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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Retirement in Utopia: William Morris’s Senescent Socialism in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoThis essay argues that William Morris’s work displaces an implicit youthful bias in theories of utopia and socialism by making senescence a structuring principle of his ideal society. For Morris, capitalist age ideology stratifies the lifespan into zones of youth and old age, usefulness and excess, and he perceived the rising reformist…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Retirement in Utopia: William Morris’s Senescent Socialism in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoThis essay argues that William Morris’s work displaces an implicit youthful bias in theories of utopia and socialism by making senescence a structuring principle of his ideal society. For Morris, capitalist age ideology stratifies the lifespan into zones of youth and old age, usefulness and excess, and he perceived the rising reformist…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 4 days agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoCompares how “Treasure Island” and “Charlotte’s Web” demonstrate how protagonist avatars for ourselves establish they truly matter to “parents” who pretend to value them but whose true lack of interest in them as individuals can’t be mistaken. Argues for seeing stories as recognizing the problem of “not being seen” by parents, and as them as…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 6 months agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Transatlantic Modernist Poetry (Graduate Syllabus) in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThis course, taught at Texas A&M University in Spring 2018, reads the entirety of the Norton anthology and enfolds readings of the Modernist Journals Project and scholarship by Morrisson, Esty, McKible and Churchill, Patterson, Ramazani, Jay, Berman, Chlak, Friedman, and Kalliney.
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited NOTES Keep the Aspidistra Flying in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited “Structures of Irony: Curiosity and Fetishism in Late Imperial London” in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis essay argues that curiosity can work as irony’s shadow dialectic in modernist responses to imperialism and metropolitan culture, and suggests that curiosity deserves further exploration as a modernist device. Attentive to the settings and visual metaphors of space and structure that abet irony’s role, this essay finds that curiosity’s…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on the autobiographical strategies deployed by Ambrose Bierce in response to shifting conceptions of the literary representation of everyday life. I place Bierce at the transition point between nineteenth and twentieth-century realism, between an understanding of typical experience as comfortably generic and a growing sense that…[Read more]
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