Browsing English by Author "Waters, Mary A."
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Book review: April London, Literary History Writing, 1770–1820. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Pp. ix, 225. $80.00.
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Book review: Bluestockings displayed: portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830
Waters, Mary A. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2014)The twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of interest in eighteenth-century women’s intellectual life. Propelled by such books as Harriet Guest’s Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 and Anne Mellor’s ... -
Cataloguing the works of women: The Poetess Digital Archives
Ramirez, Gabrielle; Hand, Bernadette (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)As scholars reassess what the literary canon should consist of, women's writing has been expanded upon. In the past, women were restricted to certain areas of writing; in reconsidering the preservation and analysis of ... -
Cracking the Urn: master and slave in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Bell, Justin (2006-05)In the "Ode on a Grecian Urn", the poet-speaker uses many tools to distance himself from the urn. Many critics have argued for Keat’s agreement with the urn, using the poet’s letters and notions of Romanticism as guide. ... -
"The first of a new genus": Mary Wollstonecraft as a literary critic and mentor to Mary Hays
Waters, Mary A. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)Mary Wollstonecraft's work for Joseph Johnson's Analytical Review stands as a landmark in the changing occupations available to women writers during the late eighteenth century. Study of this work facilitates a clearer ... -
Framing, inversions, and materiality in William Blake's prints and printmaking
Teubner, Cory S. (Wichita State University, 2011-12)William Blake sought, though his poetry and printmaking, to change the fundamental nature of reality and to set humanity on a redemptive course. Inspired in his studio, the artist channeled what he called "Divine Vision" ... -
From the sublime to duende: a cross-cultural study on the aesthetics of artistic transcendence
Cooke, Patricia K. (Wichita State University, 2008-05)For centuries, artists have used their works as a means of communication. Such communication can, at times, connect artist and audience in a unique experience which defies barriers of both language and culture. Although ... -
Mending science in Middlemarch
Landes, Claire A. (Wichita State University, 2013-05)Most scholars agree that George Eliot's scientific interests informed her novels, especially her 1871 novel, Middlemarch. This research attempts to add to that body of scholarship by showing how, through Middlemarch, Eliot ... -
The Victorian masculine woman in Wives and Daughters, Middlemarch, and Jude the Obscure
Bartlett, Christina Nichole (Wichita State University, 2015-07)According to Judith Butler, both today's progressive society and the industrialized British Victorian era use binary genders to create a system of heterosexual reproduction that ensures the survival of the species. In ...