Dr. Wright's research focus extends from shifting conceptions of justice in British literature and culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to their reverberations in today's fragmented social and political world. Beyond the theory and development of the novel, her interests include several topics pertaining to the history of ideas as reflected in literature, encompassing the history of science, the history of law, changing theories of affect and emotion, and African American fiction and poetry. Each of these interests, while apparently varied, informs her examination of politically charged representations, in contexts ranging from laboratory science to legal testimony.
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eighteenth-century through Romantic British literature and culture, development and theories of the novel, history of ideas as reflected in literature, law and literature, medical humanities, race in literature, science and literature, African American literature
