This dissertation is a detailed study of ethics in the second-century BCE text Huainanzi, and its implications for our understanding of classical Daoist ethics in …
Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
In "'You Divided Sea by Your Might': The 'Conflict Myth' and the Biblical Tradition," I analyze the ancient west Asian theme of divine combat between …
In this thesis we study the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem for second order divergence-form operators having a BMO antisymmetric part. To be precise, for the divergence-form …
Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
This dissertation explores how post-Soviet Russia's demographic reality came to be conceived of as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention. …
The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
Interpreters of Thomas Hobbes take two distinctive approaches to his views on religion, either rendering God foundational to his vision or giving primacy to human …
My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
Abstract of (POST)-PARANOIA FROM HOBBES TO ARENDT, by Noga Rotem, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021 Common responses to the seeming return of ‘the paranoid style’ …