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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Tennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to the insights derived from the perspective of great age — chiming the poet’s keynotes of disappointment, mourning, and loss. I turn to ‘Ulysses…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Grandpaternalism: Kipling’s Imperial Care Narrative on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
The significance of old age in Kipling’s work has gone largely unacknowledged by critics who attend to the many youthful protagonists who sail, hunt, and explore their way across the plots of his fiction. This essay argues that the relationship between grandparent and grandchild in Kipling’s Kim serves as a representational strategy—at the level…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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Melissa J. Ganz's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
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Melissa J. Ganz's profile was updated on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
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Francesco Luzzini deposited (Re)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.
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Francesco Luzzini deposited (Re)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) in the group
GeoHumanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.
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Francesco Luzzini deposited (Re)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.
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Francesco Luzzini deposited (Re)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
In: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.
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Francesco Luzzini's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Book review of the book by Rienk Vermij (“Early Science and Medicine,” Vol. 26, n. 4, pp. 409–411).
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Francesco Luzzini's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
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Francesco Luzzini's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
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Francesco Luzzini's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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