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Orphic Descent In "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie Jan 2001

Orphic Descent In "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Shenandoah Valley Earthenware As Symbols Of Identity, Sunyoon Park Jan 2001

Shenandoah Valley Earthenware As Symbols Of Identity, Sunyoon Park

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"The Little Stop Before The Words": Bildungsroman And The Building Of A Colonial Discourse In Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer Jan 2001

"The Little Stop Before The Words": Bildungsroman And The Building Of A Colonial Discourse In Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert Jan 2001

The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt Jan 2001

A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt

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No abstract provided.


Raising Their Voices: Women, Articulation And Power In Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski Jan 2001

Raising Their Voices: Women, Articulation And Power In Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski

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No abstract provided.


"A Bad Case Of Fossilized Tradition": The Discourse Of Race And Gender In Women's Battle For The Ballot In Richmond, Virginia 1909-1920, Melissa D. Ooten Jan 2001

"A Bad Case Of Fossilized Tradition": The Discourse Of Race And Gender In Women's Battle For The Ballot In Richmond, Virginia 1909-1920, Melissa D. Ooten

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Katherine Anne Porter And Her Publishers, Alexandra Subramanian Jan 2001

Katherine Anne Porter And Her Publishers, Alexandra Subramanian

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This biographical dissertation focuses upon Katherine Anne Porter's relationship with her literary agent, Cyrilly Abels, and her editors and publishers, Donald Brace and Seymour Lawrence, who were associated with Harcourt, Brace and Atlantic-Little, Brown respectively. The study is based upon the thousands of pages of correspondence between Porter and her professional associates housed in the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter at the University of Maryland. Porter's professional alliances are placed within the context of nineteenth and twentieth century publishing history and within a long tradition of idiosyncratic author editor/agent dependencies that can be traced throughout American literary history.;The heart of …


Strange Bedfellows: Eugenicists, White Supremacists, And Marcus Garvey In Virginia, 1922-1927, Sarah L. Trembanis Jan 2001

Strange Bedfellows: Eugenicists, White Supremacists, And Marcus Garvey In Virginia, 1922-1927, Sarah L. Trembanis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Shipbuilding In Maryland, 1631-1850, Ben Ford Jan 2001

Shipbuilding In Maryland, 1631-1850, Ben Ford

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Prologue To A Life": Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years, 1926--1934, Karen Rose Veselits Jan 2001

"Prologue To A Life": Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years, 1926--1934, Karen Rose Veselits

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation is a bio-critical study of writer Dorothy West (1907--1998). It focuses on her apprenticeship in Harlem from 1926--1934 during the literary renaissance and lays the groundwork for a biography, long overdue. West's career extends from the Harlem Renaissance to the end of the 20 th century, but she has not received the critical recognition her work merits. The study of West's early work illuminates her later work, The Living Is Easy (1948) and The Wedding (1995); it demonstrates the continuity throughout her writing and makes clear that she struggled with the same themes and issues repeatedly during her …


Archaeological Application Of The Metal Detector, Wayna L. Roach Jan 2001

Archaeological Application Of The Metal Detector, Wayna L. Roach

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster Jan 2001

A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study examines the life and business career of Moses Dresser Phillips (1813--1859), an important, but previously neglected, member of the Antebellum literary marketplace. If mentioned in discussions of Antebellum publishing at all, Moses Dresser Phillips is usually noted for choosing to create the Atlantic Monthly, one of his most distinguished achievements, or for deciding not to publish Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of his most costly errors. Although one of the most powerful figures in the literary marketplace, Phillips died in 1859 at age forty-six. Life dealt him a short tenure as a result of the stress caused by the …


Rethinking The Red Scare: The Lusk Committee And New York State's Fight Against Radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel Jan 2001

Rethinking The Red Scare: The Lusk Committee And New York State's Fight Against Radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study re-examines the Great Red Scare that followed the First World War in an effort to more accurately determine its origins, tactics, duration, and conclusion. Specifically, it analyzes the efforts of the Lusk Committee, New York State's joint legislative committee to combat radicalism, between 1919 and 1923.;Prior studies agree that the Red Scare was intense and brief in duration. Physical raids upon Socialist Party, Communist Party, and Industrial Workers of the World offices dominated the episode, culminating with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's infamous national raids in January, 1920. His heavy-handed tactics, which failed to uncover any serious revolutionary …


Friendly Meetings: The Art Of Conquest And The Mythical Origins Of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady Jan 2001

Friendly Meetings: The Art Of Conquest And The Mythical Origins Of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Proper Role Of Religious Conviction In Moral-Political Discourse, Jerry Owens Jan 2001

The Proper Role Of Religious Conviction In Moral-Political Discourse, Jerry Owens

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Structures, Fields, And Farmsteads Of Early America: Post-Revolutionary Class Relations In Tidewater Virginia, Chad C. Long Jan 2001

Structures, Fields, And Farmsteads Of Early America: Post-Revolutionary Class Relations In Tidewater Virginia, Chad C. Long

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul Jan 2001

Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Class Negotiation And Accoutrement Use: Pistol Ownership In York County, Virginia, 1634-1729, Jeremy Loren Nienow Jan 2001

Class Negotiation And Accoutrement Use: Pistol Ownership In York County, Virginia, 1634-1729, Jeremy Loren Nienow

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Wangunk Ethnohistory: A Case Study Of A Connecticut River Indian Community, Timothy Howlett Ives Jan 2001

Wangunk Ethnohistory: A Case Study Of A Connecticut River Indian Community, Timothy Howlett Ives

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


From Ads To Artifacts: The Selling Power Of Gender Ideology In America, 1890-1910, Andrea Griffin Clark Jan 2001

From Ads To Artifacts: The Selling Power Of Gender Ideology In America, 1890-1910, Andrea Griffin Clark

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Women In Blue: Women In The Us Navy During World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson Jan 2001

Women In Blue: Women In The Us Navy During World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle Jan 2001

Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins Jan 2001

Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Captive Women Among The Iroquois, W. Scott Ebhardt Jan 2001

Captive Women Among The Iroquois, W. Scott Ebhardt

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


For Generations: Wills, Inventories, And Wealth In Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham Jan 2001

For Generations: Wills, Inventories, And Wealth In Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Slave In The Swamp: Disrupting The Plantation Narrative, William Tynes Cowan Jan 2001

The Slave In The Swamp: Disrupting The Plantation Narrative, William Tynes Cowan

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

In nineteenth-century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurrent "bogeyman" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps, the runaway, or "maroon," gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open conflict. The chattel system was dependent upon an exercise of will upon the body of the enslaved, but slaves who asserted control over their bodies, by removing them to the swamps, claimed definition over the Self. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the maroon from its untouchable, abstract state to a …


Recovering Elements In Historical Archaeology: The Use Of Soil Chemical Analysis For Overcoming The Effects Of Post-Depositional Plowing, Lisa E. Fischer Jan 2001

Recovering Elements In Historical Archaeology: The Use Of Soil Chemical Analysis For Overcoming The Effects Of Post-Depositional Plowing, Lisa E. Fischer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker Jan 2001

"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

African American cultural and social history has neglected to interrogate fully a crucial facet of African American political, economic, and social life: African American Freemasonry. "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia seeks to remedy this neglect. This project broadly situates African American Freemasonry in the complex and evolving relations of power, peoples, and polities of the Atlantic world. The study develops an interpretative framework that not only recognizes the organizational and institutional aspects of African American Freemasonry, but also interprets it as a discursive space in and through which articulations …


Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform From 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski Jan 2001

Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform From 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.