This dissertation explores the aesthetic and ethical treatment of nonhuman animals within a diverse range of nineteenth-century novelists. Drawing from contemporary work in Animal Studies …
This dissertation considers literature’s singular mode of bearing witness to – and struggle to come to terms with – historical violence by analyzing representations of …
In “Within Limits: Seeking Interiority in Seventeenth-Century French Fiction,” I argue for broadening critical understanding of the ways in which a character’s interiority can be …