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Transatlantic Utopia: American Antebellum Novels And Their Reflexive Historicism, Andrew J. Lamb
Transatlantic Utopia: American Antebellum Novels And Their Reflexive Historicism, Andrew J. Lamb
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This dissertation argues that the utopian novel offers an invaluable lens for understanding the social fabric of the antebellum America. The project focuses mainly on four works: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852), a fantasy roman à clef of the Brook Farm utopian colony; William Gilmore Simms’ The Yemassee (1835), a novel about the native American threat to the utopia of a slaveocracy; Martin Delany’s Blake; or the Huts of America (1859), a call for pan-African revolt in North America; and Robert Henry Newell’s Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires (1867), a fantasy bildungsroman about the antebellum period as a …
Addressing The Aristotelian Pedagogical Bias: Reassessing Aristotle’S Rhetoric And Its Place In 21st Century Composition Studies, Matthew Higgins
Addressing The Aristotelian Pedagogical Bias: Reassessing Aristotle’S Rhetoric And Its Place In 21st Century Composition Studies, Matthew Higgins
English Dissertations
This dissertation evaluates the nature of Aristotelian rhetoric’s use in early 21st century First-Year Composition (FYC) classes and proposes an alternative reading of On Rhetoric that portrays Aristotelian rhetoric as a theory in alignment with Kenneth Burke’s portrayal of new rhetorics. Although Aristotle’s ideas about rhetoric exist in their current form as a result of a complex and speculative textual history, they continue to have a significant role in the writing classroom. The persist despite attempts to provide alternative models of rhetoric that better align with Kenneth Burke’s concept of new rhetorics. In 1987, Kathleen Welch proposed that this …