Anointing the Self with Healing Light: Radical Self-care and Recovery/Reintegration
Josiah Wedgwood, creator of the still-coveted matte-style pottery of the same name, was also a staunch abolitionist. He designed the “Wedgwood Slave Medallion” which served...
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...
Schema, Gaze and Examination: “The Means of Correct Training”
“Hierarchized, continuous, and functional surveillance may not be one of the great technical ‘inventions’ of the eighteenth century, but its insidious extension owed its importance...
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...
How-to self-care at court: 1540-1619 Edition
The Discourse, practical instructions one might find in a self-care listicle on the Internet today (“6 easy steps to succeed at court!”), is flanked by...