“Almost Stunned at the Sound of my Own Voice”: Internal/External Exploration and Female Penetration in “Winkfield’s” The Female American
The Female American prefigures, serving as a kind of “oracle” or found hermit’s manuscript for the “female gothic” novel within the context of trans-Atlantic, long eighteenth-century...
Privacy, Letters, and Constructing a (Fictional) Female Self in the History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Within the first 70 pages of Eliza Haywood’s 1751 novel The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, vol. 2 (pp. 181-251), appear 13 letters: one to Mr. Trueworth...
Literary Criticism, Animals, and Covid-19
The graduate course that I've been taking this semester on "Revisioning the Middle Ages" has given me a newfound appreciation for the ways in which...
On Kiser, Lisa. “Margery Kempe and the Animalization of Christ: Animal Cruelty in Late Medieval England.” Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 299-315
Kiser examines Christian devotional works and treatises in middle English in concert with Margery’s Book, which “appear as allegories” to show the “suffering of any...
On Koyuncu, Emre. “Animals as Criminals: Towards a Foucauldian Analysis of Animal Trials.” Parergon 35 (2018): 79-96
Koyuncu first presents a literature review--pointing at the shortcomings of “positivist approaches and of the interpretation of the phenomenon” of animal trials in Europe as...