This dissertation argues that many instances of nineteenth-century British fiction rely on exoticism to narrate the collective experience of mass media as an unfamiliar dynamic …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
The dissertation examines the lives and afterlives of Christ's body on the English stage as they relate to theories of representation, religious reformation, and embodiment. …
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 argues that a driving force in the evolution of the nineteenth-century American novel's theoretical and formal concerns was a broadly shared uncertainty about …
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 …