This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
Abstract This dissertation studies a creative archive composed of poems, novels, performances, and visual art produced after 1990 that increasingly represent the ocean as “one salt water”: a space of relations among Indigenous oceanic peoples, animals, plants, and other beings. In doing so, these texts work to forge solidarities and...
This dissertation investigates long-term biographies of seventeen small medieval settlements in the region of Hegranes, Skagafjörður, North Iceland, placing their creation, development, and reuse in the context of coupled social and environmental change. The individuals and households who lived at the Hegranes sites were at the nexus of both kinds...
Due to their widespread use and subsequent release, ENMs may exist as mixtures in the natural environment where their chemical interactions can control the toxic stress to exposed microorganisms. Will complex environmental mixtures containing ENMs produce microbial stress that is synergistic, attenuated, or simply additive relative to single ENM exposure,...