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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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2016

Capitalism

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Moral Margins: Ethics And Economics In American Northern Literature, 1837-1900, John Adam Stromski Aug 2016

Moral Margins: Ethics And Economics In American Northern Literature, 1837-1900, John Adam Stromski

Doctoral Dissertations

“Moral Margins: Slavery and Capitalism in American Northern Literature, 1837-1900,” focuses on the intersections of slavery, capitalism, and literature, building on recent historical scholarship on the myriad ways slavery impacted the growth of American capitalism. Nowhere is this relationship more prominent than in the nineteenth century, when slavery experienced its highest levels of economic and political influence. Scholars of capitalism and American slavery have tended to focus on the South, the obvious locus of slavery, but little attention is paid to the North, where this relationship is more veiled. I argue that Northern literature shows the ethical complexities of slavery-based …


Viewing The Foundations: Italian Institutions And Mafia Through Short Stories And Film, Xylina Marshall Aug 2016

Viewing The Foundations: Italian Institutions And Mafia Through Short Stories And Film, Xylina Marshall

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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