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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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Dissemination Of Rumor Among The Cherokees And Their Neighbors In The Eighteenth Century, Marion A. Cail
The Dissemination Of Rumor Among The Cherokees And Their Neighbors In The Eighteenth Century, Marion A. Cail
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Bootlegging And The Borderlands: Canadians, Americans, And The Prohibition -Era Northwest, Stephen T. Moore
Bootlegging And The Borderlands: Canadians, Americans, And The Prohibition -Era Northwest, Stephen T. Moore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Between 1920 and 1933, no issue in Canadian-American relations proved more contentious or more intractable than prohibition. While American enforcement authorities and diplomats repeatedly sought the assistance of the Dominion government to stop the flow of liquor across the border, not until 1933 did Canada acquiesce to American requests. In the meantime, Canadian brewers, distillers, rumrunners, and bootleggers were more than happy to assuage the parched throats of their American neighbors.;By examining the geographic, historical, political, economic, social, and cultural fabric of the bilateral relationship in the Pacific Northwest borderlands, this study takes a regional approach to explain the intractability …
Black Pilots, Patriots, And Pirates: African-American Participation In The Virginia State And British Navies During The Revolutionary War In Virginia, Kolby Bilal
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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 …
Notions Of Refinement And Displays Of Dignity In African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935, Roxane Victoria Pickens
Notions Of Refinement And Displays Of Dignity In African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935, Roxane Victoria Pickens
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn
"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Representing Culture And Class: An Exploration Of Narrative Containment Strategies In Henry Mayhew And George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile
Representing Culture And Class: An Exploration Of Narrative Containment Strategies In Henry Mayhew And George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Career Path Advancement And The Female Principal, Beverly Toombs Chappell
Career Path Advancement And The Female Principal, Beverly Toombs Chappell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, And Acculturation In Korean Adoptees, Kathleen Leilani Ja Bergquist
Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, And Acculturation In Korean Adoptees, Kathleen Leilani Ja Bergquist
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study explored the relationships between racial identity, ethnic identity, and acculturation in transracial Korean adopted adolescents. The research questions were as follows: What is the relationship between racial and ethnic identity for adoptees? What is the relationship between racial identity and adoptees' level of acculturation? What is the relationship between adoptees' level of acculturation and ethnic identity? The research was exploratory in nature and entailed a quantitative design comprised of (1) a demographic profile, (2) Helm's (1995) People of Color Scale to measure racial identity, (3) Suinn-Lew's (1992) Self-Identity Acculturation Scale (SL-ASIA) to measure ethnic identity, and (4) Schonpflug's …
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Faithful Child Of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876, Judith Bledsoe Bailey
"Faithful Child Of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876, Judith Bledsoe Bailey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Language Of The Clergy: Religious And Political Discourse In Revolutionary America, 1754-1783, Cristine E. Maglieri
The Language Of The Clergy: Religious And Political Discourse In Revolutionary America, 1754-1783, Cristine E. Maglieri
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"From A Determined Resolution To Get Liberty": Slaves And The British In Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino
"From A Determined Resolution To Get Liberty": Slaves And The British In Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"To Lay What Restraint They Could": Deerskins, Regulators, And Social Disorder In The South Carolina Backcountry, 1761-1772, Robert Paulett
"To Lay What Restraint They Could": Deerskins, Regulators, And Social Disorder In The South Carolina Backcountry, 1761-1772, Robert Paulett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Trait And State Determinants Of Preference For Abstract Art, Tara Brady
Trait And State Determinants Of Preference For Abstract Art, Tara Brady
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Personality Qualities Associated With Visual Image Preference And Creativity, Marlene H. Stemme
Personality Qualities Associated With Visual Image Preference And Creativity, Marlene H. Stemme
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Religious Change And Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
Religious Change And Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is an ethnohistorical examination of Indian religious responses to contact with Euroamericans on the Columbia Plateau, from 1600 to 1850. Plateau natives understood their encounter with European civilization primarily as a momentous spiritual event, and sought new sources of spiritual power to cope with their rapidly changing world. White people seemed to the Indians to have an abundance of spirit power, and many native religious efforts were aimed at capturing some of this power for themselves. These efforts included the protohistoric Prophet Dance, the syncretic "Columbian Religion" of the fur trade era, and the initial enthusiastic response to …
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 …
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, …
"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 …
"Gimmie Shelter": Union Shelters Of The Civil War, A Preliminary Archaeological Typology., Todd L. Jensen
"Gimmie Shelter": Union Shelters Of The Civil War, A Preliminary Archaeological Typology., Todd L. Jensen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
To Urge Common Sense On The Americans: United States' Relations With France, Great Britain, And The Federal Republic Of Germany In The Context Of The Vietnam War, 1961-1968, Eugenie M. Blang
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
America's Vietnam War had profound ramifications beyond its immediate effect on Southeast Asia and the United States. This dissertation utilizes the debate over Vietnam between the United States and its major European allies, Britain, France, and West Germany, as an analytical framework to examine inter-allied relations. The "Vietnam problem" strained the traps-Atlantic alliance and revealed the respective self-interest of the four member nations. The British, French, and West Germans had serious misgivings about the American strategy in Vietnam, based on a differing view of the nature of the conflict and a pessimistic assessment of American chances for success in South …
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Bacchus And Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade And The Hundred Years War (987 To 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon
Bacchus And Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade And The Hundred Years War (987 To 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Atoms, Pounds And Poor Relations: The Illusion Of An Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1941-1946, Edward J. Gustafson
Atoms, Pounds And Poor Relations: The Illusion Of An Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1941-1946, Edward J. Gustafson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Ruled With A Pen: Land, Language, And The Invention Of Maine, Gavin James Taylor
Ruled With A Pen: Land, Language, And The Invention Of Maine, Gavin James Taylor
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
As Europeans expanded across North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they parceled their territorial acquisitions into a variety of administrative subdivisions. Naming and dividing the land became an integral part of the project of colonization; the conquest of territory involved the transformation of unknown places into clearly defined jurisdictions. This dissertation examines the invention of one jurisdiction, the state of Maine, viewing the evolution of its borders as a reflection of the growth of state power in the region. Seeing an inextricable link between social and territorial boundaries, it ties the development of the territory of Maine to …
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"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 …
The Influence Of Womanist Identity On The Development Of Eating Disorders And Depression In African American Female College Students, Theresa Ford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.