“If I must not, because of my Sex, have this freedom, but that you will usurp all to your selves, I lay down my Quill,” wrote Aphra Behn in the Preface to The Luckey Chance (1686). Behn’s defense of her gender and work as a...
During World War II, advocates for India’s independence attempted to raise awareness and support in the United States by aligning their cause with the liberal and Wilsonian spirit of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. To...
The following Honors Thesis explores Russian author Lev Tolstoy’s connections with the Russian Populist movement. Although not traditionally characterized as a member of the movement itself, many of Tolstoy’s extraliterary...