My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
“Reverb” recovers the resonance between American literature and sonic media from the invention of the telephone and phonograph (the 1870s) to the end of the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to reevaluate the relationship between the aesthetics we call Romantic and the abstracting scientific procedures that have been underappreciated …
This dissertation argues that secrets become increasingly politicized over the course of the twentieth century, emerging from the private realm (the context of “family secrets” …
This thesis details the lived experience of fungi, how they interpret, interact with, and understand their surrounding worlds. I detail their relationship with plants and …
Debates in Postcolonial and South African studies have long centered on the relative value of two different approaches to literature, which Benita Parry has categorized …
Throughout the history of Western philosophy, animals have been distinguished from humans because they lack language (logos). Yet, their voices appear consistently throughout literature, cutting …
My dissertation explores the problem of experience in the work of three twentieth-century American poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill. In the broadest …
This dissertation examines a series of strange intimacies in twentieth-century literature by focusing on works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Graham Greene, …
My work examines the ways in which modernist lyric poems activate specific ways of thinking through their formal and thematic engagements with time. One particularly …
This thesis attempts to engage in an analysis that probes the relationship between the discourse of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and the …
“The Inhuman Renaissance” is a project in environmental history and literary analysis situated at the crossing of ecological and early modern science studies. In each …
Describes the curious, personable, and ironic narrators of Emma, by Jane Austen; The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, by George Eliot; and Howards End, …