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Interpreting Minorness And Minor Characters In The Victorian Novel, Grace Pregent
Interpreting Minorness And Minor Characters In The Victorian Novel, Grace Pregent
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An unprecedented and staggering wealth of characters floods the Victorian novel with its rich social representation of the nineteenth century. in reading these capacious narratives that seemingly accumulate objects, plots, and people, critics continuously privilege plot and minimize or dismiss the intricate participation of minor characters in the construction of meaning. Studies of literary characterization have classically struggled to articulate a theory of character that moves beyond reductive dichotomies€”flat or round, major or minor€”but that does not become inflated and cumbersome. Despite a lack of comprehensive critical attention, minor characters are no minor matter, and the brevity of their textual …
Useful For Life: Women, Girls, And Vocational School Reform In Chicago, 1880-1930, Ruby Oram
Useful For Life: Women, Girls, And Vocational School Reform In Chicago, 1880-1930, Ruby Oram
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This dissertation explores how the competing efforts of women to prepare girls for wage-earning and homemaking shaped the development of vocation programs for female students in Chicago schools between 1880 and 1930. Histories of vocational education have neglected the role of women as school reformers and suggested that boys rather than girls were the primary focus of new work-oriented classes in urban public schools. Using Chicago as a case study, this dissertation uncovers how groups of women social reformers, educators, and trade unionists promoted vocational programs to protect school-aged girls from dangerous working conditions, steer girls into "wholesome" occupations, and …
Forgetting How To Hate: The Evolution Of White Responses To Integration In Chicago, 1946-1987, Chris Ramsey
Forgetting How To Hate: The Evolution Of White Responses To Integration In Chicago, 1946-1987, Chris Ramsey
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After the Supreme Court made restrictive covenants illegal in 1948, violence became the default response for numerous white communities across the South Side of Chicago when African Americans moved into €“ or just passed through €“ their neighborhoods. The civil rights movement's high-profile successes in the first half of the 1960s and the media attention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open housing marches on the Southwest Side of Chicago brought to segregation in the urban North made brute force unacceptable to the public at-large. White ethnic residents on Chicago's Southwest Side realized they could no longer resort to violent means …
Remains To Be Seen: Execution And Embodiment In The Early English Atlantic World, Erin M. Feichtinger
Remains To Be Seen: Execution And Embodiment In The Early English Atlantic World, Erin M. Feichtinger
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This dissertation explores the development of capitalism in the early English Atlantic World (1580 - 1752) and the manipulation of the legal system to criminalize the laboring body in order to more fully exploit the productive output of labor.
The Best Poor Man's Country?: William Penn, Quakers, And Unfree Labor In Atlantic Pennsylvania, Peter B. Kotowski
The Best Poor Man's Country?: William Penn, Quakers, And Unfree Labor In Atlantic Pennsylvania, Peter B. Kotowski
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William Penn’s writings famously emphasized notions of egalitarianism, just governance, and moderation in economic pursuits. Twentieth-century scholars took Penn’s rhetoric at his word and interpreted colonial Pennsylvania as nothing less than “the best poor man’s country,” as reflected in the title of one of the most popular histories of the colony. They also imagined a world where all men had access to economic opportunity and lived free from the barbarity endemic to Atlantic world colonies. Despite this halcyon vision of the Peaceable Kingdom, the reality was the opposite: a colony where religious convictions justified what we today (and radicals then) …
Equilibrium In Biblical Exegesis: Why Evangelicals Need The Catholic Church, Robert Andrews
Equilibrium In Biblical Exegesis: Why Evangelicals Need The Catholic Church, Robert Andrews
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In this dissertation I argue that American evangelicals need the Catholic Church in order to interpret Scripture well. Often, ecclesiology plays a minor role in evangelical hermeneutics. However, the greater need is for evangelicals to engage the Catholic Church specifically in the work of biblical exegesis. I call for a theological reassessment, from an evangelical perspective, of the necessity of ecclesiology, including sacred regard for the Catholic Church, for the work of biblical interpretation.
This dissertation produces a historical trajectory which demonstrates where evangelicals have departed from the long-standing axiomatic relationship between Church and Scripture, and especially highlights their enduring …
The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, And The Movies, 1928 - 1973, Albert William Vogt Iii
The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, And The Movies, 1928 - 1973, Albert William Vogt Iii
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This dissertation examines the impact movies had on the place of Catholics of European descent in mainstream white America. Most scholars who study the history of Catholic populations in this country assume that they attained whiteness at some point. Whether with the Irish in the late nineteenth century, or more generally when urban parishes began the move to the suburbs post-World War II, the historiography claims that Catholics earned white status. However, an analysis of twentieth century American film complicates the historiography of Catholicism. A set of negative stereotypes, instead, have colored the presentation of the religion in cinema …
Wet Chicago: Prohibition And The Development Of The Informal Alcohol Economy, Brian Doumeth Jolet
Wet Chicago: Prohibition And The Development Of The Informal Alcohol Economy, Brian Doumeth Jolet
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The Prohibition-era presents a story of both continuity and change. While the illegal alcohol manufacturing and selling that occurred during the period was not an aberration from the past, the resultant increased wealth and sway of the criminal underworld and the increasing disrespect for the law were new transformations. This dissertation seeks to understand the informal economy in alcohol by examining the multitude of men and women who participated in this black market in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The analysis describes the movement from small-time bootleggers operating within a narrow market to the development of a complex and hierarchical …
A Land Fit For Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, And Politics In Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers
A Land Fit For Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, And Politics In Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers
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Despite the fact that over 200,000 Irish men fought in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they constitute an alternative Irish national identity that threatened and challenged republican nationalism. These cultural components existed in the realm of vernacular memory, which lay beyond the reach of the Irish government. By examining commemorative rituals, war memorials, and popular culture, this project breathes …
Identity, Oppression, And Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce
Identity, Oppression, And Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce
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The dissertation argues for a conception of group rights based on Habermasian discourse theory, as an alternative to the dominant multicultural liberal approach to group rights, which treats group rights as instrumental to individual rights.
The Occult Feminism Of Margaret Cousins In Modern Ireland And India, 1878-1954, Catherine Candy
The Occult Feminism Of Margaret Cousins In Modern Ireland And India, 1878-1954, Catherine Candy
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No abstract provided.
The Allegorical Ireland Figure In The Irish National Theatre, 1899-1926, Svetlana Novakovic
The Allegorical Ireland Figure In The Irish National Theatre, 1899-1926, Svetlana Novakovic
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No abstract provided.
Gerry Fitt: Ulster Politician, Michael A. Murphy
Irish-America And The Ulster Conflict, 1968-1995, Andrew J. Wilson
Irish-America And The Ulster Conflict, 1968-1995, Andrew J. Wilson
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No abstract provided.
The Irish Police, 1836-1914 : A Social History, Brian Griffin
The Irish Police, 1836-1914 : A Social History, Brian Griffin
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No abstract provided.
Some Aspects Of The Life And Work Of John Ellis, King's Agent For West Florida 1763 To 1776, Julius Groner
Some Aspects Of The Life And Work Of John Ellis, King's Agent For West Florida 1763 To 1776, Julius Groner
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No abstract provided.
The Chicago Catholic Worker Movement 1936 To The Present, Francis J. Sicius
The Chicago Catholic Worker Movement 1936 To The Present, Francis J. Sicius
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No abstract provided.
The Desmond Rebellions, 1569-1573 And 1579-1583, Claude Ronald Sasso
The Desmond Rebellions, 1569-1573 And 1579-1583, Claude Ronald Sasso
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No abstract provided.
Barbadian Cross-Currents: Church-State Confrontation With Quaker And Negro, 1660-1689, Winnifred Winkelman
Barbadian Cross-Currents: Church-State Confrontation With Quaker And Negro, 1660-1689, Winnifred Winkelman
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No abstract provided.
The Irish Career Of Charles Gavan Duffy, 1840-1855, Terrence J. Larocca
The Irish Career Of Charles Gavan Duffy, 1840-1855, Terrence J. Larocca
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No abstract provided.
The De Witt Colony Of Texas, 1825-1836, Edward Albert Lukes
The De Witt Colony Of Texas, 1825-1836, Edward Albert Lukes
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No abstract provided.
Principles And Practices In Comedy: Shaw, Giraudoux, And Beckett, John Michael Mcinerney
Principles And Practices In Comedy: Shaw, Giraudoux, And Beckett, John Michael Mcinerney
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No abstract provided.
The Fool Of Quality (1765-1770) By Henry Brooke: A Compendium Of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility, M. Agnesine Dering
The Fool Of Quality (1765-1770) By Henry Brooke: A Compendium Of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility, M. Agnesine Dering
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No abstract provided.
The Poetic Plays Of Michael Field, Joan Evelyn Biederstedt
The Poetic Plays Of Michael Field, Joan Evelyn Biederstedt
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No abstract provided.
The Medieval Latin Vocabulary Of The Letters Of John Of Salisbury, Casimir F. Kuszynski
The Medieval Latin Vocabulary Of The Letters Of John Of Salisbury, Casimir F. Kuszynski
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No abstract provided.