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Irish Author Maria Edgeworth

In ten pages this paper examines the life, times, and novels of nineteenth century author Maria Edgeworth. Nine sources are cited...

Slavery Abolition Debates

In eight pages debates during the nineteenth century regarding abolishing slavery are examined in the debates and writings of Walk...

Nineteenth Century South and Slavery

In five pages this paper examines narratives by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass in a consideration of nineteenth century sla...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

Significance of Nineteenth Century Women

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Separate Spheres and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Benita Eisler’s The Lowell Offering

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

Methodology of Anna Julia Cooper

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

Theodore Chasseriau's Andromeda

killed the Gorgon Medusa, rescued Andromeda, slaying the monster. As indicated above, Chasseriaus work has been viewed as a brid...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Nineteenth Century Art and Modernity

During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...

The French Revolution and Changing Alliances

The French Revolution had a reverberating effect not just on France but on the world. State relations changed dramatically during...

Lincoln on Government

Presidency of the United States of America on March 4, 1861, seven southern slave states had already succeeded from the Union form...

Erosion of the Exclusionary Rule Protection

This paper examines cases dating back to the nineteenth century as the author considers the meaning and application of the exclusi...

History of New York Gangs

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Commentaries on Taiwan

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

Modern Women, Feminism, and the Heroines of Madame Bovary, The Scarlet Letter, and Pride and Prejudice

This paper examines the feminist aspects of these nineteenth century novels in a comparative analysis of Emma Bovary, Hester Prynn...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Defining Equality

This paper explores the words of key nineteenth century Americans like William Graham Sumner, Chief Joseph, and Frederick Douglass...

"Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

Education Reform and the Decline of Moral Education

Starting with the common school movement of the nineteenth century, the author of this paper discusses how the emphasis on moral e...

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...

Immigrants and Minorities in Editorial Cartoons

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of editorial cartoons that were published during the late nineteenth and early...

A Critique of Marriage, Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...