William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser observe the deteriorating ethics of modern American capitalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Financier, these authors ...

This thesis offers a new conceptual framework for reading the cultural production of Portuguese- and Kriolu-speaking communities in the urban areas of southeastern New England: the New England Lusophone Archipelago. Combining ...

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A current divide exists in Milton criticism between those who view "Paradise Lost" as an indeterminate work composed of irresolvable choices and aporias (contradictions), and those who view the poem as a singular work of ...

My thesis asserts that there is a definite stylistic and thematic connection between author Octavia Butler and the performer Janelle Monáe. The association between them is founded on a black feminist tradition that uses ...

Vernon Lee's relationship with the aestheticist movement of the late 19th century was fraught. Her first novel, Miss Brown, was a thinly veiled attack on the misogyny she saw evident in aestheticist circles. Scholars have ...

Using Jean-François Lyotard's designation that the term `postmodern' refers to "the state of our culture, following the transformations which, since the end of the nineteenth century, have altered the game rules for science, ...

This thesis examines how black and white writers memorialized slavery of the American South, first through slave narratives, then through nostalgic memoirs written by former slaveholding women. The writing subjects of both ...

The following thesis will set about examining four twenty-first century, elderly male, literary and filmic figures: Abe Ravelstein of Saul Bellow's Ravelstein (2000); David Kepesh of Phillip Roth's The Dying Animal (2001). ...

Beginning with Walter Benjamin's notion of "literary montage," as touched upon in Convolute N of Benjamin's The Arcades Project, this thesis examines the collage poetics of Susan Howe's collection of poetry That This and ...