This thesis analyses the discourses that come before the main text in works produced during the early years of the print market in England, to argue that rather than being an advertising feature or a method of controlling reader interpretation, the space was a site of mediation,…
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This thesis is a historical descriptive case study of a corpus of editions and reprints of Frances Burney's novel, Evelina, first published in 1778. The study seeks to describe the publication history of the novel and the evolution of its paratextual apparatus.
“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…
The Maghreb Goes Abroad seeks to broaden and nuance our understanding of francophone North Africa by examining the ways in which some of its most well known literary and cultural works and figures have navigated a global market. This project analyzes the transnational movements …