Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire. Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs, Sy...
Eliza, a micron slave girl with control over millions of microbots that live in her body, escapes and flees to the New Life System in a desperate attempt to escape her captors, the Mexica. Once there, she's taken in by a group of other microns, a gro...