This dissertation explores the aesthetic and ethical treatment of nonhuman animals within a diverse range of nineteenth-century novelists. Drawing from contemporary work in Animal Studies …
This dissertation considers literature’s singular mode of bearing witness to – and struggle to come to terms with – historical violence by analyzing representations of …
This thesis discusses the figure of the prostitute in 19th-century literature and medical treatises within the oeuvre of Guy de Maupassant. It examines particularly the …
My doctoral dissertation focuses on representations of the family as a patriarchal institution in the works of two female writers: French author Marie NDiaye and …
This dissertation interrogates the relationship between Enlightenment attitudes toward system in knowledge and the rise of the encyclopedic dictionary as a privileged material form for …
This dissertation addresses the changing signification of the concept of nostalgia in the late nineteenth century, a period when it shifted from being a largely …
In “Within Limits: Seeking Interiority in Seventeenth-Century French Fiction,” I argue for broadening critical understanding of the ways in which a character’s interiority can be …
