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This dissertation argues for a recentering of the book medium in the study of contemporary literature. Recent works by popular authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves) and Jonathan Safran Foer (Tree of Codes) demonstrate an artistic resurgence of this material forma…
Glimpses of the World: The Vignette in 21st-Century American Fiction examines the relationship between contemporary digital and print fictions that center their critique in the short form of the vignette. Delineating a media archeology of short textual and visual forms in and ar…
This dissertation answers the question: How do material and human constraints shape political communication? Historians of China and other societies have studied the discourses of political propaganda, their efficacy, and how people subvert them. Much less is known, however, abo…
This dissertation investigates how writers in the People’s Republic of China during the Late Reform Era (1989–2012) represented through media the existential challenges facing their profession and the institution of Chinese literature. During this period, the state began to dive…
This thesis provides a chronological narrative of the major trends in the history of rebinding incunabula. There is currently very little academic literature that focuses on the practice of rebinding as a subset of book history, largely because it is regarded in bibliographic ci…
“Jane Porter in the Margins: Paratext in the Romantic National Novel” argues that Romantic novelist Jane Porter uses paratext in her national novels to accomplish bold political and personal goals. I examine her most famous novel The Scottish Chiefs (1810) as a case study of Rom…
This thesis examines three key anthologies by Bishop Thomas Percy as a means of discussing ideas of British identity. It is argued here that the imaginative construction of Britain in the century following the Union of 1707 is anthological in its nature, and therefore that antho…
