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Changes in Writer Stratifications across Media in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This chapter focuses on the social and cultural stratifications of writers within and across media and the status of theatrical writing, which had...
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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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Ad-app-tive Illustration: Or, the Uses of Illustration
This chapter discusses how the interactive illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland made possible by mobile software application...
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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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Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos’ Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2012)
Illustration has a varied life as a mode of adaptation. From frontispieces that concentrate an entire work into a single visual to magazines and...
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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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Philosophical Literature
This chapter opens with a biographical consideration of Richard Wright that analyzes the economic penury and lack of dignity allotted to...
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Kantian Dignity
Tracing Nussbaum’s engagement with Henry James’s The Ambassadors, this chapter delves further into the differences between her concept of perceptive...
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Questions of Language
This rozdział/chapter discusses multilingual dramaturgies in four productions: The blind poet by Needcompany (Belgium, 2015), Nie Mów Nikomu (Don’t...
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Multi-webbed Dramaturgies
This rozdział/chapter focuses on multilingual dramaturgies created over prolonged periods across multiple locations with different languages and...
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The Burnt City in Development: Rehearsal as Mythopoiesis
This chapter is the first of two rehearsal studies of Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City, both of which focus on the company’s process of transforming...
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Nonsecular Thirdspaces in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish and Homeland Elegies
The increase in the number of Muslim Americans today, particularly those born and brought up in the US, has resulted in the production of literary...
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Grief, Hospitality, and the Frontier in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020)
Chloé Zhao’s award-winning film Nomadland (2020) is partially based on journalist Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First...
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Riding the Beast: Of Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017)
In Borderlands/La frontera, published in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa described the US-Mexico border as “una herida abierta,” an open wound where “the Third...
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Isamu: Becoming Nisei
Isamu checked into the desert asylum. Out there, the war was ongoing. They said it would be safer inside. Looking as he did like the enemy, he’d...
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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...