Using recent scholarship on intersubjectivity and cultural cognitive narratology, this project explores the disruption and reformation of early modern identity in Elizabethan revenge tragedies. The purpose of this dissertation ...

Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander presents rich opportunities for understanding early modern sexuality and emotions. In the poem, hyperbolic representations of desire between beings of varying ontological status convey ...

This project analyzes the intersections between representations of female sovereignty used to promote and rethink feminine virtue in both early modern English and Spanish advice literature and literary texts published in ...