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Gothic Gender and Colonized Women: A Gothic Feminist Reading of Women as the Subaltern in Evelina and Northanger Abbey
Get PDFEvelina by Frances Burney and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen are two woman-authored, Gothic texts that explore themes of feminism and coming of age as subaltern in a patriarchal context. The main character in each must enter the world and become disillusioned to the reality that they are treated as subhuman because they are women. The term subaltern refers to those living in the margins and their suppressed “potential for life and creativity, in given historical circumstances” (Pandey 4735), and primarily focuses on ethnic or racial oppression in postcolonial settings; however, this thesis explores the idea of women in patriarchal Britain as subaltern. Jo Stanley writes on how men and women each refer to people outside of their own groups and argues that men use the term “‘Other’ to define and confine women themselves” (356). Women have been colonized and oppressed by men for thousands of years all over the world, and Burney and Austen both capture this in their work. These texts connect in theme and narrative, but they are also unconventional forms of the Gothic. Evelina is a more than commonly lighthearted Gothic novel, and Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic. These novels show men and women in excessive stereotypes to allow for extreme examples of performative gender binaries. Evelina Anville, in the novel by her own name, is raised by her beloved adoptive father, Mr. Villars, and he has always treated her with love and respect, sheltering her from the world outside their family. When she goes to London, however, she records in her letters to Mr. Villars how different the world is than she had imagined it. Men treat her as a creature with no autonomy, asserting their wills over her emotionally and physically. She slowly begins to realize that this is the behavior to be expected of men and that she will probably suffer this her entire life. Northanger Abbey shows Catherine Morland experiencing similar dissilusionment, traveling from her loving country home to the city of Bath, where she encounters for the first time men who lie to her because she is a woman. Not only do they lie, but they try to take advantage of her mind and body, compromising her reputation. She comes to town ripe with naivete, but, like Evelina, must learn that it is normal for men to treat her less well than they treat other men and that many women support this behavior. Evelina and Catherine experience this disillusionment for the first time just after each of their novels begin, and the reader watches their innocence fall away as the young women recognize their identity as subaltern in patriarchal England
Morality of Medieval Magic in Medicine
No full textIn the late medieval and early Renaissance eras, attitudes towards science, religion, and magic were in upheaval. The Reformation was heavily critiquing Catholicism as being too closely related to magic, there were pushes for leaving long-held beliefs behind in favor of newer science, and society as a whole was in a massive period of change. One of the places all three topics intersect is medicine. Normal medicine during this period was often ineffective, furthering the need for people seek out magical cures, which were in turn often intertwined with religion. By looking at the question of whether it would have been considered moral to use magical cures at the time, a window into how societal values were changing, and the battle between the established and the new, can be seen. This paper pulls from many primary sources and modern secondary sources to create an idea of what influenced society at the time on both sides in regard to the morality of using magical cures. Using that information, this paper argues that using magical cures should have been generally morally permissible in the late medieval and early Renaissance eras
Magic in Medicine
No full textJacob Mudd is a sophomore Creative Writing and Visual and Sound Media double major with a minor in English. His project is inspired by Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, looking at the role magic played in medicine in the late medieval early Renaissance periods. It includes a creative grimoire that contains a variety of medieval illnesses and their magical cures and is accompanied by a paper that looks at answering the question of whether it would be moral to use magic in medicine from the perspective of someone living during that time.
Archival Collection Used: MSS 0029 Herbert Kraft manuscript and book leaveshttps://scholarship.shu.edu/cohort24-25/1001/thumbnail.jp
DIPL 3450 Comparative Homeland Security
No full textThis course will introduce students to homeland security analysis and a survey of how different countries address internal security issues. Homeland security is a uniquely structured American concept, so fitting other nations’ policies and practices squarely into the U.S. model would not succeed. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States embarked on a wholesale reorganization of its internal security and border protection institutions. In parallel, European, and other countries largely preferred to stay with and work within their existing institutional architectures to combat terrorism and respond to other security challenges and disasters, both natural and man-made.
Our focus will be on the policies and practices of 10 countries with respect to key areas of homeland security, such as counterterrorism, policing, emergency management, defense support for civil authorities, critical infrastructure protection, cybersecurity, border security, transportation security, and public health
DIPL 4101/5101/6311 Senior/Honors Project
No full textThis class is the capstone of your undergraduate experience. As such, you will be drawing on the lessons that you have learned in DIPL 3800 to develop and execute a research project. The class will be a mix of one-on-one sessions as well as traditional class meetings. My expectation is for you to write a publishable quality manuscript that tests hypotheses head-to-head either qualitatively or quantitatively
Making Stars in the Sky of Iranian Cinema Film Magazines and the Stars of Early Popular Cinema in Iran
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