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"A Kind Of Insanity In My Spirits": Frankenstein, Childhood, And Criminal Intent, Melissa J. Ganz
"A Kind Of Insanity In My Spirits": Frankenstein, Childhood, And Criminal Intent, Melissa J. Ganz
English Faculty Research and Publications
Criminal responsibility in England underwent an important shift between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Before this period, jurists focused less on whether a person meant to commit an act and more on whether the individual committed it. English law thus made little distinction between children and adults. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, however, criminal responsibility became linked to new ideas about human understanding. Jurists such as Matthew Hale and William Blackstone maintained that individuals could not be guilty of crimes unless they fully understood and intended the consequences of their actions. In this essay, I argue …
Missing Octavia: A Review Of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, And Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan
Missing Octavia: A Review Of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, And Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby
Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
Children's poetry is barely studied and barely taught, except as an instrumental teaching tool in colleges of education. American children's poetry, like American literature more generally, took on distinctive characteristics after about 1820, as more work was written and published by Americans. The practice of addressing adults and children together in volumes of poetry spanned the whole nineteenth century, although it was slightly more common during the antebellum period. Most scholarly work on the child like qualities of women authors stresses that, although the voice seems innocent, it is really an adult voice making an adult point. The few poems …
Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler
Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Hope, But Not For Us: Ecological Science Fiction And The End Of The World In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake And The Year Of The Flood, Gerry Canavan
Hope, But Not For Us: Ecological Science Fiction And The End Of The World In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake And The Year Of The Flood, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Drama And Catholic Themes, Edwin Block
Drama And Catholic Themes, Edwin Block
English Faculty Research and Publications
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The Land Of Give And Take, Tyler Farrell
The Land Of Give And Take, Tyler Farrell
English Faculty Research and Publications
In The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrell’s second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish, professors and proles. Their stories are told by an acute narrator, or often by the characters themselves, and as one poem says, “someone buys the story.” The reader buys these stories for their authenticity and pathos. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the churches claims, but recognizing that nothing else gives weight and meaning to the lives of these transient …
James Liddy: The Poet's Soul Purified, Tyler Farrell
James Liddy: The Poet's Soul Purified, Tyler Farrell
English Faculty Research and Publications
The author discusses the life and works of writer James Liddy. He notes that Liddy did more in poetry, catholicism and sexuality in Ireland and taught friends and students to embrace time and place, knowledge of history and religion as well as memory and awareness. The author also states that he was a poet who believed in real mortality, filled with truth and honesty.
Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies In Bram Stoker’S Dracula And The Lair Of The White Worm, Diane Hoeveler
Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies In Bram Stoker’S Dracula And The Lair Of The White Worm, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. Specifically, the essay examines racial theories, physiognomy, criminology, brain science, and sexology as they appear in Stoker’s two novels. Stoker owned a copy Johann Caspar Lavater’s five-volume edition of Essays on Physiognomy (1789), and declared himself to be a “believer of the science” of physiognomy. The second major “weird science” infecting the gothic works of Stoker is …
Ambitions And Text, Tyler Farrell
Ambitions And Text, Tyler Farrell
English Faculty Research and Publications
Reviews the book "Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague," edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw.