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Mobility and Autonomy: Chopin’s Women Characters Around Town
This chapter extends the discussion of women’s urban mobility as we turn to three exemplary Chopin stories that feature women who travel from the...
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“The Infurnal Thing”: Autonomy and Ability in Narratives of Disabling, Self-acting, and Weaponized Prostheses
Focusing on the themes of agency and ability, this chapter examines the power play at work between person and prosthetic part in various...
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William Dean Howells and the Economic Novel: Heteronomy and Autonomy
This chapter traces the evolution of Howells’s economic vision between 1879 and 1890 through the concepts of autonomy and heteronomy as defined by...
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Contradictions and the Re-Invention of One’s Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi
Feminist Carla Lonzi’s diary, Taci, anzi parla. Diario di una femminista, includes topics regarding the relationship that feminist women had with the...
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Between writer and militant: Arab realism and the accidental
This article explores Arab theories of socialist realism in the 1950s with a focus on the literary battles among Marxist-oriented critics in Egypt...
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Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canadafulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of...
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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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William Blake and the Visionary Law Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in...
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“[A] fictive person / around whom the air is blurred with money”: Precarious Labor and the Work of Poetry
“‘[A] fictive person / around whom the air is blurred with money’: Precarious Labor and the Work of Poetry” explores the connection between scale,...
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Tradition and Tautology in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Vernacular Petrarchan poetics inherits tensions between creative autonomy and literary tradition from earlier writings about Ciceronian imitation....
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Venn, Anne
Anne Venn (bap. 1627, d. 1654) produced a spiritual diary, meditations, and sermon notes recounting shifts in her religious affiliation during a...
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Bayou St. John Stories
This chapter will examine three Chopin stories that are set in the Bayou St. John neighborhood, which is found in the middle of the city of New...
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Metal cultures, ecocriticism, decolonization, and Tara June Winch’s The Yield
The late arrival of ecocriticism in literary studies in the 1970s attests to what seems to have meant hardly anything at all to literary studies...
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Seeking Home, Discovering the Bush: The Australian Bush Envisaged in Ukrainian Children’s Books
This chapter examines Ukrainian Australian literature for children and youth written by 14 authors between 1950 and 1990. All but one of these...
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“Outline of Civilization”: Maples Arce, O’Gorman, Modotti, and the Limits of the Mexican Revolution
In this chapter, I argue that the poet Manuel Maples Arce, the architect Juan O’Gorman and the photographer Tina Modotti, despite regarding their...
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El baúl de Miss Florence: (Re)imagining the Past; Women’s Travel Literature and the Sweet Tyranny of the Sugar Haciendas in Puerto Rico
This chapter analyzes Ana Lydia Vega’s novella “El baúl de Miss Florence: Fragmentos para un novelón romántico” (1991). Carrasquillo Hernández’s...
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“The Ideas Are in the Air”: From Drone Bees to Honey Women, Cultural Paradox in the Democratic Rhetoric of British Chartism and Colonial Australian Suffragism
Honeybees have long held a literal and figurative position in political representations of the social body. This chapter presents a comparative...
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Conclusion: Gender and Spiritual Gender—On the Liberation of Chinese Women
Thirty years after the “May Fourth MovementMay Fourth Movement,” the founding of New China became another indelible event in the history of Chinese...
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Transforming Love: Critical and Religious Discourses in Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love
Drawing on Shields’s essay “The Love Story,” Brenda Beckman-Long argues, in “Transforming Love: Critical and Religious Discourses in Carol Shields’s...
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Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England Faith in the Language
The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible. Faith in the Languageexamines the...