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"Pointing Wayfarers to the Right Road": Puritan Dissent and the Textual Work of Susannah Spurgeon
DownloadSpring 2021
This dissertation demonstrates the importance of recovering the work of nineteenth-century Dissenting women whose life and writing have been overshadowed and minimized by their husband’s pastoral ministry. Specifically, it examines the textual work of Susannah Spurgeon (1832-1903), wife of the...
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Periodicals in Early Nineteenth-Century Lower Canada: A Study of Samuel Hull Wilcocke’s the Scribbler in the Field of Cultural Production
DownloadSpring 2012
This dissertation takes as a case study Samuel Hull Wilcocke’s periodical the Scribbler (1821-1827) to examine the field of cultural production in Lower Canada into which the Scribbler emerged and existed. I study the influence that the government and the merchant class had over print publication...
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Voice of the Immigrant Bard: Social Commentary in Scottish Bardic Compositions in Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia
DownloadFall 2018
The poetry of the Scottish emigrant bards in the nineteenth century provides integral insight into the experience of the immigrant Scots in Nova Scotia. This thesis explores the role of the Scottish emigrant bards as social commentators; that is, how the narrative and bardic elements present...