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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
Oct. 1 | Travel Grants for Graduate Students
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Tang, Edward. "Revolutionary Legacies: History, Literature, and Memory in Nineteenth-Century America, 1820,1880," American Studies Program, New York University, January 1996.
The literary generations born during and after the American Revolution continually appropriated and transformed the meanings of the founders’ legacies. This project explores how James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Herman Melville interpreted the history and memory of the war within the political and cultural contexts of the nineteenth century. Charting historical changes within their fiction, they viewed the Revolution as a symbolic marker between a colonial past and their own times. They investigated the paradoxes of a democratic society that, for better and worse, the Revolution had aroused.
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