University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Student, English
Doctoral Candidate
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Kay Young
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About
I'm currently using a functionalist approach to look at the presence of melancholy in 19th-century British narratives. In particular, I'm interested in how writers from this period explore the possibility of melancholy as an affective contagion, a quality of space, and a producer of narrative. I am also examining how the function of melancholy in these areas is imbricated with issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Authors of interest include Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, the Brontes, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Smith.
