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Women, Slavery, And The Archive: Innovations In Slavery Studies And Contemporary Connections, Srividhya Swaminathan

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

“Women, Slavery, and the Archive: Innovations in Slavery Studies and Contemporary Connections”

Early scholarship on slavery, abolition, and the British empire largely ignored the contribution of women of any race to the African Institution. British women who participated in boycotts, produced literary texts against African enslavement, and did the legwork of circulating petitions were relegated to footnotes until well into the twentieth century when women scholars began to create space in the canon for the unrecognized or under-recognized women writers. These new avenues of research evolved through decades to become more inclusive, more critical, and more ground-breaking in bringing the …

Elizabeth Boyd's Disappearing Act: Performing Literary Legacy On The Georgian Stage, Kristina Straub

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

How do we trace the historical processes that grant some writers visibility and, hence, legacy, while shoving others into the historical closet? This essay offers the case study of Elizabeth Boyd (1727-1745), a novelist, poet, and playwright who has received some attention from scholars interested in women’s contributions to the legacy of William Shakespeare in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. In particular, her unperformed play, Don Sancho: Or, the Students Whim, a Ballad Opera of Two Acts, with Minerva’s Triumph, a Masque (1739) dramatizes a woman writer’s reflections on the politics of legacy at this formative moment in …

Introduction: Shaping The Legacy Of 18th-Century Women, Marilyn Francus

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Reimaging Feminist Futures Through Complaint-Jar Activity, Sritama Chatterjee

Feminist Pedagogy

In this article, I describe and reflect on my experience developing and implementing a “complaint jar activity”, in a writing-intensive, literature general-education class titled, “Women and Literature” themed on Feminist Futures: Place, Theory and Method. My article follows Sara Ahmed’s invitation to make space for the messy and complex nature of “complaint activism” as a form of feminist work in the academy while at the same time being attentive to the small transformations that the classroom can bring, at a time of increasing anti-intellectualism. Through a focus on the complaint-jar activity, I grapple with the tension between complaints as a …

The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

While drawing on mythology and a literary history that associated women with death as well as creativity, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath experimented with binary oppositions such as masculine/feminine, composition/decomposition, and death/(re)birth. They gained inspiration from the same source, the dead muse, but how do they transform traditions that derive from classical and medieval literary precedent, perhaps in ways that are inherently critical of patriarchal modes of gender dynamics? Why is Poe fixated on a feminine dead muse while Plath is inspired by what she calls her “father-sea-god muse”? How do both authors represent the female body, and how …

Encoding/Decoding Identity: Communication In Carson Mccullers’ The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Sarrah Wolfe

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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“She Was No Taller Than Your Thumb. So She Was Called Thumbelina”: Gender, Disability, And Visual Forms In Hans Christian Andersen’S “Thumbelina” (1835), Hannah J. Helm

Journal of Gender, Ethnic, and Cross-Cultural Studies

This article explores representations of femininity and disability in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “Thumbelina” (1835) and select examples of his paper art. In this article, I argue that, on one level, the fairy tale and Andersen’s own paper cuttings uphold feminine and ableist norms. However, on another level, these literary and visual forms simultaneously work to destabilise social prejudices and challenge bodily normativity. I explore how characters and themes associated with the fairy tale and paper art can be (re)read in strength-based ways. In the story, Thumbelina experiences the world through her smallness, and key themes including accessibility, physical …

The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Reading At Random, Mark Hussey

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf - Table Of Contents, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Virginia Woolf And Arthur G. Tansley’S Botany And Psychoanalysis, Akemi Yaguchi

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Floral Transformations: Humanoid Flowers And Floral Humans, Or Floral Erections And Decapitations: Woolf’S Armies Of The Upright And The Whacked, Elisa Kay Sparks

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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