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Which Way Now?: A N Examination Of The Ideological Movement Of The British Labour Party Between 1974 And 1992, Robert Waddington Jan 1993

Which Way Now?: A N Examination Of The Ideological Movement Of The British Labour Party Between 1974 And 1992, Robert Waddington

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Truth And Exclusion: Verbal Dominance In "The House Of Mirth", Teresa A. Genaro Jan 1993

Truth And Exclusion: Verbal Dominance In "The House Of Mirth", Teresa A. Genaro

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No abstract provided.


Autobiographical Images: Photography And Identity In Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" And "China Men", Nancy Etta Allison Jan 1993

Autobiographical Images: Photography And Identity In Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" And "China Men", Nancy Etta Allison

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A Distorting Mirror: "Wide Sargasso Sea" And "Jane Eyre", Laura Ellen Morey Jan 1993

A Distorting Mirror: "Wide Sargasso Sea" And "Jane Eyre", Laura Ellen Morey

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No abstract provided.


His Lost City: F Scott Fitzgerald's New York, Kris Robert Murphy Jan 1993

His Lost City: F Scott Fitzgerald's New York, Kris Robert Murphy

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No abstract provided.


"Thro' Sleep As Thro' A Veil": Losing The Self To Find The Self In The Poetry Of Christina Rossetti, Faye Roberta Buckalew Jan 1993

"Thro' Sleep As Thro' A Veil": Losing The Self To Find The Self In The Poetry Of Christina Rossetti, Faye Roberta Buckalew

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No abstract provided.


Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras Jan 1993

Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras

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No abstract provided.


Walker Percy's Linguistic Alienation, John Vernon Halbrooks Jan 1993

Walker Percy's Linguistic Alienation, John Vernon Halbrooks

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No abstract provided.


Creating Meaning From The Meaningless: Existentialism And The Function Of Language In Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky", Scott Michael Karr Jan 1993

Creating Meaning From The Meaningless: Existentialism And The Function Of Language In Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky", Scott Michael Karr

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No abstract provided.


"Such Closets To Search": Andrew Motion's "Love In A Life", Lisa Marie Haarlander Jan 1993

"Such Closets To Search": Andrew Motion's "Love In A Life", Lisa Marie Haarlander

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No abstract provided.


"A Bowery Nook Will Be Elysium": The Image Of The Bower In The Poetry Of John Keats, Tracy Prior Seffers Jan 1993

"A Bowery Nook Will Be Elysium": The Image Of The Bower In The Poetry Of John Keats, Tracy Prior Seffers

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No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway": Interpretation, Knowledge And Power, L. Monique Pittman Jan 1993

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway": Interpretation, Knowledge And Power, L. Monique Pittman

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A Voice Of One's Own: Virginia Woolf, The Problem Of Language, And Feminist Aesthetics, Lisa Karin Levine Jan 1993

A Voice Of One's Own: Virginia Woolf, The Problem Of Language, And Feminist Aesthetics, Lisa Karin Levine

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No abstract provided.


The Visitor Who Never Comes: Emerson And Friendship, Wallace Coleman Green Jr. Jan 1993

The Visitor Who Never Comes: Emerson And Friendship, Wallace Coleman Green Jr.

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Girl Such As I Am": A Study Of Women In Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series, Catherine Ann Renko Jan 1993

"A Girl Such As I Am": A Study Of Women In Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series, Catherine Ann Renko

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No abstract provided.


Homelessness In Abraham Cahan's Fiction, Martha Anne Collins Jan 1993

Homelessness In Abraham Cahan's Fiction, Martha Anne Collins

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No abstract provided.


Domestic Management Of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis And Her Slaves, Mary Geraghty Jan 1993

Domestic Management Of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis And Her Slaves, Mary Geraghty

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Kids Are (All) Right: Baby-Boomers And The Rhetoric Of Childhood In The Picture Books Of Chris Van Allsburg, Mark. Sprinkle Jan 1993

The Kids Are (All) Right: Baby-Boomers And The Rhetoric Of Childhood In The Picture Books Of Chris Van Allsburg, Mark. Sprinkle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Cultural Analysis Of Furniture-Making In Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820, Johnathan Prown Jan 1993

A Cultural Analysis Of Furniture-Making In Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820, Johnathan Prown

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No abstract provided.


Harmony And Dissonance: Mennonite Visions Of Community And Identity, Elizabeth Jane Chowning Jan 1993

Harmony And Dissonance: Mennonite Visions Of Community And Identity, Elizabeth Jane Chowning

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Motivations Behind The Suez Crisis, Benjamin Joel Goldberg Jan 1993

Motivations Behind The Suez Crisis, Benjamin Joel Goldberg

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form And Symbol, Stephanie Mary Keenan Jan 1993

The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form And Symbol, Stephanie Mary Keenan

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Campus And Consortium In An Era Of Large-Scale Research: An Historical Study Of The Virginia Associated Research Center, 1962-1967, Elizabeth Buchanan Ward Jan 1993

Campus And Consortium In An Era Of Large-Scale Research: An Historical Study Of The Virginia Associated Research Center, 1962-1967, Elizabeth Buchanan Ward

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A large agency of the Federal Government, three public institutions of higher learning, and two agents of State Government in the Commonwealth of Virginia launched a federally funded research and education consortium in 1962. The Virginia Associated Research Center (VARC) promised great success. The University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and The College of William and Mary joined forces to provide the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center with a scientific research base and a graduate education program. The Commonwealth initially provided enthusiastic support from the Governor's office and from the State Council for Higher Education.;The three colleges …


The Richmond Junto And Politics In Jacksonian Virginia, Wade Lee Shaffer Jan 1993

The Richmond Junto And Politics In Jacksonian Virginia, Wade Lee Shaffer

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This dissertation offers the first full-length study of the Richmond Junto and its role in shaping politics in Virginia between 1815 and 1845. The Junto led the Jacksonian movement in Virginia and worked successfully to keep the state allied with the Democratic party of andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren until the early 1840s. The Junto represented an influential force in Virginia politics during this transitional period, and to a certain extent this small group of men, led by Thomas Ritchie, Peter V. Daniel, andrew Stevenson, William H. Roane, and Richard E. Parker, epitomized the state's response to the turbulent …


R C Scott: A History Of African-American Entrepreneurship In Richmond, 1890-1940, Michael A. Plater Jan 1993

R C Scott: A History Of African-American Entrepreneurship In Richmond, 1890-1940, Michael A. Plater

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This study examines the socioeconomic aspects of ethnicity as a way to understand African-American entrepreneurship in the early twentieth century. In an attempt to separate the influence of ethnicity from the social and environmental elements that restrained many African-American entrepreneurs, the study focuses on the African-American funeral industry. The funeral industry provides a rare example of an industry that successfully operated on a voluntarily segregated basis. Sheltered from discrimination and racism, African-American funeral directors not only survived and surpassed their white counterparts, but also organized a national fraternity of economic and political elite who wielded significant power in the United …


Dressing Behavior In Eighteenth Century Virginia 1740-1800, Joanna Margaret Masters Jan 1993

Dressing Behavior In Eighteenth Century Virginia 1740-1800, Joanna Margaret Masters

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No abstract provided.


Perceptions Of Poverty: Material Life Among The Tenements Of New York City During The Nineteenth Century, Megan Mary Haley Jan 1993

Perceptions Of Poverty: Material Life Among The Tenements Of New York City During The Nineteenth Century, Megan Mary Haley

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No abstract provided.


The Impact Of The Sexually Vital Woman In Willa Cather's My Antonia And A Lost Lady, Amy Beth Rafferty Jan 1993

The Impact Of The Sexually Vital Woman In Willa Cather's My Antonia And A Lost Lady, Amy Beth Rafferty

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No abstract provided.


Hierarchial Compositions In Late-Eighteenth- And Early-Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art And Poetry, Elizabeth Rackley Jan 1993

Hierarchial Compositions In Late-Eighteenth- And Early-Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art And Poetry, Elizabeth Rackley

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No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf's "Between The Acts" As An Extension Of Woolf's Feminist Polemics, Patricia Ann Hoppe Jan 1993

Virginia Woolf's "Between The Acts" As An Extension Of Woolf's Feminist Polemics, Patricia Ann Hoppe

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No abstract provided.