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Using Tragedy, Gene Washington Jan 2013

Using Tragedy, Gene Washington

Gene Washington

Describes how three groups of people use tragedy: readers, writers, critics. Some effects are criticism of institutions, emotional effects, political, historical changes.


Frenchifying The Frontier: Transnational Federalism In The Early West, Keri Holt Jan 2012

Frenchifying The Frontier: Transnational Federalism In The Early West, Keri Holt

Keri Holt

The antebellum West was a hotbed of literary activism. Western presses published more than one hundred local newspapers and literary magazines from the late 1820s through the 1850s. Cities such as Vidalia, Lexington, Marietta, New Orleans, and Cincinnati were thriving literary centers, boasting numerous bookshops, libraries, theaters, and literary societies, including the Semi-Colon and Buckeye clubs of Cincinnati, where members exhibited their western pride by discussing the work of local authors while drinking beverages from buckeye bowls.1 The “West” at this time was located much closer east and south than the West we know today. It encompassed, roughly, the states …