Date Thesis Awarded
5-2010
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
English
Advisor
Elizabeth Barnes
Committee Members
Jennifer Putzi
Carol Sheriff
Robert J. Scholnick
Abstract
Herman Melville's Civil War volume Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War occupies a unique place in American Civil War literature. Leah Fry's thesis explores the poetic methods of Melville's work as it relates to conventions of the time, and ultimately argues that Melville promotes a new form of patriotism within his volume. A patriotism of broad-mindedness, of humanity and of compassion emerge in Melville's poems of valor, battle, and heroism.
Recommended Citation
Fry, Leah, "Between Two Truths: Herman Melville's New Patriotism" (2010). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 725.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/725
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.