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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Casey, Brian W. "Romantic Campus: Emotion and the American College, 1880-1940," History of American Civilization, Harvard University, May 2000.
This dissertation addresses popular understandings of college life, college campuses and collegiate culture in America during the period 1880-1940. It concerns itself with the emotions and sentiments that circulated around American colleges at this time as a large number of people (both those who attend colleges and those who were aware of the idea of college only from a distance) became willing, or convinced, to see the campus as an other-worldly and “romantic” place. It reconstructs the process through which the American college, particularly “elite”, East Coast colleges, become popularly linked with a potent mix of sentimentality, nostalgia and wistfulness, an association that not only dramatically transformed the appearance of the American campus, but also shaped the experience of those who attended college during this period. The dissertation also focuses on “romantic” responses to college as a cultural form. It charts the course of personal reactions to college and the campus in American culture during this century, eventually setting forth the process through which the college became widely thought of as a place best responded to emotionally or sentimentally.
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