Poe, Edgar Allan

American and British Gothic literature has an extensive history of addressing social issues crucial to nineteenth-century discussions, with subjects of particular interest including race and gender. In the Gothic mode of literature, people of color and women are overtly represen…

This dissertation examines several examples of "Western discourse" in Saudi poetry, or, the way the attitudes toward, images of, and preconceived ideas about the West, are implemented in the different eras of Saudi poetry. To accomplish this, I present an annotated and abbreviat…