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English Language and Literature

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Writing For The Rising Generation: British Fiction For Young People 1672–1839 By Sylvia Kasey Marks (Review), Deborah D. Rogers Oct 2006

Writing For The Rising Generation: British Fiction For Young People 1672–1839 By Sylvia Kasey Marks (Review), Deborah D. Rogers

English Faculty Scholarship

Restoration and eighteenth-century juvenile fiction has been neglected if not derided. The only children’s literature from this period that most of us are familiar with was written by a handful of authors (known primarily for their other fiction), such as Bunyan,Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth, and Sarah Fielding. Throw in Goody Two-Shoes and Mother Goose, and call it good.


Michel Henry's Phenomenology Of Aesthetic Experience, Jeremy H. Smith Jun 2006

Michel Henry's Phenomenology Of Aesthetic Experience, Jeremy H. Smith

English Faculty Scholarship

In 'Voir l'invisible' Michel Henry applies his philosophy of autoaffection to the realm of aesthetics. Henry claims that autoaffection, as nonobjective experience, is essential not only to self-experience, but also to the experience of objects and their qualities. On the basis of an examination of Henry's aesthetic theory in the light of Husserl's analysis of our experience of visible objects, I conclude that revisions are required in both Husserl's and Henry's approaches: Husserl's noema must be considered to be a lived-through experience, and nonobjective lived-through experience must be recognized as primordial evidence; Henry's claim that …