With the work of Foucault and Aphra Behn’s critics in mind, I aim to construct a biopolitical analysis that clarifies Behn’s contradictory depictions of slavery in Oroonoko and shows how Behn’s Royalist views inflect her ...
My Senior Essay explores how power, passion and politics interact with one another in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. I argue that Huxley's novel imagines a dystopian society wherein biopower operates as the primary mode ...