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Free, Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This project examines the role of southern Africa (from the Cape to the Zambezi) in the constitution of British identity from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region's mineral deposits through the close of World War One. Reading a wide variety of print culture produced by South Africa's "authorial informants"--British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, Authors, English Literature
Damsen, Silver – ProQuest LLC, 2009
My dissertation, "Erotic Love and the Development of Proto-Capitalist Ideology in Early Modern Comedy" demonstrates how increased crown authority, and an expanded market combine with the mixed agency of the romantic comedy daughter to further encourage early modern economic growth. The triumph of rebelling daughter over blocking father has…
Descriptors: Comedy, English Literature, Intimacy, Ideology
Nachowitz, Marc – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this design-based experiment is two-fold: to see if classroom pedagogies can be developed to improve student achievement in English literature as well as prepare them for 21st Century literacies. Applying Bereiter and Scardamalia's theory of Knowledge Building to English curricula, this experiment tracked the progress of a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, English Literature, Language Arts
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