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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American literary history"”.
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'Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction': Black Women in American Literature of the *South
… South has been an enduring site of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, my dissertation argues that it is impossible to consider what the ""South"" and what ""southernness"" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
This project examines literary and cultural narratives of addiction in order to show how addict-subjects have been defined according to American beliefs about willpower, productivity, morality, racial and economic disparity, and social health. In the contemporary world of American consumerism and …
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Poe's rhetoric of farce: protean language in the comic tales
… other reasons, Poe retains a unique place in American literary history as perhaps our most misunderstood artist. Despite his rare talent and mastery of variegated vocabularies, Poe has been stereotyped by reductive twentieth century criticism. Scholarship persistently confines his …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
My dissertation desegregates nineteenth-century American literary history by reconstructing cross-ethnic dialogues between traditions too often seen as distinct. Drawing particularly on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and other forms of autobiography, I show that white, Native American, and …
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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
… works by Edgar Allan Poe that best emulate his literary obsession with insanity and the grotesque, arguing that these elements of his literature serve as the source of inspiration for many 20<sup>th </sup>and 21<sup>st</sup> century gothic literature writers. Two of Poe’s poems that will be …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… religious fiction have two implications for literary study. First, my project underscores how white Protestant traditions have historically asserted—and still assert—exclusionary power in the U.S. public sphere. I ask literary study to confront the reasons that the Protestant center of U.S. …