This dissertation examines representations of antisecular religion (herein referred to as the “religion of the disinherited”) in the late nineteenth and twentieth century American novel, …
This dissertation aims to explain the emergence of a set of vital, if unrecognized, realist imperatives in American literature and critical thought at mid-twentieth century. …
In African American and black diasporic literary studies, prominent critical conversations hail love as the foundation for racial cohesion. Without adequately attending to love as …
“The Inhuman Renaissance” is a project in environmental history and literary analysis situated at the crossing of ecological and early modern science studies. In each …
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 …