Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-208). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Ce mémoire en recherche-création se déploie en deux parties, soit une création littéraire et un essai réflexif. En première partie se trouve Un mouticide, un roman d’anticipation rétrofuturiste. Dans l’esprit d’un conte philosophique tourné au burlesque, le récit est articulé autour de trois personnages, soit une jeune fille révoltée, un professeur d’histoire aigri et un agriculteur nostalgique, qui vivent une crise identitaire et une désillusion par rapport à leur place dans leur communauté. Dans un monde réinventé à la limite de l’utopie communiste, parodiant des aspects à la fois du roman du terroir, de fictions dystopiques et de La République de Platon, une narration moqueuse oppose un univers déterministe aux personnages et à leur quête de sens. L’essai réflexif consiste en une analyse des thèmes de la mémoire, de l’écriture et du mythe dans Arvida de Samuel Archibald, recueil de nouvelles paru en 2011.L’objectif de la réflexion est de dégager un portrait général de l’oeuvre en tant que construction partagée entre la mémoire, l’histoire et la fiction, sachant qu’Archibald se met en scène dans sa fiction en tant qu’auteur d’Arvida, et que la plupart des histoires se déroulent avant sa naissance. Les trois histoires au centre de la réflexion sont celles sous-titrées « Arvida », soit « Mon père et Proust », « Foyer des loisirs et de l’oubli » et « Madeleines ». Dans ce parcours d’idées seront abordées les questions de l’imaginaire nordique, de l’héritage, du narrateur-auteur et de la littérature fantastique pour montrer comment Archibald réussit à dépeindre une mythologie américaine nordique propre à la région du Saguenay. / This master’s thesis in research and creation is divided into two parts, a novel and an essay. First is Un mouticide, a retro-futuristic prospective novel with a humorous twist. The narrative, in the likeness of a philosophical tale, branches into three characters’ storylines: a young outraged girl, a bitter old history teacher, and a nostalgic farmer who go through an identity crisis and become disillusioned about their community. In a reimagined world at the limits of being a communist utopia, and parodying aspects of the roman du terroir and Plato’s Republic, a mocking narrator opposes a deterministic universe with the characters’ quests for meaning. The essay consists of an analysis of the themes of memory, writing and myth in Arvida, a book of short stories by Samuel Archibald published in 2011. The objective of the research is to depict the writer’s work as a construction between memory, history and fiction, knowing that Archibald stages his appearance in the stories as the author, and that most stories take place before his birth. The main three stories around which the reflection is articulated are subtitled “Arvida”: “Mon père et Proust”, “Foyer des loisirs et de l’oubli” and “Madeleines”. Throughout this journey, Nordic imaginary, heritage, fantastic literature and the author-narrator are discussed, to show how Archibald depicts a unique American and Nordic mythology specific to the Saguenay region in the province of Quebec.

Between 1900 and 1925 a score of young Southern historians graduated from Columbia University and quickly became the leading authorities on the subject of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Students of the eminent historian William A. Dunning, they included such influential authors as U. B. Phillips, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Charles W. Ramsdell, James W. Garner, and Joseph G. deRoulhac Hamilton. Producing over one-hundred works on the post-Civil War era, these Dunning students depicted Reconstruction as a time of horror for the South. A vindictive group of Northern Republicans, they argued, forced through Congress a series of Reconstruction acts designed to allow the inferior black man, only a few years out of "barbarism," the right to vote and to hold political office. Horrified by the presence of freedmen in politics, Dunning and his students insisted that the newly enfranchised Negroes, along with Northern carpetbaggers and Southern scalawags, began a decade of misrule through the former Confederate states by imposing exorbitant taxes on the landowning class and by squandering state treasures for selfish and criminal purposes. White Southerners became prosperous again, they concluded, only after political power returned securely to white hands. While the antipathy that these authors felt for American Negroes appeared frequently in their works, the major flaw in the writings of Dunning and his students lay not with their racial bias, but with their use of disreputable scholarship to justify that bias. Using history as a discipline to defend the status quo in 1900, members of the Dunning school distorted and fabricated factual information in order to exonerate the existence of segregation and disfranchisement during their lifetime. The historical scholarship of these authors, therefore, illustrates the enormous power historians exercise when justifying the contemporary beliefs of their era, but more importantly, it serves as a classic example of the problems inherent in presentist historical writing.

This dissertation explores the significance of law and religion to the Scottish Revolution through the career of Archibald Johnston of Wariston. As a lawyer committed to the defense of Scottish Presbyterianism against the Anglicanism of Charles I, Wariston epitomized the legal and religious objectives of the Revolution. While his importance to the Revolution is marked in the historiography, Wariston has received little specialized study. This work draws on manuscript collections from Edinburgh University Library, the National Archives of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland to reconstruct his vision of the Scottish constitution. As the most intimate source of his religious life, his diary is explored in a social and political context to construct a composite view of his private piety and his public policy. / Wariston joined visceral opposition to innovations in religious worship imposed by Charles I. He rose in prominence because his legal expertise was indispensable to a Revolution predicated on a constitutional challenge of the authority of the Crown. The Revolution was a nationalist revolt against an alleged English imperialism. Wariston's religious experience in the Revolution revealed that the Church was the touchstone for a revival of national consciousness of Scottish laws, courts, customs and history. Wariston participated in the rediscovery and reinterpretation of Scottish law to undo decades of Anglicized Crown reform in Church and State. / When war began in 1639 Wariston became central to intelligence gathering and the forging of a loose alliance with English opponents of Charles I. This intelligence network informed Scottish propaganda to England and proved decisive in turning English popular opinion against the King. In 1640 Charles was forced to abandon war and enter into the negotiations which led to the London Treaty of 1641. Wariston pursued two main objectives---Scottish independence and permanent institutions of Anglo-Scottish cooperation---to ensure Scottish influence in English policy. While the latter initiatives were deferred in the Treaty, the Revolution achieved independence and the preservation of Scottish Presbyterianism. This study finds that ideas of religion and law in the Revolution were shaped by the overarching imperative of independence and a renewed Scottish nationalism.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-336).

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Stripped of the intent of its author, L. Frank Baum, the children's fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was left to be understood only within a changing cultural construct. Historian Hayden White, arguing that the similarities between a novel and a work of history were more significant than their differences, insisted that history was preeminently a subsection of literature. According to White, historical narratives were manifestly verbal fictions, and the only acceptable grounds upon which the historian should choose his historical perspective were the moral and the aesthetic. White conflated historical consciousness with myth and blurred the boundary that had long divided history from fiction. Just as changing cultural concerns infused the Dorothy of Baum's children's literature with meaning so social, cultural, and moral imperatives came to dictate the content of historical stories particularly in the historiography of the Reconstruction era. The twenty first century conception of Reconstruction is different from the conception influential at the start of the twentieth. In assessing the scholarship of William A. Dunning, contemporary historians have adopted a new paradigm when describing the scholar's Reconstruction accounts. Modern commentators reject Dunning's authorial intention and the contextual framework needed to define it. Thus, Dunning has receded into the "realm of myth." Careful attendance to Dunning's historical context, contemporary audience, and his authorial intent, will reposition the perspective for analysis of Dunning's work. Removing Dunning from abstract analysis will allow historians to arrive at an understanding of his work, and view the importance of the real Dunning, rather than the fabricated image constructed from a partial and even fragmented reading of his work. / Taking Dunning on his own terms restores a meaningful past and brings into bas-relief the tremendous advances the U. S. of twenty first century has made in reshaping social and political patterns.Taking theReconstruction era on its own terms impels historians to move beyond Dunning and return in their research to revisit primary records and documents as they work to clear the grisly ground of Reconstruction historiography for further fruitful examination. / by Kathleen P. Barsalou. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, FL : 2008 Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The majority of the letters from Lord Milton quoted are copies which he kept of his more important communications. His main correspondent was the Earl of Ilay (1706), 3rd Duke of Argyll (1743). The Argyll papers at Inveraray Castle are unavailable. Ilay's papers apart from estate material are not at Inveraray, however, being included in his English estate and going to his mistress Mrs Anne Williams or Shireburn, then to her son by him, William Williams or Campbell, and then to the latter's son Archibald Campbell, who gave William Coxe access to them for his Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1798). After that these papers were lost (Sir Lewis Namier having failed to trace them in recent times) and might, if found, be disappointing in one respect, the injunction of Milton to Ilay being to burn his (Milton's) letters. Fortunately Ilay's letters to Milton are preserved in the latter's vast archives (the bulk of the Saltoun Papers at the National Library of Scotland). It is evident that Milton systematically stored every scrap of paper addressed to him. Milton is correctly described as plain Andrew Fletcher before he took the judicial title of Milton from part of his uncle's and father's estate of Salton (there already being a Lord Salton, in the Scots peerage). And his proper title during the centre of his career was, according to the usage of the time, "the Lord Justice Clerk", the designation of Milton not then applying. For simplicity's sake, however, he is referred to throughout as Milton. Similarly Ilay is always referred to as Ilay rather than Argyll to avoid confusing him with his brother the 2nd Duke of Argyll. And the 18th century spelling of Salton is preferred to the preciously antique form of Saltoun now prevailing. I am greatly indebted to Professor R. H. Campbell for his valuable advice and unstinting encouragement, and to Mrs Margaret Anderson, Dr Anand Chitnis, Dr Derek Dow, Dr Alastair Durie, Mrs Rita Hemphill, Mr Murdo MacDonald, Mr Michael Moss, Dr Alexander Murdoch, Miss Chris Robertson, Mr John Simpson, Miss Veronica Stokes, Mr Arnott Wilson, the Secretaries of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland and the staff of the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Record Office for their generous help and cooperation.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1998. / Caption title; description based on t.p. screen of 2009-09-06. Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org. Includes bibliographical references.

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