Knowledge Commons | Rachel A. Walsh | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/rawalsh/activity/ Activity feed for Rachel A. Walsh. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:23:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f657dce2b787f17667211ef25ab36bb4 Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 - The Politics of Public Celebrations in the discussion Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/seventeenth-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-italian-literature/forum/topic/cfp-austin-mla-2016-the-politics-of-public-celebrations/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:35:38 -0500 The Politics of Public Celebrations: This session would call for an exploration of the uses to which festive culture lent itself in 17th, 18th and 19th-century Italy. Lavish public celebrations were often meant to project the power of local rulers to the general public and served to underline or enforce ideas of universal order and transcendental…[Read more]

]]> 0d43743fcbd210af124d804b67e90f46 Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 - Public Opinion, Literary Successes and Failures in the discussion Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/seventeenth-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-italian-literature/forum/topic/cfp-austin-mla-2016-public-opinion-literary-successes-and-failures/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:33:47 -0500 Public Opinion, Literary Successes and Failures: “Public opinion is the most powerful instrument in every country for influencing the actions of the great” (Ugo Foscolo, “The Women of Italy,” 1826). This panel will investigate the sway of public opinion on the creation, production and reception of Italian literature. Was public opinion the most…[Read more]

]]> 1751986d3a5277a35b044c37d7c3e337 Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 - Exoticisms and Their Italian Publics in the discussion Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/seventeenth-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-italian-literature/forum/topic/cfp-austin-mla-2016-exoticisms-and-their-italian-publics/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:31:28 -0500 Exoticisms and Their Italian Publics:   Often when Italy is part of the exoticism equation, Italians sit front and center as the exotic object of the subject-other's (British, French, aristocratic, "enlightened") gaze. This panel takes a different angle -- it seeks to explore the various currents of 17th-18th-and 19th century exoticism as…[Read more]

]]> ef3d0954558e3981ce4109241f3f5c3a Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 - Emotions in Ink in the discussion Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/seventeenth-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-italian-literature/forum/topic/cfp-austin-mla-2016/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:27:44 -0500 Emotions in Ink: Sentiment, affection, passion, feelings… emotions: in literature, philosophy, religion, the arts, medicine. How were emotions rendered public through writings? How were displays of public emotions portrayed? Are emotions and writings about them gendered? We welcome papers that address these questions and others exploring the ro…[Read more]

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