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 …
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, …
In “A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewriting Literary History,” I examine the formative role of the romance in literary modernism’s work to think critically about itself …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between recent literary paradigms of interethnic repetition and the notion that the U.S. is moving toward a "post-racial" future. Through …
In my dissertation I argue that the trope of translation helps us understand how diasporic and transnational writers dissolve the opposition between postcolonial localism, on …
Taking as my point of departure the work of early social scientist and dramatist Henry Mayhew, I examine how early social research appropriates sentimental themes …