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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Michael Schinasi started the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoNational Theaters Around the Globe
Special Session
Any aspect of worldwide National Theaters (the institution usually manifest in buildings; not dramatic literatures). All periods: history, ideology, relation to culture industry, etc. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2017; Michael Schinasi (schinasim@ecu.edu). -
Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Kafka's: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoenjoy…. More in the Kafka Group.
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Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Kafka's: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoenjoy…. More in the Kafka Group.
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Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Kafka’s: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) from
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Emma Lieber started the topic CFP: The Subject of Criticism (edited collection 1/1/17) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe Subject of Criticism
We are told that the humanities are suffering a downturn. Even as critical thinking, analysis, and compassionate assessment—the backbones of the humanities education—are in high demand now more than ever, the world of the academy outside of science and technology continues to experience cuts, downsizing, and general dev…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoKafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.
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Susan Zieger started the topic Executive Forum Candidacy in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI’m Susan Zieger and I am running for the Executive Committee of CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. I’ll briefly introduce my academic work and my plans for the Committee should I have the honor to represent our fields and critical interests to the MLA.
I am Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside; I received my Ph.…[Read more]
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Gillian Dooley started the topic Immortal Austen – a conference in Australia, 13-16 July 2017 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more] -
James Mulholland started the topic MLA Ballot 2016 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Everyone,
Now that the ballot is open for the MLA nominations, I thought I’d introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me already and have a sense of who I am. My name is James Mulholland and I’ve been nominated to serve on this forum’s executive committee.
I am an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University and…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP: 18th-Century Camp! (Special Issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue: 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” Fo…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data within & without in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited Let's Get Real: The Victorian Novel in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an advanced graduate course on realism and the Victorian novel taught at Temple University in Fall 2015.
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Linda V Troost deposited Getting My Feet Wet in a Small DH Pond: Teaching a DH Course in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoA description of a successful team-taught introductory literature/DH course on “Identity, Ethnicity, and the Digital Humanities” at Washington & Jefferson College.
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]
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