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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Henry Adams"”.
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Henry Adams: An Education in Autobiography
<p>This essay will begin by breaking down Henry Adams’s starting sentence in his autobiography word by word, piece by piece – pondering its meanings and permutations in the context of subsequent chapters of this iconic memoir. The essay will then consider whether Adams’s <em>Education</em> should …
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From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Adams: A Study of American Autobiography
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… immigrant writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Henry James, and Mary Antin. For these unlikely interlocutors, whose social circles overlapped, duality becomes an indispensible trope that is nevertheless insufficient to describe personal and national identity.
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Irish modernism and the machine
"This dissertation argues that John Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, …