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Delicate Beauty Goes Out: "Adam Bede's" Transgressive Heroines, Lori Lefkovitz

Lori Lefkovitz

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George Eliot's Counterpublics, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

This talk works through some of the different ways that George Eliot complicates dominant Victorian conceptions of community and belonging through her varied narrative representations of intimacy and affect. I will begin with a brief discussion of how intimacy and affect operate in relation to nineteenth-century realism; then I will explore some of the ways in which the Victorian ideal of an imagined sympathetic community works as an aspirational Victorian narrative of intimate belonging, and how in Eliot’s hands this ideal community works as a potential counter-narrative of intimacy, making space for less-conventional intimacies, like the one she shared with …

"Barbara Hofland As A Romantic-Era Provincial Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

"I Recognized Myself In Her": Identifying With The Reader In George Eliot’S The Mill On The Floss And Simone De Beauvoir’S Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter, Laura Green

Laura Green

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"Long, Long Disappointment": Maternal Failure And Masculine Exhaustion In Margaret Oliphant’S Autobiography, Laura Green

Laura Green

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Wishing To Be Fictional, Laura Green

Laura Green

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Hall Of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall’S The Well Of Loneliness And Modernist Fictions Of Identity, Laura Green

Laura Green

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Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

“Publishing the Victorian Novel” looks to the methods of book history and literary criticism to ask how we might understand the ways Victorian publishers and authors (alongside editors, publishers’ readers, librarians, and booksellers) worked together to make novels. Paying attention to both the material and literary aspects of this making, the essay examines a few different scenes of novel publication with a particular focus on the way Victorian novelists, publishers, and reading publics understood aspects of the publication process like the serialization of novels, the three-volume novel, and the authority of the novelist and publisher. In an attempt to capture …

Publications By G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011, Patrick G. Scott, Justin Mellette

Patrick Scott

This checklist details books and other separate publications, articles, and reviews, published through December 2011 by the Burns scholar G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), longtime professor of English at the University of South Carolina. The list encompasses his work not only on Burns and Scottish poetry, but in Canadian literature, comparative literature, and book history.

From Orthodoxy To Heresy: A Theological Analysis Of Sonnets Xiv And Xviii, Timothy J. Burbery

Timothy J. Burbery

The commentary on Milton's eighteenth sonnet ("On the Late Massacre' in Piedmont") is rich and extensive. Kester Svendsen's often cited 1945 essay, the first close reading of the poem; ushered in many other interpretations of its biblical imagery, as well as speech-act analyses, reader- response discussions, and at least one Foucaldian study. Yet even though a religious conflict inspired the sonnet, and although numerous interpreters have paid close attention to the work's biblical texture, no sustained theological account of the poem has been offered. The present essay seeks to fill that gap by examining the work in light of two …

How (Not) To Sell A Military Memoir In The Uk, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Rachel Woodward, Neil Jenkings

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

Reflections Of A Pious Margery In The Book Of Margery Kempe, Melodie Rodgers

mrodgers5@student.gsu.edu

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Intimacy In Isolation And The Amplitude Of Reality: Virginia Woolf’S Tense Intimacies, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

Virginia Woolf identifies four “dimensions” of human life: “I mean: I: & the not I: & the outer & the inner” (Diary 4: 353). The permeability of these dimensions is at the core of Woolf’s experiments in “re-form[ing]” the novel (Diary 1: 356). Woolf’s novels represent the simultaneously unavoidable isolation and permeability of self, other, internality, and externality; Lacan would later characterize this permeability with the figure of the Mobius strip and his concept of “extimacy,” the simultaneous position of the Other external to, yet at the core of the self. Through analyses of affectively intense representations of consciousness and …

Translating Troy: Provincial Politics In Alliterative Romance, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

For Geoffrey Chaucer and many of his contemporaries, the literary life of England began in ancient Troy. In Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance, Alex Mueller explores Middle English alliterative romances that challenge this genealogical fantasy and decentralize Troy as the eastern origin of western authority.

Until the sixteenth century, the Trojans were widely believed to be the ancestors of the English people: the destruction of Troy led to the birth of Rome and eventually the foundation of a New Troy in Britain. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the fall of Troy was such a popular subject that …

Remembering Ross Roy, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

Review Of "Reading Jane Austen" By Mona Scheuermann, "Why Jane Austen?" By Rachel Brownstein, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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Disabling Allegories In Edmund Spenser’S Faerie Queene, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

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“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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“He . . . Beat His Blubbred Face": Reading Spenser’S Daphnaida As A Satire”, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

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Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity, Carmen Nocentelli

Carmen Nocentelli

Winner of the 2014 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Awarded the 2014 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

“The Nose Plays: Ovid In The Jew Of Malta.”, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

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"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia, John Gery

John R O Gery

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“Bruce Danner, Edmund Spenser’S War On Lord Burghley” [Book Review], Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

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Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Buurma, Laura Heffernan

Rachel S Buurma

This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices. In seeking out nineteenth-century models for twenty-first-century critical practice, these critics imagine a world in which English literature never became a discipline. Some see these new methods as formalist, yet we argue that they actually emerge from historicist self-critique. Specifically, these contemporary critics view the historicist projects of the 1980s as overly influenced by disciplinary models of textual interpretation—models that first arose, we show through our reading of the Jolly Bargemen …

The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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Love Against Substitution: John Milton, Aphra Behn, And The Political Theology Of Conjugal Narratives, Eric B. Song

Eric B. Song

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"Unspeakable Desire To See, And Know": Paradise Regained And The Political Theology Of Privacy, Eric B. Song

Eric B. Song

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Review Of "Of Love And War" By Judy Hayden, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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Dialogue, Selection, Subversion: Three Approaches To Teaching Women Writers, Karen Gevirtz, Martha Bowden, Jonathan Sadow

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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