How Glorifying Austen by Shifting the Baseline Demeans the Women Who Enabled her to Write in the First Place
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Presentation script, SCSECS 2019 conference, Dallas, 23 Feb: “Rise of the Female Self: Frances Burney’s Journal, Letter, and Novel Writing as Technologies of Self/care”
Download a copy of the slides here. Slide 1: This project is a reduced version of a seminar paper during a class on a transhistorical...
On the techno(logical) sublime
“We cannot deny that our intelligence of the world is intrinsically linked to the technologies that extend our senses”--Chantal Pontibrand (135). In his essay “Blankness...
“You will, perhaps, think better of me than to suspect that I came here [to the Spanish Inquisition] for my own pleasure”: Subverting the Status Quo in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian subverts (see note 1) the status quo by turning ideas, people, forms, genre inside-out, reflecting their outsides, inward, and their insides,...
Reading character(s) in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
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