A Lost Collection Of Robert Burns Manuscripts: Sir Alfred Law, Davidson Cook, And The Honresfield Collection,
2015
University of South Carolina - Columbia
A Lost Collection Of Robert Burns Manuscripts: Sir Alfred Law, Davidson Cook, And The Honresfield Collection, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
This essay traces the formation by William Law of Littlesborough, Lancashire, of a major collection of literary manuscripts and books, including works by Robert Burns, the Brontes, and Walter Scott; recounts the unlikely role in the 1920s of Davidson Cook, a cooperative society manager from Barnsley, in encouraging the then-owner Sir Alfred Law, M.P., of Honresfield House, to make the collections available for scholarly use; summarizes available information on the partial dispersal of the collection in the late 20s and early 1930s, and the disappearance after Sir Alfred's death in 1939 of much of the collection, including major items; and …
Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, And The Scholar's Art,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, And The Scholar's Art, Stefania Heim
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Instead of describing poetry as a set of constraints or history of practices, Muriel Rukeyser calls it "one kind of knowledge." Dark Matter heeds Rukeyser's call, theorizing a poetics of the "scholar's art," in which documentary investigation, autobiographical exploration, and formal innovation are mutual, interwoven concerns. The dissertation pairs American poets Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), reading their hybrid works not through the received categories of American poetry, or through common generic and disciplinary divisions, but using an inductive methodology that takes its lead from the poets. Understanding Howe and Rukeyser's literary experiments as serious interventions in …
Loosening The Critical Corset: New Approaches To The Short Fiction Of Kate Chopin And Ruth Stuart,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
Loosening The Critical Corset: New Approaches To The Short Fiction Of Kate Chopin And Ruth Stuart, Kathryn Erin O'Donoghue
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
My dissertation uses the works and lives of two popular late-nineteenth-century writers, Ruth McEnery Stuart and Kate Chopin, as a heuristic to solve the literary mystery of how "fiction by women" became "women's fiction." While feminist scholars resuscitated Chopin, Stuart remains ignored. The realism and irony of Chopin's novel The Awakening resonate with modern readers, but the sentimental aspects of Stuart's work and Chopin's short fiction remain problematic. The aesthetic movements of realism and naturalism influenced literary taste to the extent that sentimentalism is anathema to contemporary critics. I participate in recent scholarship that explores how sentimentalism has been used …
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer In American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer In American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915, Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the figure of the woman lecturer/speaker that appeared in American women's rights fiction in the period between 1839 and 1915. I argue that examining the figure of the woman lecturer/ speaker in a wide variety of texts and over an extended period of history reveals that the figure served as a dynamic vehicle for women writers to advance a broad range of social and political interests; writing in a social and historical context that discouraged women's participation in public speech, women authors used fiction as a rhetorical space to articulate different visions …
The Literary Legacy Of The Federal Writers' Project,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The Literary Legacy Of The Federal Writers' Project, Sara Rendene Rutkowski
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Established by President Roosevelt in 1935 as part of the New Deal, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) put thousands of unemployed professionals to work documenting American life during the Depression. Federal writers--many of whom would become famous, including Ralph Ellison, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Dorothy West--collected reams of oral histories and folklore, and produced hundreds of guides to cities and states across the country. Yet, despite both the Project's extraordinary volume of writing and its unprecedented support for writers, few critics have examined it from a literary perspective. Instead, the FWP has …
Fiction In Fact And Fact In Fiction In The Writing Of Joyce Carol Oates,
2015
Aix Marseille Université, LERMA EA 853
Fiction In Fact And Fact In Fiction In The Writing Of Joyce Carol Oates, Tanya L. Tromble
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Joyce Carol Oates draws extensively on news stories, as well as on elements of her own family’s past, to find inspiration for her works of fiction. She has written about the Chappaquiddick incident involving Ted Kennedy and the JonBenet Ramsay murder case. She has worked the Niagara Falls Love Canal environmental scandal into the framework of The Falls and taken inspiration from sordid events from her own family’s past in the beginning of The Gravedigger’s Daughter. However, in none of these examples does Oates purport to relate the precise real-life “facts” of the historical events. Indeed, for an author …
Review Of The Sacrifice,
2015
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of The Sacrifice, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel The Sacrifice focusing on how racial politics in America can transform individuals into symbols, erasing their human complexity.
The Oil Man And The Sea: Navigating The Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky,
2015
Concordia University, Montreal
The Oil Man And The Sea: Navigating The Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky, Patricia H. Audette-Longo
The Goose
Review of Arno Kopecky's The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway.
Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire,
2015
University of Alberta
Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire, Jon Gordon
The Goose
This interview with Alberta novelist Fred Stenson focuses on his most recent novel, Who By Fire. The discussion examines the role of environmentalists and the legal system in responding to the oil and gas industry in Alberta, as well as other issues connected to Stenson's work.
The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof,
2015
Briercrest College
The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof, Matthew Zantingh
The Goose
Review of Patricia Westerhof's The Dove in Bathurst Station.
Invisible Dogs By Barry Dempster,
2015
Western University
Invisible Dogs By Barry Dempster, David Huebert
The Goose
Review of Barry Dempster's Invisible Dogs.
Outside, Inside By Michael Penny,
2015
Balliol College, University of Oxford
Outside, Inside By Michael Penny, Mark Byers
The Goose
Review of Michael Penny's Outside, Inside.
After Alice By Karen Hofmann,
2015
University of British Columbia
After Alice By Karen Hofmann, Dania Tomlinson
The Goose
Book review of Karen Hofmann's After Alice.
Pastoral By André Alexis,
2015
University of Guelph
Rewriting The Break Event: Mennonites And Migration In Canadian Literature By Robert Zacharias,
2015
Wilfrid Laurier University
Rewriting The Break Event: Mennonites And Migration In Canadian Literature By Robert Zacharias, Jenny Kerber
The Goose
Review of Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature by Robert Zacharias.
Conversations With A Dead Man: The Legacy Of Duncan Campbell Scott By Mark Abley,
2015
West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Conversations With A Dead Man: The Legacy Of Duncan Campbell Scott By Mark Abley, Rebecca Phillips
The Goose
This review explores Mark Abley's book on the legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott, the poet/bureaucrat responsible for the development and implementation of Canada's failed residential schools policy for indigenous children. The book places Scott in the context of his time while examining the results of his agency's policies.
In The Interval Of The Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing By Mary Mcdonald-Rissanen,
2015
University at Albany, State University of New York
In The Interval Of The Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing By Mary Mcdonald-Rissanen, Joshua Bartlett
The Goose
Review of In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen.
Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa,
2015
University of Mississippi
Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden
The Goose
Review of Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.
Sybil Unrest By Larissa Lai And Rita Wong,
2015
York University
Sybil Unrest By Larissa Lai And Rita Wong, Emily Mcgiffin
The Goose
Review of Sybil Unrest by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong.
In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage By Jay Ruzesky,
2015
University of Alaska Fairbanks
In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage By Jay Ruzesky, Jennifer Schell
The Goose
Review of In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage by Jay Ruzesky.
