textThis dissertation examines Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, several works by Alice Corbin Henderson, and Williams Carlos Williams’s Man Orchid (a collaboration with Lydia Carlin and Fred Miller) in the context of the rhetoric of the melting pot, the Immigration Act of 1924, the de facto segregation of the Southwest, eugenics debates, expatriate sentiment and miscegenation laws. By 1940, Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” (1939) and Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” (1940) play out competing populist versions of Americanism, each an assertion of the American nation’s “true” spirit. While each of these U.S. writers works under a passionately nationalist impetus, it is one that asserts what they think “America” should be as o...
This thesis argues that Edith Wharton’s assessment of American ways and their meaning in her post-wa...
In the early twentieth century, a time of massive population shifts from external immigration and in...
UnrestrictedMy dissertation researches American resistance movements, focusing on nineteenth-century...
textThis dissertation examines Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, several works by Alice Corbin Henderso...
Taking Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans (1925) as my central example, I show how modernism i...
While approaching modernism as a reaction to a major crisis of modernity, the article asks about rea...
From the introduction: American Modernism is a literary era that stands out as producing some of the...
This dissertation breaks new ground in the scholarship on experimental writing in America. Currently...
In the early twentieth century, a time of massive population shifts from external immigration and in...
2012-02-16This dissertation undertakes to read, hear, and feel the openly unsaid and concretely soun...
Racial passing appears as a theme in both black- and white-authored American novels from the mid-nin...
A study of the impact Anglo race assertion had on American Modernism through the work of Fitzgerald,...
This article analyzes four immigrant memoirs – Mary Antin’s The Promised Land (1912); Jacob Cash’s W...
International audienceThe Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein’s long modernist novel first published...
Gertrude Stein (Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1874 – Paris, 1946) is a central figure of American moderni...
This thesis argues that Edith Wharton’s assessment of American ways and their meaning in her post-wa...
In the early twentieth century, a time of massive population shifts from external immigration and in...
UnrestrictedMy dissertation researches American resistance movements, focusing on nineteenth-century...
textThis dissertation examines Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, several works by Alice Corbin Henderso...
Taking Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans (1925) as my central example, I show how modernism i...
While approaching modernism as a reaction to a major crisis of modernity, the article asks about rea...
From the introduction: American Modernism is a literary era that stands out as producing some of the...
This dissertation breaks new ground in the scholarship on experimental writing in America. Currently...
In the early twentieth century, a time of massive population shifts from external immigration and in...
2012-02-16This dissertation undertakes to read, hear, and feel the openly unsaid and concretely soun...
Racial passing appears as a theme in both black- and white-authored American novels from the mid-nin...
A study of the impact Anglo race assertion had on American Modernism through the work of Fitzgerald,...
This article analyzes four immigrant memoirs – Mary Antin’s The Promised Land (1912); Jacob Cash’s W...
International audienceThe Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein’s long modernist novel first published...
Gertrude Stein (Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1874 – Paris, 1946) is a central figure of American moderni...
This thesis argues that Edith Wharton’s assessment of American ways and their meaning in her post-wa...
In the early twentieth century, a time of massive population shifts from external immigration and in...
UnrestrictedMy dissertation researches American resistance movements, focusing on nineteenth-century...