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"This Elegant Science": Satire and Sociability in Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris, or the Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd (1690)
DownloadSpring 2016
Written by Mary Evelyn and published posthumously by her father John Evelyn, the Mundus Muliebris, or The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock’d (1690) consists of three parts: a preface written by John Evelyn, a poem “A Voyage to Marryland; or, the Ladies Dressing-Room,” and a word list, “The...
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Spring 2014
This thesis examines Indigenous rhetorics of resistance from the Treaty Six negotiations in 1876 to the 1930s. Using methods from Comparative Literature and Indigenous literary studies, the thesis situates the rhetoric of northern Plains Indigenous peoples in the context of settler-colonial...
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“This isn’t gonna fix your child,” Experiences of parents using involuntary stabilization for a child’s substance use
DownloadFall 2021
Background: Evidenced-informed strategies are urgently needed to support families who are struggling with a youth’s substance use disorder. One strategy used in several Canadian provinces is involuntary stabilization programs, which involve the apprehension and confinement of youth whose...
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"Two-stones" stories: shared teachings through the narrative experiences of early school leavers
DownloadFall 2010
The purpose of the research study was to inquire into the experiences of youth who leave school before graduating with a high school diploma. Through the narrative inquiries into the life and school stories of the participants, several threads are identified, providing opportunity for further...
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Fall 2012
This dissertation is about the work of melancholy in the Victorian realist novel, particularly those texts written in the late 1840s. The representation of melancholy affords an examination of a wide scope of issues that relate to the family, generally, and to the role of the middle-class women...