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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Antebellum America"”.
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Trilobites and the Culture of Wonder in Antebellum America
… a trope that can help uncover larger trends in American culture, including the democratization of knowledge and rejection of expertise, the establishment of American identity and success, and an emerging American fascination with collecting. Each of these trends are examined individually, using …
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The Queer Work of Fantasy: The Romance in Antebellum America
<p>This project examines the ways in which antebellum writers of romances theorized the relationship between fantasy and queer desire. These writers produced vision of alternative forms of sociality that serve to criticize the heteronormativity of antebellum sexual culture and to promote fantasy as …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… examines the interconnections between antebellum citizenship, cultural education, and rhetorical invention through the historical lens of ""the frontier."" The antebellum frontier is uniquely suited for rhetorical criticism because it was a process of both deeply symbolic national …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as “the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier. This research examines the pivotal role that American print culture played in constructing dubious stereotypes of Comanche …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
The quest for African Americans to gain emancipation and equal civil rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic principles of equality upon which the nation was founded, the struggle for …
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A more perfect union : Joseph Story's synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law.
… the rise in states' rights constitutionalism in Antebellum America, which advanced a reading of the U.S. Constitution grounded in American social compact theory. In response, Story articulated a national conception of popular sovereignty that contextualized the American notion of consent through …
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A White Slave in America: Hiram Powers's <em>Greek Slave</em> and the Cultural Construction of Race
… appeared in exhibitions throughout Europe and America. In antebellum America, where the work was seen by more than one hundred thousand viewers, the <em>Greek Slave</em> tapped into an increasingly complex set of discourses surrounding issues of slavery and race. Through close formal analysis …
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The American phantasmagoria: The rise of spiritualism in nineteenth-century America
… century which gained popularity within America. This thesis aims to widen the scope of spiritualism’s historiography by exploring spiritualists’ lives to reveal a more complex answer to why this movement gained a large following in antebellum America. The stories of spiritualists show …
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… the British tradition to the United States of America. Close reading the verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, my dissertation shows the connections between the turmoil of an antebellum America to the numerous relationship bonds in Browning's antislavery poem. Although British women were …
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Conflict and crisis in American Methodism: slavery and homosexuality, 1784-2022
The following thesis, Conflict and Crisis in American Methodism: Slavery and Homosexuality, 1784-2022 , asks the central question: Can the reasons why the Methodist Episcopal Church experienced schism in 1844 over slavery illuminate the reasons why the United Methodist Church will experience schism …
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The rules of perception : American color science, 1831-1931
Although vision was seldom studied in Antebellum America, color and color perception became a critical field of scientific inquiry in the United States during the Gilded Age and progressive era. Through a historical investigation of color science in the United States in the late nineteenth and …
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A History of Trigonometry Education in the United States: 1776-1900
… elementary trigonometry textbooks beginning in antebellum America and the ratios came to define trigonometric functions in elementary trigonometry textbooks by the end of the nineteenth century. During this time period, elementary trigonometry textbooks grew to have a much more comprehensive …
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THE WHITE FRAUD: WHITE ELEPHANTS, VALUE, AND EXCHANGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
… sell or give away - by tracing its origin in the American lexicon to the United States’ diplomatic relations with Siam in the 1850s. Although a certain kind of albino elephant was historically regarded as auspicious in Siam, these animals were not white, nor were they given away as gifts by the …
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Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
… Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by such American writers as George Lippard, George Thompson, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and John Rollin Ridge for two decades. These writers, though only a few among many linked to …
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"I Have Thought Proper to Inform the World": Reading Unconventional Testaments of 18th-Century New England Women
… of public opinion in post-Revolutionary War and antebellum America, I hold that women during the colonial period sought participation in the same publics and counterpublics that would ultimately form "civil society." American women after 1790 were responsible for studying and then seizing the …
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Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance
<p>"Cruel Sorority, or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance" analyzes the often-overlooked anti-social figures and affects found on the margins of American Romanticism. Symptomatically registering dissatisfaction and rage at the foreclosure of democratic possibility and public life, these …
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Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857
<p> My dissertation demonstrates how literary responses to the United States’ first widespread financial crises—the Panics of 1819, 1837, and 1857—gave form to the abstract but increasingly violent forces governing the brave new economic world. Previous economic critics, working under the rubric of …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… inquiry into the experiment’s results from the American consul in Jamaica, Robert Monroe Harrison. Upon receiving the findings, Upshur expedited measures to annex Texas, catalyzing the sectional crisis that ended in eventual civil war. In part those hostilities resulted from southerners’ …
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Black Boston: Negro life in Garrison's Boston, 1800-1860
<p>In recent years American Ethnic Studies has truly become one of the significant new frontiers in American education and scholarship. New curricula, books, and not least significant, government and private largesse, all attest to the desirability of promoting an interest in, and encouraging an …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… motivations aimed to steer the future of America on a path that would replicate New England society throughout the country. The process and goal of their philanthropy in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory was not dissimilar from their philanthropy in New England. Moral classification of those …