How Much Did Dorothea And Celia Know? Sexual Ignornace And Knowledge Among Unmarried Girls In Middlemarch,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
How Much Did Dorothea And Celia Know? Sexual Ignornace And Knowledge Among Unmarried Girls In Middlemarch, Marianne Burton
The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375
Readers, in my experience, often make an assumption that unmarried girls in nineteenth century novels know nothing about sex, and this seems to be particularly the case regarding Dorothea Brooke. Had she only known about sex, so the adage goes, she would never have made her disastrous marriage choice. In this article I would like to examine this assumption in closer detail, looking not just at Dorothea and Celia, but also Rosamond Vincy and Mary Garth. I do not necessarily want to turn the notion on its head - I am not going to claim these girls were closet readers …
Review Of Middlemarch: Critical Approaches To The Novel,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Review Of Middlemarch: Critical Approaches To The Novel, Barbara Hardy
The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375
This book is a reprint of the 1967 edition published by the Athlone Press, one of '56 classic works of literary criticism' that Bloomsbury is reprinting from Athlone Press. This opportunity to revisit and reassess works that were highly regarded in their day should be welcomed and one hopes that the archives of other academic publishers may also be subject to similar treatment. It is not good for the health of literary criticism if significant studies of the past are not easily accessible to readers and critics in the present.
I remember reading this book fairly close to when it …
Japanese Branch Report- 2014,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Japanese Branch Report- 2014, Eri Kobayashi
The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375
On 29 November 2014, at the 18th General Meeting of the George Eliot Fellowship of Japan, three papers on George Eliot's novels were read in the morning session. In the afternoon, a symposium on Eliot's poems was held and in the evening session a keynote speech was given by Professor Minoru Kawakita.
Chaired by Professor Kimitaka Hara (Nihon University), the morning session saw our first speaker, Masako Ishii (Kyoto University), discussing The Mill on the Floss from the standpoint of the destiny of Maggie Tulliver, especially in relation to her conflict with the socially restrictive norms of a provincial town …
Mr. Booke's Thinking Organ,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Mr. Booke's Thinking Organ, Kate Osborne
The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375
A scene in Middlemarch's thirtieth chapter describes how the creative process can slip out of a writer's control.! A letter has arrived from Mr. Casaubon's estranged cousin, Will Ladislaw, asking whether Will may visit Casaubon and Dorothea at their home at Lowick. But Casaubon is gravely ill and Dorothea is so overwhelmed by her husband's illness and also by the thought of seeing Will that she cannot even read the letter. She asks her uncle, Mr. Brooke, to reply in her stead, 'to let Will know that Casaubon had been ill, and that his health would not allow the reception …
Safety And Silence In A Shakespearean Space,
2015
CUNY Kingsborough Community College
Safety And Silence In A Shakespearean Space, Cheryl Hogue Smith
Publications and Research
This article describes a homophobic incident in a Shakespeare community college class and explains how the teacher then tried to create a safe space for all students.
Queer 'Paradise Lost': Reproduction, Gender, And Sexuality,
2015
Scripps College
Queer 'Paradise Lost': Reproduction, Gender, And Sexuality, Emily R. Kolpien
Scripps Senior Theses
In the span of this thesis, I investigate the queer nature of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, and argue that in spite of the biblical subject matter it is in fact a text filled with instances of queer transgression. I focus on preexisting feminist critiques of Milton in my introduction in order to ground myself within the academic field, and in order to illustrate how I will be branching out from it. In my first chapter, I discuss the queered nature of the poem’s landscapes, such as Chaos and Hell, and the specifically queer and masculine nature of …
Expanding The Literary Enterprise: How We Experience The Texts Of The Advanced Placement English Literature And Composition Curriculum,
2015
Colby College
Expanding The Literary Enterprise: How We Experience The Texts Of The Advanced Placement English Literature And Composition Curriculum, Molly Ostrow
Honors Theses
How we read the texts of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition curriculum.
Faces And Figures Of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy In Tamburlaine Part 1.,
2015
Andrews University
Faces And Figures Of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy In Tamburlaine Part 1., Vanessa I. Corredera
Faculty Publications
When articulating the relationship between man and the world around him (or her), George Peele imagines man as a canvas, a 'picture' of the universe, a microcosm whose makeup carries the 'face' or the viewable surface of the macrocosm. Peele's statement perfectly encapsulates the early modern belief in signatures and correspondences, in which 'Individual objects on earth...contain the signature of the heavenly bodies to which they supposedly correspond'. By envisioning man as a 'picture', Peele conceives of the universe as readily legible upon the human body. In his discussion of the history of signatures and correspondences in The Order of …
Front Matter,
2015
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina
Front Matter, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Contents,
2015
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina
Contents, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Git Vs Ge: The Importance Of The Dual Pronoun In Beowulf,
2015
Norwich University, Vermont
Git Vs Ge: The Importance Of The Dual Pronoun In Beowulf, Kenneth R. Sikora Iii
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of Marianne Dashwood: A Categorization Of Language Into Principles Of Sense And Sensibility,
2015
Lee University, Tennessee
In Defense Of Marianne Dashwood: A Categorization Of Language Into Principles Of Sense And Sensibility, Ashley Bonin
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Woman Warrior: The Silent Creation Of A Third Space,
2015
Christopher Newport University, Virginia
The Woman Warrior: The Silent Creation Of A Third Space, Hayley Struzik
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Intergenerational Trauma: A Look At Sherman Alexie's Child Characters,
2015
University of Dayton, Ohio
Intergenerational Trauma: A Look At Sherman Alexie's Child Characters, Kiersten Sargent
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Feminism And The Force Of Institutions In Twenty-First Century Dystopian Novels,
2015
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Feminism And The Force Of Institutions In Twenty-First Century Dystopian Novels, Stephanie Roman
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2015
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina
Back Matter, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 17 Fall 2015,
2015
University of South Carolina
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 17 Fall 2015
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Recalling Anna, Reclaiming Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Jean Rhys's "Voyage In The Dark",
2015
Ursinus College
Recalling Anna, Reclaiming Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Jean Rhys's "Voyage In The Dark", Emily Duffy
English and Creative Writing Independent Study Projects
A psychoanalytic reading of Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark, which compares the experiences, dreams and memories of the character Anna with that of Freud's protagonist, Dora, in his Portrait of Dora.
"Nobody Else Knows Me, But The Street Knows Me" - Jean Rhys's Urban Flaneuses: Mapping "Good Morning, Midnight",
2015
Ursinus College
"Nobody Else Knows Me, But The Street Knows Me" - Jean Rhys's Urban Flaneuses: Mapping "Good Morning, Midnight", Emily Duffy
English and Creative Writing Independent Study Projects
My project explores the urban geography of Paris, as depicted by Rhys, through theories of space articulated by Walter Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, and Gaston Bachelard. I will provide some theoretical context to show how approaching this novel from a spatial perspective can help us understand Sasha’s experience. Additionally, I explore how Sasha’s gendered body moves through these spaces, how place and space affect her identity, and how mapping this novel can enrich the experience of the reader, especially a reader who is unfamiliar with interwar Paris.
Robert Southey On Portugal: Travel Narrative And The Writing Of History,
2015
Old Dominion University
Robert Southey On Portugal: Travel Narrative And The Writing Of History, Manuela MourãO
English Faculty Publications
First paragraph:
Robert Southey was once referred to by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch as “one of the best known of the unread poets” (9) in a study that deliberately focused on what he considered Southey’s largely failed poetic quest: “Southey’s grand failures,” he explained, “are more interesting than his modest successes and far more illuminative of Romanticism and Romantic myth-making generally” (9). In an oblique way, my focus in this essay is likewise another of Southey’s grand failures-- his planned, but never finished, History of Portugal. This ambitious project, despite remaining mostly unwritten, occupied much of Southey’s time in the early years …
