English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Affecting Labors: The Novel and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Production traces the emergence of a set of negative affects in literature written in the last …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Ramamurthy, Rithika (creator); Anderson, Amanda (Advisor); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Copjec, Joan (Reader); Kornbluh, Anna (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Literary theory; victorian literature; British literature; Affect theory; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Marxist criticism; Cultural theory; James, Henry, 1843-1916
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Description:: “After Disillusionment: The ‘Minor’ Idioms of Diasporic Life,” studies how diverse contexts of North American woman/queer of color subjects respond to and reimagine their shared …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Saili, Kiran (creator); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Kim, Daniel (Reader); Reichman, Ravit (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American poetry; Aesthetics; Affect theory; media and performance; Contemporary Art; Contemporary Literature; black feminist studies; Asian Americans--Study and teaching; queer diaspora studies; woman of color feminisms
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: My dissertation attends both philosophically and historically to the affect of seriousness in contemporary American culture. It focuses specifically on expressions and performances of seriousness, …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Actis, Andrea Camille (creator); Khalip, Jacques (Advisor); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Smailbegović, Ada (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Affect theory; American literature; Feminism and literature; Poetics; Philosophy and religion--History of doctrines; Critical Race Studies
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines sentimentalism, the body, and time in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction, focusing in particular on the work of Charles Brockden Brown, …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Beach, Matthew Allen (creator); Gould, Philip (Advisor); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Egan, James (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Disability studies; pain; Affect theory; American literature; Sentimentalism; temporality; body; Time; african american literature; Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932; Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937; nineteenth-century american literature; Sympathy in literature; Optimism; exhaustion; Historiography
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Description:: This dissertation argues that depletive affective experiences engendered by reading are crucial for understanding the formal innovations of the Mid-Victorian novel. Unlike their 18th-century predecessors, …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Simundich, Joel Peter (creator); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: victorian literature; English literature; Affect theory
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