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Locating Modernity: Japonisme, Gender, and Enchantment at the 1893 World’s Fair

Tinch, Rebecca H.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336132958

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
Intersections of Japonisme, gender, and enchantment represent elements of emerging modernity in American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Locating the concept of modernity geographically and metaphorically in three locations at the 1893 World’s Fair illustrates points of origin for each of these elements. These locations include the Japanese Pavilion on the Wooded Island; the Women’s Building in the White City; and the Ferris wheel on the Midway. The ways that architects and designers shaped these locations and how they responded to them while the Fair was in progress and afterward provide case studies for understanding how these three geographical points of origin correspond to metaphorical societal shifts toward modernity in the late nineteenth century. Using a micro-historical analysis to examine the “watershed” cultural precedents associated with each location, one can discern how hybridity, ambivalence, and enchantment characterized emerging modernity in the United States in 1893.
Mary Frederickson, PhD (Advisor)
Kimberly Hamlin, PhD (Committee Member)
Marguerite Shaffer, PhD (Committee Member)
115 p.
Architecture; Art History; History
The 1893 World's Fair; modernity; Japonisme, gender; enchantment

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  • Tinch, R. H. (2012). Locating Modernity: Japonisme, Gender, and Enchantment at the 1893 World’s Fair [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336132958

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tinch, Rebecca. Locating Modernity: Japonisme, Gender, and Enchantment at the 1893 World’s Fair. 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336132958.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tinch, Rebecca. "Locating Modernity: Japonisme, Gender, and Enchantment at the 1893 World’s Fair." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336132958

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