"For all of its current popularity, contemporary apocalyptic fiction-novels set during or after events that devastate the world as we know it-is part of a long tradition that includes the Biblical story of Noah, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Works and Days of the ancient Greek …
A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomasell…
"Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft's thought is possible only through a more comprehensive a…
The purpose of undertaking this research is to identify the cross-cultural translation challenges that Arab translators often encounter while translating nineteenth-century English novels. This has been done by examining translations of two well-known texts of the period, Jane E…
In this thesis, I have analysed representations of a selection of fictional and factual serial killers from Thomas de Quincey to Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the autobiographical narratives of real life serial killers Carl Panzram, Donald …
This study excavates the emotional life of objects imported from the East—Japanese tables, Turkish opium, Malaysian laborers, infected Indian bodies—to explore the way racial objects construct and represent the Orient in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The numerous disc…
Frankenstein and "Frankenstein" films critique Cartesian and Kantian dualism, in which the masculine subject position excludes the feminine body. Jacques Lacan's mirror stage and Donna Haraway's cyborg model replicate and throw those critiques into relief, helping us to reconsid…
This dissertation considers representations of the Ottoman Empire in British writings (poetry, novels, travel writing) from c. 1789–1846. During this period of British imperial expansion, I argue that the Ottoman Empire provided British writers with a rich counterimage of empire…
Many critics consider nineteenth century British Romanticism one of the most political movements in literary history. A major reason for this claim is that the 19th century is recorded in European history as a watershed of economic, social, and political constructions whose cons…