Knowledge Commons | Amanda Sharick | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/amanda_sharick/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Amanda Sharick is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:08:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 30aa5358290a7b02be86277a61b8236b Margaret Savilonis started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for TC Memory Studies Forum Executive Committee in the forum TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-tc-memory-studies-forum-executive-committee-2/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:43:51 -0500 The TC Memory Studies Forum Executive Committee is seeking self-nominations for two five-year terms; one beginning immediately and running through January 2031, the other starting January 2027 and running through 2032. The committee organizes one guaranteed session at the annual convention and may also organize one non-guaranteed collaborative…[Read more]

]]> 97e4a3a4d4dcb209295fa630ae7cb1c8 Jacqueline Sheean started the topic CFP: MLA TC Memory Studies Forum Guaranteed Session in the forum TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-tc-memory-studies-forum-guaranteed-session/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:01:22 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract for the TC Memory Studies Forum Guaranteed Session at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33069.html

How do the theoretical frameworks of memory studies respond to and/or resist contemporary violence and genocides? Seeking papers that address new…[Read more]

]]> a7618d7673b64bb343616bf526a8ad72 Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941340/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:47:48 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 a3959e4e2a62c924d45493a4a0b4b306 Dennis Denisoff started the topic extended deadline for a Vic/Ealy-20th-C Forum panel in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/extended-deadline-for-a-vic-ealy-20th-c-forum-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:59:44 -0400 Dear all,

The "Victorian and Early-20th-C English" forum has extended the deadline to submit an abstract for Panel 30480 "Solidarity and Institutional (In)action " to March 28! They have also tweaked the description to emphasize their openness to a range of approaches to the topic; here is the new description:

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]]> e62fa8a1ac6fc448e6c6ac0eb322991e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:21:45 -0500 Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge of sustained scholarly interest in the area. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, and diaries from…[Read more]

]]> 4e690ac0215a5f7b0830ba601e63d931 Amy Wong started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:27:28 -0500 Hello LLC Victorian and Early 20thC English Members,

I'm writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome!) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables…[Read more]

]]> d83a9ad157caec422913592927951e4f Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889187/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:24:47 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e466df197665225411a86d11c68e436 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889182/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:14:46 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 70acda6b306b4d4012d51e830c63701b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889178/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:04:39 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0ba1ae94924cbf389ba86cb02b95746 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887291/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:02:03 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 26303202593ffad24a710600bb78a2d4 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886750/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:11:23 -0400 The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís. These authors adapted the motifs of Arthurian or…[Read more]

]]> 0 513a1f56adfab12c131b0718636d5245 Hazel Gold started the topic LLC Sephardic Studies MLA 2025: Gender in the Sephardic World in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/llc-sephardic-studies-mla-2025-gender-in-the-sephardic-world/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:13:49 -0400 LLC Sephardic Studies, MLA 2025: Gender in the Sephardic World, 20th-21st Century

Panel organizer and chair: Hazel Gold, Emory University

Session Description: This roundtable focuses on gender in Sephardic culture of the Diaspora aned Israel viewed through the lens of multilinguistic production in literature, film, television, and historical…[Read more]

]]> cff92d6ba713d8efb9d3a4a7ee66941d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-5/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:42:34 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0a987c7927563a1fc0505ba073fff56d Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878056/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:01:26 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5016f4a927012adc17a4896f569f122 johnpendergast started the topic CfP MLA 2025 Opera and Musical Performance, 01/9-12/2025, New Orleans in the discussion CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romantic-and-19th-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-opera-and-musical-performance-01-9-12-2025-new-orleans-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:05:10 -0500 “Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance”

Musical adaptations from literary texts (see Broomfield-McHugh 2019; Elliott 2020; Hutcheon 2006; Leitch 2007, 2023, etc.) make the invisible (e.g. context, subtext) audible, and perhaps visible anew (e.g. staging, cinematography)—re/shaping meaning and recep…[Read more]

]]> fe5cd44c0d2bb8934fe53383d5fe0a29 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870900/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:01:52 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 176906164fcfcf1156f6dd3104617392 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870889/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:04:06 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e150779b244dc167bfa4d43d87a4120 Marc Caplan replied to the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/nominations-for-global-jewish-executive-committee/#post-1036843 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:19:45 -0500 I'm pleased to second Jonathan's nomination, if necessary...!

]]> c87f6d2244c2fa3cb8fb467d7868eb68 Jonathan S. Skolnik replied to the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/nominations-for-global-jewish-executive-committee/#post-1036842 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:25:43 -0500 Hi Laini, I'd like to self-nominate. I'll also send an email. All best, Jonathan Skolnik UMass Amherst

]]> e27b667f0613fdaf7fab228361c5ae69 Laini Kavaloski started the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/nominations-for-global-jewish-executive-committee/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:56:45 -0500 We are looking for nominations for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee (self-nominations encouraged). The term runs for five years, from January 2025 through January 2030.

]]> beb70cd121063642803111a2d462410b Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868240/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:02:39 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c71c2ab1aabaf3b79076371edb1489c Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866465/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:01:11 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 247c7797004f89b00f5a5495e7c081dc Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865836/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:02:30 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb802fe28b0c606a2447c7f882a728f6 Sharon Smulders deposited "Medicated Music": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864376/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:03:10 -0500 Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning's experience of love undoubtedly informs the female speaker's curative restoration in Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), the series also shows the conscious deliberation of a Victorian poet engaged in the task of renovating generic imperatives to release feminine subjectivity — which had been invalidated by t…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca0595201146685f4684338abf37dc9e Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-31/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:05:06 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 2b25ece5230cb09d4d2419cb2d2472fb Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-2/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:37:17 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 93b2eec1c8f268b8e2c34d42d2898937 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861775/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:11:59 -0400 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 f696afa71955448884debd8081615db3 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861769/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:03:17 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebfe8b7d1a36e315b25b7b5e37125e44 Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852822/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:53:39 -0400 Abstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.

]]> 0 099646671b8aafeae1ce5d9299f188e8 Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852821/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:52:52 -0400 Abstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.

]]> 0 b413b5bc12d73c0b24a492b57de40575 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/call-for-book-chapters-memory-studies-an-anthology-of-perspectives/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:19:40 -0400 Chapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).

Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]

]]> 58a53c9c57c188b24d73ae1806224bd6 Andrea Zemgulys deposited Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf's Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843717/ Fri, 05 May 2023 03:48:45 -0400 Salacious rumors about Alfred Tennyson's conduct with young women inspired Virginia Woolf's satirical depiction of Tennyson and Ellen Terry in her draft and produced play -Freshwater.- In considering whether Woolf's satire silences the whispers of Victorian women and/or corrects salacious rumor-mongering, this essay decides that the play more…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bb19c0f3231846fc44a15de6c46bab5 Ross Wilson deposited Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861 in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1839398/ Sat, 01 Apr 2023 03:48:43 -0400 This is the proposal for 'Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861', a (putative) panel for MLA 2024. Individual paper abstracts and other materials will follow.

]]> 0 956527711cba4aac5dc809d7df8fd42c Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1838061/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 03:50:11 -0400 This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick's…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e39a9bfd6096d0ee9a821bd936d72ae Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835544/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:49:49 -0500 The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

]]> 0 66bc11c8926e6b36dc869f3a00e96a22 Stef Craps started the topic Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory in the discussion TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mnemonics-2023-the-industry-of-memory/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:30:18 -0500 Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory

London, UK, 27-29 June 2023

The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Stre…[Read more]

]]> 222acad8e514bb3f8797410668d63ee6 Deborah Elise White started the topic Forum Exectuive Committee Suggestions in the discussion CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romantic-and-19th-century/forum/topic/forum-exectuive-committee-suggestions/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 06:21:22 -0500 Hello -- Please email me with any suggestions you may have for people to serve on the forum executive Committee for CLCS Romanticism & 19th Century. (Every year needs new names so even if someone is not considered for this year, it's good for us to have several names in mind.)  My email: dwhite2@emory.edu  Thanks!

]]> 483345dc14a0bec8c16240f5990c0ea5 Subarno Chattarji deposited “Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War in the group TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827823/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 03:48:44 -0500 While 30 April 1975 represented the end of hostilities between North and South Vietnam, it was not the end of internecine conflicts. The victorious communists treated Southerners with contempt and subjected them to humiliation and violence, including incarceration in so-called re-education camps. Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Briga…[Read more]

]]> 0 f961471f572e61578c6d410742acddf8 Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/seeking-nominations/ Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:47:27 -0500 We are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.

    <li dir="ltr">Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
    <li dir="ltr">Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve…

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]]> 09fd991fc3e1c4fed88c73705d5921e8 Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1825764/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:26:36 -0500 Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e65efd28040c56ed7693e35230fa5e2 Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823102/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:30:38 -0500 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article traces the developme…[Read more]

]]> 0 830822c11c335527a640adf20dea7d95 Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823100/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:27:16 -0500 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 6219d9790a092ab7125941026b69a330 Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792487/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 02:23:41 -0400 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in "collective collections" organized by academic libraries.

]]> 0 4f0e6551251bc28c9bf357ff9c7df061 Mirosław Miernik started the topic CFP: Volume on Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), "Hadrian the Seventh" in the discussion LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-volume-on-frederick-rolfe-baron-corvo-hadrian-the-seventh/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:23:23 -0400 We are seeking submissions for an upcoming volume on the work of Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, with particular emphasis placed on his novel Hadrian the Seventh. The book will be published by Lexington Books in 2024. The chapters should be around 7,500 words. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • The politics…

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]]> c9264fcf8c0fbb7a372e876f2704a23e Jacob Jewusiak deposited Tennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775703/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:29:11 -0400 This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to the insights derived from the perspective of great age — chiming the poet’s keynotes of disappointment, mourning, and loss. I turn to ‘Ulysses…[Read more]

]]> 0 770f85e53348ff5aa0e0a64d10b5cd4f Jacob Jewusiak deposited Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775701/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:26:39 -0400 The significance of old age in Kipling’s work has gone largely unacknowledged by critics who attend to the many youthful protagonists who sail, hunt, and explore their way across the plots of his fiction. This essay argues that the relationship between grandparent and grandchild in Kipling’s Kim serves as a representational strategy—at the level…[Read more]

]]> 0 e86485143e540a371d458f6cd7ff79c6 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775699/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:23:38 -0400 The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5229d4372a37532f4301d31dd89d1338 James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774918/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:51:48 -0400 In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas' "Prologue to an Adventure" was reprinted "in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement... without permission"; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues "Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues" (123). Thomas' letters support the latter…[Read more]

]]> 0 787dbd1f4b7442ec92aa71880144f221 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771062/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:26:22 -0500 The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

]]> 0 1058de33ff13d01b530963761f83a915 Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769035/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:09:12 -0500 The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic's role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater's “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee's “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]

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