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Review Of Gilbert & Gubar’S ‘The Madwoman In The Attic’ After Thirty Years, Edited By Annette R. Federico, Diane Hoeveler Nov 2013

Review Of Gilbert & Gubar’S ‘The Madwoman In The Attic’ After Thirty Years, Edited By Annette R. Federico, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Paradox Of The Book: The Chaos Of The Internet Makes Reading Easier, Thomas L. Jeffers Oct 2013

Paradox Of The Book: The Chaos Of The Internet Makes Reading Easier, Thomas L. Jeffers

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Paradise, Wisconsin, Angela Sorby Oct 2013

Paradise, Wisconsin, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Gothic Adaptation, 1765-1830, Diane Hoeveler Sep 2013

Gothic Adaptation, 1765-1830, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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No Dads: Review Of Dan Hassler-Forest's Capitalist Superheroes, Gerry Canavan Aug 2013

No Dads: Review Of Dan Hassler-Forest's Capitalist Superheroes, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Keen, Sober, And Smart: Review Of Eric Otto's Green Speculations: Science Fiction And Transformative Environmentalism, Gerry Canavan Jul 2013

Keen, Sober, And Smart: Review Of Eric Otto's Green Speculations: Science Fiction And Transformative Environmentalism, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Darko Suvin's Defined By A Hollow: Essays On Utopia, Science Fiction And Political Epistemology, Gerry Canavan Jul 2013

Review Of Darko Suvin's Defined By A Hollow: Essays On Utopia, Science Fiction And Political Epistemology, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

This review considers Darko Suvin’s recent career anthology Defined by a Hollow with respect to debates about the relevance of Marxism and utopian critique in the context of a global neoliberal hegemony that (twenty years after Fukuyama) still imagines itself as the ‘end of history’. Suvin’s work suggests that the relationship between Marxism and aesthetics in such times is not simply a quirk of the academy, but is in fact a politically necessary conjoining of materialist praxis and quasi-religious inspiration.


Gerry Canavan On Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders In The Neoliberal Age: No Dads: Cuckolds, Dead Fathers, And Capitalist Superheroes, Gerry Canavan Apr 2013

Gerry Canavan On Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders In The Neoliberal Age: No Dads: Cuckolds, Dead Fathers, And Capitalist Superheroes, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Clandestine Schemes: Burney's Cecilia And The Marriage Act, Melissa J. Ganz Apr 2013

Clandestine Schemes: Burney's Cecilia And The Marriage Act, Melissa J. Ganz

English Faculty Research and Publications

This essay reads Frances Burney’s Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) alongside the debates surrounding the 1753 Clandestine Marriages Act in order to show how the novel responds to and participates in one of the most divisive public controversies of the Enlightenment. In doing so, the essay challenges the view of Burney as a conservative defender of patriarchal culture, while highlighting the balances that she strikes between individual freedom and filial duty. The novel criticizes secret matches not only because they challenge the legitimate authority of parents and guardians, but also because they enable men to undermine women’s consent. …


Lost In The Labyrinth: Review Of I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick By Laurence A. Rickels, Gerry Canavan Apr 2013

Lost In The Labyrinth: Review Of I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick By Laurence A. Rickels, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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A Walk Across The Ice; Golden Spike; Ink, Angela Sorby Apr 2013

A Walk Across The Ice; Golden Spike; Ink, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review [Of Reading For The Law: British Literary History And Gender Advocacy By Christine L. Krueger And Law, Literature, And The Transmission Of Culture In England, 1837-1925 By Cathrine O. Frank], Melissa J. Ganz Apr 2013

Review [Of Reading For The Law: British Literary History And Gender Advocacy By Christine L. Krueger And Law, Literature, And The Transmission Of Culture In England, 1837-1925 By Cathrine O. Frank], Melissa J. Ganz

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Beware Of Moocs, Gerry Canavan Mar 2013

Beware Of Moocs, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

Gerry Canavan, an assistant professor in the English department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, shared his concerns about this new wave of e-learning with Higher Education Brief in this exclusive Q&A article. He said MOOCs are an ineffective medium for learning and that they de-skill and de-professionalize academia.


Superceding Cyberpunk: Review Of Graham J. Murphy And Sherryl Vint's Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Gerry Canavan Mar 2013

Superceding Cyberpunk: Review Of Graham J. Murphy And Sherryl Vint's Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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William-Henry Ireland, T. I. Curties Horsley, And The Anti-Catholic Gothic Novel, Diane Hoeveler Feb 2013

William-Henry Ireland, T. I. Curties Horsley, And The Anti-Catholic Gothic Novel, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

The question of the Gothic's use of and attitude toward Roman Catholicism has been increasingly contentious in recent years, with literary historians claiming that its prominence as a thematic concern provides a test case for distinguishing whether or not the Gothic should be understood as an ideology or as an aesthetic mode not primarily invested in ideological issues at all. By examining this critical issue, I argue for an understanding of the Gothic as primarily a form of propagandistic fiction invested in nationalistic Whig and Protestant ideologies. The article also builds on the recent biographical and critical work done on …


Bred To Be Superhuman: Comic Books And Afrofuturism In Octavia Butler's Patternist Series, Gerry Canavan Jan 2013

Bred To Be Superhuman: Comic Books And Afrofuturism In Octavia Butler's Patternist Series, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Making Commitments To Racial Justice Actionable, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, Beth Godbee, Neil Simpkins Jan 2013

Making Commitments To Racial Justice Actionable, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, Beth Godbee, Neil Simpkins

English Faculty Research and Publications

In this article, we articulate a framework for making our commitments to racial justice actionable, a framework that moves from narrating confessional accounts to articulating our commitments and then acting on them through both self-work and work-with-others, a dialectic possibility we identify and explore. We model a method for moving beyond originary confessional narratives and engage in dialogue with "the willingness to be disturbed," (Wheatley, 2002) believing that disturbances are productive places from which we can more clearly articulate and act from our commitments. Drawing on our own experiences, we engage the political, systemic, and enduring nature of racism as …


Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice And Ecological Scale, Gerry Canavan Jan 2013

Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice And Ecological Scale, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Education, Angela Sorby Jan 2013

Education, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Demonizing The Catholic Other: Religion And The Secularization Process In Gothic Literature, Diane Hoeveler Jan 2013

Demonizing The Catholic Other: Religion And The Secularization Process In Gothic Literature, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Life Without Hope? Huntington's Disease And Genetic Futurity, Gerry Canavan Jan 2013

Life Without Hope? Huntington's Disease And Genetic Futurity, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Five Armageddons Of Revelation, Nicholas S. Boone Jan 2013

The Five Armageddons Of Revelation, Nicholas S. Boone

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Après Nous, Le Déluge, Gerry Canavan Jan 2013

Après Nous, Le Déluge, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.