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Spring 2022
This dissertation reads the informational ethos of authors Herman Melville and Walt Whitman through the lens of critical data studies and surveillance studies, examining how emerging data cultures in the nineteenth century gave rise to new subjectivities. The study situates these authors at a...
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Genre and the representation of violence in American Civil War texts by Edmund Wright, John William De Forest, and Henry James
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This dissertation investigates the relationship between genre and the representation of war-time violence in five texts written during and shortly after the United States Civil War (1861-1865). The texts are The Narrative of Edmund Wright (1864), John William De Forest’s Miss Ravenel’s Conversion...