All abstract excerpts (save for Tsokanos’s) are copied from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses online database.“Missing Homes” examines three nineteenth-century authors whose experiences of displacement home, professions and/or class influenced their literary innovations…. Attention to these authors, I argue, offers a parallel theory nostalgia in which unsettled longing place call home regis...

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