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British and Irish Literature
Literary Theory
Literature, general
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Jane Austen as Fashion Plate: Musings on Muffs
Chapter 3 examines James Stanier Clarke’s fashionable sketch of Austen holding a muffin relation to other images we have of her, particularly the famous drawing of Austen by her sister Cassandra, and the recen...
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Concluding Remarks
In this book, we have argued that the majority of healthcare and the generation of health and well-being is non-medical. Despite being a popular activity, visits to the doctor, or doctor consultations in the c...
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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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Epilogue: The Afterlife of Muffs
In the epilogue, I turn to Hugh Thomson’s illustrated edition of Sense and Sensibility (1902), which features images of each of the primary female characters (Elinor, Marianne, and Lucy) holding muffs. I read the...
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Visual Art and Transformation
There is growing evidence which supports the therapeutic utility of visual art. In this chapter visual art is referred to interchangeably as art or visual art. This includes work on neuroaesthetics, art as the...
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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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Health Humanities
There is a growing need for a new kind of debate at the intersection of the humanities and healthcare, health and well-being. In the recent past the field of medical humanities has grown rapidly, but it is tim...
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Around 1787: Austen’s Volume the First, the Elizas, Private Theatricals, and Muffs
Chapter 1 juxtaposes an analysis of clothing, accessories, and theatricality in Jane Austens earliest writings with the controversies surrounding the private theatricals at Steventon inspired by the arrival of...
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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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Applied Literature
Health humanities, from its valuable inception and discoursal development as the medical humanities through to its evolution into a ‘more inclusive and applied approach to humanities in healthcare’ , engages n...
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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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Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health
The performing arts comprise an array of creative endeavours, in which artistic expression is conveyed through time, across a range of modalities and media, but which directly involves the performer herself or hi...
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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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Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Healthcare
The title of this chapter could imply several things. First, it could cover the way evidence is derived from practice. Certainly, we will consider this later as this process is uniquely suited to the kinds of ...
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Introduction: Much Ado About Muffs
When Jane Austen was a teenager in the late 1780s several portraits of well-known actresses holding muffs were painted by a variety of famous artists including Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Sir...
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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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Anthropology and the Study of Culture
In this chapter we will consider the role of anthropology and the study of culture in the health humanities. Whilst there is a long tradition of medical anthropology — a field which has its own journals and ma...
