University of California Riverside
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Managing Power: Heroism in the Age of Speculative Capital A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English by Joshua Danley Pearson September 2018 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Sherryl Vint, Chairperson Dr. Tamara Ho Dr. Stephen Sohn Copyright by Joshua Danley Pearson 2018 The Dissertation of Joshua Danley Pearson is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside Acknowledgements First, I am deeply indebted to my chair, Dr. Sherryl Vint, whose generosity, patience, insight, and rigor have contributed to this project in innumerable ways. I am also indebted to my committee members Dr. Tamara Ho and Dr. Stephen Sohn for their feedback and support. Dr. Joseph Childers provided vital insight in the early stages of the project, helping me to articulate key aspects of my theoretical framework. I would also like to thank the many scholars who have helped me hone these ideas over the last six years. I am thankful to my colleagues at UC Riverside, on whose companionship, commiseration, and insight I have relied throughout this process: including Stina Attebery, Ezekiel Crago, Taylor Evans, Jeff Hicks, Michael Jarvis, Sarah Laiola, Sean Matharoo, Aaron Roberts, Brittany Roberts, Lorenzo Servitje, and Anne Sullivan. In the wider community of science fiction scholarship, I am grateful for the friendship, feedback, and support of Katherine Bishop, Mark Bould, Simone Caroti, Grant Dempsey, Paweł Frelik, David Higgins, Hugh O’Connell, John Rieder, Valérie Savard, and Patrick Sharp. Several institutions have generously supported this project. The Graduate Division of the University of California, Riverside provided a fellowship quarter to focus on my writing.
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