Isabella Zhou
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Vessels of Wintry Remembrances: The Persistence of Memory over Time in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
For Prof. Laura Robertson’s class, Surveillance of Women in Renaissance Drama
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The Effect of Near-Death Experiences on Marianne, Louisa, and their Relationships
For Prof. Marianne Giordani’s class, Jane Austen and the Poets
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Mrs. Ferrars Failing the Bird Parents’ Idealized Parenthood
For Prof. Marianne Giordani’s class, Jane Austen and the Poets
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Women as Ghostly Visitations in Victorian Poetics: The Self-Embodied, Domesticated Revival of Feminized Specters Consigned to the Gothic Madhouse
In their poetry, both Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti are interested in the image of the female ghost and her association with madness. Tennyson’s “Maud” incorporates the trope of the female specter through the image of the titular heroine herself, who haunts the speaker in his flight after he kills her brother in a duel.…
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Prostitution and Meritocracy in The Tale of Kiêu and The Nine Cloud Dream
For Prof. Gavin Healy’s class, Colloquium of Major East Asian Texts
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Close Reading from Page 130 of: Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Oxford World’s Classics, 2004.
For Prof. Nicholas Dame’s class: Austen, Eliot, James
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Villette Close Reading: Lucy’s Examination by Messiers Paul, Boissec and Rochemorte on Pages 442-446
For Prof. Monica Cohen’s class, Nineteenth Century Thrillers
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The Fragility of Sight in Tennyson’s “Oenome”
Throughout its version of the Judgement of Paris from the perspective of the titular speaker of the poem, Tennyson’s “Oenome” emphasizes the sensory experience of sight. After all, the central driving conflict of the poem is Paris’s choice to award “‘a fruit of pure Hesperian gold’” to either Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite (65), based on…