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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Making It Up As We Go: Students Writing And Teachers Reflecting On Post-K New Orleans, Doreen M. Piano, Sarah Debacher, Celeste Del Russo, Elizabeth Lewis, Reggie Poche
Making It Up As We Go: Students Writing And Teachers Reflecting On Post-K New Orleans, Doreen M. Piano, Sarah Debacher, Celeste Del Russo, Elizabeth Lewis, Reggie Poche
Doreen M Piano
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For The Benefit Of Others: Harriet Martineau: Feminist, Abolitionist And Travel Writer, Laura J. Labovitz
For The Benefit Of Others: Harriet Martineau: Feminist, Abolitionist And Travel Writer, Laura J. Labovitz
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
One of the distinctive and remarkable traits of Harriet Martineau was her need to publish information that she believed would benefit society. Her publications - Illustrations of Political Economy (1832), Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838) - have the distinct characteristic of being published with the intent to inform and educate the British public. Scholars have focused on her later 1848 publication, Eastern Life: Present and Past, as her most important publication. Yet I will argue that it was her earlier works which set the stage for this later, better known book. Her travel to the …
Diasporic Designs Of House, Home, And Haven In Toni Morrison's Paradise, Cynthia Dobbs
Diasporic Designs Of House, Home, And Haven In Toni Morrison's Paradise, Cynthia Dobbs
Cynthia Dobbs
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Acting Virtuous: Chastity, Theatricality, And The Tragedie Of Mariam, Kent Lehnhof
Acting Virtuous: Chastity, Theatricality, And The Tragedie Of Mariam, Kent Lehnhof
English Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Given the interrelation of female chastity and female theatricality in early modem discourses, it comes as no surprise that both figure importantly in what is believed to be the first original English drama to be written by a woman. As Elizabeth Cary explores a Jewish queen 's sexual purity in The Tragedie of Mariam, she does so by concentrating on questions of performance. Cary's title character explicitly abjures theatricality even as she embraces chastity, creating a fissure in Renaissance discourses on women that threatens to swallow up the antifeminist idea that female chastity is always an act.
Smallpox Inoculation And Race Relations In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century America, Kristen Schaibly
Smallpox Inoculation And Race Relations In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century America, Kristen Schaibly
Undergraduate Honors Theses
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