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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Nineteenth-Century U.S."”.
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period after the Civil …
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On the Move: Games and Gaming Figures in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature
… and informed representations of agency in the nineteenth century. In effect, games were archives of possibility made procedurally discrete, rendering modes of action and agency legible in ways that are suggested, although differently engaged, in their somewhat less ephemeral cousins: books. …
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A Multidisciplinary Approach for Determining the Extents of the Beds of Complex Natural Lakes in Louisiana
… dendrohydrology of the ancient cypress fringe, nineteenth century land survey records, historical records, and time-series statistics were applied to determine the elevation range of ordinary high water. Research suggests that the level of the ordinary high water natural monument used …
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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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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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Fighting engineers : the U.S. Navy and mechanical engineering, 1840-1905
… of professional mechanical engineering in the nineteenth century U.S. Navy. In the middle of that century, the Navy began to utilize steam engines for motive power. Navy administrators recognized the need for engineering officers to design and operate ships' steam power plants, but the social …
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The New Westward Expansion: Settler Colonialism and Gentrification in Paula Fox’s <em>Desperate Characters</em> and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s <em>Sabrina and Corina</em>
… as a site of dramatic gentrification in the new century, by portraying Latinx characters from older neighborhoods who must adjust to the disintegration and cohesiveness of their communities in the face of gentrification. In my discussion of these works, I draw from pre-existing scholarship as …
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U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians
… Indian discourses at the interstices of 19th century ideologies that underscored interactions of the U.S.-Native relationship. Specifically, the project argues that both U.S. governmental and American Indian voices contributed to the policies of U.S.-Native relations throughout the removal and …
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Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres
<p>This dissertation examines nineteenth century U.S. women’s maritime writings to re-evaluate and more accurately represent the roles women played in society. I contend that the nineteenth century ship is a microcosm of the United States and women’s sea experiences and maritime writings reveal …
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Las Tejanas in nineteenth-century Texas: (En)gendering race, empire, and nation in the borderlands, 1750-1850
… Tejanas as central actors in the making of the nineteenth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Working at the intersection of Borderlands Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Latin American, and U.S. History, I show how Tejanas deployed degrees of racial and class privilege to challenge and reinforce …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
… nodal point: the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Through literary analysis and archival research on leading and marginal figures of Post-Reconstruction African American culture, this dissertation considers the progenitorial relationship of late-nineteenth century black uplift …