There is an aura about sessions such as this which suggests analogies to a fraternity initiation. Given that, one of the first questions the discussant must ask himself is where his discussion stands in relation to "Hell Week." All of us, I believe, would agree that "Hell Week" is the responsibility of the pledge trainer, or dissertation adviser in this case. If "Hell Week" is over, is the disc...

All abstract excerpts (save for Tsokanos’s) are copied from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses online database.“Missing Homes” examines three nineteenth-century authors whose experiences of displacement home, professions and/or class influenced their literary innovations…. Attention to these authors, I argue, offers a parallel theory nostalgia in which unsettled longing place call home regis...

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