American Doctoral Theses: Eizabeth Gaskell
Lovering, Virginia Louise Sexual Displacement in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell University of Toronto 1990 Goldner, Ellen J. Unsettling Lies: Imagining Interdependent Causation in the British and American Novel, 1855-1905 Brandeis University 1991 Davis, Deanna Louise Household Sympathy and the Limits of Real Things: Dilemmas of a Feminine Morality in George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell University of California, Los Angeles 1991 Allera, Francis Charles The Victorian Novel (1844-1851): As Social Protest: Three Victorian Novelists as Seen in Contemporary Reviews The Florida State University 1991 Retan, Katherine Allison Opening the Floodgates: The Construction and Transgression of Gender and Class Boundaries in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell University of Minnesota 1991 Pike, Elizabeth Holly Family and Society in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell State University of New York at Buffalo 1991 Hauch, Linda A. The Storyteller's Voice: The Dialogic Art of Elizabeth Gaskell University of Ottawa 1991 Miller, Andrew H. The Solicitudes of Material Culture: Victorian Novels and the Commodity Form Princeton University 1991 Carse, Wendy Kay Domesticity and the Victorian Gothic Short Story: 'Flesh and Blood is not Made for Such Encounters' Tulane University 1991 D'Albertis, Deirdre Anne Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text: Politics, Gender, and Genre Harvard University 1991 Betz, Barbara G. Till Father--Daughter Relationships in Selected Novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon University of Delaware 1992 Park, Jung-Hwa Oh Exceptional, Conventional and Dumb Women in Austen, C. Bronte, Gaskell and Eliot Cornell University 1992 Kathleen Ann The Novel of English Working--Class Movements, 1848-1914: Gaskell, Dickens, Harkness, and Tressell Michigan State University 1992 Mcmullen, Buck Allergies of Reading: Some Ambiguities of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction University of Colorado at Boulder 1992 Mcdonough, Robert Edwin Elizabeth Gaskell: The Development of A Vision of Society New York University 1992 Colby, Robin Bailey A Woman's Work: Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell Duke University 1992 Huber, Caroline P. 'Complicated Matters': The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell Rutgers the State University of New Jersey 1992 Greenfeld, Stephen S. The Value of Transgression in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot Columbia University 1992 Weitzman, Marla Lee Crossing Gender Lines:Cross--Dressing in the Works of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf University of Virginia 1992 Taylor, Megan Gray A Straining in the Text: Women Writers and the Deconstruction of the Sentimental Plot, 1845-1900 University of Maryland College Park 1993 Kahn, Jacquelyn Sue Women's Associations in Victorian Literature and Culture: Friendship, Rivalry, and Alternative Alliances in the Third Sphere University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1993 Birckmayer, Katherine Kendall Life Behind the Mask: Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 1993 Gillooly, Eileen Smile of Discontent: Feminized Humorous Discourse in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Columbia University 1993 Curlin, Jane Renee Writing Women: Feminine Self-Figuration in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell The University of Tulsa 1993 Appelbaum, Brooks Eluding the 'Lady Novelist': The Critical Writing of Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell Cornell University 1994 Kuhlman, Mary Louise Haynes Settings for Class and Gender in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novels The University of Nebraska 1994 Thaden, Barbara Zembachs The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1994 Parker, Pamela Corpron Fictional Philanthropy: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Rise of the Public Woman University of Oregon 1994 Mcgavran, Dorothy Heissenbuttel Honesty Admits discourse: Lying in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell The University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1994 Mahlis, Kristen Helen 'Formed for Labour, not for Love': Self-Cultivation and The Victorian Heroine University of California, Berkeley 1994 Fitzwilliam, Marie Ann The Dissenter Tamed: Gender and Class Conservatism in Elizabeth Gaskell's Short Stories University of Missouri 1994 Wood, Susan Haines Clio's Voice Regained: Historical Novels by Four Nineteenth-Century Women The University of Tennessee 1994 Yang, Sharon Rose The Angel with Clipped Wings: The Female Teacher of Pastoral Values in Nineteenth-Century Fiction The University of Connecticut 1994 Thow, Helen Elizabeth Father-Daughter Relationships in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell Drew University 1994 Johnston, Susan Janet Calling the Question: Women and Domestic Experience in British Political Fictions, 1787-1869 Mcgill University (Canada) 1995 Foley, June Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the 'Angel in the House' and the 'Self-Made Man': A Study of Gender, History, and Narrative New York University 1995 Cook, Ruth Mcdowell Elizabeth Gaskell's Radical Voice: A Defense of the Single Woman University of South Carolina 1995 Swenson, Kristine L. Treating A Sick Culture: Victorian Fictions of Medical Women The University of Iowa 1995 Kiesler, Dolores A. 'Something Specific to Contribute': George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Challenges of Feminism Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 1995 Fellows, Susan Glass But is it Satire? Satire in the Novels of Victorian Women Writers University of California, Riverside 1995 Mccuskey, Brian Wessell Servants' Characters: Below Stairs in the Victorian Novel The University of Michigan 1995 Warmbold, Marie Elaine Gaskell's 'North and South' and 'Wives and Daughters': Publishers, Publications, and Audience New York University 1995 Jennings, Rachel Ann The Union and Its Limits: Histories, Regions, and Empires in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel The University of Texas at Austin 1995 Park Kyonghwa Mid-Victorian Racial Discourse in Three Women Writers: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell State University of New York at Stony Brook 1995 Henry, Gary R. Reforming Stories, Reforming Lives: Historical Condition-of-England Novels Between the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867 University of Washington 1995 Abel, Eileen Dolores 'Blessing Left Behind': Self and Social Obligation in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell The University of Tennessee 1995 Feder-Lewis, Sonia Nora History at Home: Reassessing the Role of Women in the Victorian Historical Novel University of Minnesota 1996 Taylor, Sandra Lynn Becoming Conduct. Victorian Women Writers Negotiating Gender: Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot Temple University 1996 Lenard, Mary Kathleen Preaching Pity: Sentimentalism and the Victorian Cultural Discourse of Social Reform The University of Texas at Austin 1996 Kachur, Robert Metro Getting the Last Word: Women and the Authoritative Apocalyptic Voice in British Literature, 1845-1900 The University of Wisconsin 1996 Wildt, Katherine Ann Elizabeth Gaskell's Use of Color in Her Industrial Novels and Short Stories Saint Louis University 1996 Head, Elizabeth Ann Rhetoric of Argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' and 'Ruth' Texas Woman's University 1996 Mclean, Jacqueline Annette Kolosov Writing Women's Lives: A Study of Victorian Women's Auto/Biography New York University 1996 Clapp, Alisa Marie Angelic Airs/Subversive Songs: Music As Cultural Discourse in Victorian Literature and Society University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996 Park, Hyungji The Empire Within: Masculinity and Colonial Travel in the Victorian Novel Princeton University 1996 Grossman, Jonathan H. The Art of Alibi: A History of the Novel and the Law Courts University of Pennsylvania 1996 Najarian, James Hiester The 'Unmanly' Poet: Keats and the Poetics of Desire Yale University 1996 Dransfield, Scott Aaron Narrating the Pathological, 1837-1848: Revolution and Social Discourse in Carlyle, Dickens, and Gaskell West Virginia University 1996 Childress, Nancy Laverne Skirting the Law: Victorian Fiction and the Gendering of Judgment University of Virginia 1996 Masters, Joellen Bound by Duty: Women and Work in The Victorian Novel Boston University 1996 Wallace, Lisa Maria Resisting Women: Victorian Feminine Complaint University of California, Irvine 1996 Watt, Anneliese Cooper Enlightenment Rhetoric in the Fiction of Bronte and Gaskell: A Bakhtinian Dialogic Perspective The Pennsylvania State University 1997 Wiley, Margaret C. The Fallen Woman in the Victorian Novel: Dickens, Gaskell, and Eliot University of Massachusetts 1997 First, Lisa Ann 'The Middle-Class Woman Began to Write': Representations of Storytelling in the Works of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell Yale University 1997 Findlay, Isobel Mary Reading for Reform: History, Theology, and Interpretation and the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley McGill University 1997 Dodwell, Karen Kay Making Room: The Production of Fictional Space in the Novels of Gaskell, Eliot, and Oliphant University of Houston 1998 Walker, Virginia Shields Dream Shapers: Dream Treatment in Four Female Victorian Novelists: Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot New York University 1998 Easley, Marie Alexis Victorian Women Writers and the Periodical Press: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot University of Oregon 1998 Mooney, Jennifer Lynn Mullins 'An Active and Sympathetic Life': Elizabeth Gaskell's Reformist Impulse in 'Mary Barton', 'Ruth', and 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' University of Kentucky 1999 Smith, Erin Marie Trembling on the Boundary: Melodrama and the Victorian Novel, 1845-1876 The University of Wisconsin - Madison 1999 Womack, Whitney Ayn Protesting Bodies: Transatlantic Women's Reform Writing, 1788-1872 Purdue University 1999 Murphy, Amy Catherine 'The awful facts': Figurations of the worker in nineteenth-century British literature (Elizabeth Gaskell, James Kay) THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 1999 Graziano, Anne Leigh Extreme measures: Individuation in crisis in the nineteenth-century English novel (Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot) STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 1999 Viraraghavan, Chitra Capital adventures: Gender, Englishness and economics in Victorian fiction (Elizabeth Gaskell, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, W. Somerset Maugham, A. S. Byatt) TUFTS UNIVERSITY 2000 Stolpa, Jennifer Marie Revisioning Christian ministry: Women and ministry in 'Agnes Grey', 'Ruth', 'Janet's Repentance', and 'Adam Bede' (Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot) LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2000 Stokes, Peter Malcolm Getting to know the poor: Early Victorian fiction and social investigation (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Mayhew) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2000 Ruleman, Elizabeth Sayle The sibling bond in the novels of Austen, the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot (Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot) UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS 2000 Perry, Julie H. An empire over her life: The nubile woman's negotiations for personal and political power in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Olive Schreiner (South Africa) UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 2000 Menke, Richard Bruce Victorian interiors: The embodiment of subjectivity in English fiction, 1836-1901 (Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Henry James, George Eliot) STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2000 Graf, Mary Kathryn Religious paradox in the lives and works of Charlotte Bronte, Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 2000 Crowley, Leslie Anne 'All other faculties must be silent': Victorian motherhood and the divided female self (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ellen Wood, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Elizabeth Gaskell, Olive Schreiner, South Africa) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 2000 Starr, Elizabeth Ann Urban industry and literary work: The construction of authorship in the Victorian social-problem novel, 1845-1866 (Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 2001 Hess, Marcy Ann Discursive decontamination: Domesticating the great social evil in early Victorian novels (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell) THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA 2001 Garcha, Amanpal Singh From sketch to novel: Nonnarrative styles in Victorian fiction (Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2001 Ellison, David Alex Mobile homes: Volatile interiors and Victorian authority (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell) PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 2001 Dredge, Sarah Caroline Accommodating feminism: Victorian fiction and the nineteenth-century women's movement (Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot) MCGILL UNIVERSITY 2001 Bentley, Colene M. J. Constituting political interest: Community, citizenship, and the British novel, 1832--1867 (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot) MCGILL UNIVERSITY 2001 Wiltshire, Irene Elizabeth Gaskell and Romanticism: The Romantic Inheritance and her Shorter Works SALFORD UNIVERSITY (UK) 2002 Ritter, Julia Antonia Figures of sympathy: Womanly redefinition in the fiction of British women writers (George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2002 Nash, Julie Elizabeth Underplots in the drama: Servants and the problem of paternalism in the novels of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT 2002 Kagawa, P. Keiko Bodies in the 'house of fiction': The architecture of domestic and narrative spaces by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 2002 Howgill, Doris Woodrow Maternal recovery: Repositioning the role of women in works by Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON 2002 Gerstel, Jennifer Elisabeth Sexual selection and mate choice in Darwin, Eliot, Gaskell, and Hardy (Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy) UNWERSITY OF TORONTO 2002 Gargano, Elizabeth Ray Reconstructing school: Educational discourse and Victorian fiction (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, George Eliot) UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 2002 Fromer, Julie Ellen A necessary luxury: Tea in Victorian fiction and culture (Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant) THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON 2002 Blair, Emily Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic aesthetic: Poetry the wrong side out (Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 2002 Bhattacharya, Sumangala Victorian hunger (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2002 Barnes, Christopher Van Practice, materialism, and the representation of resistance in the British industrial novel (Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens) STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 2002 Thiele, David Vulgarians at the gate: Status, culture, and adult education in mid-Victorian literature (Geraldine Jewsbury, John Ruskin, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens) BOSTON COLLEGE 2003 Maurer, Sara L. Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgeworth) INDIANA UNIVERSITY 2003 Jones, Margaret Faye Worker angels: Ambivalence toward women's work in Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 2003 Hillyer, Frances Sophia Mrs. Gaskell and Mrs. Stowe: Giving birth to the maternal voice in literature (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Gaskell) THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 2003 Henkel, Carmen Rose The Victorian scene (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Henry James) STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK 2003 Claxton, Michael Jay The conjurer unmasked: Literary and theatrical magicians, 1840-1925 (Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Browning, Mark Twain) THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 2003 Burkholder-Mosco, Nicole Paige Hidden monstrosities: The transformation of woman and child victim(izer)s in nineteenth-century gothic fiction (Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James) INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 2003 Rudder, Debra Kay Denying the father's claim: The daughter-condition in four Victorian women of letters (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot) WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 2004 Malton, Sara Alexandra False economies: Forgery and other illegitimate issue, 1837-1895 (Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde) UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 2004 Hanselman, Sarah Amyes 'Exercise for their faculties': Women, class, and work in the writings of four mid-Victorian writers (Hannah Culiwick, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte) TUFTS UNIVERSITY 2004 Hanlon, Kerry Elizabeth Antigone's wake: The legacy of live burial in Victorian literature (Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 2004 Lee, Ying S. Masculinity and the English working class, 1837-1908 (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley) QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON. 2005 Amir, Zubair Syed 'Usurpations and other scandals': Gossip and social climbing in the Victorian novel (George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy) CORNELL UNIVERSITY 2005
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