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Peter M. Logan deposited Literature and Medicine: Twenty-Five Years Later on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
An analysis of ten studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981.
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Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
An analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]
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Peter Logan's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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Devoney Looser created the group
Jane Austen Studies on MLA Commons 8 years ago -
Devoney Looser posted an update on MLA Commons 8 years ago
“What’s Next for Jane Austen?” Janine Barchas and I welcome 250-500 word proposals (by 1 March) that promise complete essays in March 2019, for a special issue on the topic to be published by Texas Studies in Language and Literature. More information may be found here: https://utpress.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/tsll_austen_cfp_updated.pdf
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Devoney Looser's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years ago
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George L. Justice's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Peter Logan's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Tim Watson's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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Tim Watson deposited Miami: A Cultural History, written by Anthony P. Maingot on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
“To write a history of Miami is to enter a treacherous swamp … The goals that Anthony Maingot announces for Miami: A Cultural History are actually bolder than they might appear: ‘To avoid flippant critiques, odious comparisons, and exuberant boosterism’ (p. xxi).”
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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