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Stephen C Behrendt

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"Orsamus Charles Dake: Nebraska's First Published Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2016

"Orsamus Charles Dake: Nebraska's First Published Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt

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"Poetry", Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2014

"Poetry", Stephen C. Behrendt

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Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt Feb 2014

Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt

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Advertised as an introduction to the poetry of Walt McDonald, The Waltz He Was Born For is also a celebration - of both the poetry and the man. Author of some twenty volumes and Poet Laureate of Texas, McDonald details a Southwest of dry hills, dark nights, tough working-class characters fiercely determined to retain their essential humanity amid trying circumstances. McDonald's poetry has always reflected his experience of the world as writer, warrior, family man, sage, and spiritual guide, counseling compassion and reconciliation.

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Originality And Influence In George Caleb Bingham's Art, Stephen C. Behrendt Feb 2014

Originality And Influence In George Caleb Bingham's Art, Stephen C. Behrendt

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The work of "the Missouri artist," George Caleb Bingham (1811-79), offers us a good opportunity for considering the broad subject of originality and influence in the arts. The combination of originality and convention in paintings such as Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, The Jolly Flatboatmen, and The County Election can tell us much about the dynamics of that branch of American art which sought to reconcile the inherited traditions of formal, academic European art with the often strikingly unconventional reality of a New World. Often condescendingly labeled "regional" art because of its frequently eclectic emphasis upon the local and the …

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Women Without Men: Barbara Hofland And The Economics Of Widowhood, Stephen C. Behrendt Feb 2014

Women Without Men: Barbara Hofland And The Economics Of Widowhood, Stephen C. Behrendt

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The appeal that appeared in the World in the spring of 1790 was unusual only in that its presence in a London paper offered the widow a relatively uncommon public advantage in securing funds to help her and her family cope with her widowhood. Widowhood itself was anything but uncommon at the time, and the dire straits hinted at in this single notice were familiar to countless women. Despite the existence of relatively egalitarian inheritance laws, property laws relating to marriage in Romantic-era Britain (c. 1780–1835) had grown less (rather than more) accommodating to the needs of widows and their …

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Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt Feb 2014

Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt

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Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …

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Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt Feb 2014

Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt

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The appearance of this volume by E. Maurice Bloch, the dean of Bingham studies, is a most significant event. Superseding Bloch's preliminary catalogue of 1967, this impressive new volume constitutes the definitive catalogue of Bingham's paintings. With more than 350 illustrations, including 23 in color, it provides a guide to both Bingham's familiar works and his lesser-known subjects, documenting the artist's development both as portraitist and as recorder of Western American subject matter. An insightful introductory essay of twenty-eight large, double-column pages presents Bingham .as man and artist, exploring the events and influences that shaped his art and effectively locating …

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"The Worst Disease": Blake's Tiriel, Stephen C. Behrendt Feb 2014

"The Worst Disease": Blake's Tiriel, Stephen C. Behrendt

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"Barbara Hofland As A Romantic-Era Provincial Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt Oct 2013

"Barbara Hofland As A Romantic-Era Provincial Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt

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Best remembered as a prolific author of prose for younger readers, the Sheffield author Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) also wrote and published poetry for adults throughout her career, work that illustrates the distinctive circumstances and challenges of the “provincial” writer attempting to negotiate in print both a conventional “literary” output and a complex fabric of local and occasional referentiality. Encouraged in Sheffield by James Montgomery, Hofland explored events, personages and poetic genres in ways that illuminate how Romantic-era provincial poets sought to generate and engage paying readerships by appealing in part to those readers’ fondness for the familiar, the recognizable, and …

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Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2009

Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

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This essay examines how poetic memorials by women writers written over the multiple generations of the Romantic period often seek to establish and sustain the individual writer's presence and authority as much as they aim to memorialize the memory of a lost forebear.

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"A Defect In Their Education": Blake, Haydon, And The Misguided British Audience.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2009

"A Defect In Their Education": Blake, Haydon, And The Misguided British Audience.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

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This essay examines the attitudes of William Blake and Benjamin Robert Haydon to the subject of grand-style history painting and traces their frustrations with an English viewing audience whose tastes both artists considered to be misguided, unimaginative, and generally hostile to the "highest" forms of visual art.

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Teaching Romanticism With Ict.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2009

Teaching Romanticism With Ict.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

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This pedagogical essay discusses a variety of resources, methods, and exercises for incorporating electronic, digital, and other instructional technology in the teaching of British Romanticism.

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'Peter Bell The Third': Contempt And Poetic Transfiguration.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2008

'Peter Bell The Third': Contempt And Poetic Transfiguration.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

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This essay examines Shelley's ambitious satirical poem, "Peter Bell the Third" (1819), tracing Shelley's careful satirical response to Wordsworth's Peter Bell (1819) and tracing Shelley's complex agenda in the poem for revealing his disappointment and dissatisfaction with the great poet whose works he had earlier admired so much.

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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

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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.

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Following Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets Through The Press.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2007

Following Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets Through The Press.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

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An examination of the evolution of the title pages to the ten editions of Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems that appeared during (and immediately after) Charlotte Smith's lifetime. The essay considers the aesthetic evolution of the title pages and what they reveal about Smith's growing status as a literary celebrity.

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Regionalism And The Realities Of Naming, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2007

Regionalism And The Realities Of Naming, Stephen C. Behrendt

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An Urn, A Teapot, And The Archaeology Of Romantic Reading.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2004

An Urn, A Teapot, And The Archaeology Of Romantic Reading.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

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This pedagogical essay discusses a comparative approach to teaching John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Joanna Baillie's "Lines to a Teapot" that helps to elucidate how conditioned expectations about gender and genre influence the ways in which readers respond to these two poems.

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