Browsing by Subject "Novel"
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Divorcing the Rake: Male Chastity and the Rise of the Novel, 1753-1857
(2020)Loose understandings of naturalized sexual difference have worked for hundreds of years to bolster both the legal and social oppression of women. This dissertation, Divorcing the Rake: Male Chastity and the Rise of the Novel, ... -
Experiments in Violence: The Problem of Oppositional Politics in Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Fiction
(2020)Paradoxically, Benedict Anderson’s notion of the nation as an imagined community occupying a territory at once bounded and sovereign became commonplace around the same time that prominent global novelists were beginning ... -
Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel
(2020)My dissertation, “Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel”, studies recent developments in the Latin American novel to better understand the relation between economics and time in ... -
Living in Other Places: Genre and Globalization in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel
(2022)This dissertation reframes current debates over the role national culture and international connection plays in contemporary anglophone fiction in the formalist terms of genre studies. The processes and consequences ... -
Social Organisms: Biology and British Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
(2018)My argument is that the rise of biology at the start of the nineteenth challenged the individualism of the Enlightenment, and that it fell to the novel to enable readers to reimagine themselves in light of the resulting ... -
The City Novel After the City: Planetary Metropolis, World Literature
(2019)Literary scholars have long identified a formal correspondence between city and novel. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the city became embedded in the narrative forms of fiction as the latter attempted ... -
The Death and Life of the American Novel: Radicalism and the Transformation of U.S. Literature in the 1960s
(2020)The sixties have long been regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American novel. In the seventies and eighties critics tended to assume that the era dealt a deathblow to social realism and, by extension, the ... -
The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
(2021)A great many Victorian novels were originally written, published, distributed, and read in parts over time—that is to say, serially. Yet today we rarely read those novels in serial format. Nor do we consider that format ...
