Robert Cashin Ryan
Resident Graduate Scholar
Department of English
About
"My dissertation endeavors to produce a formalist account of the late-imperial novel. I am interested in how the political and historical strategy called empire shaped and was shaped by the aesthetic form paradigmatic to modernity: the novel. Covering novels from varied national traditions and aesthetic movements, I trace the machinations of imperial hegemony at its various moments of power while paying careful attention to the shape and structure, style and atmosphere -- the form -- of those works."
Selected Publications
“World Form: Empire and the History of the Theory of the Novel”