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Description:: This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
Keyword:: Environment, Sympathy, Victorian, Literature, Space, and Silence
Subject:: History and English literature
Creator:: Mason, Sarah Michelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_838563 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15678

Description:: Abstract This dissertation studies a creative archive composed of poems, novels, performances, and visual art produced after 1990 that increasingly represent the ocean as “one salt water”: a space of relations among Indigenous oceanic peoples, animals, plants, and other beings. In doing so, these texts work to forge solidarities and...
Keyword:: Environment, Indigenous Studies, Pacific, Oceania, trans-Indigenous, and Activism
Subject:: Literature, Environmental justice, and English literature
Creator:: Etherington, Bonnie Joy
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15129 and etdadmin_upload_743962

Description:: This dissertation investigates long-term biographies of seventeen small medieval settlements in the region of Hegranes, Skagafjörður, North Iceland, placing their creation, development, and reuse in the context of coupled social and environmental change. The individuals and households who lived at the Hegranes sites were at the nexus of both kinds...
Keyword:: Environment, North Atlantic, Sustainability, Archaeology, Medieval Europe, and Iceland
Subject:: Archaeology
Creator:: Catlin, Kathryn A
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14744 and etdadmin_upload_675578

Description:: Due to their widespread use and subsequent release, ENMs may exist as mixtures in the natural environment where their chemical interactions can control the toxic stress to exposed microorganisms. Will complex environmental mixtures containing ENMs produce microbial stress that is synergistic, attenuated, or simply additive relative to single ENM exposure,...
Keyword:: Nanomaterials, Environment, Titanium dioxide, and silver nanoparticles
Subject:: Nanotechnology and Environmental engineering
Creator:: Wilke, Carolyn
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14434 and etdadmin_upload_624544

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