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"We Are Five-And-Forty": Meter And National Identity In Sir Walter Scott, John Kerkering Apr 2001

"We Are Five-And-Forty": Meter And National Identity In Sir Walter Scott, John Kerkering

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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"A Plea For Color:" The Construction Of A Feminine Identity In African American Women's Novels., Kirsten A. Moffler Jan 2001

"A Plea For Color:" The Construction Of A Feminine Identity In African American Women's Novels., Kirsten A. Moffler

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Writers of slave narratives i n the nineteenth-century manipulated the western sentimental literary tradition to appeal t o a white, predominantly female readership during a time of national ideological division. These writers had their own agendas which often m e t (or were forced to meet ) those of white-run abolitionist movements t o achieve the ultimate goal of abolishing slavery. Northern white-run abolitionist movements were kept warm by the moral fires of mid-nineteenth-century Protestant Christianity; Christian ideals flooded their meetings and publications. Therefore, it is no wonder that the writers of slave narratives are so overt i n discussing …


“Of Me And Of Mine”: The Music Of Racial Identity In Whitman And Lanier, Dvořák And Dubois, John Kerkering Jan 2001

“Of Me And Of Mine”: The Music Of Racial Identity In Whitman And Lanier, Dvořák And Dubois, John Kerkering

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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