Mysteries

This dissertation defines a new genre called Digital Gothic, a cousin to the classic literary genre of Gothic, which revises the classic Gothic narrative method and aesthetic while retaining the genre’s typical aims of transgression, anxiety, and fear. In this new genre, technol…

This thesis investigates the distinction between terror and horror that Robert Hume first established in his 1969 article on categories of the gothic novel, a distinction that I redefine as a scholar working after the #Metoo movement and broader cultural recognition of the terro…

The dissertation is a study of the concept of ‘mystery’ in Second Temple Judaism, especially as this concept is expressed by the Hebrew and Aramaic word raz. It characterizes the raz-concept as one that arises out of Israel’s prophetic and sapiential traditions, is an important …

From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a ‘detective craze’ in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood…