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"Seventeen" Magazine As A Manual For "Doing Gender", Amy N. Vreeland
"Seventeen" Magazine As A Manual For "Doing Gender", Amy N. Vreeland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Search For Completion In Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler Ncneer
The Search For Completion In Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler Ncneer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Heavens Or The Abyss: A Reading Of Edith Wharton's "The House Of Mirth" As A Romance, Joseph Rives Nicholson
The Heavens Or The Abyss: A Reading Of Edith Wharton's "The House Of Mirth" As A Romance, Joseph Rives Nicholson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
While the history of the du Pont family and Du Pont Company have been well-documented, little is known about the everyday lives of the Irish Catholic immigrants who lived and worked at the home plant near Wilmington, Delaware. to correct this oversight, "Labor at Home" explores every aspect of the powder workers' domestic world--from religious beliefs, family structure, gender relations, and ethnic ties, to houses, furnishings, and yards--and uses this data to support new conclusions about cultural identity and class affiliation. as early as the 1820s, for example, powder mill families began to convey their increasing affiliation with bourgeois American …
Calamus, Drum-Taps, And Whitman's Model Of Comradeship, Charles B. Green
Calamus, Drum-Taps, And Whitman's Model Of Comradeship, Charles B. Green
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy And Reality In "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm
Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy And Reality In "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
On The Path To Paterson: Prose And The Search For The American Language, Mary Carolyn Click
On The Path To Paterson: Prose And The Search For The American Language, Mary Carolyn Click
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Wild, Wearable, And Seaworthy, Frances Evelyn Davey
Wild, Wearable, And Seaworthy, Frances Evelyn Davey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Unstable Compounds: Progressive And Regressive Impulses In Four Contemporary American Documentaries And The Prospect For Social Change, Stephen Henry Bransford
Unstable Compounds: Progressive And Regressive Impulses In Four Contemporary American Documentaries And The Prospect For Social Change, Stephen Henry Bransford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson
Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear
Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Ship Of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, And The Transformation Of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Ship Of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, And The Transformation Of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines capitalism and cultural change in early New England. The research focuses on leading merchants in Boston and Salem, Massachusetts from the last third of the seventeenth century to 1760. During this period, merchants, royal officials, and professionals formed a prominent influential elite that refashioned the town landscape and social structure of colonial ports. Merchants adopted a new Anglo-American worldview that gradually supplanted Puritan spiritual and providential understanding of the world and, instead, emphasized visible, material characteristics as the source of value in science, commerce, and consumption. The resultant "world of goods," created a social marketplace where identity, …
"Preserving Their Form And Features": The Role Of Coffins In The American Understanding Of Death, 1607-1870, Brent Warren Tharp
"Preserving Their Form And Features": The Role Of Coffins In The American Understanding Of Death, 1607-1870, Brent Warren Tharp
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially with regard to its role in the integration of death in American society before 1870. Coffins have generally been ignored by material culture studies primarily because of our society's cultural uneasiness with the topic of death. Current American funeral and burial practices seem bizarre and ahistorical and have often been characterized as the result of twentieth-century commercial greed. However, coffins have a long history as important artifacts which American society has used to legitimize death in subtly different ways for generations. This study examines the …
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1807, Charles Fraser lauded fellow miniature artist Edward Greene Malbone's ability to produce "such striking resemblances, that they will never fail to perpetuate the tenderness of friendship, to divert the cares of absence, and to aid affection in dwelling on those features and that image which death has forever wrested from it." The explanations traditionally given for the commissioning of portraits--the perpetuation of family or institutional memory--correspond with Fraser's comments. Yet these explanations rarely incorporate the social context: the communities in which images were produced and the individual, familial, or group meanings of portraits.;"Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions of …
Sugar Chests In Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton Mcpherson
Sugar Chests In Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton Mcpherson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Beyond Telling The News: The Mission Of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Beyond Telling The News: The Mission Of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Mouth With Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, And Authorship In Charles W Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman", Kristin Margaret Edmonds
Mouth With Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, And Authorship In Charles W Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman", Kristin Margaret Edmonds
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Other Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, And The Commodity Of Experience, Jill Angela Mcnutt
The Other Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, And The Commodity Of Experience, Jill Angela Mcnutt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Distinctive Chest Of Drawers: Using Material Culture To Interpret The Past And The Present, Jessica Williams Johnston
A Distinctive Chest Of Drawers: Using Material Culture To Interpret The Past And The Present, Jessica Williams Johnston
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Roland W. Robbins helped to pioneer the profession of historical archaeology. as the discipline professionalized, he found himself increasingly excluded. This study analyzes Robbins's career within the context of the disciplines of archaeology and historic preservation and considers the professionalization process, current cultural resource management practice, the value of early data, and the importance of public archaeology.;The study also explores archaeology as Robbins's solution to his long personal crisis of vocation. He reacted to his coming of age during the Depression by searching for personal foundations and also responded to larger cultural needs, including a quest for the roots of …