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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Imagination And Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath Of Thoreau, James Altman
Imagination And Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath Of Thoreau, James Altman
English Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Faulkner's Media Romance, Julian Murphet., James Altman
Faulkner's Media Romance, Julian Murphet., James Altman
English Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Epistrophies Jazz And The Literary Imagination, James H. Altman
Book Review Of Epistrophies Jazz And The Literary Imagination, James H. Altman
English Faculty Research
This book review examines Brent Hayes Edwards’s Epistrophies Jazz and the Literary Imagination, and the insightful conclusions he draws from the, largely, unexplored links between jazz and literature.
Review Of: Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice To The People, James H. Altman
Review Of: Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice To The People, James H. Altman
English Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Broken Hearths: Melville's Israel Potter And The Bunker Hill Monument, John Hay
Broken Hearths: Melville's Israel Potter And The Bunker Hill Monument, John Hay
English Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Review Of Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, And The Reconfiguration Of The Victorian Body By Peter J. Capuano, John Hay
English Faculty Research
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Plotting Devices: Literary Darwinism In The Laboratory, John Hay
Plotting Devices: Literary Darwinism In The Laboratory, John Hay
English Faculty Research
Critics of literary Darwinism like to point out the weaknesses of its scientific scaffolding, but the real flaw in this research program is its neglect of literary history and stylistic evolution. A full-fledged scientific approach to literary criticism should incorporate the kind of work being done by Franco Moretti at the Stanford Literary Lab—a quantitative analysis of the history of literary form. While Moretti and the literary Darwinists are almost never mentioned together, I contend that their work is not only compatible but also necessarily so for a more consilient literary criticism. The Darwinian aesthetics promoted by Denis Dutton can …
Review Of Walden's Shore: Henry David Thoreau And Nineteenth-Century Science, By Robert M. Thorson, John Hay
Review Of Walden's Shore: Henry David Thoreau And Nineteenth-Century Science, By Robert M. Thorson, John Hay
English Faculty Research
With the rise of ecocriticism, many recent studies of Thoreau’s writings have favorably reconsidered the author’s strong relationship with science; this trend received much of its impetus from Laura Dassow Walls’s Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century NaturalScience (Madison, WI, 1995). Similarly subtitled, Walden’s Shore begins by explaining that such scholarship still lacks an engagement with hard science and that a solid understanding of Thoreau’s work, and especially of Walden (1854), requires more intimate knowledge of geological phenomena. Robert Thorson is a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut whose last book, Beyond Walden: The Hidden History …
Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction And Literary Forgery In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Anne H. Stevens
Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction And Literary Forgery In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Anne H. Stevens
English Faculty Research
In this essay, I wish to explore a similar dialectic of historical positivism and skepticism in eighteenth-century Britain. Over the course of the century, but particularly in the second half, new and more scientific standards of historical investigation developed, with practitioners expressing a greater confidence about their ability to know the past. During these years, a series of monumental achievements in historiography appeared: David Hume’s History of England (1754–62), Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), and William Robertson’s History of Scotland (1759), to name just three of the most celebrated. As part of this increased interest …
The Footnote, In Theory, Anne H. Stevens, Jay Williams
The Footnote, In Theory, Anne H. Stevens, Jay Williams
English Faculty Research
And, so, when Richard Stern published his private dialogue with himself about the physical appearance of certain writers at the 1986 International PEN conference, Joyce Carol Oates insisted on not only an angry rebuttal-punctuated by constant page referencing to Stern's "pig-souled sexism"-but photographic evidence-a kind of footnote in itself-dismissing his physical characterization of her. When Susan Gubar published "What Ails Feminist Criticism?" her essay provoked an immediate, critical, and heavily documented response from Robyn Weigman, several letters to the editor, and Gubar's own footnoted rejoinder. Jane Gallop's defense of a sexual act she engaged in with one of her students …
Tales Of Other Times: A Survey Of British Historical Fiction 1770-1812, Anne H. Stevens
Tales Of Other Times: A Survey Of British Historical Fiction 1770-1812, Anne H. Stevens
English Faculty Research
The years 1760–1820 mark a turning point in the history of historiography. Methods for studying the past changed rapidly during this period, as did the forms in which historical knowledge was displayed. Hume famously called these years ‘the historical age’, while Foucault’s Order of Things contends that an epistemic shift from ‘order’ to ‘history’ took place around the year 1800. The historical novel, possibly the most important generic innovation of Romantic-era fiction, is also the most important and underexplored historiographic innovation of these years. Its importance has not often been recognised, however, since, following the nineteenth-century establishment of an autonomous …
Romancing Visual Women: From Canon To Console, Roberta Sabbath
Romancing Visual Women: From Canon To Console, Roberta Sabbath
English Faculty Research
This dissertation juxtaposes the romantic modal treatment of powerful, admired women which canonical male authors and feminist authors and critics construct with those constructed by contemporary women for the visual mass media of video, broadcast television, and computer. The discourse of the former produces the figure of a fragmented woman who is rare, supernatural, marginalized, and impossible. The discourse of the latter produces the figure of a psychologized woman who is typical, natural, mainstream, and possible. To examine the discourse of impossibility, I use three canonical works: Augustine's Confessions; Chretien de Troyes' Perceval; and Dante's Divine Comedy. I also survey …