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1. The Work of Art: Honoring the Overlooked in Northeastern American Nature Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century

: Pollak, Zoë Elena
: 2024
: Theses
: American poetryAmerican literatureAestheticsNature poetryAuthorship--Moral and ethical aspectsNineteenth centuryEnvironmental sciences--PhilosophyTuckerman, Frederick Goddard, 1821-1873Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, 1869-1944Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

2. Casual Things: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America

: Yoon, Ami
: 2023
: Theses
: American literatureAmerican poetryRomanticismNatural historyNineteenth centuryImperialismRacismSlaveryGenocideMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911

3. Crossing the Americas: Empire, Race, and Translation in the Long Nineteenth Century

: Cádiz Bedini, Daniella
: 2023
: Theses
: Comparative literatureLatin American literatureAmerican literatureMexican War (1846-1848)African AmericansHispanic AmericansPolitical activistsCather, Willa, 1873-1947Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867Martí, José, 1853-1895Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

4. Narratives and Neighborhood Change: Writing New York and Chicago in the Twentieth Century

: McMillan, Bo
: 2023
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansNeighborhoodsNeighborhoods in literatureTenement housesSlumsBrownstone buildingsWorld's Columbian Exposition

5. Documents of Revolution: Literacy, Translation and Internationalism in the Spanish Civil War

: Tripathi, Ameya
: 2022
: Theses
: Comparative literatureCivil War (Spain : 1936-1939)Spanish literatureEnglish literatureAmerican literatureHernández, Miguel, 1910-1942León, María TeresaHughes, Langston, 1902-1967Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965Orwell, George, 1903-1950

6. Rum, Rome, and Rebellion: The Reform of Reform in the Political Fiction of the Gilded Age

: Fernandez, Matthew Joseph
: 2022
: Theses
: American literatureHistoryComparative literaturePolitics in literaturePolitical satire, AmericanAmerican wit and humorNineteenth centuryMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859James, Henry, 1843-1916Adams, Henry, 1838-1918Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Santayana, George, 1863-1952Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895

7. Missing Homes: Poe, Brontë, Dickens and Displacement

: Brown, Natalie
: 2021
: Theses
: English literatureAmerican literatureComparative literatureHome in literatureHomeless persons in literatureNostalgia in literatureNineteenth centuryPoe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

8. Animal Abilities: Disability, Species Difference, and American Literary Experimentation

: Bowen, Elizabeth
: 2020
: Theses
: American literatureAnimals in literatureFaulkner, William, 1897-1962Hurston, Zora NealeMorrison, ToniSound and the fury (Faulkner, William)Their eyes were watching God (Hurston, Zora Neale)

9. Fugitive Poetics: Ecological Resistance in the Plantation Era

: McIntyre, Katherine
: 2020
: Theses
: American literaturePlantation lifeLiterature and raceEcology in literatureSlaveryAmerican poetry

10. Human/Nature: American Literary Naturalism and the Anthropocene

: Polefrone, Phillip Robert
: 2020
: Theses
: American literatureEcologyClimatic changesNaturalism in literatureLondon, Jack, 1876-1916Norris, Frank, 1870-1902Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932