Incest in the Nineteenth Century American Literature
| Thesis title in Czech: | Incest v Americke literature 19 stoleti |
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| Thesis title in English: | Incest in the Nineteenth Century American Literature |
| Key words: | Incest|19 stoleti|Americká literatura |
| English key words: | American Literature|Incest|Nineteenth Century |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2017/2018 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | David Lee Robbins, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 31.10.2017 |
| Date of assignment: | 01.11.2017 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 13.12.2017 |
| Date and time of defence: | 05.09.2019 08:30 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 20.08.2019 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 05.09.2019 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The research is planned to progress thusly: I will find and read five to ten books in which incest has a noticeable presence. Then I will analyse its role in the plot and form my opinion. Afterwards, I will find at least five secondary sources to each primary one and compare the conclusions their authors came to. After taking into consideration my supervisor’s tips and knowledge on the subject I will respectfully use the information I gained to further and eventually finish my research.
The problems I may encounter in my search: 1) Inability to access an important piece of information, due to it being unavailable in libraries, shops or respectable web-pages or generally out of my reach. 2) Unwittingly using a falsified work or source. 3) Incorrect interpretation of the author’s intent. 4) Problems that would prevent me from dedicating proper time to the research, such as health issues. |
| References |
| Primary sources:
1) Alice Doane's Appeal, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2) The Hidden Hand, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth. 3) Pierre: or, the Ambiguities, Herman Melville. 4) The Fall of House Usher, Edgar A. Poe. 5) The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison. Secondary sources: 1) Original Vice: The Political Implications of Incest in the Early American Novel. 2) The Disease of the Last of the Ushers': Incest in Nineteenth-Century American Culture". 3) "Brotherly Love," in The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes. 4) The Sound of Incest: Sympathetic Resonance in Melville's "Pierre". 5)Brothers and Sisters: Incest as Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Novels. 6) James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. 7) The Self, the Mirror, the Other: “The Fall of the House of Usher”. 8) The Colour Purple, Alice Walker. 9) The Bluest Eyes, Toni Morrison. 10) Hoffman, Daniel. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. 11) Barnett, Louise K. "American Novelists and the 'Portrait of Beatrice Cenci'." 12) Becker, Allienne R. "'Alice Doane's Appeal': A Literary Double of Hoffman's Die Elixieredes Teufels." Comparative Literature Studies 23, No. 1 (Spring 1986): 1-11. |