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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Special Issue of Eighteenth Century Studies: Indigeneity in the Long 18th C. in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Eighteenth-Century StudiesSpecial Issue on Indigeneity
In Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016), the historian Coll Thrush repositions England’s capital not only as a city where decisions were made to dispossess Indigenous peoples, but also as a space that…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPosting to CLCS 18th c. at the request of Leland G. Spencer, editor
Call for Papers
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIt is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol.45, no.1 (March 2021) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
vol. 45, no. 1 (March 2021)Contents
The Female Experience of Epidemics in the Early Modern Low Countries
Daniel R. Curtis‘I, Who Used to Serve as Jupiter’s Lightning on Earth’: Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), Providentially Assigned Stadtholders and the Politics of Rational…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Territoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World (MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
If you’re thinking of attending MLA 2022, please consider applying for this panel and/or spreading the word to interested colleagues. Thanks!
Nobel Prize winner and 20th-century poet Czeslaw Milosz famously wrote that “language is the only homeland.” In the 18th-19th century Iberian world, a world made by European imp…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Ethnohistory Submissions — Primary Sources for Research, Teaching, Activism in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Submissions – Ethnohistorical Primary Documents (from Rob Schwaller)
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has dramatically affected academic research and publication. As many professional ethnohistorians struggle to meet the challenges of online teaching and face severely limited research opportunities, the editors of Ethnohistory…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Kathleen M. Lubey started the topic LLC Restoration and Early 18th C Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHello colleagues! I’m happy to be nominated to the executive commitee for the LLC Early Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century forum, and I hope you’ll consider a vote in my direction. I’ve posted a short bio and CV on my Humanities Commons page –have a glance if you’d like to know more about me and my work. Thanks, and here’s wishing you all…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
“SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations”
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine perfo…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHappy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 (November 2020) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
vol. 44, no. 3 (November 2020)https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydtc20/44/3?nav=tocList
Contents
Editorial
Ulrich Tiedau
The Sea Voyage as a Marriage Snare: Gender in Novels about the Passage between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (1869–1891)
Coen van ‘t Veer
From Propaganda to t…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMilton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 44, no. 2 (July 2020 in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
vol. 44, no. 2 (July 2020)Special Issue: Transnational Trajectories of Dutch Literature
guest-edited by Elke Brems , Theresia Feldmann , Orsolya Réthelyi and Ton van Kalmthout
opendutch.org/centenary/2020/06/11/721/Editorial
The Transnational Trajectories of Dutch Literature as a Minor…[Read more]
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