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The Current State Of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone Or Just Hiding Out?, Krista Ratcliffe
The Current State Of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone Or Just Hiding Out?, Krista Ratcliffe
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Frankenstein, Feminism, And Literary Theory, Diane Hoeveler
Frankenstein, Feminism, And Literary Theory, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
Cave ab homine unius libri, as the Latin epigram warns us: "beware the author of one book." Frankenstein has so overshadowed Mary Shelley's other books in the popular imagination that many readers believe - erroneously - that she is a one-book author. While this is decidedly not the case, Frankenstein has figured more importantly in the development of feminist literary theory than perhaps any other novel, with the possible exception of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. This essay will discuss the major feminist literary interpretations of the novel, beginning with Ellen Moers's landmark reading in Literary Women and then …
Teaching The Early Female Canon: Gothic Feminism In Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Austen, Dacre, And Shelley, Diane Hoeveler
Teaching The Early Female Canon: Gothic Feminism In Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Austen, Dacre, And Shelley, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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The Temple Of Morality: Thomas Holcroft And The Swerve Of Melodrama, Diane Hoeveler
The Temple Of Morality: Thomas Holcroft And The Swerve Of Melodrama, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Introduction To Approaches To Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British And American Traditions, Tamar Heller And Diane Hoeveler, Eds., Diane Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
Introduction To Approaches To Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British And American Traditions, Tamar Heller And Diane Hoeveler, Eds., Diane Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Tyranny Of Sentimental Form: Wollstonecraft’S Mary And The Gendering Of Anxiety, Diane Hoeveler
Tyranny Of Sentimental Form: Wollstonecraft’S Mary And The Gendering Of Anxiety, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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“Once I Would Have Gone Back … But Not Any Longer”: Nostalgia And Narrative Ethics In Wide Sargasso Sea, John Su
English Faculty Research and Publications
[Bertha is] necessary to the plot, but always she shrieks, howls, laughs horribly, attacks all and sundry—offstage. For me (and for you I hope) she must be right on stage. (Jean Rhys, Letters 156)
We need, therefore, a kind of parallel history of, let us say, victimisation, which would counter the history of success and victory. To memorize the victims of history—the sufferers, the humiliated, the forgotten—should be a task for all of us at the end of this century. (Paul Ricoeur, “Memory and Forgetting” 10-11)