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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Macon State Showcases 'Lost' Literature
Macon State Showcases 'Lost' Literature
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article reviews the literature exhibit "Lost" at the Macon State College's library in Georgia.
Race, Class, And Herman Melville, Joan A. De Santis
Race, Class, And Herman Melville, Joan A. De Santis
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Analyzes two of the short stories in Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales, "Bartleby the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street" and "Benito Cereno" and argues that these stories are highly critical of the bourgeois class structure of American society that inform Wall Street, as well as the slave trade, in mid-Nineteenth-Century America. Posits that in these works Melville addresses the questions of hierarchical power in the workplace and the effects of racism and slavery in the colonization of America.
Come Tomorrow, Annemarie C. Messier
Come Tomorrow, Annemarie C. Messier
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Collection of five short stories : Foo Foo, Like Father, Birthday Girl, Omens, and Come Tomorrow.
A Natural History Of The Mind : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Michael Edmund Jonik
A Natural History Of The Mind : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Michael Edmund Jonik
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This project examines how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American writers drew on European natural science and philosophy - specifically in terms of concepts of form, perception, and experience - to open new possibilities for thinking the relationship between the mind and the physical world. In each of the moments of American intellectual history here considered - the natural theology of Calvinism, the idealistic natural history of Transcendentalism, and the movement towards an evolutionary process-philosophy of Pragmatism - "place" becomes not only geographical location, but a dynamic field of interactions of natural historical, literary, theological, and philosophical knowledge. I trace this through …