This thesis follows the development of Marilynne Robinson's ecotheology across her four novels. Robinson's theologically-grounded engagement with the environment is not simply marginal or incidental …
The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
This dissertation adopts a transatlantic frame of reference to argue that literary representations of local community shaped cultural identity in colonial British America and the …
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 …
“After Disillusionment: The ‘Minor’ Idioms of Diasporic Life,” studies how diverse contexts of North American woman/queer of color subjects respond to and reimagine their shared …
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 examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has long been conceived …
This dissertation explores the role of autobiography in the work of four queer modernists: W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and H.D. While autobiographical elements …
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 …
Against readings of certain World Literature writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Vladimir Nabokov that too quickly aestheticize them in order to privilege a universality of …
“Between Law and Justice” considers how American literature after WWII responded to political and philosophical debates about the interrelation of law, conscience, and democracy. From …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
