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Maria Susanna Cummins' London Letters: April 1860, Heidi Lm Jacobs Sep 2016

Maria Susanna Cummins' London Letters: April 1860, Heidi Lm Jacobs

Heidi LM Jacobs

Within scholarship on Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866), there are two recurrent phrases: "author of the best-selling novel The Lamplighter" and "little is known about her life." Despite the early contextualization of Cummins by various scholars, most of the recent critical work on Cummins has centered on her first and best-known novel, The Lamplighter (1854). Very little critical attention has been paid to Cummins's life, her career as a publishing author, her lesser known novels, her periodical publications, and her archived letters. Written in the weeks preceding the publication in the United States and Britain of her third novel, El …


Hogging The Limelight: The Queen's Wake And The Rise Of Celebrity Authorship, Jason Goldsmith Mar 2016

Hogging The Limelight: The Queen's Wake And The Rise Of Celebrity Authorship, Jason Goldsmith

Jason Goldsmith

In the following essay, Goldsmith argues that The Queen's Wake is commentary on the literary name branding inaugurated by the periodical culture of Hogg's day. For Goldsmith, the "crisis of reception" staged in the poem--sixteenth-century provincial bards in a first encounter with royal spectacle--is not unlike the uneasy celebrity Hogg experienced as the Ettrick Shepherd of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.


Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar Nov 2015

Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar

Christina Triezenberg

Despite the growing evidence of humanity’s impact on the natural world and the urgent need to shape citizens who understand the impact that their choices and actions have on their local and global environments, colleges and universities throughout the United States have been slow to add environmental education as a core component of their undergraduate curricula. Harnessing our shared interest in environment issues and the humanities, we designed and taught an experimental course in environmental literature for the honors program at Western Michigan University that we hope will become a template of what is possible in postsecondary environmental education. Using …


The Worldmakers: Global Imagining In Early Modern Europe, Ayesha Ramachandran Dec 2014

The Worldmakers: Global Imagining In Early Modern Europe, Ayesha Ramachandran

Ayesha Ramachandran

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an …


Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar Mar 2014

Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar

Ilse A Schweitzer VanDonkelaar

Despite the growing evidence of humanity’s impact on the natural world and the urgent need to shape citizens who understand the impact that their choices and actions have on their local and global environments, colleges and universities throughout the United States have been slow to add environmental education as a core component of their undergraduate curricula. Harnessing our shared interest in environment issues and the humanities, we designed and taught an experimental course in environmental literature for the honors program at Western Michigan University that we hope will become a template of what is possible in postsecondary environmental education. Using …


Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider Feb 2013

Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider

Erika Schneider

No abstract provided.


Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde Dec 2011

Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde Dec 2010

Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

This essay analyzes how two novels, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, present masculine models that juxtapose power and violence during times of social crisis. Both novels present violent masculinities that overcome peaceful masculinities, in conflicts that result in murders and rapes; but rather than acuse the individuals responsible for the violent acts, the texts point out the social mechanisms that inexorably move the authors of the crimes. In both works we also see violence against women and resulting public deaths of men wrongly accused, which happen due to an inability to adapt to …


Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En "Sanctuary" Y "Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada", Cesar Valverde Dec 2010

Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En "Sanctuary" Y "Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Closing Remarks, Richard Clement Jun 2010

Closing Remarks, Richard Clement

Richard W. Clement

No abstract provided.


Lincoln's In Town (A Play), Robert Bray, Nancy Steele Brokaw Dec 2008

Lincoln's In Town (A Play), Robert Bray, Nancy Steele Brokaw

Robert Bray

The play was produced in Bloomington, Illinois, February 13-15, 2009, at the Bloomington Performing Arts Center as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.


Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde Dec 2003

Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Herman Melville's Benito Cereno And Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom Of This World, Cesar Valverde Dec 2003

Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Herman Melville's Benito Cereno And Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom Of This World, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde Dec 1998

Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde Dec 1998

Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Desconstrucción Histórica Y Posmodernismo En LAs Ruinas Circulares, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Desconstrucción Histórica Y Posmodernismo En LAs Ruinas Circulares, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde Dec 1994

Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Self-Effacement And Autonomy In Shakespeare, Kirby Farrell Prof Dec 1987

Self-Effacement And Autonomy In Shakespeare, Kirby Farrell Prof

kirby farrell

This chapter develops the argument in "Self-Effacement and Autonomy in Sx," extending it to fantasies of apotheosis in the poems and plays.


Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson, Nona Mason Dec 1975

Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson, Nona Mason

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


The Digby Mary Magdalene And The Magdalene Cult Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson Dec 1971

The Digby Mary Magdalene And The Magdalene Cult Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.