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Title: "The Unfortunate Persons from St. Domingo" : Refugees from the Haitian Revolution and the Contradictions of Early American Politics
Description: This essay aims to show how the influx of refugees from the Haitian Revolution into the United States was a factor in changing US policies as they related to the practice of human bondage.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31902

Title: Amorous Complaint in A Simple Story: A Manipulation and Rejection of Traditional Gender Roles
Description: This essay looks at the the effect of perspective and identity in writing, particularly as it relates to issues of gender and sexuality.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31901

Title: Biopolitics and the Experience of the Cambodian Genocide
Description: This essay discusses the Cambodian Genocide in relation to international and legal definitions of Genocide and the philosophical, political and humanitarian implications of those definitions.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31904

Title: Hunting for a Hen: Bird Imagery and Erotic Connotations in Rembrandt, Snyders and Dow
Description: This essay explors the erotic connotations of bird imagery in the works of 17th century European painters.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31905

Title: Matter, Agency, and Transcendence in Milton's Prose and Verse
Description: In contrast to critics who characterize John Milton's work as unconcerned with the material world, this essay argues that the material world is crucial to Milton's conception of the sublime.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31903

Title: Milton and the Disintegration of the Public Space
Description: I examine the role of writing and the poet in creating knowledge through an analysis of Milton’s history of the public sphere. I
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:30067

Title: The Grinnell Beowulf: A Translation with Notes (Recorded Discussions), Grinnell Beowulf Reading Group (Recorded Discussions)
Description: Panel discussions concerning the Grinnell Beowulf translation project and process, featuring translators Timothy D. Arner, Eva Dawson, Emily Johnson, Jeanette Miller, Logan Shearer, Aniela Wendt, and Kate Whitman on March 3, 10, and 31, 2014.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:5650

Title: The Grinnell Beowulf: A Translation with Notes (Recorded Reading)
Description: A translation of Beowulf with notes by Timothy D. Arner, Eva Dawson, Emily Johnson, Jeanette Miller, Logan Shearer, Aniela Wendt, and Kate Whitman read aloud by the translators.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:5593

Title: Translating Identities: The Poetry of Angel Island
Description: This essay provides a context for and English translation of 11 poems written by Chinese immigrants to the United States who were detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31899