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Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

American Literature

1999

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Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon Jan 1999

Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon

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No abstract provided.


Latent Self-Revelation In Majorie Rawlings' "Cross Creek", Alexandra Duckworth Jan 1999

Latent Self-Revelation In Majorie Rawlings' "Cross Creek", Alexandra Duckworth

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No abstract provided.


Eying Italians: Race, Romance, And Reality In American Perception, 1880--1910, Joseph Peter Cosco Jan 1999

Eying Italians: Race, Romance, And Reality In American Perception, 1880--1910, Joseph Peter Cosco

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This dissertation explores how American representations of Italians and Italian Americans engaged, reflected and helped shape the United States' developing concepts of immigration, ethnicity, race, and national identity from 1880 to 1910, when masses of Italian and other "new immigrants" rigorously tested the country's attitudes and powers of assimilation. In a larger sense, the research examines how the process of constructing the modern Italian/Italian American was part of the process of America constructing for itself a modern national identity for a new century.;The dissertation looks at a variety of "texts," including journalism, travel literature, autobiography, fiction, and photographs and illustrations …


"The Poet, The Poem, And The People": Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics, Sam Chaltain Jan 1999

"The Poet, The Poem, And The People": Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics, Sam Chaltain

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No abstract provided.


Romance In Henry James' "The Portrait Of A Lady": A Study Of Duality, Maria Elizabeth Litzendorf Jan 1999

Romance In Henry James' "The Portrait Of A Lady": A Study Of Duality, Maria Elizabeth Litzendorf

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Intertexual [Sic] Cadences, "When Wants And Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot": Excavating Phillis Wheatley's Transcending Voice Of Accent, Antonio T. Bly Jan 1999

Intertexual [Sic] Cadences, "When Wants And Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot": Excavating Phillis Wheatley's Transcending Voice Of Accent, Antonio T. Bly

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No abstract provided.