The Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary Novel
“Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of...
Habermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century England
Solely by the act of translating Habermas, and in articulating “why now?” for multiple rhetorical spheres/readerships, this translation in its introduction (1) sets itself up...
Female (self) authorship, Jane Eyre and Foucault
Foucault begins the essay “What Is an Author?” by stating that “author,” a “notion” whose very “coming into being” constitutes the “privileged moment of individualization...
(Academic) self-care
In the spirit of academic self-care, this week my reading response will consist in a reflection on the qualifying examination preparation process we have been...
“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away
Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and Self-cancellation,” in Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, posits that Thomas More’s self-formation...