Browsing by Subject "French literature"
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Discipline décadente et stylistique de l'existence dans la littérature française, 1884-1922
(2023-04-24)Decadence, a loosely defined literary movement in France and England at the fin de siècle, has proved popular for its paradoxes and transvaluations that, according to some critics, destabilize modern binarisms. In this thesis, ... -
Outfitting Paris: Fashion, Space, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture
(2019)AbstractThis dissertation argues that the literary and cultural history of nineteenth-century Paris must be re-envisaged in the context of fashion as a spatial and embodied practice. While existing scholarship has focused ... -
Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
(2020)The interdependent phenomena of piracy, privateering, and slave trading have been endemic to the Mediterranean since antiquity. However, from the mid-sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth-century, these phenomena ... -
Toward a Prehistory of the Fantastic: The Imagination of Alterity in the Long Eighteenth Century
(2017)Dreams of Reason: The Imagination of Alterity in the Long Eighteenth Century historicizes the assumptions underlying theories of fantastic or non-realist genre fiction. In the course of a comparative analysis of the lunar ... -
Transnational Trickster: Publishing, Representing, and Marketing Dany Laferrière
(2019)This dissertation uses Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Laferrière’s transnational trajectory as a focal point for a study of the relationship between literature, marketing, power, and creative agency. It analyzes Laferrière’s ... -
Troubles in Representation: (Con)figuring Non-Binary Sex in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Art, and Medicine
(2020)My dissertation, “Troubles in Representation: (Con)figuring Non-Binary Sex in 19th Century French Literature, Art, and Medicine” argues that to adequately grasp the stakes of sexual non-conformity in 19th c France, we must ... -
Writing Amerindian Culture: Ethnography in the 17Th Century Jesuit Relations from New France
(2009)This dissertation examines ethnographic writing in the Jesuit Relations, a set of annual reports from missionaries in New France to Society of Jesus authorities in France that were published and widely read from 1632 to ... -
Writing Women Dance
(2021)This project examines dance scenes in nineteenth-century French novels written by women to consider how grace—beauty in motion—defines women as social, moral, and artistic actors. Creating a constellation of dance scenes, ...
