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American Studies

William & Mary

1999

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Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon Jan 1999

Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Fashionable Set: The Feasibility Of Social Tea Drinking In 1774, Samantha M. Ligon Jan 1999

The Fashionable Set: The Feasibility Of Social Tea Drinking In 1774, Samantha M. Ligon

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Latent Self-Revelation In Majorie Rawlings' "Cross Creek", Alexandra Duckworth Jan 1999

Latent Self-Revelation In Majorie Rawlings' "Cross Creek", Alexandra Duckworth

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"The Poet, The Poem, And The People": Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics, Sam Chaltain Jan 1999

"The Poet, The Poem, And The People": Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics, Sam Chaltain

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Romance In Henry James' "The Portrait Of A Lady": A Study Of Duality, Maria Elizabeth Litzendorf Jan 1999

Romance In Henry James' "The Portrait Of A Lady": A Study Of Duality, Maria Elizabeth Litzendorf

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Fashionable Dis-Ease: Promoting Health And Leisure At Saratoga Springs, New York And The Virginia Springs, 1790-1860, Thomas A. Chambers Jan 1999

Fashionable Dis-Ease: Promoting Health And Leisure At Saratoga Springs, New York And The Virginia Springs, 1790-1860, Thomas A. Chambers

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Throughout the early years of the American republic and the first half of the nineteenth century, people journeyed from across the nation and Europe to the bubbling mineral springs of upstate New York and western Virginia in search of a medical cure and pleasant company. Promoters lauded the springs for their restorative powers, fashionable clientele, and picturesque scenery. These dubious attributes combined with the profit motive to create one of the earliest and most successful components of the American tourism and leisure industry. Marketing and producing the mineral waters, as well as the spa experience itself, involved innovation, business acumen, …


Luxury Consumption In 1815 Fredericksburg, Virginia: Gender, Race, And The Personal Property Tax, Shannon Lynn Hughes Jan 1999

Luxury Consumption In 1815 Fredericksburg, Virginia: Gender, Race, And The Personal Property Tax, Shannon Lynn Hughes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"C" Is For Cookie, Culture, And Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon In The United States, Nicole B. Cloeren Jan 1999

"C" Is For Cookie, Culture, And Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon In The United States, Nicole B. Cloeren

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge And The Cultural Politics Of Stardom, Amy L. Howard Jan 1999

Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge And The Cultural Politics Of Stardom, Amy L. Howard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Intertexual [Sic] Cadences, "When Wants And Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot": Excavating Phillis Wheatley's Transcending Voice Of Accent, Antonio T. Bly Jan 1999

Intertexual [Sic] Cadences, "When Wants And Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot": Excavating Phillis Wheatley's Transcending Voice Of Accent, Antonio T. Bly

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Eying Italians: Race, Romance, And Reality In American Perception, 1880--1910, Joseph Peter Cosco Jan 1999

Eying Italians: Race, Romance, And Reality In American Perception, 1880--1910, Joseph Peter Cosco

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation explores how American representations of Italians and Italian Americans engaged, reflected and helped shape the United States' developing concepts of immigration, ethnicity, race, and national identity from 1880 to 1910, when masses of Italian and other "new immigrants" rigorously tested the country's attitudes and powers of assimilation. In a larger sense, the research examines how the process of constructing the modern Italian/Italian American was part of the process of America constructing for itself a modern national identity for a new century.;The dissertation looks at a variety of "texts," including journalism, travel literature, autobiography, fiction, and photographs and illustrations …