Thesiss

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 argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in det…