This dissertation maintains that nostalgia played a formative role in animating several competing diasporic American nationalisms in the nineteenth century. Nostalgia is often dismissed as …
This dissertation argues that gothic conventions in antebellum fiction revise Enlightenment categories of the individual, sympathy, and the social contract for a cultural environment made …
This dissertation?"Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Republic, 1776-1870"? explores the relationship between early American literature and the political philosophy of federalism in …
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 …
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 …