Morrison, Leslie(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
This project analyzes discourses of social legibility in eighteenth-century self-writing to argue that status-based conceptions of identity continued to influence perceptions of the self in society. Studies of the eighteenth ...
Throughout the 20th century, many of the territories colonized by once expansive European empires began to resist their colonial powers. Military resistance, peaceful diplomacy, non-violent civil disobedience, cultural ...
This dissertation examines the rhetoric employed by Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin who devise a top-down/bottom-up dialectic of social-justice writing which can be read as grassroots advocacy. The authors write with ...