The purpose of this study was to begin placing Rudolf Forst’s solo harp works into the broader context of twentieth-century harp literature. A secondary purpose was to shed light on the body of lesser-known works written by American composers between 1900 and 1980. Through a sty…
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The Exodus is most commonly associated with the black experience in America because its narratives of freedom and movement resonate with both Emancipation and the Great Migration. The use of the Exodus narrative to understand historical and political changes reverses Noah’s curs…
A devotion to an open and progressive interpretation of human rights and the law secured Judge Ronald N. Davies’ legacy as an unintended, yet influential activist for advancing civil rights and of the twentieth century. His views helped change the definition and meaning of judic…
All history is media history, and all politics are media politics. This dissertation provides an analytical frame for seeing and studying the people, ideas, political movements, and social arrangements that populate history as both solid forms and fluid processes; that is, as be…
For American and British women, the definition of being healthy changed in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Previously, there had been a resigned acceptance of the fact that a woman’s reproductive capacity often relegated her to a lifetime of suffering and ill hea…
The journal América (Mexico City, 1940-1960) was founded as a leftist monthly focused on politically uniting Latin American and exiled Spanish youth and, by the end of its print life, was a semifrequent literary anthology sponsored by the Mexican government’s Secretaria de Educa…
Overpopulation caught the attention of scientists, popular science authors, and science fiction creators alike in the second half of the twentieth century. Overpopulation embodied the disaster that would finally bring about the end of the world as they knew it. Concerns varied b…
Through an analysis of nineteenth to mid twentieth century sources, this thesis seeks to address how white supremacy negatively affected black perceptions of Voodoo, and ultimately the state of New Orleans’s black community. Developed by enslaved Africans, New Orleans Voodoo, ov…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between American mass-media soundscapes and everyday experiences of scientific meaning and truth-value during the Space Race. Agitated by seismic social and political shifts, the years between 1957 and 1975 provide fertile ground f…
This dissertation examines nineteenth century French and twentieth century Francophone texts in which the themes of colonization and adoption intersect. I first examine nineteenth century literary texts in which a mythological conception of French identity takes shape; this iden…
This dissertation explores the history of Qur'anic education in twentieth century Senegal, based primarily on the witness of students. It maps continuity and change in the educational discourses and practices of Senegal's Qur'anic schools, and examines the ways in which the scho…
This study analyses local communities in Caernarfonshire in order to offer new perspectives on Welsh society in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. This has been seen as a period of major change in Wales characterised by economic modernisation and national awakening. Ho…
This thesis considers the hitherto unexplored question of modernism and non-fictional genres. Although modernist studies have long been attentive to the implications of modernism’s “manifestos”, and recent work on modernist magazines has shed new light on forms beyond poetry and…
Image and Imagination: Creative Photography and the South Wales Valleys, explores the development of practices within photography undertaken in and about the South Wales Valleys during the second half of the twentieth century. Central to this study is an examination of the work …
The first four decades of the twentieth century was a period of rapid development in physics. The late nineteenth century discoveries of X-rays, Becquerel rays and subatomic particles had revealed new properties of matter, and the early twentieth century quantum and relativity t…
Through a study of the interwar and post-World War II Russian communities in San Francisco, this dissertation examines the processes of acculturation to American society of “White Russian” émigrés in the face of both nativist and political hostility beginning in the period follo…
H.D. and Denise Levertov, two visionary poets of the twentieth century, represent both female poets’ awakening of political and historical consciousness and their engagement with the poetics of vulnerability and survival. H.D. and Levertov offer lyrical visions that dismantle th…
This dissertation examines English musical modernism through the lens of Benjamin Britten’s engagement with the sacred, focussing on his affinity for sacred and liturgical imagery both on and off the stage, and inside and outside of the church. Although Britten’s oeuvre is shot …
This dissertation examines how several genres of American comedy represented issues relating to the women’s and gay liberation movements during the 1970s and 1980s. Television comedy writers, cartoonists, and stand-up performers responded to feminism, changing gender roles, and …