Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Buell, Lawrence"
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Colony Writing: Creative Community in the Age of Revolt
Roberts, Kathryn Susan (2016-05-18)This dissertation studies the impact of a form of literary patronage, domestic writers’ colonies, on U.S. literary production in first half of the twentieth century. I discuss Provincetown, Massachusetts; Taos and Santa ... -
Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church
Weimer, David E. (2016-02-29)Even as the Church of England lost ground to political dissent and New England gradually disestablished its state churches early in the nineteenth century, writers on both sides of the debates about church establishments ... -
Recovering Green in Bronzeville: An Environmental and Cultural History of the African American Great Migration to Chicago, 1915-1940
McCammack, Brian James (2013-02-14)Between 1915 and 1940, millions of African Americans migrated from the South to cities in the North. “Recovering Green in Bronzeville” examines the ways in which these migrants experienced, perceived, talked about, valued, ... -
State-Funded Fictions: The NEA and the Making of American Literature After 1965
Doherty, Margaret (2015-05-18)This dissertation studies the effects of a patronage institution, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program, on American literary production in the postwar era. Though American writers had long cultivated ...