This project, a graduate research thesis, means to unearth Charles T. Dazey’s most famous work, In Old Kentucky. This thesis examines the facets of In Old Kentucky which made it a perennial favorite across the entirety of the United States for more than thirty years from 1892, w…
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This dissertation explores the intersections of medicine and religion through a rhetorical historiography of nineteenth century birth medicine in the United States. It asks: How did religious sensibilities motivate and shape rhetoric in response to human suffering in the field o…
This dissertation analyzes the cultural urgency of dread—a profound feeling of fear about the future—in a range of canonical and popular British novels, poems, periodicals, and philosophical treatises. In our own time, we tend to think of dread as a negative, paralyzing affect. …
This purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the role played by the English juvenile periodical press in the socialisation of boys and girls during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although scholars have long been familiar with the idea that juvenile periodicals…
In rural antebellum America, a curious convergence of piano production and exuberant creativity inspired backcountry craftsman with little to no formal training in musical instrument making to create their own keyboard instruments. Each amateur-made instrument deviates from the …
In the nineteenth century, foreign travel became much easier than it had ever been before. Improvements in the means of transportation enabled travelers to cover greater distances. The changing economics of travel made traveling accessible to a greater number of people. At the s…
Kingship in 19ᵗʰ century Ethiopia has received little attention. This study documents the evolution of kingship in the region of Shewa through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The research methodology is based upon indigenous, visual documentation, that traces the histor…
This dissertation analyzes three types of texts (essays, religious studies, fiction) to illustrate Pardo Bazán's original construction of a Christian feminist model. The first chapters examine her initial efforts to combat the “ángel del hogar” bourgeois stereotype in her essays…
By providing revisionist readings of selected poems, novels, and travel narratives by nineteenth and early twentieth-century writers, this paper explores ways in which English literature depicted the Arabic Middle East during the Romantic and Victorian periods. Much of the liter…
This dissertation analyzes how images of suffering bodies—violated women's bodies in India and starving bodies in Ireland—have been mobilized within competing narratives to define and redefine the British empire, its ideological investments, and modes of anti-colonial resistance…
As a working-class consciousness developed in France in the nineteenth century, the emergent proletariat endeavored to organize itself nationally and internationally for the first time in history. The second half of the century in particular saw an efflorescence of organized lab…
This dissertation examines eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels that use forced marriage as a plot structure to expose and subvert the oppression of women in British society. Each of the novels studied at length re-writes the forced marriage plot of Samuel Richardso…
The American sublime aesthetic, discussed frequently in literature and art of the United States, is equally manifest in the nation’s symphonic music as a concurrent and complementary aesthetic. The musical application of the American sublime supports and enriches current scholar…
The purpose of my dissertation project is to investigate China’s incorporation process. Incorporation studies, based on world-systems analysis, aim to illustrate the long-term integration process of external arenas into the capitalist world-economy. I intend to trace China’s tra…
The Hebrew Bible, early Christian asceticism, Quakerism, and the Kantian sublime present contrasting and sometimes paradoxical perceptions of silence. The Hebrew Bible offers silence in a variety of forms, introducing notions and associations that reappear in numerous texts. Asp…
Even in the nineteenth century, Americans displayed a great fascination with cross-dressers-people who superficially altered not only their gender but often their race and/or class as well. Since their desire to “pass” usually prevented real transvestites from recording their ex…
This dissertation traces the life and career of the prominent nineteenth-century rabbi Max Lilienthal (1814-1882), a founder of American Reform Judaism who also made important contributions to the professionalization of the American rabbinate. Born in Munich, Lilienthal received…
This work examines the published travel accounts of fifty-one American women who ventured to Palestine in the nineteenth century. Biographical information is contained within, yet the brunt of the work examines the commonalties of their published accounts such as their portrayal…
This cultural history examines the interplay between antimodernity and modernity that transformed a country inn located in Poland Spring, Maine, into a world-renowned "summer city" during the late nineteenth century. Part exclusive club, colonial homestead, social mecca, therape…