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Teaching The Lady’S Museum And Sophia: Imperialism, Early Feminism, And Beyond, Karenza Sutton-Bennett, Susan Carlile
Teaching The Lady’S Museum And Sophia: Imperialism, Early Feminism, And Beyond, Karenza Sutton-Bennett, Susan Carlile
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
This essay argues for the value of teaching Charlotte Lennox’s periodical The Lady’s Museum (1760-61) in undergraduate literature, history, media studies, postcolonial, and gender studies classrooms. Lennox’s magazine, which includes one of the first serialized novels “Harriot and Sophia” (later published as the stand-alone novel Sophia (1762)) encouraged debate of the proto-discipline topics of history, geography, literary criticism, astronomy, botany, and zoology. This essay offers a flexible teaching module, which can be taught in one to five days, that focuses on the themes of early female education and imperialism using full or excerpted portions of essays from the eidolon, “Of …
Mansfield Park By Kate Hamill (And Jane Austen), Christopher Nagle
Mansfield Park By Kate Hamill (And Jane Austen), Christopher Nagle
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
This article reviews the world premiere of Kate Hamill's Mansfield Park directed by Stuart Carden and produced for the Northlight Theatre in Chicago in November and December 2018. Hamill’s bold new adaptation is notable for foregrounding the contexts of empire and the slave trade undergirding the novel, and in ultimately offering a feminist fairy-tale of radical self-assertion and self-determination for its heroine.
Eighteenth-Century Camp Introduction, Ula Lukszo Klein, Emily Mn Kugler
Eighteenth-Century Camp Introduction, Ula Lukszo Klein, Emily Mn Kugler
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
A blend of the silly and the extravagant that puts the serious into conversation with the ridiculous, camp today is often signified by elements of eighteenth-century Europe with its elaborate hairstyles, exaggerated silhouettes, affected courtiers, and a rise in the consumption of exotic goods, candelabras, masks, and other markers of elite excess (often with a nod to the era’s demise in the form of either the French Revolution or subsequent Victorian strictures). Camp’s relation to queer modes of performance and its prioritization of style over (or in conjunction with) substance offers a queer aesthetic lens to re-evaluate the eighteenth century …
Review Of Barbara K. Seeber, Jane Austen And Animals, Lucinda Cole
Review Of Barbara K. Seeber, Jane Austen And Animals, Lucinda Cole
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
In this review of Barbara K. Seeber's Jane Austen and Animals (Ashgate, 2013) Lucinda Cole summarizes this foundational book and emphasizes the role of animal studies scholars in linking feminism and environmental issues.
Place And Contemplative Pedagogy, Laura Runge
Place And Contemplative Pedagogy, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Gender & Genre, Sharon Harrow
Gender & Genre, Sharon Harrow
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Dangerous Delusions, Nora Nachumi
Dangerous Delusions, Nora Nachumi
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Accessing Liberal Education, Alison Conway
Accessing Liberal Education, Alison Conway
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature As A Feminist Scholar In The New Millennium, Alison Conway, Sharon Harrow, Nora Nachumi, Laura Runge
Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature As A Feminist Scholar In The New Millennium, Alison Conway, Sharon Harrow, Nora Nachumi, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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‘The Only Beguiled Person’: Accessing Fantomina In The Feminist Classroom, Kate Levin
‘The Only Beguiled Person’: Accessing Fantomina In The Feminist Classroom, Kate Levin
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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