Browsing by Author "Quillian, William"
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A Dedicated Follower of Fashion: The Ahistoric Rake in Restoration Literature
Gibbons, Zoe (2011-02-16)Perhaps no literary era is more closely associated with a character type than the Restoration with the flamboyant, self-important seducer. From 1660 through the early eighteenth century, the rake fired the popular ... -
Little Slothrop and the Big Bad Rocket
Kharpertian, Kiara (2011-02-16)A documentation and analysis of three major systems of order and control that attempt to govern the 00000 series of the V-2 Rocket in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. -
Moral Relativism: A Sort of Defense
Goodwin, Eva (2011-02-16) -
Poet and Politician Reconciled: How Gavin Douglas Navigates the Scots Language and Nationalism in the Prologues to the Eneados
Bushnell, Megan (2013-05-09)Gavin Douglas’ Eneados, a medieval Scottish translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, contains a political agenda that pertains particularly to language. Douglas interprets the Aeneid as the foundation of the literary tradition based ... -
Preserving "Simple Suppositions": A Humean Response to Reductionism about Personal Identity
Crawford, Lindsay (2011-02-16) -
Reading with Thought and Effort
Waddell, Heather (2011-02-16) -
She's Filled With Secrets: the Mythology of Landscape in the American Western
Oliver, Genevieve Marie (2013-05-03)Americans are heirs to a weighty, complex system of mythology surrounding landscape. The film, literary, and artistic genre of the Western encompasses the classic system of this mythology: that American space exists for ... -
The Significance of Satan: Eikonoklastes as a Guide to Reading the Character in Milton's Paradise Lost
Chow, Emily (2012-05-09)Eikon Basilike, meaning “the King’s Image,” was written in defense of King Charles I, who was executed in 1649 following disputes and charges from his parliament. As he was perceived by his English opponents to be a ... -
Stories from the Workplace
Maryeski, LeeAnn (2011-05-11)My collection of short stories has stemmed from a concept that I have struggled with in both my English and Politics courses here at Mount Holyoke College. The idea boils down to the concept of value. My short story ... -
Suffering, Self-Creation and Survival: Victimized Children in the Novels of Charles Dickens
Cohn, Mallory (2011-02-16) -
A Very British Bacchanalia: Classical Themes in the Works of Joe Orton
Sanfilippo, Danielle (2011-02-16)