The idea that some poets in eighteenth and nineteenth century Iran revived Persian poetry by returning to the styles of the classical masters, while poets outside of Iran did not, has left a deep impression on how Persian literary history has come to be written. This idea, known…
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The creation of binders' volumes of sheet music in nineteenth-century America coexisted with other collecting traditions, such as the production of scrapbooks and keepsake albums. The individual pieces of music included in these books were sometimes hand-copied but more often we…
This dissertation examines the relationship of public space to public spheres in the context of the nineteenth-century multi-cultural Ottoman seaport of Izmir (Smyrna), illustrating the ways city dwellers used urban resources and urban space to mobilize and articulate demands an…
This dissertation explores the development of a vigorous and diverse subgenre in nineteenth-century American travel writing, that of the Holy Land travel narrative. I seek to delineate the contours of American discourse about the Holy Land during the nineteenth century by examin…
The Civil War offered opportunities for the accumulation of unprecedented wealth in the United States. High tariffs protected northern businessmen from foreign competition during the war years, and a steadily growing demand for manufactured goods benefited industrialists and enc…
Shepherds of The Fatherland examines the establishment of the German Shepherd Dog along national undercurrents. In addition to its establishment in the late 19th century, a close look into the life of Max Von Stephanitz (1864-1936) the breeds’ founder provides historians a look …
Arkansas foodways in the late nineteenth century were defined by times of plenty and scarcity, need and connection, traditions and innovations. These components created a unique culture in which women through food exchange, were able to improve their standard of living. The year…
This dissertation examines seven works of American literature from the turn into the twentieth century—Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood (1903) and Contending Forces (1900), Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and The Marrow o…
Did the Victorians live in a “rape culture”? London between 1870 and 1890 was certainly a place in which sexual violence was publicly condemned as an overall concept (W. T. Stead’s “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, for example). Yet, in contrast to the moral denunciation, t…
An existential and theological crisis immediately followed the American Civil War causing many southerners to lose their faith in institutions, including organized religion. As white working-class and middle-class southerners in the Georgia piedmont recovered from the war, burge…
This dissertation examines core themes of the developing women’s movement in the United States from 1820 to 1920—the abolition of slavery, women’s property ownership, education, political identity, motherhood, and the franchise—through the lens of decorative needlework. I read t…
Umfassende, um eine globale Sichtweise bemühte Darstellung der Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, nach den die Epoche bewegenden Themen gegliedert
