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Fernand de Magellan: l'inventeur du monde
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This thesis argues that early nineteenth-century Spanish literature portraying the Inquisition depends on the unmodern to define modernity. It explores this subject, neglected in Peninsular Hispanism until recently, in novels printed in France, Britain, and Spain: Luis Gutiérrez…
“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…
My dissertation, Literary Philosophy and Historical Novel. An Analysis of the Representation of History through Foucault’s Concept of ‘Carnival of Time,’ explores the philosophical implications of the representation of history in four little-studied twentieth and twenty-first ce…
L'imagerie de l'Orient dans la littérature occidentale a été bien étudiée dans le monde universitaire anglophone et francophone : comment l'Occident voit-il l'Orient, ou bien « l'Orient vu par l'Occident ». Cependant, les études qui partent dans la direction opposée, c'est-à-dir…
This thesis is the first extensive study devoted to the generic originality of Iurii Tynianov’s representation of Pushkin in his two historical novels, Pushkin (1935-1943) and the abandoned The Gannibals (1932). Chapter 1 contextualises Tynianov’s contribution to the current deb…
This thesis sets out to investigate the development of the recent historical novel in Mexico by examining a corpus of five novels. Elena Garro’s 'Los recuerdos del porvenir' (1963) represents the final point of the novel of the Revolution and it is the link with the recent histo…
Contemporary Historical Fiction and the Unsettling of America reads the novels of Wilson Harris, Ishmael Reed, Bharati Mukherjee, and Toni Morrison as revisions of American spatial myths, from Biblical discourses of wilderness and typologies of a New Israel to nostalgic depictio…