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Growing up to Be a Man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity
In July 1907, Thomas Hardy attended a dinner given by the Medico-Psychology Society (later to become the Royal College of Psychiatrists) as the guest of Peter William Macdonald, MD, medical superintendent of D...
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Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity
Never one to miss the chance of a swipe at contemporary taste, Wilde allows his protagonist to distinguish his ‘lovely’, ‘unreal’ novel from the thousands circulating among the English public. The quip is, of ...
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The Four Nodes of Convergence in Philological Knowledge
Various narratives of the emergence, development, and contemporary condition of English Studies have consistently charted a path away from philology, arguing that philological rationales and worldviews were su...
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The Former Heartlands of English Studies
This and the next chapter give an overview of histories of English Studies as an academic discipline in various contexts, which have, as observed earlier, repeatedly traced departures from philology. These are...
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From Philology to General Linguistics and Literary Theory
In the Epilogue of her book From Philology to English Studies (2013), centered on the study of language in the nineteenth century (along the historicist line briefly sketched in Chapter 3 above), Haruko Momma wro...
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Theory Debates and Discourse Analysis
What direction Theory should take as an institutional domain was a concern even while it was being constructed as such. Both de Man’s and Said’s works were replete with self-reflexive observations on literary ...
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Introduction
The nineteenth century saw the rapid growth of the magazine industry in Britain. Whereas a handful of quarterly reviews dominated the market in the beginning of the century, by the 1860s hundreds of weeklies a...
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Selling Domesticity: Eliza Warren Francis and the Ladies’ Treasury
From the 1860s through to the 1890s, ‘Mrs Warren’ was a familiar name in household management. Her manuals — How I Managed My House on Two Hundred Pounds a Year (1864), How I Managed My Children from Infancy to M...
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Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës
Many who study the Brontës still do not read the Angrian fiction, despite the fact that it forms a body of work larger than all their published novels combined and that reading only those published novels mean...
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Christina Rossetti and the Economics of Periodical Poetry
It is an intriguing thought that Matilda Pullan must have crossed paths with Christina Rossetti at some point in the 1850s, when their respective positions in the literary market were quite the reverse of what...
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Dickens and Masculinity: The Necessity of the Nurturing Male
It is a critical, if somewhat dated, commonplace to fault Dickens’s characterizations as two-dimensional and to note that this two-dimensionality is most obvious in his conventional portrayals of ideal young m...
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Back-Room Workers Step** Forward: Emily Faithfull and the Compositors of the Victoria Press
The London West End in more than one way served as a hub for the professionalization of women’s work and the burgeoning women’s movement in general. In March 1860, the young women’s rights activist, lecturer a...
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Manful Sensations: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd
The intense debate surrounding sensation fiction during the 1860s often centred on the genre’s representation of female characters. Thus Margaret Oliphant, in her 1867 essay ‘Novels’ written for Blackwood’s Magaz...
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Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel
A discussion of the ways in which masculinity was perceived and constructed in the novel of empire might well begin with a broader debate among recent historians. Those like Bernard Porter, who hold that the m...
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Introduction
Since English is the dominant global language at present, English Studies features significantly in humanistic pedagogy and scholarship worldwide. Of necessity then, English Studies has become a site of sustai...
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Conrad’s Theatre of Masculinities
The title of this chapter – theatre of masculinities – is meant not only to signify gender as performative but also to call attention to a spectrum of masculinities that is negotiated freshly in any historical...
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Muting of, Return to, and Further Departure from Philology
Turning to the area — English Studies — in question here, with the above general characterization of philology in view, involves registering a curiously schismatic situation in the present. The features of thi...
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The Former Hinterlands of English Studies
Characterizing continental Europe and India as the former hinterlands of English Studies may seem a somewhat misleading retrospective view. Philological scholarship in Old English was centered firmly within Ge...
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The Politics of Language Corpora and Literary Theory
Further moves in extirpating literary sources from linguistics mentioned at the end of the last chapter were performed in the development of corpus-based projects, like Quirk’s SEU project. And further moves i...
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Englishes and Global English Studies
Retracings in this study follow two trajectories to fathom the proliferating diversities and global scope of English Studies, with the retrospective horizon and persistent remnants of philological scholarship ...
