Nineteenth century

This dissertation seeks to uncover the components of Spanish art song through history, culture and musical contributions that set the pathway of the evolution of this art form. It aims to enlighten readers so that they can analyze and appreciate Spanish art song from the various…

At the end of the eighteenth century, England and the United States were experiencing a state of progressiveness in society and an increase in technological and educational opportunities. With the rise of the middle-class, families discovered artistic outlets and a new appreciat…

Prison Forms: Genre and Excarceral Politics in Victorian Literature focuses on popular nineteenth-century literature that engages with criminal justice topics that were timely in their era and continue unresolved in the twenty-first century. I read literary and periodical texts …

This dissertation explores the effects of settler colonialism on Great Lakes Indigenous peoples throughout the nineteenth century. It argues that as settler societies dispossessed Indigenous peoples from their lands in order to gain access to natural resources, they engaged in a…

The relationship between ballet and fairy tale is by no means a new or unique discovery—to either dance history or literary studies. However, aside from relatively brief mentions of ballets as examples of fairy-tale adaptation, ballet’s relevance to fairy-tale studies has been s…

The dissertation studies the pre-history of trauma in US American fiction, examining how experiences of large-scale adversity are represented before the concept of psychological trauma emerges in the late nineteenth century. Distinctly modern forms of violence—diffuse, systemic,…

In this thesis, I explore Anne Lister as a Romantic writer. While much criticism has focused on Lister’s place in queer history, comparatively little has examined her writing itself. Thus, this thesis aims to place Lister’s writings within popular Romantic genres and in conversa…

This thesis investigates the changing roles of elite women in late nineteenth centuryMexico and the way these evolutions of empowerment were perceived by them against thebackdrop of class divisions. During the Porfiriato , the period of over thirty years from 1876to 1910 in whic…

The thematic organization and volume of data in this thesis set it methodologically apart from existing treatments of the colonial encounter in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Data from South Asian archives illuminates the interaction between three ranges of variables within Ang…

For nineteenth-century English and French poets, the Islamic Middle East is an exotic alternative to Europe, supplying poets with images and themes, and serving as a point of reference in their search to define the function and nature of poetry. Recent scholarship on this topic …

The taxation system of the Jewish community of Izmir in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries was studied using published and unpublished Jewish sources. For some periods and events the sources are rich, while for others the information available is scant. This dispar…

Benevolent and mutual benefit societies, associations for the care of the sick and burial of the dead, fraternal lodges, literary associations, Sunday schools, orphan asylums, hospitals and Jewish cemeteries constituted an American Jewish public sphere—the realm of social and ci…

Following the defeat of the Nazi regime, Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, embarked on a new artistic venture: ethnographic photography in the Sudan. On the surface this seems a strange move, from Nuremberg party rallies to the steppes of Africa, but Riefenstahl's f…

After Russia's annexation in the 1550's of the Western Eurasian Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan and its occupation of the Volga-Ural region, large groups of Turkic-speaking Muslims found themselves subjects of a powerful European and Christian state. These Muslim communities rem…

My dissertation presents an in-depth analysis of selected texts from nineteenth-century German literature that thematize the scorn and retribution directed against individuals who deviate from the traditional standard of their particular communities—a standard that has been esta…

This study uses the lens of forest administration to examine the transformation of Mediterranean pastoralism over the course of the nineteenth century. Drawing extensively on archival research, it focuses on case studies in Provence, southwestern Anatolia, and northern Algeria. …

Gloss literature, the writing of multiple commentaries on Islamic religious works, used to be handwritten in manuscripts, transmitted from generation to generation within the framework of an oral-aural transmission of knowledge; it thus played an important role in the traditiona…

This thesis revolves around two armatures. The first argues that the nature of state power in the Middle Niger Valley and the broader Mandé world was in large part determined by ligatures of power to association. One significant confluence of forces was located in the Komo power…

The following study is an intellectual and political study on the passionate attachment that nineteenth century Americans had to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution. To Americans living during the antebellum period, the Founding Fathers were larger than life idols wh…

The Orient in Proust's Recherche appears as a pervasive and dynamic network of images and references. It operates not so much as the static topos, the figure demonstrated by Said to predominate in the Orientalism of nineteenth-century European literature, but as the more dynamic…