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Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
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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] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
This chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
This essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
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Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMLA Session 323. Paper abstract: Professor Corey E. Andrews
Title: “Writing in Burns’s Shadow: The Great Unknowns
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Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMLA Session 323: Paper abstract Professor Juliet Shields.
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Susan Oliver started the topic Paper Abstracts for MLA session 323: Scottish Literature into the Great Unknowns in the forum
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFor paper abstracts for MLA Scottish Literature Discussion Group Session 323: Scottish Literature: Into the Great Unknowns please see “Files” on this Commons page.
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Susan Oliver deleted the file: MLA Session 323: Paper abstract. Alexander L. Kaufman from
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Susan Oliver uploaded the file: MLA Session 323: Paper Abstract Prof. Alexander L. Kaufman to
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMLA session 323. Paper abstract: Professor Alexander L. Kaufman.
“‘Brume, brume on ze hill …’: Two Ancient Ballads (1822) and the Persistence of Robin Hood in a Fraudulent Chapbook.” -
Susan Oliver replied to the topic Join us for our sessions and events at the MLA in Vancouver in the forum
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThanks for these extras, Caroline. There’s such a treat of MLA Scot Lit in store – looking forward to it and to seeing everyone in Vancouver. All best, Susan
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