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Emily Stipes Watts Weir, Alison Marie 2015-09-25T20:15:44Z 2015-09-25T20:15:44Z 10000-01-01 1998 1998 "The theory of most analyses of ""spy fiction"" presumes that it emerged as a colonizing literature of the waning days of the British empire. This study, reading spy literature as a much earlier genre, examines American spy fiction as a genre which is both postcolonial and colonizing, reflecting the United States' quirky position as a former colony which began colonizing others even before it won its independence. Anxieties regarding the new social mobility, the freedom of the individual within society, and the increasing centralization of the government are among the many issues American spy fiction addressed through the liminal and paradoxical figure of the heroic spy." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9912425.pdf: 14946845 bytes, checksum: 646db6baf32ca688ed9b95213e92acc0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82778 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 253 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81497 (MiAaPQ)AAI9912425 eng American Studies The Spy in Early America: The Emergence of a Genre text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.