Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Elinor and Anne: Emotional Isolation, Family, and Society in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion

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2023-December-12
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In her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and her last, Persuasion, Jane Austen centers the perspectives of gentry women, Elinor Dashwood and Anne Elliot, who were socially successful because of their ability to regulate their own emotions and influence those...

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The Objects of Our Affection: Objectification, Sexualization and Commodification of the Korean Pop Culture Industry and Fandom

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2014-January-01
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K-Pop with its flashy 'bubble gum pop' aesthetic has developed into a major cultural product and dominating industry in the past decade. In the growing market, idol celebrities have started to emerge as manufactured products that market the fantasy of...

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Unlanded Souls: Discussions Black Landownership Coming Out of the Port Royal Experiment

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2014-January-01
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During the Civil War the Port Royal Experiment – part government-funded enterprise in free slave labor, part abolitionist-fueled social experiment – provided the former slaves of the South Carolina Sea Islands with their first experiences of paid labor while learning...

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What Do You Meme? An Exploration of Internet Communication Through Memes

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2021-January-01
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The topic of memes and the ethnographies they create are discussed. Memes that have been created and adopted by alt-right communities, specifically incels, illustrate their ideologies while simultaneously validating their views and recruiting insecure, vulnerable populations. Memes from times past...

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