In Trauma and Recovery, author Judith Herman describes a cultural investment in the belief that some forms of violence and trauma are so uncomfortable, shameful, …
The dissertation examines how poetry from the mid seventeenth century to the mid eighteenth century sought to dissociate allegiances from their political implications and disentangle …
Troubled by the uncertain status of language as an instrument of knowledge, early modern writers sought new means to discover, communicate, and even produce knowledge. …
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 …
Abstract of “‘A machine which winds its own springs’: Fictions of Self-invention in the Eighteenth Century” by Swetha Regunathan, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2018 As …
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 …
