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A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster
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 …
Friendly Meetings: The Art Of Conquest And The Mythical Origins Of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady
Friendly Meetings: The Art Of Conquest And The Mythical Origins Of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady
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No abstract provided.
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
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For Generations: Wills, Inventories, And Wealth In Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham
For Generations: Wills, Inventories, And Wealth In Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham
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No abstract provided.
Katherine Anne Porter And Her Publishers, Alexandra Subramanian
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 …
The Slave In The Swamp: Disrupting The Plantation Narrative, William Tynes Cowan
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 …
"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker
"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 …
"Prologue To A Life": Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years, 1926--1934, Karen Rose Veselits
"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 …
Remembering American Wars In Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, The Enola Gay, And The Vietnam Era Educational Center, Joanna E. Pleasant
Remembering American Wars In Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, The Enola Gay, And The Vietnam Era Educational Center, Joanna E. Pleasant
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing In The Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing In The Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
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No abstract provided.
The Vermin -Killers: Pest Control In The Early Chesapeake, Megan Haley Newman
The Vermin -Killers: Pest Control In The Early Chesapeake, Megan Haley Newman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The presence of pests and the effect of their activity emerged very early in the colonial era, from the early seventeenth century through the third quarter of the eighteenth century, as a major challenge to the financial and social success of Euro-American settlers, predominantly English, in the tidewater region of Virginia and Maryland, or the Chesapeake. Pests were not only a feature of the natural environment, they were a factor in the modified and built environments that settlers created. The problem of pests cut across ethnic, race, gender and class lines in the Chesapeake.;Euro-American, African-American and Native American residents of …