English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines representations of antisecular religion (herein referred to as the “religion of the disinherited”) in the late nineteenth and twentieth century American novel, …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Conroy, Nathaniel A (creator); Gould, Philip (Director); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Flannery O'Connor; James Baldwin; Sinclair Lewis; Nathanael West; Harold Frederic; Modernism; Secularism; American literature; Religion and literature; Fundamentalism; Pentecostalism; Secularization; O'Connor, Flannery; Baldwin, James > 1924-1987; Lewis, Sinclair > 1885-1951; West, Nathanael > 1903-1940; Frederic, Harold > 1856-1898
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Making a Living Poetry investigates modern and contemporary American poetry’s reworking of the religious and romantic valences of a vocation in order to resist and …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Neilson, Jeffrey P (creator); Gould, Philip (Director); Herrnstein Smith, Barbara (Reader); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Shoptaw, John (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modern American poetry; poetics; religion and literature; pragmatism; post-secularism
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Professional Sentiments argues that nineteenth-century U.S. fiction revised sentimental models of subjectivity and social relations to evolve an affectivity of professionalism. Challenging a critical practice …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Sweeney, Brian D (creator); Gould, Philip (Director); McLaughlin, Kevin (Reader); Burrows, Stuart (Reader); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: professionalism; novel; 19th century U.S. literature; affect; class; African American literature; servants; professionals; Charles Chesnutt; Sarah Orne Jewett; Anna Katharine Green; Harriet Wilson; detective fiction; American literature; Sentimentalism; Household employees; Professional employees; Detective and mystery stories; Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) > 1858-1932; Jewett, Sarah Orne > 1849-1909; Green, Anna Katharine > 1846-1935; Wilson, Harriet E. > 1825-1900
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation argues that a driving force in the evolution of the nineteenth-century American novel's theoretical and formal concerns was a broadly shared uncertainty about …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Iacono, Jonna H. (creator); Gould, Philip (Director); Burrows, Stuart (Reader); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: nineteenth-century American literature
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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