low-quality parchment scraps created as a byproduct of ...
• Beside her self: a coffin text 

  Michalofsky, Jessica (2021-07-22)

  I did not purposely set down to write this work but was compelled by a painful sense of what I should not do. What I should not write. To protect the privacy and autonomy of individuals, to avoid creating harm, and to ...
• Serious play: Alden Nowlan, Leo Ferrari, Gwendolyn MacEwen, and their Flat Earth Society 

  Eso, David (2021-05-31)

  This dissertation concerns the satirical Flat Earth Society (FES) founded at Fredericton, New Brunswick in November 1970. The essay’s successive chapters examine the lives and literary works of three understudied authors ...
• World unmaking in the fiction of Delany, VanderMeer, and Jemisin 

  Linnitt, Carol (2021-04-29)

  This dissertation examines end-of-world and posthumanist themes in speculative fiction and theory through the concept of “world unmaking.” Reading for world unmaking in three popular U.S. works of speculative fiction — ...
• Imagining publics, negotiating powers: the parallel evolutions of romantic social structure and Jane Austen’s free indirect discourse 

  Seatter, Lindsey Marie (2021-01-29)

  The Romantic era, from roughly the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, was a period of rapid and revolutionary social change. Progressing in parallel was the form of the novel, which ...
• Imagining information: the uses of storytelling 

  Higgins, Stefan (2021-01-13)

  This thesis investigates a cultural logic of information. In a world saturated with information, how is representation defined, and what kinds of boundaries does it consequently set up for establishing what can be known? ...
• Tactical network sonification: a listening technique for science and technology studies 

  El Hajj, Tracey M (2021-01-07)

  Networks are an integral part of everyday life. Today, public concern with the extent to which they influence people’s routines, and how much they affect cultures and societies, has grown substantially. People are thus now ...
• Gothic economics: gothic literature and commercial society in Britain, 1750–1850 

  Winter, Caroline (2021-01-06)

  Although the sensational world of Gothic literature may seem to have little to do with the “dismal science” of economics, readers and critics have long recognized connections between Romantic-era political economic discourse ...
• Shakespeare and soteriology: crossing the Reformation divide 

  Anonby, David (2020-12-07)

  My dissertation explores Shakespeare’s negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation. While twentieth century literary criticism tended to regard Shakespeare as a harbinger of secularism, the so-called ...
• Florists and feasts: a critical digital edition of Ralph Knevet's Rhodon and Iris 

  Howard, Ashley (2020-09-08)

  One spring afternoon in 1631, the Norwich Society of Florists held a feast to celebrate and display its exquisite flowers. The celebration included an entertainment written just for the occasion—Ralph Knevet's quirky play ...
• We were never Cajun: créolization and whitened identity at the margins of memory 

  Fontenot, Tyler (2020-09-03)

  In restaurants, dance halls, and travel brochures around the world, the word “Cajun” brings to mind a plethora of significations related to flavorful foods, exotic language, and geographical affiliation with South Louisiana— ...
• Forming wisdom: biblical criticism, creative interpretation, and the poetics of the Victorian sage 

  Dyck, Denae (2020-08-25)

  Although the Bible retained substantial cultural currency throughout the Victorian period (1837–1901), new approaches in biblical criticism challenged accepted ideas about its divine inspiration and theological unity. This ...
• The feeling of form: experiencing histories in twentieth-century British novel series 

  Tang, Yan (2020-07-06)

  How do we understand our encounter with ambivalent or visceral aesthetic feelings—textual environments, moods, and atmospheres—if they do not solely belong to the representation of individual or collective emotions? This ...
• Reconciling indigenous exceptionality: thinking beyond Canada's petro-state of exception 

  Burgess, Olivia (2019-12-23)

  This thesis is concerned with the Canadian state’s rhetoric of reconciliation, the logic of exceptionality that supports it, and the ways this logic helps soften Indigenous communities for resource development. In formulating ...
• Gendering the nation: nationalism and gender in theatrical and para-theatrical practices by Canadian women artists, 1880-1930 

  Bock, Christian (2019-11-13)

  This dissertation examines the intersection of nationalism and gender in theatrical and para-theatrical practices by Canadian women artists between 1880-1930, including the works of Madge Macbeth, Mazo de la Roche, Sarah ...
• The politics & poetics of Gulliver’s travel writing 

  Cox, Philip (2019-09-03)

  Working at the intersection of narrative studies and political theory, this thesis performs an original critical intervention in Gulliver’s Travels studies to establish the work as an intertextual response to the hegemonic ...
• Climate change, the ruined island, British metamodernism 

  Arvay, Emily (2019-09-03)

  This dissertation on “Climate Change, the Ruined Island, and British Metamodernism” proceeds from the premise that a perspectival shift occurred in the early 2000s that altered the tenor of British climate fiction published ...

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