Copyright and Title

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Editor's Note

vi-vii

Letter from Department Head

viii

Letter from Faculty Advisor

ix

Aims and Scope

x

Hamilton’s Shoutout: On a Trope that Silences

1-24

What’s Love Got to Do With It: Intersections of the Personal and Political in The Bostonians and Obergefell v. Hodges

27-43

Tanizaki’s Naomi, Nabokov’s Lolita, and Naomi’s Lolita: Exoticism of a New Era

45-69

Being Within and Without: The Effects of Colonial Education and the Genre of Bildungsroman on Double Consciousness in Crick Crack, Monkey

72-84

Folk Conversations with Bob Dylan: Modern Traditions in “Love and Theft”

85-96

Visual Spaces and Modern Subjectivity in the Big City

97-112

Gender Performance and Identity Formation in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

113-140