Salman Rushdie's novels, Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses, use grotesque chronotopes in the form of roads, thresholds, and the mind to illustrate the highly politicized and problematic nature of the post-colonial ...

This thesis argues that the otherwise polarized criticism of degeneration literature of the fin de siècle is reconciled by observing a shift in degeneration as scientific theory to social phenomenon. This shift is prominent ...

This thesis deals with the New Woman's struggle to find a place within a society that could not entertain the concept of independent femininity. To Victorians, to be female was to be dependent, and therefore the idea of a ...