This thesis investigates and analyzes Jane Austen's use of literary allusions as a way of challenging the gendered restrictions imposed on reading during the eighteenth century. It …
Byron's women characters have typically been seen as, in Hazlitt's early observation,'yielding slaves'. My study re-examines that assumption, finding instead, across …
In his visual and verbal works of 1812-1815, Byron's conception about personal and political identity progresses steadily. When observing the identities he had encountered during his …