“The Woman” And The Women Of Sherlock Holmes,
2014
James Madison University
“The Woman” And The Women Of Sherlock Holmes, Cassandra Poole
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)
Women appear in nearly every Sherlock Holmes novel and short story. The vast majority are victims. Against the recurring oppression of women and women’s sexuality in the Holmes canon, a few exceptional female characters escape their Victorian gender roles. One rises above all others. She is “the woman,” Irene Adler, whose strength, intelligence, and independence have made her a recurring star in extra-canonical books, television shows, film adaptations, and Sherlockian fan fiction. This essay focuses on women and women’s sexuality within and beyond the Holmes canon to explore our enduring fascination with “the only woman to ever best Sherlock Holmes.”
The Vastness Of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits Of The Artist As A Child Enclosed,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Vastness Of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits Of The Artist As A Child Enclosed, Matthew John Burgess
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
A tent of bed sheets, a furniture fort, a corner of the closet surrounded by chosen objects--the child finds or fashions these spaces and within them daydreaming begins. What do small spaces signify for the child, and why do scenes of enclosure emerge in autobiographical self-portraits of the artist? Sigmund Freud's theory that the literary vocation can be traced to childhood experiences is at the heart of this project, especially his observation that "the child at play behaves like a writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or rather, re-arranges the things of this world in a …
The Advance Of The Mobile Woman: Representations Of British Women's Physical Mobility, 1660-1820,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Advance Of The Mobile Woman: Representations Of British Women's Physical Mobility, 1660-1820, Amanda Booth Springs
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Britain's long eighteenth century (1660-1820) underwent an infrastructure and transportation revolution. Over the same period of time, scholars argue, the ideology of "the domestic woman" grew increasingly prevalent. This dissertation explores the improvements to roadways and representations of the various ways in which British women of the period increasingly utilized transportation, equestrianism, and pedestrianism to traverse the nation, which was also reflected in the development of traveling clothing for women. It argues that these literary and pictorial representations depict the tensions around women's increasing capacity for physical movement, contending that the ideology of the domestic woman was largely reactionary rhetoric …
The Poetics Of Existential Nihilism: Philosophical Inquiry Into The Devaluation Of Existence In W.H. Auden's Poetry,
2014
Kencholia Teacher Training College
The Poetics Of Existential Nihilism: Philosophical Inquiry Into The Devaluation Of Existence In W.H. Auden's Poetry, Oscar C. Labang
Dr. Oscar C. Labang
No abstract provided.
Collapsing The Secret Self: Thackeray's The History Of Pendennis As A Performative Parody,
2014
Seton Hall University
Collapsing The Secret Self: Thackeray's The History Of Pendennis As A Performative Parody, Rachel Freire
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
By collapsing the distinctions between private and public as he presents individual interiority as yet another performance, Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis undercuts disciplinary individualism, so that performances are not the product of social regulation but rather are as genuine as any presumed private thoughts or feelings. Pendennis actively performs the dissolution of interiority, as it thematically and stylistically enacts the awkwardness of genuine affectation as a routine and unavoidable reality of modern life. Reveling in the discomfort that accompanies the absence of secrecy, Thackeray parodies the privileging of secrecy and one’s interior self that pervades the Bildung genre he …
Twin Core: An Exploration Of Twins In The Wizarding World,
2014
University of New Orleans
Twin Core: An Exploration Of Twins In The Wizarding World, Carol R. Eshleman
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The motif of twins is one that permeates strongly throughout the Harry Potter series. Fred and George as a pair are immensely popular with fans, and the “very curious” twinship of Harry and Voldemort’s wands is a relationship greatly explored in the saga. In my paper, I shall further explore this prominent Potter motif and delve into the origins and symbolism behind this twinship. I will also recall the dark conclusion to the tale of the Weasley twins. The death of Fred as related to the series’ theme as a whole and the death of Harry in the attempt to …
Review Of Bonnie Latimer, Making Gender, Culture, And The Self In The Fiction Of Samuel Richardson: The Novel Individual,
2014
Kingston University
Review Of Bonnie Latimer, Making Gender, Culture, And The Self In The Fiction Of Samuel Richardson: The Novel Individual, Karen Lipsedge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Latimer’s Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson answers a need in eighteenth-century Richardsonian studies. It is also a thoughtful and long overdue study, which deserves praise and attention. Latimer provides the reader with a greater understanding of the notion of female individuality in Richardson’s novels, and also of eighteenth-century culture and contemporary literature. Her research is gratifying in its level of detail, and she is deft in showing correspondences between eighteenth-century culture, fiction and Richardson’s novels. Although Sir Charles Grandison lies at the heart of this study, Latimer is equally skilful in devoting attention …
Novels, Philosophies, And Sex,
2014
University of Melbourne
Novels, Philosophies, And Sex, Aleksondra Hultquist
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Enit Karafili Steiner, Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender, And The Civilizing Process,
2014
Pomona College
Review Of Enit Karafili Steiner, Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender, And The Civilizing Process, Sarah Raff
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Paula Backscheider, Elizabeth Singer Rowe And The Development Of The English Novel,
2014
Aberystwyth University
Review Of Paula Backscheider, Elizabeth Singer Rowe And The Development Of The English Novel, Sarah H. Prescott
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Carol Stewart (Ed.), The Rash Resolve And Life's Progress,
2014
Simon Fraser University
Review Of Carol Stewart (Ed.), The Rash Resolve And Life's Progress, Sarah R. Creel
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
This review gives an overview of Carol Stewart's edition of Eliza Haywood's The Rash Resolve and Life's Progress. Providing a modern edition of these texts in print for the first time, Stewart's edition brings the two novels to life with careful attention to historical and contextual details.
You’Re An Austen Heroine! Engaging Students With Past And Present,
2014
St. Lawrence University
You’Re An Austen Heroine! Engaging Students With Past And Present, Caroline Breashears
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
In my senior seminar on Jane Austen, I seek to engage students in multiple ways. On one hand, I want them to connect with Austen’s world and to reflect on what it means to them; on the other hand, I want them to understand the very real differences of that world and how they inform her novels. One strategy for engaging students in these ways is through interactive games. Studies have shown that many modern games have features similar to those stressed by engaged learning, so game design can be adapted for pedagogical purposes. I discuss the purposes, design, and …
Teaching Willmore,
2014
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Teaching Willmore, James Evans
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Teaching Aphra Behn’s The Rover for nearly four decades, I have witnessed a considerable shift in students’ attitudes toward the play, especially toward Willmore. More positive about his character in the 1970s and 1980s, they have had a much more negative assessment since then. The only available video version, the Women’s Theatre Trust production, compounds my pedagogical problem through filming techniques and choice of actor; emphasizing male violence against women, its interpretation parallels feminist criticism of the 1990s. Asking students to examine theater history may lead them to see that Behn does not completely match this ideological paradigm. The original …
Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head: Science And The Dual Affliction Of Minute Sympathy,
2014
Mills College
Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head: Science And The Dual Affliction Of Minute Sympathy, Kelli M. Holt
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Greatly illustrative of Adam Smith’s statement in his Theory of Moral Sentiments that the sympathizer must “adopt the whole case of his companion with all its minutest incidents; and strive to render as perfect as possible that imaginary change of situation upon which his sympathy is founded”––while also complementing notions of feeling from the work of Anna Barbauld––Beachy Head and its minutiae “renders” an utterly sympathetic argument, one void of gender conventions, that comments on nature's inhuman and human condition.
The Secret Life Of Archives: Sally Siddons, Sir Thomas Lawrence, And The Material Of Memory,
2014
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
The Secret Life Of Archives: Sally Siddons, Sir Thomas Lawrence, And The Material Of Memory, Laura Engel
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
This essay is in two parts, in the first I attempt to map out strategies for considering archival materials through the lens of performance, and in the second I enact or perform some of those strategies through a close reading of a letter from Sally Siddons, daughter of the famous actress Sarah Siddons, to the renown portrait painter and rakish bad boy, Sir Thomas Lawrence. I present a methodology that considers archival researchers as tourists who approach archival objects and images as material for curating a virtual exhibition. I argue that this strategy allows us to recognize and attempt to …
Adrianne Wadewitz, 1977-2014,
2014
University of South Florida
Adrianne Wadewitz, 1977-2014, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Roundtable - Seamus Heaney: A Tribute,
2014
Bridgewater State University
Roundtable - Seamus Heaney: A Tribute, Ellen Scheible
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton And The Incarnational Poetics Of Revolutionary England, By Bryan Hampton Adams,
2014
Messiah College
Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton And The Incarnational Poetics Of Revolutionary England, By Bryan Hampton Adams, Samuel Smith
English Faculty Scholarship
The subtitle of Fleshly Tabernacles could have easily substituted "Hermeneutics" for "Poetics," since it becomes clear that for Bryan Adams Hampton the acts of reading and writing are in practice as inseparable as the monist's soul and body or the divine and human natures of the Christ as understood by Christian orthodoxy. But, in fact, this book's primary concern is with reading texts, primarily biblical texts and Milton's texts, and with how virtuous readers incarnate the truths they discern in the texts they read. This instances one of a number of hermeneutical circles, in that readers become virtuous by incarnating …
A Mirror For Spectators: The Dramaturgy Of Participation And Unreliable Mirror Figures In Sixteenth-Century Drama,
2014
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
A Mirror For Spectators: The Dramaturgy Of Participation And Unreliable Mirror Figures In Sixteenth-Century Drama, Virginia Hanlon Murphy
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines mirror figures in three interlude dramas and two of Shakespeare’s histories. I argue that these plays use characters who function as spectators by interpreting the dramatic action. Each mirror figure, however, makes unreliable interpretations that force the audience to reject their assessments. The plays offer no characters to act as alternatives to the unreliable mirror figures, and as a result, the audience must step in to make their own judgment of the plays’ messages. This creates a dramaturgy of participation as the playwrights constantly provoke the audience to actively engage with the action on stage and challenge …
Middle-Earth's War On Terror: A Post-9/11 Reception Study On The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien,
2014
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Middle-Earth's War On Terror: A Post-9/11 Reception Study On The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien, James William Peebles
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates how Americans can and do interpret Tolkien's works in light of 9/11 and its proximity to Peter Jackson's film adaptations hitting theaters.
