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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
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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 …
Review [Of Writing Across Borders], Beth Godbee, Kate Vieira
Review [Of Writing Across Borders], Beth Godbee, Kate Vieira
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Review Of Wordsworth In American Literary Culture By Joel Scott And Matthew Pace, Angela Sorby
Review Of Wordsworth In American Literary Culture By Joel Scott And Matthew Pace, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Approaches To Teaching The Brontës One More Time, Diane Hoeveler
Approaches To Teaching The Brontës One More Time, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
Instructors of courses on the Brontë family now have another large encyclopedic resource to use in their teaching of the lives and works of the family. Like Heather Glen’s recently published Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (2002), this companion surveys the lives and writings of all of the family, including the father, Patrick, and brother, Branwell, while also covering some of the minute details in the works of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. The question that I will address here is not which companion to use but how to use this particular resource. Of what use to instructors …
W.E.B. Du Bois's Unamerican End, Jodi Melamed
W.E.B. Du Bois's Unamerican End, Jodi Melamed
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Beyond Lore: A Call For Tutor Research, Beth Godbee
Beyond Lore: A Call For Tutor Research, Beth Godbee
English Faculty Research and Publications
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"A Strange Opposition": The Portrait Of A Lady And The Divorce Debates, Melissa J. Ganz
"A Strange Opposition": The Portrait Of A Lady And The Divorce Debates, Melissa J. Ganz
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Edited By Christopher John Murray; And A Companion To European Romanticism, Edited By Michael Ferber, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
Few students of Coleridge know the dark, mysterious poetry of the later years better than Eric Wilson. And even fewer have a stronger command of the scholarship on this poetry. Understandably, the work of the pre-1800 years, especially the great trio of the imaginative and the supernatural—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan—and the earlier conversation poems, have received major critical attention. Yet although these poems bring to the fore the troubling presence of Sara in “Eolian Harp” and the distressing violations of the Mariner and of the innocent Christabel by the serpent-woman Geraldine, …
Introduction [To Eliza Parson's "The Castle Of Wolfenbach: A German Story"], Diane Hoeveler
Introduction [To Eliza Parson's "The Castle Of Wolfenbach: A German Story"], Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Mapping Orientalism: Representations And Pedagogies, Diane Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass
Mapping Orientalism: Representations And Pedagogies, Diane Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass
English Faculty Research and Publications
In order to understand Orientalism it is necessary to realize, as Vincent T. Harlow has noted, that there were “two British empires.” The first empire consisted of the colonies in America and the West Indies and was established in the seventeenth century, with the explorations in the Pacific, and the trading networks that developed with Asia and Africa. The “second British empire” dates from 1783 and resulted from the loss of America, which in turn forced Britain to formulate new ideas about and approaches to its empire. The Colonial Office was set up in 1801, and, as Harlow observed, Britain …
The Female Captivity Narrative: Blood, Water, And Orientalism, Diane Hoeveler
The Female Captivity Narrative: Blood, Water, And Orientalism, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
The story of how Europeans institutionalized, commodified, and controlled their anxious projections about Muslim "Others" is a long, complex, and ultimately tragic saga that the term "Orientalism" only partially conveys. Historians as well as literary, religious, political, and cultural critics have attempted for close to four hundred years to come to terms with the meaning of Islam and more broadly with the challenges that the Eastern world presents to the West. More importantly for the purposes of this essay, it is necessary to recognize that the binary model (Self/Other) adopted by Edward Said to define Orientalism has been challenged and …
Review [Of Reading The Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, And The Constraints Of Culture By Beth Torgerson], Diane Hoeveler
Review [Of Reading The Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, And The Constraints Of Culture By Beth Torgerson], Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Preface [To Libraries And Culture, Winter 2006], Sarah Wadsworth
Preface [To Libraries And Culture, Winter 2006], Sarah Wadsworth
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry In The Woman's Building Library, Angela Sorby
Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry In The Woman's Building Library, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
Late-nineteenth-century women poets shed midcentury sentimentality unevenly and at some cost, losing a sense of privacy, a (Christian) frame of reference, and an "imagined community" of women who shared their worldview. They also gained more public, secular, and professional sources of identity. The exact nature of this postsentimental self was unclear. Postsentimental poets often wrote in the "genteel tradition," which trumpeted eternal truth and beauty while working from a position of subjective instability. Ultimately, their verses must be seen as powerfully fluid and transitional, registering (like the Woman's Building Library) women's struggle to inhabit more public forms of authority.
Breathing Out Smoke, Angela Sorby
Breathing Out Smoke, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
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The Cover, Sarah Wadsworth
The Cover, Sarah Wadsworth
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Theories Of Creativity And The Saga Of Charlotte Brontë, Diane Hoeveler
Theories Of Creativity And The Saga Of Charlotte Brontë, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Teaching Wuthering Heights As Fantasy, Trauma, And Dream Work, Diane Hoeveler
Teaching Wuthering Heights As Fantasy, Trauma, And Dream Work, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.