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"Far Out Past": Hemingway, Manhood, And Modernism, Timothy L. Barnard
"Far Out Past": Hemingway, Manhood, And Modernism, Timothy L. Barnard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation investigates Ernest Hemingway's authorship as an instance of international modernisms forming as sustained engagements with gender and sexuality. By focusing on four of Hemingway's most experimental texts it shows how a figure of both "high" and "popular" modernism sought to occupy a heterogeneous space of cultural queerness vitalized by masculinity, national and ethnic identities, and writing.;The introduction discusses how post-war gender, sexual, and literary discourses reflected period obsessions with authenticity in the face of a rising commodity culture. It also introduces the dissertation's argument that Hemingway's success in becoming a valuable "literary property" rested on a queer authorial …
Screen Strife: Race, Gender, And Movie Censorship In The New South, 1922--1965, Melissa D. Ooten
Screen Strife: Race, Gender, And Movie Censorship In The New South, 1922--1965, Melissa D. Ooten
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1922, Virginia's General Assembly created a Motion Picture Censorship Board, which viewed every movie seeking legal exhibition in Virginia until 1965. This cultural regulation of popular culture complemented other economic and political policies of the state designed to buttress the power of white, middle-to-upper class elites within the state. to this end, the censors, empowered by the authority of the state, were particularly concerned with regulating certain images of African Americans and female sexuality on-screen.;Yet the process of censorship was a contested, fluid practice, and individuals and community groups protested formal censorship decisions. Furthermore, filmmakers whose films were not …
Medicating Slavery: Motherhood, Health Care, And Cultural Practices In The African Diaspora, Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Medicating Slavery: Motherhood, Health Care, And Cultural Practices In The African Diaspora, Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
A sophisticated exploration of the intricacies of motherhood and health care practices of people of African descent, especially the enslaved population of Virginia, can shed light on their notions of a well-lived life and the factors preventing or contributing to these principles. I situate my dissertation within this ideal as I examine how the health and well-being of enslaved people were linked to broader issues of economic exploitation, domination, resistance, accommodation, and cultural interactions. Historical and archaeological studies have shown that the living and working conditions of enslaved people were detrimental to their health. Building on these findings, I explore …
Consumer Under Fire: The Military Consumer And The Vietnam War, Evan Cordulack
Consumer Under Fire: The Military Consumer And The Vietnam War, Evan Cordulack
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Fostering Pride And Badges Of Oppression: A Contextual Study Of British Military Buttons From Paget Fort, Bermuda, 1778-1820, Paul M. Nasca
Fostering Pride And Badges Of Oppression: A Contextual Study Of British Military Buttons From Paget Fort, Bermuda, 1778-1820, Paul M. Nasca
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Who Was Buried In James Madison's Grave?: A Study In Contextual Analysis, Charles Thomas Chapman
Who Was Buried In James Madison's Grave?: A Study In Contextual Analysis, Charles Thomas Chapman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Subconscious Influences: The Leopold-Loeb Case And The Development Of An American Criminal Archetype, John Carl Fiorini
Subconscious Influences: The Leopold-Loeb Case And The Development Of An American Criminal Archetype, John Carl Fiorini
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Marketing To The 'Liberated' Woman: Feminism, Social Change, And Beauty Culture, 1960--2000, Elizabeth A. Kreydatus
Marketing To The 'Liberated' Woman: Feminism, Social Change, And Beauty Culture, 1960--2000, Elizabeth A. Kreydatus
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is a study of the influence of the women's movement on the marketing of beauty products between 1960 and 2000. The first and last chapters study feminist critiques of normative beauty standards and explore the challenges feminists faced when they tried to effect cultural change.;While the dissertation is framed by analysis of feminist engagement with beauty culture, the bulk of the dissertation examines beauty industries, focusing on the ways that these industries reflect debates over woman's identity and status. Chapter two traces the marketing of perfume between 1960 and 2000 by chronicling changing advertising campaigns as marketers adapted …
King Bacca's Throne: Land, Life, And Labor In The Old Bright Belt Since 1880, Evan Patrick Bennett
King Bacca's Throne: Land, Life, And Labor In The Old Bright Belt Since 1880, Evan Patrick Bennett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In the late nineteenth century, bright tobacco came to dominate the agricultural production of the Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont. as the cultivation of bright tobacco spread, it created a new economy and social order centered on small, family-operated farms. For over a century, tobacco remained at the center of the region's economic and social order, even as numerous economic, technological and cultural forces reshaped the realities of tobacco agriculture. This dissertation explores the effects of these forces on the lives of the region's farm families. While many historian's have described tobacco farm life in terms of inexorable decline, this work takes …
"More Than Shelter": Community, Identity, And Spatial Politics In San Francisco Public Housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
"More Than Shelter": Community, Identity, And Spatial Politics In San Francisco Public Housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
During the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and journalists documented the failures of the public housing program in the United States with a range of studies focusing on the Midwest and East. Problems such as displacement, criminal activity, high vacancy rates, racial segregation, and the isolation of tenants informed critiques of federally-subsidized housing for low-income families. These aspects contributed to the national image of "the projects" as high-rise ghettos, populated primarily by African Americans, and located in run-down areas. Public housing with its position at the crossroads of national, state, and local politics and policies as well as …
Absconded: Fugitive Slaves In The "Daybook Of The Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844", Leni Ashmore Sorensen
Absconded: Fugitive Slaves In The "Daybook Of The Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844", Leni Ashmore Sorensen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In the antebellum period Richmond, Virginia newspapers ran advertisements for runaway slaves. Most of the ads concerned individuals absconded from outlying counties, distant regions of the state, or nearby states. These short notices have been used frequently to describe and discuss runaways and the link between flight and freedom in Virginia. In contrast to the brief newspaper entries the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844 provides names and detailed descriptions of nine hundred-thirty-five runaways all of whom lived in the city and were reported within the city precincts during one ten year period. The Daybook is a hand written …
English Mineral Exploration In The New World, Lisa L. Heuvel
English Mineral Exploration In The New World, Lisa L. Heuvel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Blue Notes And Brown Skin: Five African-American Jazzmen And The Music They Produced In Regard To The American Civil Rights Movement, Benjamin Park Anderson
Blue Notes And Brown Skin: Five African-American Jazzmen And The Music They Produced In Regard To The American Civil Rights Movement, Benjamin Park Anderson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Predator Management And Colonial Culture, 1600-1741: A Study In Historical Ecology, Samuel Taylor Elswick
Predator Management And Colonial Culture, 1600-1741: A Study In Historical Ecology, Samuel Taylor Elswick
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Schoolhouse Behind Every Cannon: Freedpeople's Education And Reconstruction In Virginia, 1864-1876, Justin Andrew Pariseau
A Schoolhouse Behind Every Cannon: Freedpeople's Education And Reconstruction In Virginia, 1864-1876, Justin Andrew Pariseau
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The New Orleans Free People Of Color And The Process Of Americanization, 1803-1896, Camille Kempf Gourdet
The New Orleans Free People Of Color And The Process Of Americanization, 1803-1896, Camille Kempf Gourdet
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Flag Planting And Mapmaking: English Claims To North America, Andrew Keith Sturtevant
Flag Planting And Mapmaking: English Claims To North America, Andrew Keith Sturtevant
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 …
Treasonous Patriots: The Secret Committee Of Six And Violent Abolitionism, Kristen Kimberly Epps
Treasonous Patriots: The Secret Committee Of Six And Violent Abolitionism, Kristen Kimberly Epps
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Nathaniel Jocelyn: In The Service Of Art And Abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway
Nathaniel Jocelyn: In The Service Of Art And Abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Through my dissertation, I embark on a biographical, cultural and historical study of artist and abolitionist Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796-1881), primarily known as a nineteenth-century portrait painter and engraver in New Haven, Connecticut. Although Jocelyn received little formal training, he sought to become a preeminent portrait painter. Together with his younger brother, Simeon Smith Jocelyn (1799-1879), he established a successful engraving firm designing banknotes, maps, atlases, and book illustrations.;Jocelyn lived in an age of evangelical revivalism commonly called the Second Great Awakening. He was a devout Congregationalist and saw the various aspects of his life embedded in his religious convictions. Jocelyn's …
"Down Where The South Begins": Virginia Radio And The Conversation Of Nationhood, Caroline Chandler Morris
"Down Where The South Begins": Virginia Radio And The Conversation Of Nationhood, Caroline Chandler Morris
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Continuity And Change In A Southern Community: Commercial And Occupational Development In Mid-Nineteenth Century Orange County, North Carolina, Andrew Hunter Heffner
Continuity And Change In A Southern Community: Commercial And Occupational Development In Mid-Nineteenth Century Orange County, North Carolina, Andrew Hunter Heffner
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves And The American Revolution In The Deep South, 1775-1782, James R. Piecuch
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves And The American Revolution In The Deep South, 1775-1782, James R. Piecuch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines the roles of white loyalists, Indians and African-Americans in the British effort to regain control of South Carolina and Georgia during the American Revolution, 1775--1782.;British officials believed that support from these three groups would make the conquest of the Deep South colonies a relatively easy task. But when the British launched a major effort to regain first Georgia and then South Carolina, the attempt ultimately ended in failure. Most historians have explained this outcome by arguing that British planning was faulty in its conception, and that officials overestimated both the numbers of southern loyalists and the effectiveness …
Petticoat Flag: The Actions Of Confederate Women In Missouri During The Civil War, Jill Pesesky
Petticoat Flag: The Actions Of Confederate Women In Missouri During The Civil War, Jill Pesesky
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"A Nation's Wail Their Requiem!": Memory And Identity In The Commemoration Of The American Civil War Dead, 1865-1870, Diana Williams Bell
"A Nation's Wail Their Requiem!": Memory And Identity In The Commemoration Of The American Civil War Dead, 1865-1870, Diana Williams Bell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Williamsburg And Urbanization In Antebellum Virginia: "A Place--A Process--A Parade Of Change That Continues Forward", Elisabeth Frederick Butler
Williamsburg And Urbanization In Antebellum Virginia: "A Place--A Process--A Parade Of Change That Continues Forward", Elisabeth Frederick Butler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Rising Of 1798 And The Political Foundation Of Irish-American Identity, William A. Sullivan
The Rising Of 1798 And The Political Foundation Of Irish-American Identity, William A. Sullivan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Between Black And White: The Religious Aftermath Of Nat Turner's Rebellion, Nancy Alenda Hillman
Between Black And White: The Religious Aftermath Of Nat Turner's Rebellion, Nancy Alenda Hillman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.