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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"transatlanticism"”.
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‘Transportation is physical, communication is psychical’ : female sexuality and modes of communication in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
This thesis connects the discourses of transatlanticism, erotic communication, women and agency in the nineteenth century. It examines four modes of communication: mesmerism, spiritualism, telegraphism and epistolary correspondence, in relation to discourses of female sexuality and power in …
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Intertextual abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, and the print, politics, and language of slavery
<p>t is the design of this project to suggest that Frederick Douglass' novella, "The Heroic Slave," both pulled from and was a catalyst in the field of emancipatory discourse and debate, most notably through the links between Douglass' and Byron's work found in the epigraphs to the novella. These …
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Transatlantic Italy and Anglo-American Periodical Writing, 1848-1865
This is a thesis about English and American imaginative identification with Italy in the period 1848–1865, facilitated by and expressed through periodicals and newspapers. At the centre of the thesis sits New England magazine The Atlantic Monthly, which during the Civil War emerged as a vehicle for …
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Transatlantic perspectives on contemporary populism: A narratological approach to the rhetoric of prominent US and European populist leaders
This thesis is an investigation into the narrative structures and content of twenty-first century populist leaders in the European Union (EU) and the United States. The volume of research on populism today appears to be at an all-time high as globalization becomes more ubiquitous and peaceful …
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The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England
An important anomaly in transatlantic criticism is the contrast between transatlantic theory and the applied criticism of literature through a transatlantic lens. While most transatlantic scholars assert the value of individual strands of thought throughout the globe and stress the importance of …