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FROM CLASSICISM TO NEOCLASSICISM:
CICERO, SLAVERY, AND FICTIONS OF PERSONHOOD
IN THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
by
Olanna Carla Mills
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Olanna Carla Mills
Object Description
| Title | From Classicism to Neoclassicism: Cicero, slavery, and fictions of personhood in the writings of Charles Brockden Brown |
| Author | Mills, Olanna Carla |
| Author email | omills@usc.edu; olanna.mills@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Comparative Literature |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-24 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-07-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kamuf, Peggy |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rowe, John Carlos Habinek, Thomas N. Norindr, Panivong |
| Abstract | From Classicism to Neoclassicism: Cicero, Slavery, and Fictions of Personhood in the Writings of Charles Brockden Brown argues that the person of Cicero and the medium of Ciceronian oratory are useful for thinking about and working through the unsettled notions of personhood, law, and slavery in the U.S. during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The questions taken into consideration from a three-pronged analysis. The first works out the specific concerns in law regarding the legal notion of iniuria and its impact on the definition of the slave's status in ancient Rome. The second discusses the important details of Cicero's political ascent as a statesman and orator in antiquity and describes how thinking about Cicero became widespread and broadly diffused during the post-Revolutionary period in the U.S. Finally, the third form of thought that governs my inquiry is the examination of the persistence of the Ciceronian motif within the fictional narratives of Charles Brockden Brown. Viewing each of these questions in light of the specific legal crisis over race and racial identification, my dissertation explores how the appropriation of Cicero is being used to broaden, challenge, and foreclose notions of personhood and racial hierarchies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the U.S. |
| Keyword | race; slavery; law; iniuria; personhood |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage era | Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3169 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Mills, Olanna Carla |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Mills-3911 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Mills-3911.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | FROM CLASSICISM TO NEOCLASSICISM: CICERO, SLAVERY, AND FICTIONS OF PERSONHOOD IN THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN by Olanna Carla Mills A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Olanna Carla Mills |
