Nineteenth-Century Literature

This thesis examines how one early mass-market text, G.W.M. Reynolds's 1844-56 'The Mysteries of London' (later 'The Mysteries of the Court of London'), interrogates its own position as both artwork and traded commodity. Through imagery of bodies resurrected and secrets exposed,…

This project seeks to illuminate the relatively neglected subject of male madness in Victorian literature and culture, noting that at least half of the national asylum population in this period were men. Interdisciplinary sources include fiction, popular periodicals, psychiatric…

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Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writ…

by Haschemi Yekani, Elahe

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'The key idea of this book is to reevaluate the rise of the British novel from Defoe to Dickens by reading it alongside early Black Atlantic writings from Equiano to Seacole. Elahe Haschemi Yekani profoundly argues that the rise of bourgeois regimes of affect - from 18th century…

This dissertation turns to Open Pedagogy and Critical Information Studies as lenses through which to understand Victorian fiction’s role in 21st-century educational dialogues. Although pedagogy is often left out of research monographs, there is an increasing push for scholars to…