Caroline Aksich

Essays galore! Click the title to read about topics such as monsters, galvanic resurrection, botanical imagery, McCarthy-era sci-fi films, Canuk lit and more! The formatting is wonky, apologies.

Filed Under M for Monster:
Anxious Materialists and Taxonomical Anxieties in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The Dominion Inscribed on Tongues, Limbs and Skin:
Disciplinary Capitalism and Artistic Emancipation in In the Skin of a Lion

Forbidden Planet’s Forbidden Criticism:
A Presentation I gave that looked into how the film hid its Shakespearean roots and embraced the escapism of sci-fi in order to critique McCarthy-era absurdities

The Flowers of Middlemarch:
Dorothea Brooke, Rosamond Vincy and Mary Garth

Hortus Conclusus Soror Mea, Sponsa:
An Ecoconscious Analysis of the Hortus Conclusus in Richard II and The Two Noble Kinsmen

Never Still Stills:
Iconographies of (Dis)empowerment in Orlando and Running in the Family

Unity in Multeity:
Multiple Origins in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Genealogy of Girls in Theban Narratives:
The Evolution of Girl Figures in British Adaptations of Boccaccio’s Teseida

Deviant Bodies, Deviant Books:
Gender and Genre Bending in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Monstrous Poem "The Fairy Of The Fountains"

The Looking Glass:
A Lacanian interpretation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde