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Dissertation
Almost Everything, Worse Than Nothing: Gender and the Brother-Sister Relationship in British Literature, 1600-1815
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
07/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000007083
Abstract
My dissertation argues that, between approximately 1600 and 1815, literary depictions of the relationships between brothers and sisters reflect persistent anxieties around the ramifications of brother-sister connectivity on cultural conceptualizations of essential gender difference and inequality. At the same time, these depictions also reflect a larger cultural shift away from the primacy of the birth family in favor of conjugal ties in cultural discourse and practice, weakening but not eradicating the social danger posed by the brother-sister relationship. Whether we see evolution or difference, what we see most of all is a meeting of larger cultural context with specific literary depictions and continually fraught navigation of gender and familial dynamics that resonates into the present.
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- Title
- Almost Everything, Worse Than Nothing
- Creators
- Elizabeth Lunnen Salazar
- Contributors
- Louis Kirk McAuley (Chair)Donna L Potts (Committee Member)Todd Butler (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of English
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 121
- Identifiers
- 99901152438501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation