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Fall 2014
The Politics of the Heart: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and Revolution, 1775-1800 addresses the discursive constructions of nation and gender in British women’s sentimental travel writing during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and specifically during the American and French...
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The Post-Industrial Imagination: A Media-Philosophical Inquiry into a Post-Capitalist Future
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This doctoral dissertation investigates potential political shifts introduced by the post-industrialization of Western societies. After a genealogical analysis that explains why the dimension of the technological has become an increasingly important site of politics for Marxist theory in the...
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The question of cross-cultural understanding in the transcultural travel narratives in post-1949 China
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My dissertation, “The Question of Cross-Cultural Understanding in the Transcultural Travel Narratives about Post-1949 China,” aims to intervene in the genre of travel writing and its critical scholarship by studying a flourishing but under-explored archive. Travel literature about (post-)...
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Spring 2010
In this dissertation I analyze the figure of the East-Bengali refugee woman in Indian literature on the Partition of Bengal of 1947. I read the figure as one who makes visible, and thus opens up for critique, the conditions that constitute the category ‘women’ in the discursive terrain of...
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Fall 2011
This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by...
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The Spatial Morality of Tory Satire: Ned Ward, Tom Brown, and the Politics of Literary Authority
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This dissertation argues that the political satire of Ned Ward and Thomas Brown uses spatial strategies to make moral arguments in opposition to their political and literary targets. Chapter One focuses on the Tory position that Tom Brown and Ned Ward take. Using as a starting place the Grub...
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The Spread of Britishness: Coffee Houses, Circulating Libraries, and the Formation of Gender in the Atlantic World, 1750-1820
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, Britain saw a rapid growth of its printing industry and an expansion of both its national and international book trade. One of the most important export markets was the British Atlantic. This large and highly diverse region was home to some of the...
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The Super Unknown: Canadian Women’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Circulation of White Feminist Politics, 1896–1941
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This thesis examines the early tradition of Canadian women’s genre fiction, with a specific focus on six fantastical and science fictional texts published between 1896 and 1941. Heretofore, this tradition of early Canadian women’s genre fiction has been unrecognized as a field in and of itself,...