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, …
This dissertation examines representations of antisecular religion (herein referred to as the “religion of the disinherited”) in the late nineteenth and twentieth century American novel, …
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, …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
This dissertation examines the errant role that pleasure plays in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers' attempts to define the epistemological, ethical, and civic value of …
This dissertation interrogates the complex operations of shame around homosexuality as they appear in early twentieth-century Anglophone writing. I argue that these operations do not …
This dissertation explores the transpersonal forms of thinking and feeling that became imaginable in the nineteenth century, when Victorian literature and science together defined the …
This dissertation argues that much of the critical imagination of mid-twentieth century liberal thinkers in the United States is best understood as a worldview shaped …