As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks
the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally …

This essay traces the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors' recent refashioning of
classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that …

Scholars often claim that medieval writers use Britain and England interchangeably, but
Britain was a contested term throughout the period. One persistent issue was how Scotland …

Abstract “Forms of Writing, Forms of War” charts a literary history of interlinked English,
Scottish, and French conflict from the imperialist policies of Edward I in the late thirteenth …

This thesis argues for the previously underemphasized influence of Scottish Romantic-era
writing on the novel from the US South, demonstrating the formative impact of writers such …

Romanticism is the only literary-historical period defined by its privileged relation to a single
genre: romance. This dissertation reorients our understanding of Romanticism's posture …