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Ren, Michele D. "Imperial Designs: The Victorian Home and the (Re)Vision of Empire in American Culture," American Studies, Washington State University, May 2000.
This project is an exploration of nineteenth-century domestic ideology and American “Manifest Destiny” and the ways in which these discourses have converged in American culture from the Antebellum era to the present. In the nineteenth-century, American “Imperial Designs” were articulated via wars with Mexico and Spain, foreign policies such as the Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door, and political platforms such as “The Back to Africa” and “Homestead” movements. Despite the various political movements, military escapades, and national policies that would seem to suggest that the United States in indeed, an “imperial power,” empire has been both “formative and disavowed” in most studies of the nation’s history. Likewise, in studies of American literature, the “home” as a discursive entity has been read as a repressive feminine space that (white) American men have sought to escape. The purpose of this study is to analyze the ways in which discourses of the “home” have been indispensable in creating and maintaining an American “empire,” despite the persistence of the myths of American Individualism and American Innocence which attempt to erase both home and empire.
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