Descriptions of mourning adornments in England and New Orleans in the nineteenth century are used to argue that many of the customs of mourning in England -- the designs, themes, and materials -- also were present in New Orleans. This study draws from these observations and sources to suggest that mourning practices involving jewelry and costume became more functional and less formal in both England and New Orleans as the century progressed, while French customs retained and even grew in complexity. The high level of trade between Britain and New Orleans during the nineteenth century, reflected in the jewelry and costume of Louisiana, supports an argument that this new world city was influenced by, absorbed and incorporated social customs and activities that were useful to them, drawn from a wider range of cultures and peoples than perhaps are usually mentioned in historical accounts.

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In summer of 2012 archaeological excavations were conducted at the Iberville Housing Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana. The excavations were conducted in order to gather archaeological data pertaining to the site’s history as part of New Orleans’ notorious vice district, Storyville. During excavation a cache of 765 turquoise glass seed beads was uncovered along the east wall of Test Unit #1. The cache, found at a depth of around 83 cm below the ground surface, suggests, in conjunction with other artifacts found at this level, that the beads were deposited at the site between 1810 and 1830. This cache of seed beads is unique at the site both in its context and in the quantity of beads that were found. The presence of the bead cache suggests that there may have been an active trading economy at the site, as beads similar to those found at the Iberville site are important elements in informal economies of the eighteenth century. This paper discusses the possibility that an alternative or informal reciprocal, non-cash based economy was in operation on the periphery of New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.

Since the 1992 republication of On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, most academic work on Apess has focused on his Methodism, his Native American identity, or the intersection between these two parts of his life and work. Dr. Tim Fulford is the only scholar to have written about Apess and Romanticism. In his book Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756-1830, Fulford illustrates the elegiac modes often present in the work of Apess. This thesis will examine William Apess’ Son of the Forest as an expression of early nineteenth century American Romanticism from a post-colonial standpoint. Apess uses Romantic rhetoric to define Native American identity and through that identity, argue for Native American political agency.

Orientador: Renata Soares Junqueira / Banca: Fernanda Verdasca Botton / Banca: Flavia Maria Ferraz Sampaio Corradin / Banca: Robson Corrêa de Camargo / Banca: Elizabete Sanches Rocha / Resumo: Nesta tese procuramos seguir o caminho percorrido pelo melodrama em Portugal ao longo do século XIX, investigando as suas ocorrências no teatro português desde o início do século - quando ali se instalava o Romantismo -, passando pelo período do Ultrarromantismo, quando o gênero ganhou mais relevo, até chegar à época do Decadentismo-Simbolismo, quando as formas melodramáticas ainda se revelavam vigorosas, embora com alterações que tentamos esmiuçar. Investigamos o melodrama - com os seus conteúdos e as suas formas específicas - tal como se estabeleceu no Portugal oitocentista e como se desenvolveu ao longo desse período, procurando compreender as relações deste gênero dramático com o contexto sócio-cultural que o estimulou - afinal, a força do melodrama perdurou ao longo de Oitocentos. Verificamos qual a contribuição de Almeida Garrett enquanto introdutor do teatro romântico em Portugal, lutando por uma produção nacional de qualidade, susceptível de elevar o gosto e a cultura do público e, portanto, contrário à presença do melodrama, mas em cujas peças encontramos vestígios deste gênero. Considerando-se que a pesquisa abrangeu um período bastante extenso, utilizamos as seguintes obras como textos paradigmáticos: O cativo de Fez (1839), de Silva Abranches; Os dois renegados (1839), de Mendes Leal; O fratricida (1844), de Guerra Leal; O último acto (1859), de Camilo Castelo Branco e, finalmente, de D. João da Câmara, O pântano (1894) e A Rosa Enjeitada (1901) / Abstract: In this thesis, we tried to follow the way through the melodrama in Portugal throughout the XIX century, by investigating its occurences in the Portuguese theatre since the beginning of that century - at the time that the Romanticism established itself there -, going through the period of the Ultra-romanticism, when the genre got more notorious, until it gets to the period of the Decadentism-Symbolism, when the melodramatic features still revealed themselves vigorous, nevertheless under some changes which we tried to examine in detail. We investigated the melodrama - with its contents and its specific features - such as how it established itself in the Portugal eighties, and how it developed itself throughout this period, trying to understand the relation between this dramatic genre and the social-cultural context which stimulated it - at last, the strength of the melodrama lasted through the Eighties. We checked what the contribution of Almeida Garrett was as an introducer of the romantic theatre in Portugal, struggling for a national production of quality, susceptible to lift up the taste and the culture of the public hence opposed to the presence of the melodrama. However, we could found traces of this genre in his plays.- Taking into consideration that the research comprised a considerable extensive period, we used the following masterpieces as paradigmatic texts: O cativo de Fez (1839), by Silva Abranches; Os dois renegados (1839), by Mendes Leal; O fratricida (1844), by Guerra Leal; O último acto (1859), by Camilo Castelo Branco and, finally, by D. João da Câmara, O pântano (1894) and A Rosa Enjeitada (1901) / Doutor

Emily Dickinson's poetry functions where scientific attention to the physical world and abstract theorizing about the ineffable intersect. Critics who emphasize the poet's dedication to the scientific often take for granted how deeply the uncertainty that underlies all of Dickinson's poetry opposes scientific discussion of the day. Meteorology is an exceptional nineteenth-century science because it takes as its subject complex systems which are inexplicable in Newtonian terms. As such, meteorology can articulate the ways that Dickinson bridges the divide between the unknown and the known, particularly as she relates to the interplay of nature and culture, the role of careful observation in the face of uncertainty, and issues of home and dwelling. These are themes integral to and further elaborated by contemporary ecocritical discourse.

A necessidade de contornar o problema da falta de contingente no interior do exército brasileiro no momento posterior à emancipação política levou à incorporação de estrangeiros durante o primeiro reinado. Para tanto, o governo imperial arregimentou alemães e irlandeses para servirem como soldados a fim de fortalecer as tropas no conflito que se agravava na região da Cisplatina. Em 1827, quando desembarcaram os primeiros irlandeses no Rio de Janeiro, estes estrangeiros recusaram-se a servir como mercenários, afirmando terem sido contratados como colonos. A demorada resolução desta questão e a tensa relação vivida no cotidiano destes imigrantes, agravando a já grave situação das tropas alemãs aquarteladas na cidade, levaram a diversos conflitos que tiveram seu cume na revolta das tropas em junho de 1828. Esse evento particular permite compreender como o Estado Nacional brasileiro no momento de sua conturbada instauração, passava em seu processo de consolidação administrativa por um momento delicado, pois, ao mesmo tempo em que era necessário garantir a manutenção territorial, era imprescindível definir os requisitos mínimos para a formação da futura nação, e de quem poderia ou não ter o direito de pertencer a ela. / The need to solve the problem of lack of men in the Brazilian army after the political emancipation led to the incorporation of foreigners during the first reign. Thus, the imperial government regimented Germans and Irish to serve as soldiers in order to strengthen the troops in the conflict that worsened in the region of Cisplatin. In 1827, when the first Irish landed in Rio de Janeiro, these foreigners refused to serve as mercenaries, claiming they had been hired as settlers. The delayed resolution of this issue and the tense relationship of these immigrants in the daily life, exacerbating the already serious situation of German troops stationed in the city, led to several conflicts that eventually lead to the uprising of troops in June 1828. This particular event provides insight into how the Brazilian National State during the disturbing period of formation passed in its process of administrative consolidation by a delicate moment, at same time that was necessary ensure the maintenance of its territory, was essential to define the minimum requirements for the formation of the future nation, and who might or might not have the right to belong to it.

A questão do intimismo tem ocupado um grande espaço de discussão nos estudos literários com abordagens críticas que ou veem na obra de arte um reflexo da vida do autor, ou tendem a negar qualquer valor subjetivo do texto literário (falando-se, até, na morte do autor). Cada um dos enfoques atribui uma importância diferente para o texto literário. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar as representações do eu na poesia de Pessanha sem, no entanto, fazer de sua poesia motivo para levantamentos biográficos do poeta. Buscou-se, a princípio, comparar as possíveis relações existentes entre intimismo e modernidade e, estendendo tal relação, comparou-se o intimismo de Pessanha com dois outros poetas significativos da lírica portuguesa do século XIX. Depois, investigou-se, partindo-se de leituras em close reading de poemas do autor, as relações que o eu e o outro estabelecem na poesia de Pessanha. Para tanto, utilizou-se a noção de vulnerabilidade e de estranheza do ser do filósofo Emanuel Lévinas. Por último, foram investigadas as representações diretas do eu e as representações do eu em terceira pessoa. / The issue of intimism has occupied a large area of discussion in literary studies with critical approaches that, or see in a work of art a reflecting the life of the author, or tend to deny any subjective value the literary texts (talking, until, in \" author\'s death\"). Each of the approaches attaches a different importance to the literary text. This research aimed to investigate the representations of \"self\" in the poetry of Pessanha without, however, make of his poetry reason to the poet\'s biographical surveys. At first, we sought to compare the possibles relationships existents between intimism and modernity and, extending this relationship, we compare the intimism of Pessanha with two other significant poets of the nineteenth-century Portuguese poetry. Subsequently, we investigate starting from the reading in close reading of poems by the author, the relationship between the self\" and the \"other\" in the poetry of Pessanha. For both, the notion of vulnerability and strangeness of the being of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was utilized. Finally, we investigate the direct representations of the \"self and representations of the \"self\" in third person.

O objeto de estudo nesta pesquisa é a verificação da influência da indumentária e da moda na caracterização da personagem de ficção nos romances brasileiros do século XIX, através da análise dos romances Cinco Minutos (1856), A Viuvinha (1857), Lucíola (1862), A pata da gazela (1870) e Senhora (1875), de José de Alencar; Iaiá Garcia (1878), Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (1881), Dom Casmurro (1899) e Quincas Borba (1891), de Machado de Assis; e O cortiço (1890), de Aluísio Azevedo. No estudo são efetuadas analogias entre moda, roupa e literatura, com a finalidade de identificar a presença da moda e da indumentária como suporte narrativo pelos autores para a caracterização das personagens nos romances analisados, bem como detectar o caminho da construção do imaginário do leitor por meio de representações aproximadas de modelos das roupas descritas pelos romancistas, sendo utilizados, para isso, recursos iconográficos como a fotografia, a ilustração e as notícias e imagens de jornais e revistas de época. Também são apresentadas nesta pesquisa as questões econômicas, sociais e culturais que abrangem a contextualização do século dezenove em consonância com os fatos apresentados nos romances. O período refere-se de 1850 a 1890 / This research studies the influence of clothing and fashion in the characterization of the figures in 19th Century Brazilian fiction, analyzing novels like Cinco minutos (1856), A Viuvinha (1857), Lucíola (1862), A pata da gazela (1870) and Senhora (1875), of José de Alencar; Iaiá Garcia (1878), Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (1881), Dom Casmurro (1899) and Quincas Borba (1891), Machado de Assis; and O cortiço (1890), Aluísio Azevedo. In this study, analogies are made between fashion, clothing, and literature for the purpose of identifying the authors use of fashion and clothing as narrative support for portraying and understanding the characters. The study also tries to include images such as period photographs and illustrations to help shape the readers imaginary construction of the characters. In this research, the economic, social, and cultural issues of the period (1850 to 1890) are also presented to help understand the historical context of the time presented in the novels

Esta pesquisa trata do estudo da prática das alforrias no Brasil durante o século XIX. Partindo da análise de uma realidade particular, ou seja, as cartas de alforrias lançadas nos Livros de Notas do Tabelionato de Ilhéus (BA), entre 1810 e 1850, empreendemos uma discussão sobre a historiografia acerca das manumissões na referida centúria. A documentação atinente à vila de Ilhéus encontra-se no Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB) e em microfilme no Centro de Documentação e Memória Regional (CEDOC) da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC). Utilizamos como fontes complementares testamentos, inventários post mortem, registros de escrituras públicas, correspondências da Câmara de Ilhéus e a lista de classificação dos escravos para serem libertos pelo fundo de emancipação, disponíveis nos aludidos arquivos. O objetivo principal deste estudo consiste em ressaltar as particularidades do fenômeno das alforrias na localidade dentro do período assinalado e, posteriormente, oferecer uma discussão historiográfica sobre o comportamento das manumissões no Brasil ao longo do século XIX, incorporando nas análises dos dados os resultados da nossa pesquisa empírica e atentando, principalmente, para os aspectos relacionados com o perfil dos alforriados e das alforrias, além das formas de obtenção destas. Desse modo, esperamos inserir o estudo entre as pesquisas históricas desenvolvidas recentemente. / This research deals with the study of the practice of manumission in Brazil during the nineteenth century. Based on the analysis of a particular reality, in other words, the manumission letters released in the Books Notes from Ilheus (BA), between 1810 and 1850, we undertook a discussion of the historiography about the manumissions in that century. The documents relating to the town of Ilheus is in the Public Archives of the State of Bahia (APEB) and on microfilm at the Documentation Centre and Regional Memory (CEDOC) in the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). It was, used as supplementary sources testaments, the post-mortem inventories, the records of public deeds, the Chamber of Ilheus correspondence and the ranking list of the slaves to be freed by the Emancipation Fund, available in alluded files. The main objective of this study is to highlight the particularities with the phenomenon of manumission in the locality within the period indicated and subsequently offer a historiographical discussion on the behavior of manumissions in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century, incorporating the analysis of the data the results of our empirical research and paying attention mainly to the aspects related to the profile of freedmen and manumission, and ways of obtaining the same. Thus, we hope to insert the study between historical research developed recently.