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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"The Last Man"”.
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em> (1818) and <em>The Last Man</em> (1826), and H. G. Wells’s <em>The Time Machine</em> (1895) and <em>The Island of Doctor Moreau</em> (1896) as examples of nineteenth-century horror and apocalypse literature. Specifically, I argue that these four novels perform as …
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Romantic Citation and the Receding Future
This dissertation reads citation in Romantic literature as an aporetic movement between present and past, whereby what is cited becomes the receding ground on which the present and future’s erosion is inscribed. Citation exceeds quotation in that it forwards a disastrous intertextuality that …
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"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats
Throughout the British Romantic period, poets and prose writers shared a keen interest in the imaginative possibilities conferred by the national legacy of literary prophecy. The subversive and transformative elements of the vatic tradition in England, particularly as established by John Milton's …
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A core calculus for the analysis and implementation of biologically inspired languages
The application of Concurrency Theory to Systems Biology is in its earliest stage of progress. The metaphor of cells as computing systems by Regev and Shapiro opened the employment of concurrent languages for the modelling of biological systems. Their peculiar characteristics led to the design of …
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Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley: From Local to Global Ecology
his thesis undertakes an ecofeminist analysis of two prominent novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century: Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) and Mary Shelley (1797-1851). The six primary texts that I put under an ecofeminist lens are Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
This dissertation reveals a hitherto unrecognized thread of speculative postapocalyptic fantasies underlying nineteenth-century accounts of the American frontier. Many critics have exposed the latent imperialism behind popular myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land; bringing together …