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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Awards Announcement (CFP) in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces three awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Research Grant* Provides up to $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference given to junior scholars and graduate students. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Ryan Cordell posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, I’m posting this CFP at the request of Leland Spencer, the editor of *Women & Language*. It can also be found online at: http://osclg.org/women-language/call-for-papers-women-language
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Edlie L. Wong started the topic Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease note the following four sessions organized by the Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature at MLA 2019. We hope to see some of you there.
084: American Lives: Whitman and Melville (co-organized with the Forum on Life Writing)
Date: Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency – Roo…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis paper links the medieval and early modern production of parchment and paper with modern electronics manufacturing, in order to examine some of the occluded ecological and political dimensions of archival study.
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSince I’m on the ballot as a candidate for the Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself.
I am an Assistant Professor of Print and Material Culture Studies in the Department of English at the University of Delaware, where I teach African American print culture and public humanities. My…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital…[Read more]
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C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am a Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY Binghamton. For a research project I am doing on the canon that is taught—or the teaching canon, as I’m calling it—I would like to know what works you are teaching or listing on your syllabi for American literature survey courses for any period. I would appreciate receiving de-i…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Nora Benedict posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi All –
Since you will see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall, I wanted to introduce myself. (You can also check out my MLA commons profile for more details!)
I am a Latin American literary scholar, bibliographer, and digital humanist, currently working as a postdoc in the Center for Digital H…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoOne of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoIn his 1843 novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens used the pastoral mode to deliver a strong message about labor. To communicate this message, he employed the mode’s many traits, including its retreat into and return from the rural landscape and its focus on the country worker, traditionally the shepherd. This essay follows the novel’s pastoral ret…[Read more]
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