Thomas De Quincey

In this thesis, I have analysed representations of a selection of fictional and factual serial killers from Thomas de Quincey to Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the autobiographical narratives of real life serial killers Carl Panzram, Donald …

This dissertation argues that from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century the Orient is invoked each time mimesis is redefined. Scholars of British literature have long understood this period through the categories of Romanticism and realism, epistemologies fundament…