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Siting Speech: The Politics Of Imagining The Other In Meera Syal’S Anita And Me, Leila Neti Oct 2008

Siting Speech: The Politics Of Imagining The Other In Meera Syal’S Anita And Me, Leila Neti

Leila Neti

No abstract provided.


The Organismic State Against Itself: Schelling, Hegel And The Life Of Right, Joshua D. Lambier Apr 2008

The Organismic State Against Itself: Schelling, Hegel And The Life Of Right, Joshua D. Lambier

Joshua D Lambier

Focusing on the political thought of Schelling and Hegel – beginning with the early texts (1796–1802), then moving briefly to Hegel’s well known Philosophy of Right (1821) – this essay revisits the Romantic-Idealist theory of the organic state by returning to its genesis in the turbulent political, cultural and scientific debates of the post-Revolutionary period. Given the controversial nature of its historical (mis)appropriations, the organic idea of the state has become synonymous with totality and closure. This essay argues, however, that the contemporary rejection of organicism relies on narrow interpretations of Romantic and Idealist notions of organic life, interpretations that …


Harry Potter, Censorship, The Librarian, And The Book, Mary Freier Mar 2008

Harry Potter, Censorship, The Librarian, And The Book, Mary Freier

Mollie Freier

No abstract provided.


The Erotics Of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness In The Early Modern Period, Carmen Nocentelli Jan 2008

The Erotics Of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness In The Early Modern Period, Carmen Nocentelli

Carmen Nocentelli

This article explores the early modern vogue for intermarriage narratives, arguing that cross-cultural unions served as both a crucial instrument of and a privileged metaphor for European imperialism. Adapting medieval precedents to the exigencies of colonial governance and mercantile penetration, plots of interracial requitedness exorcized the specter of European “degeneration” abroad and legitimized the subordination of countries from which enormous profits could be extracted. At the same time, these popular narratives bolstered a regime of domestic heterosexuality that increasingly confined eroticism within the bounds of marriage. With their exotic backdrops and amorous exploits, they celebrated heteropatriarchy while racializing practices and …


"My Trouthe For To Holde—Allas, Allas!": Dorigen And Honor In The Franklin’S Tale.”, Alison Ganze Jan 2008

"My Trouthe For To Holde—Allas, Allas!": Dorigen And Honor In The Franklin’S Tale.”, Alison Ganze

Alison (Ganze) Langdon

Though others have explored in detail the deep and abiding concern with honor Arveragus and Aurelius evince in the tale, Dorigen’s own preoccupation with honor—no less significant in the tale’s exposition of trouthe—has not received much critical attention. Indeed, the question of Dorigen’s honor is often preempted by analysis of the (masculine) chivalric code of honor, which subsumes female honor within it. Yet an analysis of Dorigen’s promise to Aurelius and of her despairing complaint will reveal that she, too, participates in the same concept of trouthe that binds her male counterparts, one that privileges trouthe not simply as honor …


Apropos Doors, Janus And Tristram Shandy, Gene Washington Jan 2008

Apropos Doors, Janus And Tristram Shandy, Gene Washington

Gene Washington

Examines the use of doors in Laurence Sterne's famous novel, Tristram Shandy. Argues that Sterne uses doors in the Shandy household to make salient issues of class, social function and age.


Ephemeral Forms: E.S. Dallas, Novel Reading, And The Victorian Review, Rachel Buurma Dec 2007

Ephemeral Forms: E.S. Dallas, Novel Reading, And The Victorian Review, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

No abstract provided.


Hamlet's Debt To Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale: A Satire On Robert Cecil?, Rachel Hile Dec 2007

Hamlet's Debt To Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale: A Satire On Robert Cecil?, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.


"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin Dec 2007

"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

Notions of the sacred and the profane took on a particular significance in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century England. This period, chronologically circumscribed on one side by the Protestant Reformation and on the other by the Civil War, was a time of enormous religious change. These changes found articulation in the theatre of the period. Plays such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and Middleton’s A Game at Chess make significant use of historically specific understandings of Protestantism and Catholicism. Scholars have noted the religious aspects of these plays before, but what has garnered less critical attention is the manner …


Anonyma’S Authors, Rachel Buurma Dec 2007

Anonyma’S Authors, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

No abstract provided.


Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, And The Culture Of Celebrity.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2007

Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, And The Culture Of Celebrity.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

This essay examines intertextuality in writing (poetry especially) relating to Charlotte Smith, considering in detail how Smith appeared in the writings of other women writers. Smith's legacy was to inspire and people the poetry of her admirers and that legacy is a demonstrably gendered one. Her male admirers tended to wish to rescue her reputation from oblivion, while her female followers approach her as a source of inspiration and aspire to replicate her achievements in some way in their own work.


“Edmund Spenser, George Turberville, And Isabella Whitney Read Ovid’S Heroides.”, M. L. Stapleton Dec 2007

“Edmund Spenser, George Turberville, And Isabella Whitney Read Ovid’S Heroides.”, M. L. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

No abstract provided.