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Environmental empowerment: Gender, nature, agency, and violence in 21st-century ecofiction

Collet, CarinaIowa State University2024

This analysis investigates the 21st-century relationship between gender, nature, and violence as depicted in contemporary ecofiction. In a warming world, the human-nature relationship requires more investigation than ever before. Using an ecofeminist lens, this analysis examines a variety of texts …

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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.

Kan, Tabitha GUniversity of Essex2016

The aim of this thesis is to amalgamate philosophy and history of science with literature to achieve an overview of changing ideas of the animal/human divide during the nineteenth century. Drawing on the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julia Kristeva and Giorgio Agamben. I consider …

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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature

Alber, Catherine R.

… Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826), and H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) as examples of nineteenth-century horror and apocalypse literature. Specifically, I argue that these four novels perform as …

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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances

Starr, MikeUniversity of Northampton2011

This thesis unites a selection of H. G. Wells’s scientific romances with the theoretical approaches of philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Deleuzian theory provides a challenging yet powerful set of conceptual tools, used to rethink existing texts and critical paradigms, allowing the revaluation of …

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Environmental empowerment: Gender, nature, agency, and violence in 21st-century ecofiction

Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.

Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature

Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances