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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
The changing role of women was arguably the most fundamental area of concern and crisis in the Victorian era. Recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the evolving role of women, particularly in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type that exists between Coventry Patmore's "angel of the house" and the New Woman of the fin de siecle. I call this character the Wandering Woman. This new archetypal character adheres to the following list of characteristics: she is a literal or figurative orphan, is genteelly poor or of the working class, is pursued by a rogue who offers financial security in return for sexual favors; this sexual liaison, unsanctified by marriage, causes her to be stigmatized in the eyes of society; and her stigmatization results in expulsion from society and enforced wandering through a literal or figurative wilderness. There are three variations of this archetype: the child-woman as represented by the titular heroine of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Little Nell of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop; the sexual deviant as represented by Miss Wade of Dickens' Little Dorrit; and the fallen woman as represented by the titular heroine …
Date:
August 2000
Creator:
Jackson, Lisa Hartsell
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind
The dissertation is a collection of creative and non-fiction work, including a novel with critical introduction, four short stories, and three essays. The novel is a modern day Grail quest that takes place primarily in the Southwestern United States. The short stories are mostly set in the southwest as well, and take for their topic what Paul Fussel refers to as "hope abridged." The essays are non-fiction.
Date:
August 2000
Creator:
Sisk, Grant
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Memories of Motherland: Gender, Diaspora and National Identity in 1990s Indian Popular Culture
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This thesis examines the role of globalization, an open economy and diasporic experiences on the 1990s popular Indian culture, focusing on discourses of gender, national identity and family. Recent Indian beauty queens and international beauty contests are discussed in the context of gendered nationhood in 1990s India. Several popular films of the 1990s are discussed as narratives expressing longing for an extended family and a homogeneous national identity under the leadership of a traditional father figure. In contrast, independent films interrogate the primacy of ethnic and national identity and raise interesting questions about exilic experience. All of these forms of national and popular culture reflect the conflicting and ever-changing anxieties surrounding national identity and the role of women in India.
Date:
May 2002
Creator:
Sapre, Manasi
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
James Earl Rudder: A Lesson in Leadership
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This thesis is the about the life of Rudder. The emphasis of this work, however, is that Rudder was successful primarily because of his character and leadership style. Much of the study was drawn from primary sources. Secondary sources were also consulted. This thesis opens with a brief Introduction, which discusses the need for this work. Chapter 1 discusses Rudder's life prior to WW II, emphasizing particular characteristics that benefited his leadership ability. Chapter 2 examines the 2nd Ranger Battalion's transformation under Rudder's leadership and guidance. Chapter 3 chronicles the 2nd Ranger Battalion's assault on the Pointe du Hoc battery, ending in December 1944, when Col. Rudder was reassigned to the 109th Infantry Regiment. Moreover, the controversy surrounding the Ranger's mission is also examined in this chapter. Chapter 4 describes Col. Rudder's leadership with the 109th in the Battle of the Bulge. A chapter accounting Rudder's political career and leadership follows. Chapter 6 examines his term as chancellor and president of the Texas A&M University system, until his death in 1970, and the major institutional changes that he enacted during his tenure, which resulted in A&M becoming the respected research university it is today. This significance and recapitulation of Rudder's …
Date:
December 2003
Creator:
Bean, Christopher B.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
School Spirit or School Hate: The Confederate Battle Flag, Texas High Schools, and Memory, 1953-2002
The debate over the display of the Confederate battle flag in public places throughout the South focus on the flag's display by state governments such South Carolina and Mississippi. The state of Texas is rarely placed in this debate, and neither has the debate adequately explore the role of high schools' use of Confederate symbols. Schools represent the community and serve as a symbol of its values. A school represented by Confederate symbols can communicate a message of intolerance to a rival community or opposing school during sports contests. Within the community, conflict arose when an opposition group to the symbols formed and asked for the symbols' removal in favor of symbols that were seen more acceptable by outside observers. Many times, an outside party needed to step in to resolve the conflict. In Texas, the conflict between those in favor and those oppose centered on the Confederate battle flag, and the memory each side associated with the flag. Anglos saw the flag as their school spirit. African Americans saw hatred.
Date:
December 2006
Creator:
Dirickson, Perry
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Richard Thompson Archer and the Burdens of Proprietorship: The Life of a Natchez District Planter
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In 1824 a young Virginia aristocrat named Richard Thompson Archer migrated to Mississippi. Joining in the boom years of expansion in the Magnolia State in the 1830s, Archer built a vast cotton empire. He and his wife, Ann Barnes, raised a large family at Anchuca, their home plantation in Claiborne County, Mississippi. From there Richard Archer ruled a domain that included more than 500 slaves and 13,000 acres of land. On the eve of the Civil War he was one of the wealthiest men in the South. This work examines the life of Richard Archer from his origins in Amelia County, Virginia, to his death in Mississippi in 1867. It takes as its thesis the theme of Archer's life: his burdens as proprietor of a vast cotton empire and as father figure and provider for a large extended family. This theme weaves together the strands of Archer's life, including his rise to the position of great planter, his duties as husband and father, and his political beliefs and activities. Archer's story is told against the background of the history of Mississippi and of the South, from their antebellum heyday, through the Civil War, and into the early years of Reconstruction. …
Date:
December 2001
Creator:
Hammond, Carol D.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Historical Development and Future of the Southern Bible Institute
This study represents qualitative, historical research. The study documented the origins, milestones, and development of the Southern Bible Institute in Dallas, Texas. This study provided data leading to a better understanding of the impact of segregation on the African American religious community in Dallas, Texas. Data from this study also shows how African Americans responded to segregation in the area of theological higher education through the establishment of the Southern Bible Institute. The research methodology was heavily dependent on oral data from various sources and pertinent data were extrapolated from oral history interviews and historical, internal and external institutional documents. Analysis was based on accuracy, consistency and authenticity. Triangulation was the method used to determine the accuracy and authenticity of the oral interviews. The data were also analyzed for extrapolating factors that lend themselves to inclusion on an institutional assessment. Based on the factors extrapolated from the data and from a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis, an internal institutional assessment checklist was created to assist the leadership in evaluating various aspects of the school. It was concluded that the future seems bright for the Southern Bible Institute, but it is recommended that the administration leverage off identified strengths …
Date:
May 2008
Creator:
Cooks, Michael J.F.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History Of Dickens County: Ranches and Rolling Plains
This book discusses the history of Dickens County, Texas. The Table of Contents breaks the book into eight portions: The Beginnings, Education, Churches, Businesses, Ranches, Farming, Miscellaneous, Family Histories. An index to family histories is on the pages after the table of contents and before the first section.
Date:
1971
Creator:
Arrington, Fred
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler & Smith County, Texas: An Historical Survey
This book gives an overview of the history of Tyler, Texas and Smith County through a series of essays written by community members on various social and historical topics. A List of Illustrations is on page viii and the Table of Contents is on page ix; the index starts on page 279.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Glover, Robert W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Collection of Memories: A History of Armstrong County, 1876-1965
This text includes an historical overview of Armstrong County, Texas discussing the ranches, families, and individuals important to the area. Index starts after page 567.
Date:
1965
Creator:
Armstrong County Historical Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A History of Crosby County 1876-1977
This text is a history of various economic and social aspects of Crosby County, described on the title page as, "A collection of historical sketches and family histories composed by County Residents; compiled by the staff of the Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum under the supervision and with the cooperation of the Crosby County Historical Commission" (p. 1). Index starts on page 597.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Crosby County Pioneer Museum
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2009-2010, Undergraduate
The UNT Undergraduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press" (p. 1). Campus maps are on pages 582 and 584; index starts on page 552.
Date:
July 2009
Creator:
University of North Texas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2010-2011, Undergraduate
The UNT Undergraduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press" (p. 1). Index starts on page 571.
Date:
July 2010
Creator:
University of North Texas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2010-2011, Graduate
The UNT Graduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press" (p. 1). Index starts on page 494.
Date:
July 2010
Creator:
University of North Texas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Jeans, Boots, and Starry Skies: Tales of a Gay Country-and-Western Bar and Places Nearby
Fourteen short stories, with five interspersed vignettes, describe the lives of gay people in the southwestern United States, centered around a fictional gay country-and-western bar in Dallas and a small town in Oklahoma. Various characters, themes, and trajectories recur in the manner of a short story cycle, as explained in the prefatory Critical Analysis, which focuses on exemplary works of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Italo Calvino, Yevgeny Kharitonov, and Louise Erdrich.
Date:
May 2010
Creator:
Gay, Wayne Lee
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Thursday, December 15, 1910
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 15, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Thursday, December 1, 1910
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 1, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Randall County Story from 1541 to 1910
This book discusses the history of Randall County including the geography of the area, stories from people living in the county, community businesses and religious institutions. The book is divided into four sections by date; an index of pioneers starts on page 359.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Warwick, Mrs. Clyde W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mineola and its Mayors: 101 Years
This book covers the history of mayors in the city of Mineola, located in Wood County, Texas. It includes biographical information about each mayor, as well as a discussion of the events that surrounded their incumbency. The surname index begins on page 250.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Bruner, Ora Pritchett
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 26, 1912
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 26, 1912
Creator:
Slater, H. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Saturday, February 3, 1912
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 3, 1912
Creator:
Slater, H. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Saturday, April 26, 1913
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 26, 1913
Creator:
Slater, H. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Friday, December 27, 1912
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 27, 1912
Creator:
Slater, H. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Saturday, June 18, 1910
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 18, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History