Author: Sarah Meer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
American Claimants
Author: Sarah Meer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
American Claimants
Author: Sarah Meer
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198812515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This volume identifies a transatlantic literary form, the American Claimant narrative. The book traces the origins of the American claimant back to lost-heir romance, and then demonstrates its importance and pervasiveness in the nineteenth century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198812515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This volume identifies a transatlantic literary form, the American Claimant narrative. The book traces the origins of the American claimant back to lost-heir romance, and then demonstrates its importance and pervasiveness in the nineteenth century.
The North American Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North American review
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North American review
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Return of Alien Property
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enemy property
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enemy property
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
SSA Disability Decision Making
Author: E. Robertson Robert
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756739690
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Historically, the proportion of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) disability benefits claims that were approved has been lower for African-Americans than for whites. In 1992, GAO found that racial differences, largely at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level, could not be completely explained by factors related to the decisionmaking process. This report examines how race & other factors influence ALJ decisions & assesses SSA's ability to ensure the accuracy & fairness of ALJ decisions. GAO also makes recommendations for way that SSA can enhance its ALJ quality assurance reviews. Charts & tables.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756739690
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Historically, the proportion of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) disability benefits claims that were approved has been lower for African-Americans than for whites. In 1992, GAO found that racial differences, largely at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level, could not be completely explained by factors related to the decisionmaking process. This report examines how race & other factors influence ALJ decisions & assesses SSA's ability to ensure the accuracy & fairness of ALJ decisions. GAO also makes recommendations for way that SSA can enhance its ALJ quality assurance reviews. Charts & tables.
American Bankers Association Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The King's Friends
Author: Wallace Brown
Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This study seeks to primarily answer two questions: who were the Loyalists and why were they loyal? Some light may also be shown on the suffering of the Loyalists, their political philosophy, and the reasons for their failure. The author journeys through time investigating the "intrigues" in each state chiefly by examining the remaining records of the claims commission set up by the British government to indemnify American Loyalists for losses caused by the Revolution. -- Pref.
Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This study seeks to primarily answer two questions: who were the Loyalists and why were they loyal? Some light may also be shown on the suffering of the Loyalists, their political philosophy, and the reasons for their failure. The author journeys through time investigating the "intrigues" in each state chiefly by examining the remaining records of the claims commission set up by the British government to indemnify American Loyalists for losses caused by the Revolution. -- Pref.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Vessel and Shipowner Liability in Collisions of Other Maritime Casualities, Hearings ..., 88-1 ...., May 20, 22, 1963
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description