MLA Commons | Daniel Williams | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/dwilliams/activity/ Activity feed for Daniel Williams. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 31df4771a070869b0a9d5a8e097a7fd0 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771065/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:33:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 382285baf1fe4366332f2c8376cb02b9 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771064/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:29:38 -0500 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]

]]> 0 ea73c8e8c56897accc7ca184ece7bbb9 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771063/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:28:48 -0500 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]

]]> 0 787dbd1f4b7442ec92aa71880144f221 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771062/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:26:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b578b13ddda28435699fd105a53e53e5 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771061/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:24:27 -0500 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]

]]> 0 90e78833f2b3a9c8e2ea86b3b089ab07 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770983/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:45:00 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3298d21229480834fa86a734410631c3 Daniel Williams's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770981/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:34:52 -0500 0 20deff5e4718c6172e1bf1eff7a417ba Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1693077/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:59:58 -0400 Review of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick

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]]> 0 9a34342df0a9db506dc3f755beab29b7 Daniel Williams deposited Victorian Ecocriticism for the Anthropocene in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692813/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:59:04 -0400 How might literary and cultural spheres intersect with the Anthropocene, the epoch — however defined — of humanity’s detectable influence at geological scale? What forms, genres, objects, and methodological lenses might prove most fertile in mediating between the concept’s abstraction and its concrete entailments for literary and cultural hi…[Read more]

]]> 0 2909b795d1c1fdaadfd483976cfdd60b Daniel Williams deposited Slow Fire: Serial Thinking and Hardy's Genres of Induction in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692812/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:51:36 -0400 This essay considers the use of “serial thinking”—an approach to representation and cognition that emphasizes repetition, enumeration, and aggregation—in the work of Thomas Hardy. Examining his first novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), it connects Hardy’s approaches to serial thinking with the discourse of Victorian logic (especially the work of J…[Read more]

]]> 0 027ad9e088e6a6f7a6cc27306e8690f0 Daniel Williams deposited Slow Fire: Serial Thinking and Hardy's Genres of Induction in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692811/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:48:44 -0400 This essay considers the use of “serial thinking”—an approach to representation and cognition that emphasizes repetition, enumeration, and aggregation—in the work of Thomas Hardy. Examining his first novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), it connects Hardy’s approaches to serial thinking with the discourse of Victorian logic (especially the work of J…[Read more]

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]]> 0 d8436ea2007d643476d9846393f5d432 Daniel Williams deposited Victorian Ecocriticism for the Anthropocene https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692673/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:00:17 -0400 How might literary and cultural spheres intersect with the Anthropocene, the epoch — however defined — of humanity’s detectable influence at geological scale? What forms, genres, objects, and methodological lenses might prove most fertile in mediating between the concept’s abstraction and its concrete entailments for literary and cultural hi…[Read more]

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]]> 0 ed0871f7785d8cbd057d9b1b5c5971ba Daniel Williams's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692571/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:34:07 -0400 0 72dc8bba54054385082802dccd05b0c6 Daniel Williams deposited Down the Slant towards the Eye: Hopkins and Ecological Perception in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692546/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:51:51 -0400 This essay reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry for its “ecological perception”: a perceptual modality involving the dynamic interaction between human bodies and environmental givens or potentialities. Linking Hopkins’s syncretic ideas about perception to the psychologist J. J. Gibson’s account of our sensitivity to environmental “affordan…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ee28a387b9449bdddb1bddc595a98fd Daniel Williams deposited Down the Slant towards the Eye: Hopkins and Ecological Perception in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692545/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:48:43 -0400 This essay reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry for its “ecological perception”: a perceptual modality involving the dynamic interaction between human bodies and environmental givens or potentialities. Linking Hopkins’s syncretic ideas about perception to the psychologist J. J. Gibson’s account of our sensitivity to environmental “affordan…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b2d3de33d44a94193e835be1182d9ff Daniel Williams deposited Down the Slant towards the Eye: Hopkins and Ecological Perception https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692483/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:11:17 -0400 This essay reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry for its “ecological perception”: a perceptual modality involving the dynamic interaction between human bodies and environmental givens or potentialities. Linking Hopkins’s syncretic ideas about perception to the psychologist J. J. Gibson’s account of our sensitivity to environmental “affordan…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae66b67f74ffd7d8562aef3064226602 Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692398/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:40:35 -0400 Bringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 44eca90168611ba988f8860b3787ceb7 Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692395/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:37:06 -0400 Bringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 97e85919ab9ba77820af57972f5eff18 Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692394/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:35:02 -0400 Bringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 84ecdda02b5403874bfaa5f330008449 Daniel Williams deposited Accident in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692393/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:33:45 -0400 ​This chapter explores some legal and literary ramifications of “accident” in British law and society from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. This period saw changes in common law and legislation relating to accidents, including the emergence of negligence as a distinct tort and statutory provisions for employer liabi…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f7bb56357f6cabe1a3af01d8ade8ee0a Daniel Williams deposited Atmospheres of Liberty: Ruskin in the Clouds in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692373/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:25:21 -0400 John Ruskin’s cloud aesthetics develop a coherent, if figurative, inquiry into the nature of human liberty. His changing accounts of cloud formations across Modern Painters gradually place more emphasis on liberty within a framework of restraint and self-government. Attending to the shifting and equivocal senses of liberty in Ruskin’s aes…[Read more]

]]> 0 fee4231f8306c699c1bde0f5d451aa02 Daniel Williams deposited Stem and Skein: Order and Evolution in Hopkins in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692185/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:36:38 -0400 Departing in some measure from critical views that invoke similar contextual materials, this essay argues for a reevaluation of Hopkins’s debt to scientific thinking in his poetry and poetics. Hovering between competing conceptions of nature’s structure and purpose—evolutionary theory, energy physics, natural theology—Hopkins develops a poetics…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec242db1cad1625a4cc6636810d640b4 Daniel Williams deposited Apprentice to Deception: L. P. Hartley and the Bildungsroman in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692182/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:29:06 -0400 This essay argues that L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between (1953) fits into the critical tradition of the Bildungsroman in one specific sense: its attention to matters of deception. First, this plot of formation and development involves a necessary apprenticeship in deception: a moral training that has links with everyday practices of c…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a8ab043d72d5b862b3da80f7dd3ffe8 Daniel Williams deposited Apprentice to Deception: L. P. Hartley and the Bildungsroman in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692181/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:25:21 -0400 This essay argues that L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between (1953) fits into the critical tradition of the Bildungsroman in one specific sense: its attention to matters of deception. First, this plot of formation and development involves a necessary apprenticeship in deception: a moral training that has links with everyday practices of c…[Read more]

]]> 0 114a08c3893ffb009dec87e2f1ce2148 Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692175/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:12:07 -0400 Bringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 de4fabf75597d9512517b9c29adc4246 Daniel Williams deposited Accident https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692165/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:23:59 -0400 ​This chapter explores some legal and literary ramifications of “accident” in British law and society from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. This period saw changes in common law and legislation relating to accidents, including the emergence of negligence as a distinct tort and statutory provisions for employer liabi…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f856c1c834d40e1dc7b1b7384eaaeed Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691940/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:38:36 -0400 Henrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]

]]> 0 793913d1e07504302a32069371bb8211 Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691939/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:34:47 -0400 Henrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2d1b0c499efd084a69ce2bd1422279d Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691938/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:32:22 -0400 Henrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]

]]> 0 11a9ce417b1f8fa1cb1e58acfe7256b3 Daniel Williams deposited Rumor, Reputation, and Sensation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691936/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:29:17 -0400 This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation. First, I examine the relationship between the movements of…[Read more]

]]> 0 06e8b26d18c08ca4e6277555adda7626 Daniel Williams deposited The Clouds and the Poor: Ruskin, Mayhew, and Ecology in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691935/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:26:17 -0400 Ruskin and Mayhew together disclose a Victorian ecological discourse attuned to the divergent spaces, varying rhythms, and dispersed networks that compose the urban environment.

]]> 0 8f631e862719197d2934d44cf325e784 Daniel Williams deposited Atmospheres of Liberty: Ruskin in the Clouds https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691928/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:21:59 -0400 John Ruskin’s cloud aesthetics develop a coherent, if figurative, inquiry into the nature of human liberty. His changing accounts of cloud formations across Modern Painters gradually place more emphasis on liberty within a framework of restraint and self-government. Attending to the shifting and equivocal senses of liberty in Ruskin’s aes…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c885b5bfdb3726e2877d3d11ea17887 Daniel Williams deposited Stem and Skein: Order and Evolution in Hopkins https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691909/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:42:21 -0400 Departing in some measure from critical views that invoke similar contextual materials, this essay argues for a reevaluation of Hopkins’s debt to scientific thinking in his poetry and poetics. Hovering between competing conceptions of nature’s structure and purpose—evolutionary theory, energy physics, natural theology—Hopkins develops a poetics…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3996870a4195f983947280d07cf3c86 Daniel Williams deposited Apprentice to Deception: L. P. Hartley and the Bildungsroman https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691904/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:39:13 -0400 This essay argues that L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between (1953) fits into the critical tradition of the Bildungsroman in one specific sense: its attention to matters of deception. First, this plot of formation and development involves a necessary apprenticeship in deception: a moral training that has links with everyday practices of c…[Read more]

]]> 0 b04f68252d70043f5819a1ce49d89172 Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691846/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:57:01 -0400 Henrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]

]]> 0 522c37edd3d89824086b701ecfc1fc01 Daniel Williams deposited Rumor, Reputation, and Sensation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691838/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:40:36 -0400 This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation. First, I examine the relationship between the movements of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba8097a9e816f42539ae4296be7ede8a Daniel Williams deposited The Clouds and the Poor: Ruskin, Mayhew, and Ecology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691836/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:34:08 -0400 Ruskin and Mayhew together disclose a Victorian ecological discourse attuned to the divergent spaces, varying rhythms, and dispersed networks that compose the urban environment.

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