This dissertation examines how the contemporary French novel is responding to television. While much has been written regarding the threat that television poses to books, narrative, and language, the survival strategies ...

Victorian novels were, generally speaking, big. But what forms did their bigness take? Why did a "macro" aesthetic prevail in the mid-nineteenth century? And why, after losing influence in the following century, has it ...

This study weaves together several strands of inquiry. On the level of dramatic analysis, I look to understand how "sanctuary" spaces operate in Shakespeare's early plays and the ways in which such zones relate to genre. ...

The great era of medieval Chinese poetic flourishing known as the High Tang, corresponding roughly to the first half of the eighth century and especially the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712­–756), has been the subject ...

Generations of scholars have examined “the Enlightenment” as a plurality of variegated eighteenth-century movements led by white European and American intellectuals who were generally devoted to the principles of reason, ...

This dissertation explores how the “remains” of communist revolution—as literary practice, mediated memory, and political imaginary—have profoundly shaped China’s cultural and intellectual transformations from the late ...

Intimate Distance is an interdisciplinary consideration of the geographical, historical, emotional, and ethical dimensions of “distance” in the work of three contemporary authors. My treatment of William T. Vollmann’s ...

This dissertation studies the social and cultural history of information collection and circulation in Song China (960-1276). Focusing on literati’s writing of the notebook (biji) genre in the thirteenth century, this ...