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Love Against Substitution: John Milton, Aphra Behn, And The Political Theology Of Conjugal Narratives, Eric B. Song
Love Against Substitution: John Milton, Aphra Behn, And The Political Theology Of Conjugal Narratives, Eric B. Song
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He Made The Books And He Died: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Faulkner's Death, Philip M. Weinstein
He Made The Books And He Died: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Faulkner's Death, Philip M. Weinstein
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Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan
Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan
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This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices. In seeking out nineteenth-century models for twenty-first-century critical practice, these critics imagine a world in which English literature never became a discipline. Some see these new methods as formalist, yet we argue that they actually emerge from historicist self-critique. Specifically, these contemporary critics view the historicist projects of the 1980s as overly influenced by disciplinary models of textual interpretation models that first arose, we show through our reading of the Jolly …
The View From Somewhere, Philip M. Weinstein
The View From Somewhere, Philip M. Weinstein
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The View from Nowhere is the title of Thomas Nagel's influential 1986 study of the quest for objectivity in philosophic endeavors. Nagel grants that each people sees from nowhere, yet he explores why they might still pursue a view from nowhere. Here, Weinstein argues the value of what one sees from one's embedded position.
The Real Thing, Nathalie Anderson
The Real Thing, Nathalie Anderson
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Rant, Nathalie Anderson
"Unspeakable Desire To See, And Know": Paradise Regained And The Political Theology Of Privacy, Eric B. Song
"Unspeakable Desire To See, And Know": Paradise Regained And The Political Theology Of Privacy, Eric B. Song
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In this essay, Eric B. Song considers the artistic, religious, and political value of privacy in Paradise Regained. The topic of privacy condenses Milton's thinking about gender and sexuality, domesticity, the fraught work of publishing intimate truths, and the relationship between Christian and Hebraic modes of religious polity. The depiction of privacy in Paradise Regained relates not only to Milton's earlier poetry and prose but also to twentieth-century theories of private and public life that contrast classical and modern societies. The productive friction between Milton's religious convictions and his advocacy for personal liberty speaks to controversies that persist in present-day …
Kyoto, Without Me, Nathalie Anderson
Kyoto, Without Me, Nathalie Anderson
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Victorian Dreaming, Nathalie Anderson
Victorian Dreaming, Nathalie Anderson
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Review Of "The Problem South: Region, Empire, And The New Liberal State, 1880-1930" By N. J. Ring, Peter Schmidt
Review Of "The Problem South: Region, Empire, And The New Liberal State, 1880-1930" By N. J. Ring, Peter Schmidt
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Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Sagner Buurma
Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Sagner Buurma
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“Publishing the Victorian Novel” looks to the methods of book history and literary criticism to ask how we might understand the ways Victorian publishers and authors (alongside editors, publishers’ readers, librarians, and booksellers) worked together to make novels. Paying attention to both the material and literary aspects of this making, the essay examines a few different scenes of novel publication with a particular focus on the way Victorian novelists, publishers, and reading publics understood aspects of the publication process like the serialization of novels, the three-volume novel, and the authority of the novelist and publisher. In an attempt to capture …