Creating an Asian-American mythology: storytelling in Amy Tan's fiction

Conard, Tammy S

Rituals of diagnosis : insanity, medicine, and violence in the American novel, 1799-1861

Alyea, Ty Robert (2014-08)

Rituals of Diagnosis argues that nineteenth-century America’s literary representations of madness and its diagnosis respond to interdisciplinary efforts at cultivating a national psychology. Uniting theological and ...

American callings : humanitarian selfhood in American literature from Reconstruction to the American century

Warren, Kathryn Hamilton (2010-12)

In "American Callings" I argue that late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American literature dealing with cross-cultural humanitarianism contains a strand that sought to rectify the potentially oppressive shortcomings ...

American Indian stereotypes in early western literature and the lasting influence on American culture.

Cotton, Lacy Noel. (2008-10-15)

This thesis commits to highlighting three major stereotypes concerning Native Americans, found in early western literature between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The three defining stereotypes of Native Americans ...