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Fall 2012
This dissertation is about the work of melancholy in the Victorian realist novel, particularly those texts written in the late 1840s. The representation of melancholy affords an examination of a wide scope of issues that relate to the family, generally, and to the role of the middle-class women...
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Spring 2012
This project favours transgender narratives and affects inspired by exteriority, folds, queer décor, assemblage, and the archive. These spatial models help the project displace models of gender that are grounded in the concepts of enclosure, privacy, and property. As a response to the enforced...
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Fall 2011
This dissertation analyzes representations of the archive in four late twentieth-century American novels: Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988), Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World (1993)....