“All Wrong In Point Of Political Economy”: Attempting To Salvage The Oikos From The Polis In Bleak House,
2021
Dartmouth College
“All Wrong In Point Of Political Economy”: Attempting To Salvage The Oikos From The Polis In Bleak House, Leah Casey
Independent Student Projects and Publications
This paper proposes that Dickens’s Bleak House is symptomatic of a so-called social realm, in which neither oikos nor polis exists as a distinct, autonomous entity; therefore, neither can offer sanctuary or adequately discharge the historical role of the household – maintaining life. In this zone of indistinction, the symbolic structures of London’s law have become the city’s physical structures, leading to symptoms like Jo the outlaw, whose illness and death is attributed to the failure of both the polis and the oikos – the city’s legal housekeeping and the law-as-house, respectively – to maintain life. London’s law has become …
Review Of Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism, By Yael Levin,
2021
Chapman University
Review Of Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism, By Yael Levin, Richard Ruppel
English Faculty Articles and Research
A book review of Yael Levin's Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism.
The Arch-Fiend In Charles I Or Cromwell: How Milton’S Politics May Illuminate Paradise Lost,
2021
DePauw University
The Arch-Fiend In Charles I Or Cromwell: How Milton’S Politics May Illuminate Paradise Lost, Elizabeth Swift
Student Research
This paper discusses the portrayal of God and Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost through an examination of Milton’s politics and ideals based on his political prose writings. The ethics of Paradise Lost have been debated since the poem was published in the seventeenth century, because though the poem is meant to “justify the ways of God to men,” Milton portrays Satan so sympathetically that many critics believe that Milton intended him, not God, to be the hero of the poem. Is it moral to portray Satan, the embodiment of evil, as such? The answer to this ethical conundrum depends …
Vulnerability: Sensation And Subjectivity In The Late Victorian Novel,
2021
CUNY Graduate Center
Vulnerability: Sensation And Subjectivity In The Late Victorian Novel, Michael Shelichach
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
“Vulnerability: Sensation and Subjectivity in the Late Victorian Novel” explores how developments in the science of psychology in the second half of the nineteenth century destabilized the genre of literary realism in Britain. Prominent mid-Victorian psychologists theorized a subject with a highly impressionable brain and nervous system. This new understanding of the mind’s potential vulnerability to external influence impelled contemporary novelists to contemplate the extent to which subjective interiority could be altered by the environment. Through close readings of canonical realist novels like Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone …
(In)Hospitable Modernity: Hospitality And Its Discontents (1920–1953),
2021
CUNY Graduate Center
(In)Hospitable Modernity: Hospitality And Its Discontents (1920–1953), Daniel A. Hengel
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation discusses the tacit forms of political activity operating through the performance and space of hospitality in modern fiction. I read the habitus, praxis, and dissemblages of hospitality in modern fiction as conduits that reveal dialectics of submission and resistance to Victorian and Edwardian markers of normativity. This is ultimately an infrapolitical work. I locate fulcrums of dissent, cloaked in a guise of hospitality, in the domestic sphere and the politicization of formerly private spaces into sites with the potential to reorder legitimated forms of agency. This project attempts to uncover veiled forms of sociopolitical resistance in and through …
"A Mind Of Metal And Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism In Joss Whedon's Firefly And J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings,
2021
Chapman University
"A Mind Of Metal And Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism In Joss Whedon's Firefly And J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Christopher Hines
English (MA) Theses
Both Joss Whedon's Firefly and J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings present settings that are just as much influenced by the environments in which they occur as they are by the characters who act within those environments. For J.R.R. Tolkien, it was his lived experience of having grown up in a changing England that influenced his depiction of the world, while Joss Whedon's Firefly revisits and readapts the American mythos of the Western and the cowboy and re-appropriates it to science fiction, placing the action in the far future and in space where humanity is once again exploring and …
Announcements,
2021
University of South Florida
Announcements, Abo Editors
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Women, Performance, And The Material Of Memory: The Archival Tourist, 1780-1915, By Laura Engel,
2021
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario
Review Of Women, Performance, And The Material Of Memory: The Archival Tourist, 1780-1915, By Laura Engel, Leslie Ritchie
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Eighteenth-Century Women’S Writing And The Methodist Media Revolution, By Andrew O. Winckles,
2021
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Review Of Eighteenth-Century Women’S Writing And The Methodist Media Revolution, By Andrew O. Winckles, Rebecca Nesvet
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Women Wanderers And The Writing Of Mobility, 1784-1814, By Ingrid Horrocks,
2021
Hostos Community College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Review Of Women Wanderers And The Writing Of Mobility, 1784-1814, By Ingrid Horrocks, Elizabeth Porter
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
A review of Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784-1814 by Ingrid Horrocks. Written by Elizabeth Porter.
Review Of Writing And Constructing The Self In Great Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century, Edited By John Baker, Marion Leclair, And Allan Ingram,
2021
Wayne State University
Review Of Writing And Constructing The Self In Great Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century, Edited By John Baker, Marion Leclair, And Allan Ingram, Kelly J. Plante
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
A review of Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. John Baker, Marion Leclair, and Allan Ingram. Written by Kelly Plante.
Review Of The Future Of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery, Edited By Robin Runia,
2021
Clemson University
Review Of The Future Of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery, Edited By Robin Runia, Erin M. Goss
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
Review of Robin Rubia, ed., The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery (Routledge, 2018)
Writing With Aphra: Solidarity, Generosity, And Fight Club Rules Beyond Summer 2020,
2021
Mills College
Writing With Aphra: Solidarity, Generosity, And Fight Club Rules Beyond Summer 2020, Kirsten T. Saxton, Bethany E. Qualls
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
A short piece in praise of the summer Write With Aphra program for pandemic support of women and non binary writers and a discussion of how the program is useful beyond its original parameters
Absent Objects,
2021
V&A/RCA
Absent Objects, Freya Purcell
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
Observations on studying during the Global Pandemic in the summer of 2020, access to archives. Considering the relationship between physical objects and the digital world in studying Design History.
Covid Diary: Scholarship And Gardening,
2021
University of Denver
Covid Diary: Scholarship And Gardening, Jessica Munns
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Nothing Is Normal And Yet Normalcy Is The Demand,
2021
University of North Georgia
Nothing Is Normal And Yet Normalcy Is The Demand, Crystal L. Matey
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
The Future Of The Field: Notes From Lockdown,
2021
TCU
The Future Of The Field: Notes From Lockdown, Sofia Prado Huggins, Susannah B. Sanford
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
Feminist Scholarly Communities Have Been A Lifeline During The Pandemic,
2021
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Feminist Scholarly Communities Have Been A Lifeline During The Pandemic, Karen Griscom
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
I teach writing and literature at a community college, and I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate. Because I balance full-time teaching and graduate research, I am accustomed to the intensity of a heavy workload. Still, during this past year, my home and work responsibilities have multiplied and with that so has my anxiety. Stress and lack of time have made it challenging to write and research. However, two feminist organizations have helped me cope and remain hopeful about my scholarship.
Summary Remarks On Conversations About “Researching, Reading And Writing During The Pandemic”,
2021
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona
Summary Remarks On Conversations About “Researching, Reading And Writing During The Pandemic”, Kate Ozment, Mona Narain
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
Summary remarks on the Spring 2021 issue that includes Conversation essays by participants in the ABO summer 2020 writing camp #WriteWithAphra. The participants describe their experience of reading, researching, and writing during the pandemic.
A New Poem By Anna Letitia Barbauld,
2021
Georgetown University
A New Poem By Anna Letitia Barbauld, Scott Krawczyk, William Mccarthy
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This short discovery article presents information pertaining to a previously unknown poem of four lines by Anna Letitia Barbauld. The poem is housed at Duke University in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
