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Neighborhood novels in American literature
… of my dissertation during a crucial period of American literature that saw a push toward internationalism and a consequent re-imagining of what constitutes the American identity. As seats of the nation's economic and cultural production, nineteenth-century American cities became exponents of …
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The Philippines in American literature
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1927.
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Lucy Larcom in American Literature
… Hew England there was the spirit of true American poetry found In the works of a puritan girl, who harmonized her melody of the sea and the hillside, the mountain and the stream. Lucy Larcom was born into this harmony in 1824, added to it by becoming a part of it, and left it, giving it a …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
Indigenous American sexual minorities and alternatively gendered voices went underground due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
Indigenous American sexual minorities and alternatively gendered voices went underground due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion …
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The Confidence Man in American Literature
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The Familiar Essay in American Literature
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Are there classics in American literature?
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Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature
Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature is a study of the dynamics of pleasure in literary scenes of food, eating, and hungering in American poetry and novels from the early 20th century to the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early …
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… of representations of sound in the African American literary tradition. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural dimension of African American culture …
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Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857
… of the New Historicism, tend to emphasize how literature rehearses arguments about the U.S. economy at the level of theme or plot. Such scholarship, however, obscures how literary form itself conveys economic policy. Over the course of this project’s five chapters, I argue that Washington …
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Modern(izing) Burial in Interwar American Literature
… to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflections of modernity. The study of burial in United States history tends to focus on mid- to late-nineteenth century movements that distance the dead from the living. This dissertation argues that these practices left …
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From typology to aesthetics in American literature
… thesis traces changes in the use of typology in American literature from the Puritans through the twentieth century of American literature. In particular, this project takes a closer look at major works of John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman …
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Solitary Souls: Awakening Responses in American Literature
To develop their inner lives, American fictional characters like Melville's Ishmael, Twain's Huck Finn, and Chopin's Edna Pontellier strive to see themselves accurately in relation to others and to American society in general. During this process of self-definition, these characters frequently …
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
… “Entangled Mobility in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” refocuses studies of nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and expansion on impaired mobility and bodies. As I show, both pro-imperial and anti-imperial writers as diverse as Robert Montgomery Bird, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
An Indigenous feminist approach to Native literature reveals the ways in which Native authors attempt to build balanced relationships and conversations across cultures, nations, and histories. I explore ways that Native authors depict gender violence and male characters who, like Native women, …
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MOBOCRACY: THE MOB AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1782-1851
… examines the role of the mob in Early American literature, and how the mob continues to be an essential part of American society. Chapter one uses Linebaugh's and Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra to argue that early American authors acted as demagogues attempting to control the mob. …
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… To exemplify this mode, this study includes literature from the 2000s, Percival Everett’s Erasure and George Saunders’s “Brad Carrigan, American,” as well as television programs from the 2010s, Shalom Auslander’s Happyish and Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s Big Mouth. Collectively, the texts …
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