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1	The Nation Conceived : Learning, Education, and Nationhood in American Historical Novels of the 1820s McElwee, Johanna January 2005 (has links) This study explores the role of learning and education in American historical fiction written in the 1820s. The United States has been, and still is, commonly considered to be hostile to scholarly learning. In novels and short stories of the 1820s, however, learning and education are recurrent themes, and this dissertation shows that the attitudes to these issues are more ambivalent than hitherto acknowledged. The 1820s was a period characterized by a political struggle, expressed as a battle between intellectuals, represented by the sitting president, John Quincy Adams, a Harvard professor, and anti-intellectuals, headed by the war hero Andrew Jackson. The battle over the place of scholarly learning in the U.S. was played out not only on the political scene but also in historical fiction, where the themes of learning and education become vehicles for exploring national identity. In these texts, whose aim is often to establish an impressive national history, scholarly learning carries negative connotations as it is linked to the former colonizer Britain and also symbolizes social stratification. However, it also stands for civilization and progress, qualities felt to be necessary for the nation to come into its own. The conflicting views and anxieties surrounding the issues of learning and education tend to center on a recurrent character in these texts, the learned person. After providing an overview of how the themes of learning and education are treated in historical narratives from the 1820s, this dissertation focuses on works of three writers: Hobomok (1824) and The Rebels (1825) by Lydia Maria Child, The Prairie (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper, and Hope Leslie (1827) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. English language United States education learning historical fiction antebellum literature national identity anti-intellectualism Lydia Maria Child James Fenimore Cooper Catharine Maria Sedgwick Engelska English language Engelska språket
2	The Nation Conceived : Learning, Education, and Nationhood in American Historical Novels of the 1820s McElwee, Johanna January 2005 (has links) <p>This study explores the role of learning and education in American historical fiction written in the 1820s. The United States has been, and still is, commonly considered to be hostile to scholarly learning. In novels and short stories of the 1820s, however, learning and education are recurrent themes, and this dissertation shows that the attitudes to these issues are more ambivalent than hitherto acknowledged. The 1820s was a period characterized by a political struggle, expressed as a battle between intellectuals, represented by the sitting president, John Quincy Adams, a Harvard professor, and anti-intellectuals, headed by the war hero Andrew Jackson. The battle over the place of scholarly learning in the U.S. was played out not only on the political scene but also in historical fiction, where the themes of learning and education become vehicles for exploring national identity. In these texts, whose aim is often to establish an impressive national history, scholarly learning carries negative connotations as it is linked to the former colonizer Britain and also symbolizes social stratification. However, it also stands for civilization and progress, qualities felt to be necessary for the nation to come into its own. The conflicting views and anxieties surrounding the issues of learning and education tend to center on a recurrent character in these texts, the learned person. </p><p>After providing an overview of how the themes of learning and education are treated in historical narratives from the 1820s, this dissertation focuses on works of three writers: <i>Hobomok</i> (1824) and <i>The Rebels</i> (1825) by Lydia Maria Child, <i>The Prairie</i> (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper, and <i>Hope Leslie</i> (1827) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick.</p> English language United States education learning historical fiction antebellum literature national identity anti-intellectualism Lydia Maria Child James Fenimore Cooper Catharine Maria Sedgwick Engelska English language Engelska språket
3	Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature Smith, Cynthia Alicia 26 July 2019 (has links) No description available. American Literature sentimentalism sailor mariner pirate rescue conversion internationalism seamen ministry society abolition Catharine Maria Sedgwick Maturin Murray Ballou Harriet Beecher Stowe sea narrative, ocean adventure
4	“On the Brink of a Precipice”: Women, Men, and Relationships in the Novels of Catharine Maria Sedgwick Avila, Beth E. 28 July 2010 (has links) No description available. American History American Literature Gender History Womens Studies Catharine Maria Sedgwick nineteenth century United States novels writers marriage relationships gender women men
5	“I Would Prevent You from Further Violence”: Women, Pirates, and the Problem of Violence in the Antebellum American Imagination Avila, Beth Eileen January 2016 (has links) No description available. Literature American Literature Gender American Studies British and Irish Literature Womens Studies American History pirates women men gender roles violence genre antebellum nineteenth century United States transatlantic story papers James Fenimore Cooper Catharine Maria Sedgwick Joseph Holt Ingraham Eliza Ann Dupuy Maturin Murray Ballou Benjamin Barker

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