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Divisible Pasts: Nostalgia and Narrative in American Literature and Culture, 1848 ? 1900

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
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Gothic Enlightenment: American Fiction and the Limits of Sympathy, 1789-1850

Description:
This dissertation argues that gothic conventions in antebellum fiction revise Enlightenment categories of the individual, sympathy, and the social contract for a cultural environment made …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Silyn Roberts, Sian (creator)
Armstrong, Nancy (director)
Gould, Philip (reader)
Tennenhouse, Leonard (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gothic
John Locke
Scottish Enlightenment
Transatlantic
Population
Sympathy
Locke, John > 1632-1704
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Republic, 1776-1865

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This dissertation?"Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Republic, 1776-1870"? explores the relationship between early American literature and the political philosophy of federalism in …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Holt, Kerin (creator)
Gould, Philip (director)
Egan, James (reader)
Armstrong, Nancy (reader)
Nabers, Deak (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
federalism
American literature
Federal government
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures

Description:
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Gui, Weihsin (creator)
George, Olakunle (director)
Bewes, Timothy (reader)
Chow, Rey (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
postcolonial
diaspora
adorno
anglophone
Postcolonialism
Nationalism
Globalization
English-speaking countries
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Speculating Experience: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill

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My dissertation explores the problem of experience in the work of three twentieth-century American poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill. In the broadest …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Koelz, Stephen Edward (creator)
Blasing, Mutlu (director)
Keach, William (reader)
McLaughlin, Kevin (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Poetry,Experience,Moore,Bishop,Merrill,Benjamin
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Death Of Difference in American Modernism: Faulkner, Barnes, West

Description:
I show how American novels from the 1930s experimented with the notion that one must be an individual by showing instead that we are all …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Hasratian, Avak Ovhaness (creator)
Armstrong, Nancy (director)
Burrows, Stuart (reader)
Bewes, Timothy (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
class
species
queer
media
theory
Race
Sex
Kinship
Population
Anthropology
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Time Travels: Metalepsis and Modernist Poetry

Description:
In Time Travels: Metalepsis and Modernist Poetry, I examine how modern notions of time play out rhetorically in the work of Wallace Stevens, W. B. …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Ben-Merre, David N. (creator)
Blasing, Mutlu (director)
Katz, Tamar (reader)
Keach, William (reader)
Smith, Barbara (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernism
Yeats
Stevens
Merrill
Eliot
Metalepsis
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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