In Shelley scholarship, there has been controversy as to whether Shelley is radical or conservative, feminist or ambivalent towards feminine self-assertion. There has also been disagreement over the extent to which she is critical of key Romantic ideas, especially that of transc…
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In contrast to the Greek concept of prophecy as a form of prediction, Romantic prophecy rehabilitates a version of Hebrew prophecy that involves a more ambivalent relationship to history and time. That is, while the rise of prophecy in Romanticism might—like the rise of historio…
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…
This dissertation examines how the novels of Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, and Assia Djebar explore the complicity of Enlightenment humanism and imperialism in different models of modernity. The paradox of Enlightenment humanism was that, in positing a universal, human subject a…