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e.p. Whipple, Nineteenth Century American Literary Critic
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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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A Look At Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Moravian Worship
… the collection and editing of four eighteenth-century Moravian liturgical hymn services. In this context paper I describe Moravian worship practices in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America, and discuss how the liturgical hymn services fit into that worship cycle. This paper also …
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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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Creating Art and Artists: Late Nineteenth-Century American Artists' Studios
<p>This dissertation examines the studios of American painters and sculptors working in the cosmopolitan era of the late nineteenth century. Between the Philadelphia Centennial and World War I, most makers of fine art worked in studios furnished with old furniture, personal mementos, historic …
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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 Agrarian Myth in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Magazines
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The Metaphor of The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
The metaphor of the prairie reveals the paradoxical characteristics of a burgeoning democracy. In the metaphor the conventional ideals of freedom, hope, equality, future prosperity, and a leading place in world history are juxtaposed with destructive tendencies. As the white civilization encroaches …
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… writings of Charles S. Peirce and the art of the nineteenth-century American landscape painters of the Hudson River School and Luminism. The primary overall goal is to present and argue for a Transcendentalist Aesthetics by making use of the philosophy of Emerson and Peirce, together with the …
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Kinship and Collectivity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction
This thesis examines eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American women's literary response to the emergent modern family. This social ideal decreed that the 'proper' family consisted of a married couple and their biological children living under a single roof. The father was to function as this …
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The Civil War Pension System and the Nineteenth-Century American State
… was the most comprehensive social policy in the nineteenth-century United States, and one of the most ambitious in the industrializing world. By the time the Civil War closed in April 1865, the U.S. Army had mustered more than two million men. Nearly four hundred thousand of them perished, and …
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their formal rhetorical training as students in American universities, this dissertation investigates how aesthetic judgment is enacted in scientific writing and explores the rhetorical …
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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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Styles of Acting in Serious Drama on the Nineteenth Century American Stage
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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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Chinese Gaming in the Nineteenth-Century American West: An Ethnic and Cultural Reassessment.
… ethnic identity in Nevada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Utilizing archaeological material from four Northern Nevada sites (Lovelock Chinatown, Island Mountain, Yeong Wo Mercantile and 90 H Block), it can be determined whether or not Chinese gaming activities were …
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Bayard Taylor and his Transatlantic Representations of Germany: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter
Bayard Taylor was a nineteenth-century American writer, traveler, lecturer, and diplomat well-known in his lifetime. Although active in many areas, he acquired fame chiefly through his adventures as a globetrotting news correspondent to exotic non-western regions at a time in which the United …
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Uniting States: Narration, Space, and Nation in Four Nineteenth-Century American Travel Novels
… literary tradition in the early republic, American writers have located American national identity within a dialectical spatial imaginary where ideologies of spatial transcendence compete with those of local authority and regional difference. ""Uniting States"" maps this spatial imaginary …
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