Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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This Is It, I Guess: Creating a Forward-Thinking Queer Narrative by Examining Early and Current Examples

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Loucks, Ben, Thesis advisor (ths): Pendleton Jiminez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Handlarski, Denise, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Queer youth are an at-risk group, with an incredibly high rate of harm and death as they grow into themselves. They are often advised to wait until they finish school to express their sexuality more openly, when they can leave to somewhere that is "better", which in this context can mean safer, more accepting, or far away from friends and family who may reject them.… more
Full Text: This Is It, I Guess : Creating a Forward-Thinking Queer Narrative by Examining Early and Current Examples A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in the …

The Material Worlds of the Idle and the Industrious: Eighteenth-Century Middling Reform-Minded Representations of Plebeian Children

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Hennig, Melissa Lorraine, Thesis advisor (ths): Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, Degree committee member (dgc): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Siena, Kevin, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis explores middling reform-minded representations of plebeian children's material worlds in England from 1720 to 1780. Specifically, it examines depictions of chattel and place in imagery of children, to convey messages aligned with the reform initiatives of the eighteenth century. Using the Old Bailey Proceedings, prints by William Hogarth, and novels, it argues that… more
Full Text: THE MATERIAL WORLDS OF THE IDLE AND THE INDUSTRIOUS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MIDDLING REFORM-MINDED REPRESENTATIONS OF PLEBEIAN CHILDREN A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master …