This dissertation argues that many instances of nineteenth-century British fiction rely on exoticism to narrate the collective experience of mass media as an unfamiliar dynamic …
This dissertation traces the emergence and development of a new model of villainy in Victorian literature and social discourse. I trace the origins of this …
This dissertation explores the transpersonal forms of thinking and feeling that became imaginable in the nineteenth century, when Victorian literature and science together defined the …
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 …
