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Adaptation to or of the Environment? Examining the Works of French Women Writers of the First Republic and First Empire Through an Ecocritical Lens
This chapter sheds light on popular authors of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France: Mme Cottin, Mme de Souza, and Mme de Staël....
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Sadomasochistic Attachments: Reverse Power and Erotic Stimulations
Drawing on the works of Jill Dolan, Sergio Benvenuto, Leo Bersani, Elizabeth Freeman, and Pat Califia, this chapter outlines the critical perceptions...
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Conclusions
This closing chapter does not merely recap the main arguments and objectives of the book. In line with the book’s purpose to open up Yeats’s and...
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Neo-Victorian Violence
Although violence has been critically examined in relation to neo-Victorian subgenres—such as trauma, crime and Gothicism—the nature, form, and...
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Neo-Victorian Victoria(s) on Screen
In this chapter, Friars and DeMerchant explore neo-Victorian representations of Queen Victoria on film from 1913–2019, with a focused analysis of two...
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“Too frivolous, too middlebrow, too populist, and too commercial”: Examining the Neo-Victorian Musical
Musical adaptations of Victorian and neo-Victorian texts have long been popular, with adaptations of already existing texts and Victorian-inspired...
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Victorian Women’s Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Women’s Madness
From a modern perspective, most Victorians seemed to have been obsessed about controlling women, subjugating the animal within men, and adjudicating...
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African American Women’s Literary Renaissance: A Template for Spiritual Fiction in the Twenty-First Century?
In Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women, Akasha Gloria Hull revises the usual reading of the 1970s and 1980s in terms of...
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“Souls on Board”: A Counter-History of Modern Mobility
“Souls on Board” assembles the modern history of counting the number of passengers on board a ship so that in the event of a wreck, all might be...
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Conclusion
The Conclusion uses two famous essays by Robert Louis Stevenson as a filter through which to summarise the argument of the monograph. It outlines the...
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Satirizing Gender Expectations: Fanny Fern as the Impossible Subject
This chapter examines at length the core topic for Parton as satirist: gendered expectations for behavior, which entails exploring masculinity as...
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Fanny Fern’s Significance in the American Comic Tradition
This chapter argues that Parton offers a unique model for antebellum comic writers. Her Fanny Fern persona dramatizes a woman writing satire without...
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Sara Payson Willis Parton’s (Comic) Preacher, Fanny Fern
This chapter shows Parton the comic writer functioning in the role of what William Thackeray called “the humorist writer [as] the week-day preacher.”...
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What Have You Done Philately? Stamps and the Death of the Liberal Dream in Carmen de Burgos’ Don Manolito (1916)
Increasingly obsolete, stamps have been a prime site for the dissemination of national symbols. The portrayal of stamps in literary texts can thus...
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Annie Vivanti’s Multicultural Identity and the Sha** of the Artist’s Body
Mostly ignored in studies of nineteenth-century women writers, Annie Vivanti (1866–1942) was anything but a minor figure in the Italian fin-de-siècle...
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Between Conformity and Transgression: Approaches to Writing in the Albums of Emilia Pardo Bazán
This chapter analyzes two albums belonging to Emilia Pardo Bazán and proposes that her involvement in this nineteenth-century trend transgressed...
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Let Us Go Forward: The Soul, Spiritualism, and the Funerary Commemoration of Richard Cosway, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Evelyn De Morgan
This chapter considers the ways in which the funerary commemoration erected in respect of three nineteenth-century British painters, Richard Cosway...
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Sweet Soul Music
What is “soul” music? What are its characteristics, setting it apart from gospel, blues, jazz, rock, and rhythm and blues? The chapter examines the...
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Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children’s Literature
In this chapter, I argue, first, that in key contributions to scientific Child Study precocity is vilified to an extent that exceeds all but the most...
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Defiant Dykes: New Women against Patriarchy
A specific group within D’Annunzio’s and Yeats’s drama includes revengeful, defiant women who turn their diminished position into power to revenge...