Heroines

Lies of the Past is the story of Simone Unger, an archaeologist who is so driven to uncover the buried past that she loses sight of what is really important. The first three chapters, reproduced here, set up the mystery that will be unraveled by the end of the completed novel. C…

This study of gender and genre addresses how British Romantic poets feminized the epic form. Romantic epics deserve study because of their unusual focus on feminine heroism as a source of liberation from tyranny, a focus on gender that reflects the influence of Edmund Spenser an…

Depictions of bodies deviating from the norm due to disease or fantastic abilities can look back on a long-standing tradition in the literature of German-speaking countries. Nonetheless, the abundance of particularly female characters who transgress norms in post-1945 novels, an…

This dissertation calls attention to a set of late-Victorian novels that refashioned the industrial novels of the mid-nineteenth century to fit the pressing issues of the 1880s and 1890s. Instead of being concerned with the new patterns of life in Northern England as induced by …