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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Nineteenth-Century American literature"”.
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
My dissertation, “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 …
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Religion and realism in late nineteenth-century American literature
… and its representational claims in the late nineteenth-century is to examine the relationship between realism and a common cultural concern that opposes the very tenets of realism, one that necessarily pervaded all aspects of class, gender, nationality, race, sexual orientation, or other …
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The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… that Poland is a significant presence in the nineteenth-century literary imagination. Though often idealized, Poland emerges as a gothic presence registering anxieties about culture, imperialism, slavery, the Other, economic ruin, and identity. Using Roland Barthes theory of cultural code, …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… history of ecological thinking on addiction in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dickens, Frank J. Webb, and Lydia Sigourney countered traditional moral conceptions of intemperance by materially linking mental and …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… first European colonists to the present day, the American wilderness has fascinated, terrified, and challenged its residents. The struggle to survive on this unforgiving landscape has become the topic of many stories, including four texts from the earliest decades of the United States. Charles …
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"The Return of the Dead": Reactions Against Photography in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… of the relationship between photography and nineteenth-century American literature. I argue that upon its introduction to the public in 1839, the modern photograph created a paradigm shift in what people thought about memory. The American public configured photographs as physical …
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The Feeling of a Line: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Psychology of Imagination
… of imagination in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. In the critical account of this period, much has been written about the relation between literature and sight; it has hardly been noted, however, that the period was marked by the emergence of a field of research into a different …
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“I Don’t Want to Cook”: Reconfiguring the Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… This dissertation first assesses a range of nineteenth-century American newspapers to understand the prevalent social milieu and then closely analyzes select literary texts of the time, to argue that the distinct racial circumstances that framed black and white women’s struggles enabled them …
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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives."
<p>Often overlooked in the study of nineteenth-century American literature, the New England writer Rose Terry Cooke elicited great popular appeal during the peak of her career. The admiration Cooke received from her readers and fellow writers compels one to question Cooke’s present-day obscurity. …
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The locomotive and the tree: industrial Pittsburgh's late nineteenth-century literary culture
… that has emphasized the role of regional literature in this time period, my project uses periodical and print culture studies to analyze the localized literary culture of Pittsburgh. Instead of looking broadly at national literary culture that was disseminated from the East Coast outward, …
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Cane: the American Adam rekindled
… as one of the first major contributions to black literature. However, critics have neglected to address its similarities to nineteenth-century American literature, and specifically how it continues a celebrated tradition dedicated to penetrating considerations of American identity. This study …
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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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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… challenges the widespread notion that nineteenth-century American literature, especially popular novels, publicized and enhanced the ""Cult of True Womanhood"" (Barbara Welter) and the ""Cult of Female Invalidism"" (Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English, Ann Douglas Wood, etc.) via …
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Faith positions: Re -reading gender, race, and Christianity in nineteenth -century American women's writing
… is a study of the ways in which various modes of nineteenth-century religious belief are intertwined with the strained threads of an "American" national narrative. Specifically, I focus on the texts of four nineteenth-century American women---Jarena Lee, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
My dissertation desegregates nineteenth-century American literary history by reconstructing cross-ethnic dialogues between traditions too often seen as distinct. Drawing particularly on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and other forms of autobiography, I show that white, Native American, and …
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Hieroglyphic, Oral, and Performative: (Re)Evaluating Resistance to Colonialism in the Works of Melville
Herman Melville’s legacy in nineteenth-century American literary studies remains prolific. Recent scholarly inquiry, such as those by Christopher Freeburg, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Birgit Brander Rasmussen, critically read key texts of Melville for their unique depictions of Polynesian and African …
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Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South
… and Cuba, and the hemisphere broadly, during the nineteenth century. It inserts white women into a historical account of U.S. imperialism by analyzing the literary works of a number of American women who traveled to or simply fantasized about Cuba during this period of intense and widespread …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… Irving, and Herman Melville earlier in the nineteenth century. My dissertation traces an alternate literary history of American war, one written by soldiers from the early republic through Reconstruction. The soldier's authority has been largely misunderstood in the discussions we have about …
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Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
… for Art’s Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1810 – 1860, assembles an archive of early American writings on the visual arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when American authors …
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