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Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz
Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
In this paper I will challenge the dominant reading of Pamela that argues that Richardson constructs an interiorized character in Pamela through her letters and her occupation of the private space of the closet. I will contend, on the other hand, that Pamela does not have an independent, identifiable private self because of the performative nature of her letters and her movements; she develops subjectivity only when she performs. Furthermore, she performs various ‘roles’ such as maid, wife and lover, thus not inhabiting any one identity. Pamela does not so much present either a publication of the private or a …
Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz
Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
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The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(S) Of Blake’S And Paine’S Theosophies, Adrianne Wadewitz
The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(S) Of Blake’S And Paine’S Theosophies, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
Emphasizing a conflict between Paine the rationalist and Blake the prophet, scholars studying the relationship between Blake’s and Paine’s religious writings have chosen to focus more heavily on the political rather than the religious aspects of the texts. For example, John Coates writes that ‘Paine and Blake epitomise the two poles of a revolutionary dialectic between political pragmatism, action, rational planning on the one hand, and on the other, the constant need for visionary flexibility, a relation to change as a whole process, rather than one final goal’ (Woodcock and Coates, Combative Styles 104-5). This is, I believe, a simplified …