This dissertation examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has long been conceived …
As a black feminist project, this dissertation contends that late twentieth-century black diasporic literature intervenes in debates about shifts in black communal formation in the …
This dissertation examines the post-Enlightenment concept of aesthetic universalism as it figures in British art and literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. During the …
Troubled by the uncertain status of language as an instrument of knowledge, early modern writers sought new means to discover, communicate, and even produce knowledge. …