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“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
I situate Edith Wharton’s guiding idea of “garden-magic” at the center of my thesis because Wharton’s fiction shows how a garden space could naturalize otherwise inadmissible behaviors within upper-class society while helping a character tie such behavior to a greater possibility for escape. To this end, Wharton situates gardens as idealized touchstones within the built environment of New York City, spaces where characters believe they can reach self-actualization within a version of nature that is man-made. Actualization, in this sense, stems from a character’s imaginative escape that is enabled by a perception of the garden as a kind of natural …
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Scholars of the American South generally end their studies of Confederate memorization just before World War 1. Because of a decline in the number of physical monuments and memorials to the Confederacy dedicated in the years immediately following the war, scholars appear to regard the interwar era as a period separate from the Lost Cause movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, to fully understand the complexity of developing Southern identities in the modern age, it is essential to expand traditional definitions of Confederate memorialization and the time period in which it is studied. This paper explores …
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Lewis Burwell II designed Fairfield plantation in Gloucester County to be the most sophisticated and successful architectural and agricultural effort in late seventeenth-century Virginia. He envisioned a physical framework with the intent to control the world around him so that he might profit from growing tobacco, while raising his family's status to the highest in the colony through the display of wealth and knowledge and the enslavement of both Africans and the natural surroundings. The landscape he envisioned contrasted with those of the enslaved Africans he purchased and put to work in the fields and buildings surrounding his '1694 brick …
The Fruits Of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex And The Rise Of American Botany In Early Federal Philadelphia, Sarah Jane Chesney
The Fruits Of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex And The Rise Of American Botany In Early Federal Philadelphia, Sarah Jane Chesney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation explores the world of early American botany and the transatlantic community of botanical enthusiasts from the perspective of William Hamilton, gentleman botanical collector in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Philadelphia. Drawing on both existing documentary sources and three seasons of archaeological excavation at The Woodlands, Hamilton's country estate on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, I analyze both the physical requirements of botanical collecting as well as the more nuanced social, cultural, and economic elements of this trade and its early modern participants.;The personal experiences of individual participants in this exchange are often traced through the …
Grandfathers At War: Practical Politics Of Identity At Delaware Town, Melissa Ann Eaton
Grandfathers At War: Practical Politics Of Identity At Delaware Town, Melissa Ann Eaton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This research explores the meaning, construction, representation, and function of Delaware ethnic identity during the 1820s. In 1821, nearly 2,000 Delawares (self-referentially called Lenape) crossed the Mississippi River and settled in Southwest Missouri as a condition of the Treaty of St. Marys. This dissertation argues that effects of this emigration sparked a vigorous reconsideration of ethnic identity and cultural representation. Traditionally, other Eastern Algonquian groups recognized Delawares by the metaphoric kinship status of "grandfather." Both European and Colonial governments also established Delawares as preferential clients and trading partners. Yet, as the Delawares immigrated into a new "western" Superintendency of Indian …
Behind The Scenes At William And Mary: Front Stage History And Backstage Archaeology, Tiffany Olivia Little
Behind The Scenes At William And Mary: Front Stage History And Backstage Archaeology, Tiffany Olivia Little
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Setting The Best Table In The Country": Food And Labor At The Coloma Gold Mining Town, Jennifer Honora Ogborne
"Setting The Best Table In The Country": Food And Labor At The Coloma Gold Mining Town, Jennifer Honora Ogborne
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The town of Coloma, Montana was settled in the early 1890s as the home of several gold mining companies and their associated employees. Like so many boom towns, the residents had all but abandoned Coloma by 1916. This initial boom phase for Coloma transpired during a critical point in the emergence of modern capitalism, specifically in changing corporate managerial practices. A multi-company open town, Coloma lacked many of the typical characteristics of a paternalistic community, such as scrip and strictly segregated housing. Instead of outright domineering and controlling managerial practices, companies at Coloma manipulated and coerced their work forces through …
Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology Of A Civilian Community In Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler
Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology Of A Civilian Community In Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Warfare and conflict are familiar topics to anthropologists, but it is only recently that anthropological archaeologists moved to create a discrete specialization, known as Conflict Archaeology. Practitioners now actively pursue research in a number of different areas, such as battlefields, fortifications, and troop encampments. These advances throw into sharp relief areas that need greater focus. This dissertation addresses one of these shortcomings by focusing on the home front by studying Dooley's Ferry, a hamlet that once lay on the banks of the Red River, in southwest Arkansas. Before the American Civil War, it was a node in the commodity chains …
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is a community-level analysis of an African American plantation neighborhood grounded in archaeological excavations at the Quarterpath Site (44WB0124), an antebellum quartering complex and post-Emancipation tenant residence occupied circa 1840s-1905 in lower James City County, Virginia. It asserts that the Quarterpath domestic quarter was a gathering place, a locus of social interaction in a vibrant and long established Chesapeake plantation neighborhood complex.;By the antebellum period, as marriage "abroad," or off-plantation, became the most common form of long term social union within plantation communities, enslaved social and kin ties in the Chesapeake region were typically geographically dispersed, enjoining multiple …
Peripheral Vision: Mimesis And Materiality Along The James River, Virginia, 1619-1660, Kathryn Lee Mcclure Sikes
Peripheral Vision: Mimesis And Materiality Along The James River, Virginia, 1619-1660, Kathryn Lee Mcclure Sikes
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Applying the concepts of mimesis and "third space" to Virginia's early colonial settlements, this study presents a comparative examination of documentary, pictorial, cartographic, and material evidence surrounding City Point's Site 44PG102 and contemporary James River plantations. By considering archaeological site data that are possibly contemporaneous, but previously have been segregated by archaeologists into "prehistoric" (Native Virginian) and "historic" (European) categories, I investigate the evidence for interethnic interactions as well as the social conventions surrounding 17th-century object and landscape use. This thesis argues that people of European, West Central African, West African, and Algonquian-speaking Native Virginian backgrounds endowed shared objects, buildings, …
Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell And The Politics Of Display In The Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen
Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell And The Politics Of Display In The Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Diasporic World Of The Great Dismal Swamp, 1630 -1860, Daniel O. Sayers
The Diasporic World Of The Great Dismal Swamp, 1630 -1860, Daniel O. Sayers
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia stood as a remote landscape in the heart of the Tidewater throughout the historical period. Between ca. 1630 and 1860, thousands of Diasporans took advantage of the remoteness of the swamp in various ways and formed a variety of communities. Within these Diasporic communities were Native Americans, maroons, and enslaved canal company workers who joined or formed communities based on individual and specific reasons for choosing to permanently inhabit the swamp. Diasporic communities emerged on islands in the swamp and the relative locations of these landforms had significant impacts on what …
Indian Woman And Revolutionary Men: Representing The Body Politic In The Satirical Prints Of The American Revolution, Andrea Kathleen Westcot
Indian Woman And Revolutionary Men: Representing The Body Politic In The Satirical Prints Of The American Revolution, Andrea Kathleen Westcot
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Enshrining The Past: Archaeology, History And Memory At Fort St Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont, Jessica Rose Desany
Enshrining The Past: Archaeology, History And Memory At Fort St Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont, Jessica Rose Desany
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Jeffersons At Shadwell: The Social And Material World Of A Virginia Family, Susan A. Kern
The Jeffersons At Shadwell: The Social And Material World Of A Virginia Family, Susan A. Kern
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
From the 1730s through the 1770s Shadwell was home to Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children, over sixty slaves owned by them, and numerous hired workers. Archaeological and documentary evidence reveals much about Thomas Jefferson's boyhood home. Shadwell was a well-appointed gentry house at the center of a highly structured plantation landscape during a period of Piedmont settlement that scholars have traditionally classified as frontier. Yet the Jeffersons accommodated in their house, landscape, material goods, and behaviors the most up-to-date expectations of Virginia's elite tidewater culture. The material remnants of Shadwell raise questions about the character of this frontier …
An Historical Archaeological Examination Of A Battlefield Landscape: An Example From The American Civil War Battle Of Wilson's Wharf, Charles City County, Virginia, Jameson Michael Harwood
An Historical Archaeological Examination Of A Battlefield Landscape: An Example From The American Civil War Battle Of Wilson's Wharf, Charles City County, Virginia, Jameson Michael Harwood
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Interpretation Of Firearms In The Archaeological Record In Virginia 1607-1625, Bruce J. Larson
An Interpretation Of Firearms In The Archaeological Record In Virginia 1607-1625, Bruce J. Larson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Domestication Of History In American Art: 1848-1876, Jochen Wierich
The Domestication Of History In American Art: 1848-1876, Jochen Wierich
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation traces the decline of history painting and its domestication in Other artistic forms in the United States. In the three decades between the Mexican-American War and the Centennial, the market for historical art went through a major transformation. Artists shifted from historical to contemporary subjects or represented historical themes in everyday-domestic settings. Monumental history painting, which was supported by art unions and private patrons during the antebellum period, came under critical attack and lost its status as a form of high art. Critical opinion turned especially against paintings of historical struggle and heroic sacrifice which seemed to be …
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Roland W. Robbins helped to pioneer the profession of historical archaeology. as the discipline professionalized, he found himself increasingly excluded. This study analyzes Robbins's career within the context of the disciplines of archaeology and historic preservation and considers the professionalization process, current cultural resource management practice, the value of early data, and the importance of public archaeology.;The study also explores archaeology as Robbins's solution to his long personal crisis of vocation. He reacted to his coming of age during the Depression by searching for personal foundations and also responded to larger cultural needs, including a quest for the roots of …
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1807, Charles Fraser lauded fellow miniature artist Edward Greene Malbone's ability to produce "such striking resemblances, that they will never fail to perpetuate the tenderness of friendship, to divert the cares of absence, and to aid affection in dwelling on those features and that image which death has forever wrested from it." The explanations traditionally given for the commissioning of portraits--the perpetuation of family or institutional memory--correspond with Fraser's comments. Yet these explanations rarely incorporate the social context: the communities in which images were produced and the individual, familial, or group meanings of portraits.;"Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions of …
The Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts: Its Founding, 1930-1936, Elizabeth Geesey Holmes
The Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts: Its Founding, 1930-1936, Elizabeth Geesey Holmes
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Martin's Hundred: A Settlement Study, David Muraca
Martin's Hundred: A Settlement Study, David Muraca
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Community In Gloucestertown, Virginia: The Context And Archaeology Of Town Development In 17th And 18th Century Virginia, Karen B. Fisher
Community In Gloucestertown, Virginia: The Context And Archaeology Of Town Development In 17th And 18th Century Virginia, Karen B. Fisher
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Historical Settlements In Sarpy County, Nebraska, 1803-1900, Monique Ernestine Sawyer
Historical Settlements In Sarpy County, Nebraska, 1803-1900, Monique Ernestine Sawyer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Historical Archaeology At Jamestown, Virginia, Roni Hinote Polk
Historical Archaeology At Jamestown, Virginia, Roni Hinote Polk
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Down From The Ivory Tower: American Artists During The Depression, Susan M. Eltscher
Down From The Ivory Tower: American Artists During The Depression, Susan M. Eltscher
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Work Of Clarence S Stein, 1919-1939, Prudence Anne Phillimore
The Work Of Clarence S Stein, 1919-1939, Prudence Anne Phillimore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Colonial Dining Equipage And Furnishings As Revealed In Isle Of Wight County Records, 1743-1752, Mary Lee Glenn
Colonial Dining Equipage And Furnishings As Revealed In Isle Of Wight County Records, 1743-1752, Mary Lee Glenn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.