Affecting Labors: The Novel and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Production traces the emergence of a set of negative affects in literature written in the last …
This dissertation threads innovations in modernist literature, architecture, and design with the contemporaneous rise of the psychoanalytic clinic to trace a crucial tension across 20th-century …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
Through an analysis of works by Wendy Law-Yone, Charmaine Craig, Maw Shein Win, and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, this dissertation deconstructs Burmese American literature 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 …
My dissertation, Leftovers: The Arts of Survival, Healing, and Gathering in the Afterfuture, attends to works by contemporary, primarily disabled, activist-artists in North America, including …
Abstract of “The Anatomy of Suspense: Rethinking the Victorian Bildungsroman” by Suzy Soomin Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2023 This dissertation argues that the British …
“Questionable Histories and the Aesthetic of Historiography from Shakespeare to Milton,” examines the aesthetic and political consequences of standardizing history writing during the period of …
This dissertation examines Caribbean women writers’ representations of Caribbean women’s growing consciousness of the potential for solidarity, as well as existing antagonisms, between African- and …
This thesis details the lived experience of fungi, how they interpret, interact with, and understand their surrounding worlds. I detail their relationship with plants and …
This thesis develops an argument about memory’s mediation in art as it appears in Proust and Woolf; this mediation, in turn, informs these writers’ stylistic …
In this dissertation, I argue that the novel was the laboratory in which emerging theories of embodied cognition developed sensible forms for nineteenth-century American audiences. …