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Description:: This dissertation examines the legal, economic, and social transformations experienced by American widowed women from the Salem Witchcraft Trials to the Civil War to expand how scholars of literature, the law, and American history define women’s citizenship prior to suffrage. Emphasizing literature’s importance to nineteenth-century nation-building during the era of...
Keyword:: nineteenth-century, American literature, coverture, and widow
Subject:: American literature, Women's studies, and American studies
Creator:: Fritz, Meaghan M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14391 and etdadmin_upload_614228

Description:: “Coalitional Aesthetics” argues that leftist literary works of the 1930s enacted bonds of solidarity across racial, linguistic, and geographic divides, modeling alternative, non-hierarchical modes of social cohesion. Building on Gramsci’s concept of the coalitional, coalitional aesthetics refers to a set of formal characteristics that insist on the specificity of the...
Keyword:: Langston Hughes, John Reed Clubs, Writers Congress, Nancy Cunard, International Publishers, and Anthology
Subject:: African American studies, American history, and American literature
Creator:: Beeber, Matthew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16092 and etdadmin_upload_903227

Description:: Hypnaesthesis argues for understanding somnambulism, nightmare, and insomnia as aesthetic categories in the gothic and dark romantic traditions of antebellum American literature that provide critical insights into the experiential costs of the exhortations to normative vigilance prevalent in the American Enlightenment. During this period unceasing vigilance became the watchword for...
Subject:: American literature
Creator:: Hengstebeck, Eric
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15381 and etdadmin_upload_779884

Description:: “American Sediments” is a study of Black, white, and Indigenous literatures and complementary visual culture centered on the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, in texts written after Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn—still the archetypal version of the Mississippi, but inevitably unaligned with historical changes, cultural diversities, and economic shifts...
Keyword:: Southern Literature, Mississippi River, African American Literature, Native American Literature, and Environmental Literature
Subject:: American literature and American studies
Creator:: Cerne, Sara
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15314 and etdadmin_upload_768497

Description:: Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the United States expanded the scale, funding, and technological sophistication of its defense resources, enabling its current standing as the dominant global military superpower. This dissertation examines the role that the popular narrative genre of science fiction played in shaping American cultural...
Subject:: American literature and Gender studies
Creator:: Andrews, Erin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14788 and etdadmin_upload_683278

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