Browsing by Subject "novel"
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Fictions of Consent: Contract and the Victorian Novel
(2022)This project addresses how democratic regimes founded on ideals of individual agency and personal freedom systematically disadvantage groups and persons. I argue that (neo-)liberalism enacts this inequity not incidentally, ... -
Politics and Poetics of the Novel: Using Domesticity to Create the Nation
(2016-06-06)This thesis examines how the depiction of the family during war reinforces or challenges societal values in three nineteenth-century novels. The primary focus lies in three novels by Sir Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, and Harriet ... -
Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
(2020)This study argues that in the eighteenth century a discourse of risk management emerged that fundamentally reshaped the relation of man to the world by imagining that the individual was capable of controlling aspects of ... -
Spaces of Order: An African Poetics of Space
(2016)“Spaces of Order” argues that the African novel should be studied as a revolutionary form characterized by aesthetic innovations that are not comprehensible in terms of the novel’s European archive of forms. It does this ...
