The dissertation analyses dream images in romanticist art, with regards to inherent dreamanalogue strategies in consideration of contemporary dream theory and aesthetics, with a focus on the period between 1820 and 1840. The study does not provide a typological, iconographical o…
Die Arbeit untersucht Bildstrategien von Traumdarstellungen der deutschen Romantik unter Berücksichtigung der zeitgenössischen Traumtheorie und Ästhetik mit einer Fokussierung auf den Zeitraum zwischen 1820 und 1840. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, ob die Traumdarstellung jensei…
This thesis is the first to examine Irish American Union service using the words of the ordinary rank and file who fought it. It does so through an analysis of more than 1100 letters written by almost 400 Irish American servicemen, which were uncovered through an assessment of c…
Averaging Americans: Literature, Statistics, and Inequality was sparked by a computational discovery I made in a corpus of more than 18,000 works of US fiction: statistical words such as average, normal, and typical distinguish postbellum fiction from its antecedents quantitativ…
Why does the state of California, while a significant presence on today’s world stage, suffer practices which marginalize many of her Spanish-language citizens? I look to the inherently contradictory rhetorical conditions under which the state was founded in the mid-nineteenth c…
This thesis will examine nineteenth-century women and their primary role in the cultural formation of frontier sentimentalism. White, middle class women primarily moved west with their husbands and families, initially to the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, and were cont…
This dissertation explores modernity as a temporalizing form in Spanish American novels written during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. It takes as its point of departure the rise of the novel as a means for making sense of the rapid social and political transformat…
This dissertation develops the ecclesiology and polity of Georg Sverdrup, a nineteenth-century Norwegian-American theologian and a founder of the Lutheran Free Church. Sverdrup grounded his congregational polity in the biblical metaphor of the bride of Christ. Chapters 3-4 surve…
In this thesis, I demonstrate how Catholic pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon. I define public history as public engagement, understanding, and use of the past. While I assert that pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon both in the past and in the present, my thesis wi…
