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Harem Fantasies And Music Videos: Contemporary Orientalist Representation, Maya Ayana Johnson
Harem Fantasies And Music Videos: Contemporary Orientalist Representation, Maya Ayana Johnson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Reevaluating The Carnegie Survey: New Uses For Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive, Sarah Eugenie Reeder
Reevaluating The Carnegie Survey: New Uses For Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive, Sarah Eugenie Reeder
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More Or Less Than Kind: Brothers And Sisters In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Jennifer P. Blanchard
More Or Less Than Kind: Brothers And Sisters In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Jennifer P. Blanchard
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This dissertation investigates the under-examined relationships between sibling characters in nineteenth-century American literature (1852-1900). Focusing on the depictions of siblinghood in such works as Herman Melville's Pierre, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, and Edith Wharton's Bunner Sisters, I explore how nineteenth-century American authors construct, comment on, and use the sibling bond as an attempt to reconcile tensions of personal and collective identity and the competing drives for family ties and individual experience. In these fictions and others, I argue, siblinghood is a space where the rules of relation are negotiable and unfixed---where brothers …
"In Praise Of Bishop Valentine": The Creation Of Modern Valentine's Day In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
"In Praise Of Bishop Valentine": The Creation Of Modern Valentine's Day In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
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"In Praise of Bishop Valentine" is a cultural history of Valentine's Day in the American antebellum Northeast. By the middle of the nineteenth century, residents of England and North America had been observing February 14th with various folk customs for centuries. In the early 1840s, however, Northern businessmen and women discovered an enthusiastic and consumptive market for their ready-made valentines. Within a matter of years these merchants' efforts to sell printed cards fundamentally changed the way saint's day was marked. Valentine's Day had become one of the most celebrated holidays of the year and an occasion, specifically, for buying and …
The Art Of The Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal And The Rise Of Public Confession, Susan Wise Bauer
The Art Of The Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal And The Rise Of Public Confession, Susan Wise Bauer
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Between 1969 and 2002, three American politicians (Edward Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton) and three ordained clergymen (Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and Cardinal Bernard Law) made public confessions of wrongdoing to national audiences. These public confessions reveal that Protestant religious culture, particularly the neoevangelical culture of the twentieth century, had changed the expectations of many who did not consider themselves within neoevangelicalism's sphere of influence. By tracing the historical development of public confession from its medieval roots to its use in twentieth-century entertainment programming, this dissertation shows that Protestant confessional practice affected both secular American political discourse and American …