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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Nineteenth century America"”.
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Sin and Sanity in Nineteenth-century America
Sin and Sanity in Nineteenth-Century America is an intellectual and cultural history of moral insanity in America. It argues that moral insanity functioned as a naturalized description of the bound will, as a negotition between theology and the scientific 'study of man', and as a critique of the …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… the relationship between race and nature in nineteenth-century America by analyzing texts that attempt to discover, create, or preserve a pure national identity. Historical events in the nineteenth-century U.S. - such as mass immigration, Native American displacement, industrialization, …
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Life under shadow: Chinese immigrant women in nineteenth- century America
Racism and sexism pervaded American society during the nineteenth century, creating unusual disadvantaged conditions for Chinese immigrant women. As a weak minority in an alien and often hostile environment and as a subordinate sex in a sexist society, Chinese women suffered from double oppression …
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The American phantasmagoria: The rise of spiritualism in nineteenth-century America
… through mediums, was a movement in the nineteenth 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 …
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The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
… of Louisa Tuthill ( 1798-1879), a little known nineteenth-century American author. Tuthill has been acknowledged for her History of Architecture from the Earliest Times (1848), the first history of architecture published in the United States. However, her numerous other books dealing with …
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The development of water pollution law in late nineteenth century America, 1870-1905
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The development of water pollution law in late nineteenth century America, 1870-1905
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The Sisters of Charity in Nineteenth-Century America: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers
… nurses, and became highly visible, during the American Civil War. Several hundred Catholic sister nurses served; they supported both the Union and Confederacy by caring for soldiers from both armies. The sisters’ story is important because of the religious and gender biases they overcame. As …
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A Market for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America
… for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America" examines the rise of grave robbing for the procurement of human bodies for educational and entertainment purposes. In the late eighteenth century, new medical schools sought cadavers for dissection and anatomical study, …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
… Chapter Three analyzes the public persona nineteenth-century female factory workers construct for themselves through fictional letters, stories, and essays published in The Lowell Offering, a newspaper edited by blue-collar workingwomen, and in the extended poem, An Idyl of Work, a …
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… and as an imagined or symbolic space) in 19th century American intellectual and literary culture. I argue that when nineteenth-century intellectuals grappled with the institution of slavery, the significance of slave revolt, and the extent of black intellectual capacities, they dealt not only …
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
<p>Gathering together episodes from American theater history, my dissertation focuses on the destabilizing identities and paradoxical resolutions of so-called "Indian" and slavery plays to address nineteenth-century melodrama's fundamental engagement with race. Melodrama is a spectacular form that …
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From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
… analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I argue against the modern myth that New York Times reporter James Reston “discovered” …
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Comedy on the Borders: Negotiations of *Class Through Parody on the Nineteenth-Century New York Stage
… to become one of the primary entertainments of nineteenth-century America. Opera parody made the Olympic profitable in a financially and socially strained time in the city's history by bringing together an unusually heterogeneous mix of audience members together in one theatre and pacifying them …
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Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890
… on social mobility in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The question I want to answer is, does the quantitative evidence available support the contention that nineteenth century America was a land in which a man was free to rise as far as his talents could carry him? More …
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In Search of the Perfect Society: Three Utopian Communities in Nineteenth-Century Amererica
<p>The nineteenth century was an era marked by rapid change in American society. This thesis examines the rise in utopian communities during this era and the specific societal conditions that led to their development. Three utopian communities are analyzed in detail: Brook Farm (1841-1847) founded …
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"Where the Deepening Thunders Call": Voice in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
… to describe changes in the relationship between American individuals and the nation occurring during and immediately following the tumultuous war. Melville's experiments in poetic voice also denote his rumination upon the changing role of the poet in the emerging modernity of mid-nineteenth …
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Fluid Sexualities in Frank Norris's McTeague
… language surrounding fluid sexualities in late-nineteenth century America. Through a queer theoretical lens, I examine the ways in which Norris collapses his characters and narrative in order to demonstrate those limits. Trina and McTeague suffer acutely from their inability to articulate their …
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"Feminizing the voice of literary authority: Sarah J. Hale's editorship of the ""Ladies' Magazine"" and ""Godey's Lady's Book"""
… of these magazines in the development of American literature and their relationship with American feminism. I argue that Hale redefined literary culture so as to encourage women's participation in that world and to establish her own authority. She did so by manipulating the domestic …
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