Secular Chains: Poetry And The Politics Of Religion From Milton To Pope / Philip Connell,
2017
Clemson University
Secular Chains: Poetry And The Politics Of Religion From Milton To Pope / Philip Connell, Doug Depalma
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
The Anti-Brexit Cymbeline / Royal Shakespeare Company,
2017
Clemson University
The Anti-Brexit Cymbeline / Royal Shakespeare Company, Rachel Ellen Clark
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Shakespeare's Dead / Simon Palfrey And Emma Smith,
2017
Clemson University
Shakespeare's Dead / Simon Palfrey And Emma Smith, Catherine E. Thomas
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
King And Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle Of Kings / Brooklyn Academy Of Music,
2017
Clemson University
King And Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle Of Kings / Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, Joey Burley, Kaylor Montgomery, Will Sly, Ashley Van Hesteren
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Imaginary Transparency: Some Reflections On The Editing Of Early Modern Women’S Drama,
2017
Clemson University
Imaginary Transparency: Some Reflections On The Editing Of Early Modern Women’S Drama, Clare R. Kinney
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Embodying Character, Adapting Communication; Or, The Senses And Sensibilities Of Epistolarity And New Media In The Classroom,
2017
Xavier University
Embodying Character, Adapting Communication; Or, The Senses And Sensibilities Of Epistolarity And New Media In The Classroom, Jodi L. Wyett
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This essay describes a classroom role-playing activity that incorporates both modern social media and the tools of eighteenth-century composition. Students communicate with each other as characters in the assigned novel, by either texting, tweeting, or writing longhand with quill pens. The exercise aims to help students grasp the sometimes-elusive historical contexts of eighteenth-century writing as well as the ways in which we interpret and adapt those contexts and their attendant modes of communication when we read for meaning in our own moment. My experiences suggest that the activity is particularly effective at helping students to reflect upon their own interpretive …
Embodying Gender And Class In Public Spaces Through An Active Learning Activity: “Out And About In The Eighteenth Century",
2017
Boise State University
Embodying Gender And Class In Public Spaces Through An Active Learning Activity: “Out And About In The Eighteenth Century", Ann Campbell
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This article explains how and why the learning activity "out and about in the eighteenth century" fosters students' understanding of historical and cultural issues related to gender and class in eighteenth-century novels.
“Less Of The Heroine Than The Woman”: Parsing Gender In The British Novel,
2017
California State University, Long Beach
“Less Of The Heroine Than The Woman”: Parsing Gender In The British Novel, Susan Carlile
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This essay offers two methods that will help students resist the temptation to judge eighteenth-century novels by twenty-first-century standards. These methods prompt students to parse the question of whether female protagonists in novels—in this case, Daniel Defoe’s Roxana (1724), Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas (1759), and Charlotte Lennox’s Sophia (1762)—are portrayed as perfect models or as complex humans. The first method asks them to engage with definitions of the term “heroine,” and the second method uses word clouds to extend their thinking about the complexity of embodying a mid-eighteenth-century female identity.
Arabella’S Valentines And Literary Connections [Dot] Com: Playing With Eighteenth-Century Gender Online,
2017
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Arabella’S Valentines And Literary Connections [Dot] Com: Playing With Eighteenth-Century Gender Online, Melanie D. Holm
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This article describes two digital assignments that ask students to imaginatively embody characters from eighteenth-century texts written by women in order to cultivate a greater awareness of the critical role of gender and gender critique in these works. The first of these assignments, “Arabella’s Valentines,” asks students to translate dialogue from Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote as humorous Internet memes. The second assignment, “Literary Connections [dot] com,” asks students to imagine how characters from the course archive might represent themselves on an internet dating site. Through creative role-play facilitated by these digital genres, students engage with the texts in stimulating …
Review Of Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, And Belief In Early Modern England,
2017
Mississippi State University
Review Of Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, And Belief In Early Modern England, Amy Mallory-Kani
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Teresa Barnard, Ed. British Women And The Intellectual World In The Long Eighteenth Century.,
2017
St. Cloud State University
Review Of Teresa Barnard, Ed. British Women And The Intellectual World In The Long Eighteenth Century., Judith Dorn
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
Review of Teresa Barnard, ed. British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Charlotte Charke’S Gun: Queering Material Culture And Gender Performance,
2017
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Charlotte Charke’S Gun: Queering Material Culture And Gender Performance, Jade Higa
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This essay juxtaposes readings of material culture and gender performance in Charlotte Charke’s Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1755). It argues that the transient relationship Charke has to the objects in her life mirrors the fluidity of her gender. The essay ultimately uses Charke’s narrative as a case study in a questioning of a binarized gender matrix. The thesis suggest that, though we lack language to fully describe it, characters and historical figures like Charke move beyond and explode gender binaries.
General Editor's Note,
2017
University of South Florida
General Editor's Note, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Restoration Raillery: The Use Of Witty Repartee To Gain Power Within Gendered Spaces Of Restoration London,
2017
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Restoration Raillery: The Use Of Witty Repartee To Gain Power Within Gendered Spaces Of Restoration London, Bonnie Soper
Madison Historical Review
“Restoration Raillery: The Use of Witty Repartee to Gain Power within Gendered Spaces in Restoration London,” examines the creation of gendered spaces to gain political and social power through the use of satire and wit in poetry, theater, and the court of Charles II in Restoration London. During the Restoration period, mentions of wit and incivility in print and theatre increased over previous eras due to the heightened importance placed on wit as a tool to gain popularity within the court of Charles II. At the same time, witty repartee and well-executed satire provided political power to men within Parliament, …
Knowing Others, Or Not: Performing, Caring, Foreboding, And Acknowledging In Nineteenth-Century British Fiction,
2017
CUNY Graduate Center
Knowing Others, Or Not: Performing, Caring, Foreboding, And Acknowledging In Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Meechal Hoffman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Knowing Others, Or Not makes two overarching claims about the nineteenth-century novel’s depictions of relations. First, they are overwhelmingly concerned with epistemological questions about knowing others, and second, more often than not, the problem of other minds is portrayed as productive of both pleasure and valuable negative affects. While much scholarship on the relational nineteenth century focuses on either sympathy or social responsibility within the framework of liberal individualism, I show instead that the authors in this study—Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot—repeatedly register doubt about the usefulness or possibility of authenticity, and posit the pleasure that …
The Art Of Cognition: British Empiricism And Victorian Aesthetics,
2017
CUNY Graduate Center
The Art Of Cognition: British Empiricism And Victorian Aesthetics, Rachel Kravetz
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The British are credited—or charged—with establishing empiricism, the view that all knowledge is embedded in sense experience. My project argues for and describes an undercurrent of idealism within British empiricism: the writers of my study investigated modes of thinking that transform sensory experience. To see their idealism at work, it is necessary to look closely at how they conceived of ideas in the mind as pictures. Given that the term “picture” was used to refer to both inner ideas and actual paintings, it is not surprising (though rarely noticed) that when empiricists wanted to consider how the mind shapes ideas, …
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing And Reception Of Catherine Of Siena,
2017
CUNY Graduate Center
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing And Reception Of Catherine Of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena (https://caterina.io) affirms the 14th-century mystic Catherine of Siena as a writer through contextualizing her texts among the corpus of contemporary Italian literature, and studying her reception in the Renaissance period of Italy and England. Joining an increasing body of recent meaningful scholarship that has been making significant progress to recover many overlooked and peripheral female voices of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this work serves to fully assert Catherine as a writer of work that is literarily significant and worthy of textual analysis alongside contemporary male Italian …
Mechanized Identity: The Blood-Mill Of Richard Coer De Lyon,
2017
Western Michigan University
Mechanized Identity: The Blood-Mill Of Richard Coer De Lyon, Andrew S. Thomas
The Hilltop Review
The seven-thousand-line Middle English romance, Richard Coer de Lyon, is not often read as a text fascinated with machinery. The semi-historical, superlative, titular character and his various marvelous and deeply disturbing deeds usually claim most attention, and not without reason. There is much to examine in the heroically cannibalistic Richard, who presents a complex and often troubling vision of the ways both Englishness and the Saracen Other can be constructed within romance. Alongside these well-studied qualities, however, is a strange attention within the text to sieges and siege engines. Richard’s army is accompanied by a large, named siege tower …
Glorious And Execrable: The Dead And Their Bodies In World War I Poetry,
2017
Western Michigan University
Glorious And Execrable: The Dead And Their Bodies In World War I Poetry, Rebecca E. Straple
The Hilltop Review
While many scholars of World War I poetry have identified aspects of soldier poets’ work that embody the change from enthusiastic support of the war to disillusioned criticism of it, in this paper I argue for an additional, and highly meaningful marker of this significant change: the use of the dead and their bodies in this poetry. The commonly held critical view of World War I poetry is that there is a clear divide between poetry of the early and late years of the war, usually located after the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where poetry moves from odes …
Review Of Conrad And Language,
2017
Chapman University
Review Of Conrad And Language, Richard Ruppel
English Faculty Articles and Research
A review of Conrad and Language, edited by Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson.
