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Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown
This chapter looks at Charlotte Forten’s journals and William W. Brown’s My Southern Home (1880) as indicating a post-Emancipation reconfiguration of...
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Drama by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert’s translation of Robert Garnier’s Senecan closet drama Antonius has increasingly become seen as a major text in the histories of...
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The Style Historic: The Gothic Line from the Lake Poets to William Morris
This chapter discusses the continuities and contrasts between “Gothic Romanticism” and “Victorian Medievalism,” focusing on the linked and parallel...
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“Habit” and the Concept of Character in American Literary Realism and Pragmatist Thought: The Example of William Dean Howells and the James Brothers
Several decades ago, Wolf Lepennies studied the parallel rise of sociology and the realist novel (Balzac’s in particular) in France. A similar case...
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Nineteenth-Century Models of Development: Precocity Before and After Darwin
In this chapter, I first argue that, in The Prelude (1850) and the ‘Immortality Ode’ (1815), Wordsworth uses two fixed points—child and adult—to...
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Women as Patrons of Drama
Many women served as dramatic patrons in early modern England. They helped make plays in private and public venues by commissioning and funding...
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William Burroughs’ Immodest Proposal
Here the Beat Generation’s anti-humanism is explored more directly through William S. Burroughs, the movement’s third principal player and an...
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Prophecy and poetry: The Second World War and the turn to biblical typology in George Herbert’s The Temple
Rosemond Tuve’s Chapel Talks reveal that her demonstration of the connection between Herbert’s imagery and biblical typology is related to events of...
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Shakespeare, William: Sonnets
Der Zyklus von 154 Sonetten, der von dem angesehenen Drucker Thomas Thorpe 1609, auf dem Zenit von Shakespeares Wirkung als Dramatiker, in einer...
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Bryant, William Cullen: Das lyrische Werk
Der Autor entdeckte in früher Jugend sein Interesse für Dichtung und rezipierte vor allem die englischen Autoren des 18. Jh.s. Im Anschluss an die...
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Manuscript Exchange of Poetry and Sociability
This entry considers forms of sociability operating in four social formations in which manuscripts were circulated. The court of Queen Anne Boleyn...
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John Matthews Manly and the Riverbank Laboratory Network: The Fabyan and Friedman Correspondence
This chapter details the unique relationships forged through Manly’s interactions with Riverbank Laboratory, founded by George Fabyan. Riverbank...
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Introduction
Neoliberalism seems to pose unique problems to critical theory and the critical analysis of culture. This introduction traces the outlines of...
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Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits
This chapter uses the John Murray and Longman Archives to break down the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century publishing industry from the...
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Empson, William: Seven Types of Ambiguity
Angeregt durch seinen akademischen Lehrer I. A. Richards, brachte der Autor schon 1930 als Student in Cambridge sein erstes und bedeutendstes...
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Introduction
The aim of this book is to identify the underlying physiologies of what the British poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827), called...
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The Roman Inkhorn: Literary and Religious Resistance to Latinism in the English Renaissance
This chapter demonstrates that the opposition between scriptural autonomy and interpretive tradition shapes sixteenth-century examinations of the...
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A Housewife’s Dream? Automation and the Problem of Women’s Free Time
This chapter examines different speculative visions of women’s free time made possible by automated productive futures in utopian texts from the...
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Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of Consciousness
This essay considers some of the paradoxes of daydreaming and the disparate narratives it engendered in the literary, medical, psychological, and...
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Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Lancastrian heiress and Tudor matriarch, Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509) was the first woman translator in Renaissance England and the first...