Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English Language and Literature, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-234).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, 1988. / Spine title: The search for love and truth in Shirley Hazzard's writings. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-227).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1929. / Bibliography: p. 101-107.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1908. / "Reprint from the Bulletin of the University of Texas no. 371, November 15, 1914." "Originally formed the introduction to a complete edition of the play entitled The ball."--Pref. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. [65]-68.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1929. / Bibliography: p. 101-107.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-163).

Inaug.--Diss.--Halle. / Lebenslauf. Anhang: I. Prologe of ♭e kalundare of ♭is litelle booke.--II. þe croncyle made by Cahucier.--III. The booke off good maners: p. [63]-79.

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-69). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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This is a thesis comprising two components: a portion of my novella and a dissertation. My work of fiction, Turning Road, draws loosely on the Bluebeard fairytale, as well as theories of identity and nation, as a means of exploring a young Australian woman’s journey to London, a journey which is both symbolic and psychological. The second component is the critical essay, which considers the extent to which Australian women’s expatriate fiction can be read as a variation of Bluebeard. Australian women’s expatriate fiction has been characterised as a journey involving a doomed love affair with a self-centred male in London.1 To date, most critical attention on the genre has focussed on the extent to which it employs the Odyssean myth to consider gender and colonial identity. It is my contention that reading Bluebeard in The Transit of Venus highlights issues of identity and power in relation to gender and nation. Through its central themes of threat, sexuality, secrecy, self-knowledge and seriality, Bluebeard warns against prescribed gender roles/relations and limiting identifications, and works towards depicting a new liberating space between contrasting spaces identified as home and abroad.