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Narrative Mastery And Representational Violence In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston
Narrative Mastery And Representational Violence In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston
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Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson
Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson
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This dissertation examines trickster sensibilities and behavior as models for racial strategies in contemporary novels by African American and Chinese American authors. While many trickster studies focus on myth, I assert that realist fiction provides a unique historical and cultural space that shapes trickster behavior. John Edgar Wideman, Gloria Naylor, Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston use the trickster in their novels to articulate diverse racial strategies for people of color who must negotiate among a variety of cultural influences. My critical trickster paradigm investigates the motives and behavior of tricksters. It utilizes close literary readings that are strengthened by …
A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
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No abstract provided.
The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
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The Illustrated Map: Cartography And Power In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Christine Jeanette Green
The Illustrated Map: Cartography And Power In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Christine Jeanette Green
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No abstract provided.
Text And Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction And Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy
Text And Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction And Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy
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How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor And Luxury In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture, Robin Veder
How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor And Luxury In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture, Robin Veder
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"How Gardening Pays" is a case study of the formation and transmission of cultural practices and interpretations of flower-gardening as profitable leisure, idealized labor, and luxury consumption in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture. Mid-nineteenth-century cant about American flower-gardening as an anti-materialistic and morally improving occupation was premised upon the multiple functions of flower gardening in British working-class culture. Methodologically, this dissertation is unlike most intellectual histories of the ideological significance of nature in American culture, or formal studies of the physical attributes of horticultural history, because it demonstrates how ideologies and material practices were interrelated.;The first half of this dissertation focuses on …
A Social History Of The Private Fence In Nineteenth-Century America, Lisa Brenner Bishop
A Social History Of The Private Fence In Nineteenth-Century America, Lisa Brenner Bishop
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No abstract provided.
Mysterious Messages: Masonic Imagery In Baltimore Album Quilts, Anne Bayne Battaile
Mysterious Messages: Masonic Imagery In Baltimore Album Quilts, Anne Bayne Battaile
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"Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker And Women's Leadership And Organizing In The Struggle For Freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
"Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker And Women's Leadership And Organizing In The Struggle For Freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation examines the feminized and racialized strategies of women organizers in the struggle for freedom. The lives of Lucy Randolph Mason and Ella Jo Baker suggest much about the ways in which women reject and change traditional leadership roles in order to create, build, and maintain the momentum of mass movements. Both women believed in the fundamental necessity of local people determining the responses to their oppression. This work, therefore, is an attempt to offer a description of Mason and Baker's organizing strategies and leadership styles, a description which can be read as a manual for creating social change.;Each …
The Honorable Fraternity Of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers In The Old South, 1800--1860, Joseph T. Rainer
The Honorable Fraternity Of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers In The Old South, 1800--1860, Joseph T. Rainer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Yankee peddlers were ubiquitous in the countryside and in the imagination of the Old South. Social and economic forces pushed young men off the farms of rural New England and pulled them into an expanding, national market. The shortage of land for a burgeoning population spurred the exodus from the countryside, while the lure of profits from a vocation with low entry costs attracted many young men who preferred seeking the main chance in the commercial marketplace to a state of protracted dependency as a farm hand, a factory operative, or an outwork producer. Hired by firms to peddle clocks, …
Authorship And Individualism In American Literature, Valerie Ann Debrava
Authorship And Individualism In American Literature, Valerie Ann Debrava
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
A look at the genre of American literary history, as well as at the careers of four nineteenth-century writers, this neo-Marxist study treats the lives and works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth and Richard Stoddard through the productive circumstances of their writing, and through our expectations as consumers of their personalities and texts. Typically, Whitman and Dickinson are recognized as creative individualists who defied the literary and social conventions of their time, while the Stoddards---when they are recognized at all---are remembered in less daring terms. Many critics today regard Elizabeth Stoddard's first novel, The Morgesons, as an unsentimental …