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Early American drama
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Women of the spheres: Early American women rhetoricians
Early American women rhetoricians wrote, published, and edited essential texts that contribute to American rhetoric; however, many of these texts have been overlooked and lost. This dissertation reclaims, remaps, and analyzes a selection of early American women's editorials, treatises, essays, and …
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Charles Ellet Jr., Early American Engineer, 1810-1862
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Early American Quakers and the transatlantic community, 1700-1756
… is to reexamine the relationship between the American and English members of the transatlantic Quaker community during the first fifty-six years of the eighteenth century. The pursuit of unity dominated that relationship.
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A Study of the Early American Author Judith Sargent Murray, Her Role in Early American Print Culture and Her Misappropriation by Twentieth-Century Feminism
… create a unique place for her in the history of American letters. However, in the twentieth century, modern feminism has attempted to claim Murray as one of their own, choosing between one and four examples of her work as proof of her forward-looking philosophy, while ignoring significant pieces …
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Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature
… critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature …
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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Early American travel writers on Spain
… aesthetically-based perception of Spain whereby American readers ceased to envision that country as eerie and forbidding, and began to see it as almost other-worldly and seductive.
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Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic
… reporting and editorializing in several major American newspapers during the height of the Citizen Genêt Affair in July and August, 1793. A hybrid form of sociological moral panic theory, focused predominantly on the "iteration" of moral panics and the language used to communicate them, is used …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
After the Revolution, opportunistic settlers from Virginia began streaming over the Allegheny Mountains to settle frontier lands to the south and west. Numbered among them, Baptists came in droves, spreading not only the evangelical gospel, but also Thomas Jefferson’s unique brand of Republican …
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Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic
… a defining characteristic of post-Revolutionary American culture, Americans who organized and joined such groups had struggled for decades to determine what membership ought to look like, what rights and duties the act of joining should entail. By the time Alexis de Tocqueville famously noted in …
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The Transformation of Ritual Performance Traditions in Early American Political Culture
… looking at the electioneering attendant to the early colonial period through the emergence popular mass campaigning in the middle of the Jacksonian era. Chapters One and Two outline the study and the theoretical framework used, and provide historical background for the American political …
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First Ladies of Film: The Not so Silent Women of Early American Cinema
… between the years 1906 and 1926, the American film industry offered women opportunities that existed in no other workplace. This was the golden era of female filmmaking, when many women had a high degree of control behind the camera in creative roles such as producer, director, and …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… material culture to create a distinguishable “American” national identity in the early republic. Although some historians have argued that this process of “Americanization” was completed during the American Revolution or in its immediate aftermath, Americans still grappled with competing …
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Notes from the Ground: Science and Agricultural Improvement in the Early American Republic
… of systematic studies of the land in the early American Republic, from the 1790s to the 1840s; more specifically, it explores the role scientific and technical practices played within that era's improvement ethic. I argue that science, as seen through the lens of agricultural chemistry …
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Interests And Ideas: Industrialization And The Making Of Early American Trade Policy, 1789 - 1860
… the Civil War.</p> <p>This traditional view of early American trade policy merits reconsideration. The First Industrial Revolution, rather than competing labor systems, provides the appropriate context through which antebellum trade policy ought to be viewed and understood. An examination of …
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The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization
Reading Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851), this study examines literary arguments regarding Melville’s capacity to appear prophetic through his written works in his predictions of the vast empire that America would one day become and the strategies which the country would employ to do so. In my …
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The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization
Reading Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851), this study examines literary arguments regarding Melville’s capacity to appear prophetic through his written works in his predictions of the vast empire that America would one day become and the strategies which the country would employ to do so. In my …
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Free Trade and Family Values: Kinship Networks and the Culture of Early American Capitalism
… in the 1740s to the crises of succession in the early 1840s. The allied Perkins firms and families established one of the most successful American trading networks of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and as such it provides fertile ground for investigating mercantile strategies …
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