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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Preview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.
Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
LLC English Romantic on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Abstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
This chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
This essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Lit in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on "Environment, Ecology, Clim in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: CREATIVE ARCHIPELAGOS
Explorations of Islands in Scottish Literature and Culture
29 June–1 July 2018, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of SkyeThis conference will investigate the many portrayals, both historical and contemporary, of the rich, distinctive cultures of the Scottish islands or islands with Scottish connections through poetry and so…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
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