American Studies Seminar - 1978
The following American Studies Seminar research papers were written by
students in
the 1978 seminar, "Literature and Society in Jacksonian America: Writers
Confront the Marketplace," under the supervision of Stephen
Nissenbaum.
- "The Author's Mask: Anonymity and Pseudonymity, 1800-1860," by Angela
Von
Laue
- "The Batchelor Behind the Reveries," by Patrick Fitzgerald
- "Caroline Gilman, Editor and Author," by Betsy Steigerwald
- "The commercialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Barbara Ring
- "Horace Waters
and the Hymnal in Jacksonian America: The Popularization of Religious
Music," by George A. Ashur
- "The Jacksonian Magazine Editor: Man in the
Middle," by Brian David Huntley
- "The Jacksonian Satirist as Literary Entrepreneur," by William Adrian
- "The Pathfinder: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," by Roger M. Anderson
- "The poet as Editor: Park Benjamin and
the Birth of Romanticism," by John J. Valente, Jr.
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Since 1978, the Society has sponsored the American
Studies Seminar for a select
group of undergraduates from the five four-year colleges and universities
in Worcester: Assumption College, Clark University, the College of the
Holy Cross, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Worcester State College.
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