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Papers I would write if I were in academia…

The Marriage of True Minds: How the Brain Usurps the Heart in the Love Stories of Jane Austen

Heart of Darkness as a haunted house story with colonized Africa taking the place of the haunted house, with reference and comparison to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House

The exoticized United States as a liminal space that allows characters to shift and alter their social status and even identities, with contrast to hierarchical England and (to a lesser extent) the wilderness of English colonies like India and Australia where social change is depicted as equally possible but only through secret crime and hidden guilt, in the Sherlock Holmes canon.