On Stanton, Robert. “Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles.” Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe, ed. Irit Ruth Kleiman. New York, Palgrave, 2015.
Stanton treats the bird riddles of Anglo-Saxon England as “a rich field in which to explore the nature, operation, and function of voice as a...
On Taylor, Anna. “Where Are the Wild Things? Animals in Western Medieval European History.” History Compass 16 (2018).
Social historians have examined (economically important) species, and cultural historians have analyzed the symbolism of animals in the Middle Ages. Taylor writes that the historiography...
Lit review in process: Medieval Animal Studies
For my English 7011 lit review I will, broadly speaking, focus on animal studies in medieval-literary scholarship. Due to the fact that animal studies is...
Dogs, Love, Brain Scans, and the Long Eighteenth Century
Human subjects climbed in an fMRI to have their brains scanned while reading a Jane Austen novel for an article published by a literary scholar...
Hart/Heart in Pulter’s Emblems
Due to the early-modern spelling we have seen of “hart” for the modern-day “heart,” whenever I see this spelling I have been thinking of the...