English Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the English department.

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Description:: This dissertation maintains that nostalgia played a formative role in animating several competing diasporic American nationalisms in the nineteenth century. Nostalgia is often dismissed as …
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Funchion, John R. (creator); Gould, Philip (director); Burrows, Stuart (reader); Nabers, Deak (reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Nineteenth-Century American Literature; History of the Novel; American Studies; Cultural Theory; Nostalgia
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: “Paper Urbanism” explores what I refer to as American literature’s "urban design imagination," as it evolved between the end of the nineteenth century and the …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Gastiger, Michael Joseph (creator); Anderson, Amanda (Advisor); Murray, Rolland (Reader); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Zipp, Samuel (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Urbanism; American literature; City planning; American Studies; Urban literature; 20th century
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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