Search for dissertations about: "Catharine Maria Sedgwick"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

  2. 1. The Nation Conceived : Learning, Education, and Nationhood in American Historical Novels of the 1820s

    Author : Johanna McElwee; Rolf Lundén; Erik Löfroth; Shirley Samuels; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; United States; education; learning; historical fiction; antebellum literature; national identity; anti-intellectualism; Lydia Maria Child; James Fenimore Cooper; Catharine Maria Sedgwick; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study explores the role of learning and education in American historical fiction written in the 1820s. The United States has been, and still is, commonly considered to be hostile to scholarly learning. READ MORE

  4. 2. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

    Author : Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. READ MORE