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Virtue embodied : fathers and daughters in the eighteenth-century novel.
(2010-06-23)In this study of five eighteenth-century British novels, I explore the connection between an author's definition of virtue and the portrayal of the father-daughter relationship. Both the father-daughter relationship and ... -
Virtue in the tragic vision of Cormac McCarthy.
(2011-01-05)Cormac McCarthy's novels evoke a more complex perspective than many conventional descriptions—e.g., redemptive or nihilistic, modern or postmodern—allow. Focusing primarily on his Western novels, I demonstrate in contrast ... -
"The waters return": myth and mystery in Graham Swift's Waterland.
(2008-10-14)The following chapter will engage Waterland in isolation from Swift’s other novels and collection of short stories, not because these texts do not mutually illuminate one another, but because Waterland deserves a treatment ... -
The witness of the saints : literary method and theological matter in the hagiographical novels of Evelyn Waugh, Frederick Buechner, and Walter Wangerin, Jr.
(, 2013-05-15)Evelyn Waugh, Frederick Buechner, and Walter Wangerin bring the contemporary witness of three obscure saints to life in the pages of their historical fiction. These modern hagiographers perceive divine revelation in all ... -
“A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised”: an ethical-critical analysis of theological rogues in Mark Twain’s personal recollections of Joan of Arc and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series.
(2008-06-05)This thesis uses ethical criticism to examine the transformative nature of the interaction between authors, characters, and readers, focusing on Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and L.M. Montgomery’s Anne ...