Browsing by Subject "nineteenth century"
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Concepts of Folk in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art Music
(2018)Art music and folk music are all too often perceived as opposing concepts. The educated, elite practitioners of a notated art seem to have little in common with musically illiterate commoners who weave an oral tradition. ... -
Histories and Historiographies of Juvenile Delinquency in Nineteenth-Century England
(2016-05-28)This thesis explores the history of juvenile delinquency in England during the decades bracketing the nineteenth century’s turn and how modern historians have analyzed this period. The purported birth of juvenile delinquency ... -
Manifesting Vertical Destiny: Geology, Reform, and the Stratified Earth in American Literature, Long Nineteenth Century
(2019)My project, Manifesting Vertical Destiny: Geology, Reform, and the Stratified Earth in American Literature, Long Nineteenth Century, excavates the cultural impact of the concept of the layered earth—or strata—in American ... -
Minor Moves: Growth, Fugitivity, and Children's Physical Movement
(2014)From tendencies to reduce the Underground Railroad to the imperative "follow the north star" to the iconic images of Ruby Bridges' 1960 "step forward" on the stairs of William Frantz Elementary School, America prefers to ... -
Politics and Poetics of the Novel: Using Domesticity to Create the Nation
(2016-06-06)This thesis examines how the depiction of the family during war reinforces or challenges societal values in three nineteenth-century novels. The primary focus lies in three novels by Sir Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, and Harriet ... -
River of Injustice: St. Louis's Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America
(2009)Slavery and freedom are central issues in the historiography of nineteenth-century America. In the antebellum era (1820-1860), personal status was a fluid concept and was never as simple as black and white. The courts ...
