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Markley, Robert Francis, Bettina M. Pollock, Anthony Markley, Robert Pollock, Anthony Gray, Catharine Freeman, Lisa Holguin, Marilyn M 2016-07-07T20:27:41Z 2016-07-07T20:27:41Z 2018-07-08T09:15:20Z 2016-04-20 2016-05 "My dissertation considers how and why representations of female suffering in Restoration tragedy had a profound impact on the development of mid-eighteenth century novels and plays, focusing primarily on the work of Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, John Dryden, Samuel Richardson and David Garrick. Previous scholarship on Restoration ""she-tragedies"" has tended to emphasize how their heroines’ descent into hysteria, madness, and death implies a total loss of female agency and power. My project challenges this reigning interpretation: through detailed readings of Richardson’s and Garrick's adaptations of Restoration tragedy, I argue that these influential mid-century authors transform the spectacle of female suffering into a resource for female empowerment and authority over the public sphere. My four chapters analyze Restoration tragic female characters as strongly influencing eighteenth-century writers, who appropriated and adapted them in relation to changing cultural tastes, especially as regards more restricted representations of female sexuality and the heightened desire to promote a seemingly less complex version of female virtue. Scholarship in the long eighteenth-century has suffered from a tendency to emphasize distinctions between the ""licentious"" culture of the Restoration and the “reformed” tastes of mid-eighteenth-century readers and audiences; by allowing these two cultural moments to speak to one another, my project challenges those distinctions and considers the more nuanced ways mid-eighteenth century’s writers like Richardson and Garrick were informed and influenced by Restoration drama." Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01 The student, Marilyn Holguin, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-18 at 14:32. The student, Marilyn Holguin, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-04-18 at 14:45. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-20 at 10:47. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9306 on 2016-07-07 at 13:50:01 Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 HOLGUIN-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf: 1195594 bytes, checksum: a22ede6603b3878a4b15440a475c7292 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4212 bytes, checksum: 056d185d32942c54c09ac61a37d477f2 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4558 bytes, checksum: 596c9609560fa7c9c2cc24a382f5d1be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-20 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 93137 Lift date: 2018-07-07T20:28:14Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 93137 Lift date: 2018-07-07T20:35:34Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 93137 on 2018-07-08T09:15:20Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90785 en Copyright 2016 Marilyn Holguin Adaption Eighteenth-Century British literature Restoration drama novels Appropriating the Restoration hero(ine): intertextuality and the transformation of gender identity, 1677-1759 text text English English Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.