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  • Profile picture of Faye Hammill

    Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago

    Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

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    Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago

    The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article traces the developme…[Read more]

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    Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago

    This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
    post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
    of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
    racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Gregory Caraher

    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    This essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Dustin Friedman

    Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.

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    Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited Weird Sex: Teleny and the History of Sexuality in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    In this article, I argue that that a close examination of the most sexually explicit scenes in the anonymous gay pornographic novel Teleny (1893) reveals that they do not anticipate the bourgeois, individualistic liberal gay subject described by Michel Foucault, but are instead more closely related to the cosmic horrors found in the genre of weird…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited E.M. Forster, the Clapham Sect, and the Secular Public Sphere in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    Critics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    This essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited Unsettling the Normative: Articulations of Masculinity in Victorian Literature and Culture in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    This article provides an overview of the academic study of Victorian masculinity. It argues that the pioneering work of feminist and sexuality studies scholars in Victorian studies during the 1970s and 1980s made it possible to discuss manhood critically as a historical and cultural phenomenon. It then presents a reading of major works on…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited Paterian Cosmopolitanism: Euphuism, Negativity, and Genre in Marius the Epicurean in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    In this essay, I argue that Walter Pater’s description of “Euphuism” in Marius the Epicurean (1885) relies upon the insights of idealist philosophy in order to articulate a theory of what Rebecca Walkowitz calls “cosmopolitan style.” Specifically, Pater draws upon a disparate number of cultural discourses in his articulation of Euphuism while…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of George Phillips

    George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    This essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jacob Jewusiak

    Jacob Jewusiak deposited Retirement in Utopia: William Morris’s Senescent Socialism in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago

    This 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]

  • Profile picture of James Gifford

    James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago

    Introduction 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.

  • Profile picture of Flavio Gregori

    Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago

    The 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’.
    We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Patrick McEvoy-Halston

    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Compares 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]

  • Profile picture of Patrick McEvoy-Halston

    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Explores 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]

  • Profile picture of George Phillips

    George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group Group logo of Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English LiteratureLate-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    Douglas 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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