Sökning: "19th-century American literature"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden 19th-century American literature.
1. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849
Sammanfattning : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. LÄS MER
2. Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. LÄS MER
3. Mobergland. Personligt och politiskt i Vilhelm Mobergs utvandrarserie
Sammanfattning : This is a thesis on the Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973) and his renowned novel cycle about Swedish emigrants to the U.S.: Utvandrarna (1949), Invandrarna (1952), Nybyggarna (1956) and Sista brevet till Sverige (1959). LÄS MER
4. De sobremesa 1887-1896 : José Asunción Silva:El poeta novelista
Sammanfattning : José Asunción Silva is a Colombian poet most known for having renewed the metrics in Spanish poetry during the 19th century. José Asunción Silva's only novel, De sobremesa 1887-1896 [After dinner, 1887-1896] written in 1896 is a significant and representative modernist novel in the tradition of Latin-American modernismo. LÄS MER
5. George W. Bush : en (r)evolution i amerikansk utrikespolitik?
Sammanfattning : This PhD dissertation sets out to deepen our understanding of American foreign policy and to place the George W. Bush administration, its world view, ideology and war on terror in a historical perspective. The question is if George W. LÄS MER
