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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"early-American literature"”.
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Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature
… critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature …
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White Women as the Abused and the Abusers: Secret History and the Seduction Plot’s Ties to Capitalism, Colonialism, and Slavery
… Sansay. Secret History is situated amongst other early American sentimental fiction like The Coquette (1797), Charlotte Temple (1791), and The Power of Sympathy (1789) to show that the way the novel discusses gender, race, and class is aligned with other early American literature and thought in …
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'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction
It is widely accepted that early American literature reflects the boundless social and moral optimism of "The Great Experiment", expresses certitude in the ultimate perfectibility of man in the New World. Equally widely held is the belief that American experience in the twentieth century has …
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MOBOCRACY: THE MOB AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1782-1851
This dissertation examines the role of the mob in Early American literature, and how the mob continues to be an essential part of American society. Chapter one uses Linebaugh's and Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra to argue that early American authors acted as demagogues attempting to control the …
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Paradoxical power: Victim claims as a rhetorical genre
… of this analysis and include examples from early American literature – Charlotte Temple, slave narratives of the Abolitionist Movement, and the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.
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“The Indians gaping before us”: Anxieties of Consumption in Mary White Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God
<p>This paper traces the theme of consumption throughout Mary White Rowlandson’s captivity narrative <em>The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. </em>From Rowlandson’s fear of actual cannibalism at the outset of the work, her obsession with recording the strange foods she consumes, her status as a …
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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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Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity.
<p>In the aftermath of King Philip's War, Puritan Mary Rowlandson recorded her experiences as an Indian captive. In a vivid story that recollects the details of these events, Rowlandson attempts to impart a message to her community through the use of a variety of literary techniques. The genre of …