Headway,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Homestead Down The Way,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Black Ice,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sidney Ellen Wade,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Webb Could Talk Less, May Be?,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Stand-Off,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lyric #6,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Whirl Is King: Poems From A Life List,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Whirl Is King: Poems From A Life List, Luke Johnson
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 100-101
The Intricacies Of M.F.K. Fisher: Discovering A Kaleidoscopic Hybridity,
2011
University of Denver
The Intricacies Of M.F.K. Fisher: Discovering A Kaleidoscopic Hybridity, Elizabeth Lee Sleeper
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis seeks to analyze M.F.K. Fisher's socio-historic role and the components of her texts as a means to interrogate the categorization of her writing, to identify her authorial voice, and to see how it all contributes to and proves that Fisher is a `kaleidoscopic' hybrid writer. I utilize theoretical positions such as New Historicism, Feminism, Genre Theory, and Everyday Theory to help me identify and explain the hybrid tendencies of Fisher's writing. It is not a comprehensive study of her texts in light of these theories, but rather, it is a broad overview in order to demonstrate alternative readings …
Serial Fictions: A Collection,
2011
University of Denver
Serial Fictions: A Collection, Danielle Rado
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection of fiction that is not only a compilation of short stories, but a "serial collection". That is, the stories are organized into series, and these series placed in a series as well, making up the book. The purpose of this organization is to figure out to what extent the arrangement of stories significantly contributes to the reader's understand of, and engagement with, the particular elements of each story as they are both replicated and modified within and throughout the series. If plot is, as E.M. Forster describes it, the narrative of events with an emphasis on causality, then …
Margaret Cavendish's Exploration Of Consciousness In Her Writings,
2011
University of Denver
Margaret Cavendish's Exploration Of Consciousness In Her Writings, Cynthia Lynne Rogan De Ramirez
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Writing at a time when women had few property rights, were given scarce educational opportunities, and were viewed as incorrigibly irrational, the largely autodidactic English intellectual Margaret Cavendish is fascinated by knowledge and how to secure for herself a place in the micro- as well as macrocosmic community of letters. In particular, Cavendish holds an abiding interest in what we now call "consciousness" which she attributes to every piece of matter. Throughout the universe, the three aspects of matter--inanimate, sensate, and rational--are omnipresent. While throughout all of Cavendish's eclectic literary creation, consciousness is the unifying principle. Her exploration of consciousness …
Spitting Image,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
May 1st, 1965,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice Of The Enlightenment: Book Review,
2011
Brigham Young University
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice Of The Enlightenment: Book Review, Robert K. Lapp
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
The subtitle of this long-awaited, monumental biography of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment, captures both McCarthy's achievement as a scholarly biographer and the vital relevance of Barbauld's wide-ranging and lucid articulations of Enlightenment values in Britain. McCarthy's twenty years of meticulous scholarship have literally brought to revisionary light what we need to know about a woman of letters uniquely positioned to propagate the impulses of the Enlightenment in education, literature, political debate, and religion. As McCarthy points out in his preface, "[Barbauld's] story is part of the story of Protestant Dissent's campaign for equal political rights, and …
Theological Enlightenments And Ridiculous Theologies: Contradistinction In English Polemical Theology,
2011
Brigham Young University
Theological Enlightenments And Ridiculous Theologies: Contradistinction In English Polemical Theology, David Manning
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
In 1730 high-churchman Richard Grey (1696-1771) delivered a sermon at St. Mary's Church, Leicester, in which he revelled in England's "Enlighten'd Age ... where the Gospel shines forth in its utmost purity:' unfettered "from those Corruptions and Superstitions, which so much disguise and dishonour it in other places:' Grey went on to use this representation of the epistemological superiority of England's established faith to lament the status of an apparently belligerent minority who would not or could not discern the truth of the Church of England. Such claims had long been part of the Church's Reformation mantra against heretics in …
Index,
2011
Brigham Young University
Reading Diderot's La Religieuse As An Evangelical Novel,
2011
Brigham Young University
Reading Diderot's La Religieuse As An Evangelical Novel, Muriel Schmid
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
D enis Diderot's novel, La Religieuse, has traditionally been read as a diatribe against convent life. Diderot's critique is then described as twofold: first, he strongly condemns the common practice of forced vows; and second, he describes life in a convent as fundamentally unnatural, leading individuals to perverse behaviors. Suzanne Simonin, the third daughter of a Parisian lawyer, is the main character of the novel, and her fate illustrates Diderot's critique. As the reader discovers in the course of the narrative, her birth is the result of an affair, and her mother regards her illegitimate daughter as a source …
Enlightenment And Modernity: The English Deists And Reform: Book Review,
2011
Brigham Young University
Enlightenment And Modernity: The English Deists And Reform: Book Review, Scott Breuninger
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
The traditional view of the Enlightenment has often dismissed the study of religion as peripheral to a larger narrative of progress that describes the triumph of reason and liberty over superstition and autocracy. Recent work has begun to correct this impression, as scholars have examined the nature and extent of a "religious Enlightenment" ( or more appropriately "Enlightenments") that developed during the long eighteenth century. Although innovations in political and philosophical thought during this period were relatively cosmopolitan, the religious dimension of the Enlightenment typically reflected national concerns and disputes. This was especially true in England, where the loosely defined …
Enlightenment Sermon Studies: A Multidisciplinary Activity,
2011
Brigham Young University
Enlightenment Sermon Studies: A Multidisciplinary Activity, Bob Tennant
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
The past two decades have seen a collective reconsideration of the positions occupied by religion in the eighteenth century, amounting to a fundamental shift in historiography. The revived study of the period's sermon literature seems to contribute to this. The present essay suggests the need for more interdisciplinary cooperation in better defining sermon studies and presents four questions about sermons to scholars working on the British Enlightenment, and, more generally, the Long Eighteenth Century, which will be referred to as "our period": What are the characteristics of the corpus? What is distinctive about the relationship of sermons to theological and …
Religion In The Age Of Enlightenment: Putting John Wesley In Context,
2011
Brigham Young University
Religion In The Age Of Enlightenment: Putting John Wesley In Context, Jeremy Gregory
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Wesley's long life ( 1703-91) spanned almost the whole of the eighteenth century, and any attempt to understand him undoubtedly needs to include some sense of the period in which he lived. There have, of course, been many attempts to evoke Wesley's context, whether broadly defined-as in the thousands of books and scholarly articles that have been written about the era in general, ranging from the economy, politics, and society to cultural, intellectual, and religious matters (and much else besides), or in the various studies that have more directly positioned Wesley, and early Methodism, within his, and its, time. Most …
