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Sharon Smulders deposited “Medicated Music”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 weeks ago
Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s experience of love undoubtedly informs the female speaker’s curative restoration in Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), the series also shows the conscious deliberation of a Victorian poet engaged in the task of renovating generic imperatives to release feminine subjectivity — which had been invalidated by t…[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
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks 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] -
Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks 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
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Andrea Zemgulys deposited Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf’s Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 months ago
Salacious rumors about Alfred Tennyson’s conduct with young women inspired Virginia Woolf’s satirical depiction of Tennyson and Ellen Terry in her draft and produced play -Freshwater.- In considering whether Woolf’s satire silences the whispers of Victorian women and/or corrects salacious rumor-mongering, this essay decides that the play more…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 months ago
Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year 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
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year 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] -
Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Mirosław Miernik started the topic CFP: Volume on Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), “Hadrian the Seventh” in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
We are seeking submissions for an upcoming volume on the work of Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, with particular emphasis placed on his novel Hadrian the Seventh. The book will be published by Lexington Books in 2024. The chapters should be around 7,500 words. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The politics…
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Tennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to the insights derived from the perspective of great age — chiming the poet’s keynotes of disappointment, mourning, and loss. I turn to ‘Ulysses…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Grandpaternalism: Kipling’s Imperial Care Narrative in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
The significance of old age in Kipling’s work has gone largely unacknowledged by critics who attend to the many youthful protagonists who sail, hunt, and explore their way across the plots of his fiction. This essay argues that the relationship between grandparent and grandchild in Kipling’s Kim serves as a representational strategy—at the level…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” was reprinted “in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement… without permission”; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues “Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues” (123). Thomas’ letters support the latter…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months 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
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months 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
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months 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]
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Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
The reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month 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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