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Everything Is Relative: Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow (Aunt Fanny) And Sarah Leaming Barrow Holly (Aunt Fanny's Daughter), Deidre A. Johnson
Everything Is Relative: Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow (Aunt Fanny) And Sarah Leaming Barrow Holly (Aunt Fanny's Daughter), Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
For more than forty years Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow's name – or, rather, that of her pseudonym, "Aunt Fanny" – remained before the public. In the 1850s and 1860s, she published five quirkily-titled series combining humor, moral instruction, and social awareness. By the 1870s and 1880s, her name was associated with children's charities and with club activities and literary salons. When she died in 1894, one obituary characterized her both as an author whose children's books "delighted the grandfathers and grandmothers of the present day" and as "a social star, known to everybody as 'Aunt Fanny.'" Yet even though her …
Whiteness In African American Antebellum Literature: An Enduring Imprint In The Lived And Literary Black Imagination, Elizabeth J. West
Whiteness In African American Antebellum Literature: An Enduring Imprint In The Lived And Literary Black Imagination, Elizabeth J. West
English Faculty Publications
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Emily Dickinson's Funeral And The Paradox Of Literary Fame, Paul Crumbley
Emily Dickinson's Funeral And The Paradox Of Literary Fame, Paul Crumbley
English Faculty Publications
In the months preceding her death on May 15, 1886, Emily Dickinson requested that Emily Brontë's poem "No coward soul is mine" be read at her funeral, thereby enlisting Brontë's defiant declaration of immortality in what can be interpreted as Dickinson's own equally defiant final statement on the relation of fame to enduring art. Dickinson expressed the logic behind this request four years earlier in an 1882 letter to Roberts Brothers editor Thomas Niles in which she refused his request for a "volume of poems" (L749b) and instead sent him "How happy is the little Stone" (Fr1570E), a poem in …
A Study In The Humor Of The Old Northeast: Joseph C. Neal's Charcoal Sketches And The Comic Urban Frontier Studies In American Humor, David E.E. Sloane
A Study In The Humor Of The Old Northeast: Joseph C. Neal's Charcoal Sketches And The Comic Urban Frontier Studies In American Humor, David E.E. Sloane
English Faculty Publications
Joseph C. Neal pioneered the urban frontier of the Old Northeast in depicting what he called "hard cases" from the Philadelphia slums in the long-overlooked Charcoal Sketches, first published in book form in 1838. His characters' inability to change with the times, their false and vulnerable toughness, and their urban vernacular language look forward to the humor of Mark Twain, political commentators, and radio and TV sitcoms. In Neal's work, the cash economy, the lightly ironic euphuistic character study, and metaphors of the city are used to describe the new social and ethical paradoxes of the urban-industrial world already emerging …
[Review Of The Book "Other People's Diasporas": Negotiating Race In Contemporary Irish And Irish American Culture By Sinead Moynihan], Kathleen Vejvoda
[Review Of The Book "Other People's Diasporas": Negotiating Race In Contemporary Irish And Irish American Culture By Sinead Moynihan], Kathleen Vejvoda
English Faculty Publications
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Juba’S “Black Face” / Lady Delacour’S “Mask”: Plotting Domesticity In Maria Edgeworth’S Belinda, Sharon Smith
Juba’S “Black Face” / Lady Delacour’S “Mask”: Plotting Domesticity In Maria Edgeworth’S Belinda, Sharon Smith
English Faculty Publications
In Belinda (1801), Maria Edgeworth forges parallel subplots between Juba, a former African slave residing in England, and Lady Delacour, a wealthy and dissipated London socialite, both of whom undergo a process of domestication during the course of the novel. The connection Edgeworth creates between these characters allows her to explore a version of womanhood that promotes domesticity by negotiating the boundary between domestic and public life; at the same time, however, it reveals the anxieties surrounding this understanding of womanhood. Edgeworth’s novel configures Lady Delacour as a plotting woman who bridges the public/private divide, revealing domesticity to be as …
Frenchifying The Frontier: Transnational Federalism In The Early West, Keri Holt
Frenchifying The Frontier: Transnational Federalism In The Early West, Keri Holt
English Faculty Publications
The antebellum West was a hotbed of literary activism. Western presses published more than one hundred local newspapers and literary magazines from the late 1820s through the 1850s. Cities such as Vidalia, Lexington, Marietta, New Orleans, and Cincinnati were thriving literary centers, boasting numerous bookshops, libraries, theaters, and literary societies, including the Semi-Colon and Buckeye clubs of Cincinnati, where members exhibited their western pride by discussing the work of local authors while drinking beverages from buckeye bowls.1 The “West” at this time was located much closer east and south than the West we know today. It encompassed, roughly, the …
Romantic Transports: Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism In Transatlantic Context, Rachel Carnell, Alison Tracy Hale
Romantic Transports: Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism In Transatlantic Context, Rachel Carnell, Alison Tracy Hale
English Faculty Publications
A literary criticism of several books including "Female Quixotism" by Tabitha Tenney, "The Female Quixote" by Charlotte Lennox, and "Angelina" by Maria Edgeworth is presented. According to the authors, these novels constitute a transatlantic genre which highlights the moral and cultural complexities faced by women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Particular focus is given to the novels' political contexts. Realism, the French Revolution, and republican government are also discussed.
Under English Eyes: The Disappearance Of Irishness In Conrad's The Secret Agent, Graham Macphee
Under English Eyes: The Disappearance Of Irishness In Conrad's The Secret Agent, Graham Macphee
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Performing Remediation: The Minstrel, The Camera, And The Octoroon, Adam Sonstegard
Performing Remediation: The Minstrel, The Camera, And The Octoroon, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
English Ethnicity And Race In Early Modern Drama, By Mary Floyd-Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (Book Review), Imtiaz Habib
English Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama," by Mary Floyd-Wilson.
Rhizome National Identity: "Scatlin's Psychic Defense' In Trainspotting, Jennifer Jeffers
Rhizome National Identity: "Scatlin's Psychic Defense' In Trainspotting, Jennifer Jeffers
English Faculty Publications
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Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas
Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Painting, Photography And Fidelity In The Tragic Muse, Adam Sonstegard
Painting, Photography And Fidelity In The Tragic Muse, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
Photographs can approach the elegance of paintings, but reproductions can show the distortion of photographs - so The Tragic Muse (1890) suggests, complicating critical understandings of James and visual art. Dramatizing artists' fidelity, James resists assuming that families, races, and genders provide similar options. Fidelity in art can mean 'infidelity' in life, lead to 'adulterated' reproductions, and impugn understandings of inherited and performed identities - concerns which resurface in The American Scene (1907) when James contemplates immigrant populations and in A Small Boy and Others (1913) when a family daguerreotype becomes evidence of his own fidelity.
The Heritage Arts Imperative, Barre Toelken
The Heritage Arts Imperative, Barre Toelken
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox
Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Otherness And Identity In The Victorian Novel, Michael Galchinsky
Otherness And Identity In The Victorian Novel, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Grace Aguilar’S Correspondence, Michael Galchinsky
Grace Aguilar’S Correspondence, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"Proving A Thing Even While You Contradict It": Fictions, Beliefs, And Legitimation In The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Robert P. Fletcher
"Proving A Thing Even While You Contradict It": Fictions, Beliefs, And Legitimation In The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Robert P. Fletcher
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The 'Vanity Fair' Of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, And The East In The Ladies’ Bazaar, Gary Dyer
The 'Vanity Fair' Of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, And The East In The Ladies’ Bazaar, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.