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American Studies

1994

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Toast To The Tavern: An Archaeological Study Of A 17th And 18th Century Tavern In Charlestown, Massachusetts, Christy Cathleen Vogt Jan 1994

A Toast To The Tavern: An Archaeological Study Of A 17th And 18th Century Tavern In Charlestown, Massachusetts, Christy Cathleen Vogt

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No abstract provided.


Male Moral Irresponsibility In Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", Dana B. Castle Jan 1994

Male Moral Irresponsibility In Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", Dana B. Castle

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No abstract provided.


Gender-Based Behavior In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Jordan Davis Jan 1994

Gender-Based Behavior In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Jordan Davis

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No abstract provided.


Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison: Conflicting Masculinities, H. Alexander Nejako Jan 1994

Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison: Conflicting Masculinities, H. Alexander Nejako

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No abstract provided.


Does "Little Women" Belittle Women?: Female Influence In Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", Anjali Prasad Jan 1994

Does "Little Women" Belittle Women?: Female Influence In Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", Anjali Prasad

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No abstract provided.


Cultural Determinism In "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Lynda Ann Thompson Jan 1994

Cultural Determinism In "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Lynda Ann Thompson

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No abstract provided.


Popular Culture, Thomas Beer, And The Making Of "The Sound And The Fury", Lynn Dorsey Define Jan 1994

Popular Culture, Thomas Beer, And The Making Of "The Sound And The Fury", Lynn Dorsey Define

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No abstract provided.


William Carlos Williams's "Spring And All": The Oneness Of Experience, Molly Elayne Jones Jan 1994

William Carlos Williams's "Spring And All": The Oneness Of Experience, Molly Elayne Jones

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No abstract provided.


The Problem Of Time In Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel", Patrick M. Curran Jan 1994

The Problem Of Time In Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel", Patrick M. Curran

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No abstract provided.


"Idle, Lewd, Brabling Women:" Slander And Bastardy In Colonial Tidewater Virginia, 1640-1725, Anne Elizabeth Ward Jan 1994

"Idle, Lewd, Brabling Women:" Slander And Bastardy In Colonial Tidewater Virginia, 1640-1725, Anne Elizabeth Ward

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No abstract provided.


Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells Jan 1994

Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells

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This study is an attempt to discern what eighteenth-century houses--their forms, dimensions, internal organization, and external settings--have to contribute to scholarly understanding of colonial Virginia's society, economy, and culture.;Historic Virginia houses usually were built more recently than traditional scholars and popular writers have supposed, and standing eighteenth-century houses are, almost without exception, far larger and finer than the dwellings most colonial Virginians inhabited. Yet even lightly constructed and shabbily finished houses stood at the center of a complex of buildings where most of the planter's household and agricultural work was performed. Thus eighteenth-century Virginia houses were more mundane and unpretentious …


The Political-Domestics: Sectional Issues In American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867, Beverly Peterson Jan 1994

The Political-Domestics: Sectional Issues In American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867, Beverly Peterson

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This is a study of five novels written by American women during the middle of the nineteenth century. The novels are Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852) by Mary Henderson Eastman, Northwood (1827 and 1852) by Sarah Josepha Hale, The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) by Carolyn Lee Hentz, Macaria (1864) by Augusta Evans, and Cameron Hall (1867) by Mary Anne Cruse. In advancing their authors' opinions on sectional issues like slavery and secession, these novels make overt political statements of a kind not usually associated with writers of domestic fiction.;All of the novels in this study conform in some ways to the …


Domestic Ideology And The Social Construction Of Mammy, Bridget Mary Brown Jan 1994

Domestic Ideology And The Social Construction Of Mammy, Bridget Mary Brown

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No abstract provided.


Putting Masculinity Into Words: Hemingway's Critique And Manipulation Of American Manhood, Timothy L. Barnard Jan 1994

Putting Masculinity Into Words: Hemingway's Critique And Manipulation Of American Manhood, Timothy L. Barnard

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No abstract provided.


Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres And Culinary Arts, Katharine E. Harbury Jan 1994

Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres And Culinary Arts, Katharine E. Harbury

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No abstract provided.


Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran Jan 1994

Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran

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No abstract provided.


A Place Of Honor And Fruitfulness : World War One And The War Activities Of Women From The Elite Women's Colleges, Helen Grace Lafave Jan 1994

A Place Of Honor And Fruitfulness : World War One And The War Activities Of Women From The Elite Women's Colleges, Helen Grace Lafave

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No abstract provided.