Knowledge Commons | Charlotte Fiehn | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/d13charlie/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Charlotte Fiehn is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:59:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5c69ca935d743e146818b000a53969b9 SARAH ELLENZWEIG started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee (Starting 2026-2027)! in the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-starting-2026-2027/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:30:55 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning 2026-2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize two roundtables/panels for the following year’s meeting. If you’d like to be considered, please email Danielle Bobker (danielle.bobker@concordia.ca) wit…[Read more]

]]> 721593b1601eb008592ed7b92d2605ef Sarah Wall-Randell started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-ecocriticism-in-an-age-of-emergency/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:24:39 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">CFP for MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature hav…[Read more]

]]> 878be761cb9ed1473efb89de08891f30 Carmen Nocentelli posted an update in the group LLC 17th-Century English: The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912942/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:10:46 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 94eb6279aec1e3a9c638d2b8a1339ddd Carmen Nocentelli started the topic MLA2026 - GOING GLOBAL: QUESTIONS, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla2026-going-global-questions-challenges-opportunities/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:37:17 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities." We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are…[Read more]

]]> ca03b353698d574917dfb7ce4794a508 SARAH ELLENZWEIG started the topic Join the Forum Executive Committee! in the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/join-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:20:49 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning 2025-2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize two roundtables/panels for the following year's meeting. If you'd like to be considered, please email Sarah Ellenzweig (sellenz@rice.edu) with your…[Read more]

]]> fe06ac3e48ac4b994a09abb0edd2827e Jane Hwang Degenhardt started the topic Call for self-nominations for appointment to the 17th-Century English LLC in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-the-17th-century-english-llc/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:00:04 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> c75cde83fef814e28911acbbdfa07505 Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876630/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:06:52 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 1118127cd51730c53dba74bb67587ecd Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876629/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:05:39 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 aff05a15c3db8f2a7bd4dd0e4ec68433 Joseph M. Ortiz started the topic Suggestions Requested for LCC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/suggestions-requested-for-lcc-16th-century-english-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:46:27 -0500 Dear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum: The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of MLA members who may wish to serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally. Please send questions or suggestions to…[Read more]

]]> df43c92f07f1ba283b7d3fd601a9bb1f Richard A. Strier replied to the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-executive-committee/#post-1036534 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:28:10 -0500 Dear Professor Su Fan Ng,

I might be willing to help out, BUT I have to tell you that I no longer attend MLA, and could only work virtually.

Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Editor, Modern Philology, 2004-2016
Department of English
University of…[Read more]

]]> ead9e249332e55a8432ace6a076f36d1 Su Fang Ng started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:27:54 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 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 73787bcd81ce6c8ce004306b28b54668 Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857154/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:08:57 -0400 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 448bacb001875587a24c871481f14bdf Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857153/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:07:34 -0400 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0dd18ed9c3be4c721f4b0d51c11551d Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854430/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:10:23 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section "until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types." 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4's printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[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 2d1925213aca1ef8cd2fe6cc766f4186 Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: "Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context" in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-llc-16c-english-disability-aesthetics-in-a-premodern-global-context/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:49:59 -0500 The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.

Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[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!

]]> 2ca62f63788cbd1e0f2978bac9ae3583 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-23/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:54:46 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 19fc9183e8e44ec4aa8472ef4d81ecec Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777278/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:24:31 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 d8522cf8e1bf1e03f644ab3d5063e660 Lara A. Dodds started the topic CFP for MLA 2023 17thC English in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2023-17thc-english/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:54:09 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal to one of the three panels sponsored by LLC 17th-Century English:

1. Open Topic Seventeenth-Century Literature

We seek new work on any topic in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century. All approaches/methodologies are welcomed. 250-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15…[Read more]

]]> ba0ca78a86c4d28f9dca23263b8480aa Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771067/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:36:51 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 2742116c59d2b4063af4d9e41661c962 Emily Friedman deposited "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768610/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:30:42 -0500 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc4bdc487c780c65a98a308d3c4644d4 Jessica Winston started the topic Suggestions Requested: LLC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/suggestions-requested-llc-16th-century-english-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:25:22 -0500 Dear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum:

The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of names of people serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally Please send questions or suggestions to committee…[Read more]

]]> b3ae95f4344d2bfdc1c5e66f754d5bca Christopher Warren deposited Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with Computational Bibliography? New Angles on Printing Thomas Hobbes’ “Ornaments” Edition in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761567/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:30:03 -0500 This article attributes one of the three “first” editions of Leviathan to the London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution to a different printer in the recent Clarendon Edition of Leviathan. We lay out the mystery of Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces to say…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfb2bb01da951bc85d6a36ffd56ccdab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-25/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:11 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> da6ffc82151f1e2298ec8273bdb5fae5 Emily Sun started the topic Statement about Candidacy for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romantic-and-19th-century/forum/topic/statement-about-candidacy-for-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:43:03 -0400 I am glad to have been nominated to serve on this Forum's Executive Committee.  Please find my brief statement below.

I am Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College, having taught previously in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University in…[Read more]

]]> ae11a23bbef3931a45cbbee4090fd1ed Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750923/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:23:43 -0400 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c3afe393ceb4ad44de4f2609116dac0 Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745160/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:58:32 -0400 The connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]

]]> 0 184911d4b7a18c15e45e3aa035c5aa8a Magdalena Ostas deposited Keats's Voice in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745120/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:27:29 -0400 Keats’s poetic thoughts on the topic of human identity remain some of Romanticism's most incisive reflections on the constitution of selfhood. This essay is about the ways Keats's verse thinks through questions about human subjectivity and its horizons with an imaginative range. Keats famously asserts that the poetical character has "no i…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0a66790826b8e897f8bf21dc83bc764 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742220/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:51:42 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f68b8cb7e170d7dfc2ce9c7011502f8 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742219/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:50:10 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbb26783df55f71bb67261513f33639d Samuel Baker deposited Scott's Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733236/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:31:10 -0400 It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott's adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]

]]> 0 401bc3bfbc86a11529aa95b71bc52d36 Samuel Baker deposited Scott's Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733233/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:23:39 -0400 It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott's adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c253de2a04f287d23c2b62c9f63bbff Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732631/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:57:39 -0400 Abstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.

]]> 0 4f7471f0cd108f8ce30c48abb223a01f James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732045/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:27:38 -0400 This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d1ea189f36ef8622fb5e40d66de8ea3 James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732044/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:26:10 -0400 This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]

]]> 0 131f7d1bc925dc3c962e6c61209864d0 Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730876/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:26:52 -0500 *Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. "Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2407818b9ca30f0845a2fd760662f80 Caroline Winter deposited Romantic Literature and the Emergence of Modern Commercial Society (Syllabus) in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727779/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 02:23:38 -0500 A syllabus for a 300-level (3rd year) English literature course taught at the University of Victoria's English department

]]> 0 5c9db43c0ec9ec1b245cfdfb6d90a140 Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723734/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:26:06 -0500 The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab1010bd1fc0cfaf28d0da85ad5b9c2e Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723733/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:24:31 -0500 The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]

]]> 0 63ca09b7df8d43f7d68cd8ff44ff788c Kathleen M. Lubey started the topic LLC Restoration and Early 18th C Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/llc-restoration-and-early-18th-c-executive-committee-nomination/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:08:05 -0500 Hello colleagues! I'm happy to be nominated to the executive commitee for the LLC Early Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century forum, and I hope you'll consider a vote in my direction. I've posted a short bio and CV on my Humanities Commons page --have a glance if you'd like to know more about me and my work. Thanks, and here's wishing you all…[Read more]

]]> a982c6e29a870311ec115f15b25cb35e Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1712168/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:14:24 -0400 Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
"SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations"
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine perfo…[Read more]

]]> 0 aaf036cee53fd607192f62ac0efb2d2c Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica's Clandestine Printers in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1706764/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:23:39 -0400 Milton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba32a641290d8680f431642c134c476 Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1703159/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:30:31 -0400 What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0819acb55640acca644a6a3cc7b7da99 Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1702143/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:48:43 -0400 This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]

]]> 0 87ced86162b31c64a7bd77ed518365bd Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1701598/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:53:17 -0400 Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]

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