Deviant Society: The Self-Reliant "Other" in Transcendental America

This dissertation utilizes theories of deviance in conjunction with literary methods of reading and analyzing to study a range of deviant or transgressive characters in American literature of the 1840s and 50s. I justify this methodology on the basis of the intersecting and related histories of Eme...

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Main Author: Bhagwanani, Ashna
Language:en
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7736