Ceri Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199547845
- eISBN:
- 9780191720901
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547845.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Early modern theologians such as William Perkins, William Ames, Jeremy Taylor, and Richard Baxter see the rectified conscience as a syllogism worked out in partnership with God, which compares ...
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Early modern theologians such as William Perkins, William Ames, Jeremy Taylor, and Richard Baxter see the rectified conscience as a syllogism worked out in partnership with God, which compares actions to the law, and comes to a conclusion. It is thus a linguistic act. John Donne, George Herbert, and Henry Vaughan focus on the points where the conversation breaks down. In their poems, hearts refuse to confess, laws are forgotten or mixed up, and judgements are omitted. Between them, God and the poets take decisive action, torturing, inscribing, fragmenting, and writhing the heart in a set of tropes (turnings of meaning) which get the right response: subjectio (answering your own question), enigma, aposiopesis (breaking off speech), antanaclasis (altering the meanings of words), and chiasmus (redoubling meaning).Less
Early modern theologians such as William Perkins, William Ames, Jeremy Taylor, and Richard Baxter see the rectified conscience as a syllogism worked out in partnership with God, which compares actions to the law, and comes to a conclusion. It is thus a linguistic act. John Donne, George Herbert, and Henry Vaughan focus on the points where the conversation breaks down. In their poems, hearts refuse to confess, laws are forgotten or mixed up, and judgements are omitted. Between them, God and the poets take decisive action, torturing, inscribing, fragmenting, and writhing the heart in a set of tropes (turnings of meaning) which get the right response: subjectio (answering your own question), enigma, aposiopesis (breaking off speech), antanaclasis (altering the meanings of words), and chiasmus (redoubling meaning).
J. Samaine Lockwood
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469625362
- eISBN:
- 9781469625386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625362.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American Colonial Literature
This chapter demonstrates how the historical project of New England regionalism extended beyond the supposed end of that mode's popularity (c. 1915) and into the modernist era. It focuses on the ...
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This chapter demonstrates how the historical project of New England regionalism extended beyond the supposed end of that mode's popularity (c. 1915) and into the modernist era. It focuses on the writings of three women fiction writers left out of accounts of regionalism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Brown, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Each of these writers used New England-based colonial revivalism in her fiction to explore problems of race and queer desires in history. These writers consistently limned the contours of identity in time by portraying women characters as fusing with ghosts of the colonial and Revolutionary-era past. This chapter troubles traditional accounts of literary history by revealing the modernist sensibilities of New England regionalism and its very practice up through the so-called modernist moment.Less
This chapter demonstrates how the historical project of New England regionalism extended beyond the supposed end of that mode's popularity (c. 1915) and into the modernist era. It focuses on the writings of three women fiction writers left out of accounts of regionalism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Brown, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Each of these writers used New England-based colonial revivalism in her fiction to explore problems of race and queer desires in history. These writers consistently limned the contours of identity in time by portraying women characters as fusing with ghosts of the colonial and Revolutionary-era past. This chapter troubles traditional accounts of literary history by revealing the modernist sensibilities of New England regionalism and its very practice up through the so-called modernist moment.
Peter J. Thuesen
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195174274
- eISBN:
- 9780199872138
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195174274.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Church History
In the first millennium of Western Christianity, in the wake of Augustine's conflict with Pelagius, predestination's tension with free will preoccupied the theologians. With the rise of medieval ...
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In the first millennium of Western Christianity, in the wake of Augustine's conflict with Pelagius, predestination's tension with free will preoccupied the theologians. With the rise of medieval Eucharistic devotion, however, the sacraments gained theological prominence. Luther and Calvin's reassertion of Augustine's absolute predestinarianism in the sixteenth century was in large measure a reaction to the perceived abuses of the sacramental system. So began the age of confession writing, when the various Protestant factions crafted careful statements of their respective positions, laying the foundation for the elaborate predestinarianism of Protestant scholasticism. From this context emerged two lasting options—Calvinist and Arminian—that mirrored in certain respects earlier Catholic opinions. Chapter 1 surveys this historical background, concluding with the rise of the zealously Calvinist party in the Church of England, led by William Perkins and others, that would eventually bring strong predestinarianism to America in the form of Puritanism.Less
In the first millennium of Western Christianity, in the wake of Augustine's conflict with Pelagius, predestination's tension with free will preoccupied the theologians. With the rise of medieval Eucharistic devotion, however, the sacraments gained theological prominence. Luther and Calvin's reassertion of Augustine's absolute predestinarianism in the sixteenth century was in large measure a reaction to the perceived abuses of the sacramental system. So began the age of confession writing, when the various Protestant factions crafted careful statements of their respective positions, laying the foundation for the elaborate predestinarianism of Protestant scholasticism. From this context emerged two lasting options—Calvinist and Arminian—that mirrored in certain respects earlier Catholic opinions. Chapter 1 surveys this historical background, concluding with the rise of the zealously Calvinist party in the Church of England, led by William Perkins and others, that would eventually bring strong predestinarianism to America in the form of Puritanism.
D. Bruce Hindmarsh
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199245758
- eISBN:
- 9780191602436
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199245754.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Puritan teaching and practice during the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries formed a matrix within which spiritual autobiography would eventually flourish in England. Puritan pastoral theology, ...
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Puritan teaching and practice during the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries formed a matrix within which spiritual autobiography would eventually flourish in England. Puritan pastoral theology, such as that of William Perkins, taught that the first use of the law was to intensify the pangs of introspective conscience on the part of the unregenerate, in fact to lead them to despair, and the crisis this induced was the centre of all the various ‘morphologies’ of conversion that appeared during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among Puritans, Pietists, and evangelicals of various sorts. This theology was reflected first in diaries and then in the full expression of narrative identity, the self-interpretation of the entirety of one’s life in terms of conversion. While Richard Kilby offers an early example of Puritan spiritual autobiography, the formal occasion for oral narrative appeared in the requirement of the gathered churches for evidence of personal conversion, a requirement that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and then became widely adopted. Still, throughout the seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth, a special motive to publish spiritual autobiography was required—especially specimens from ordinary folk without any social standing—and this motive was most often found in the need to defend oneself or the sense that the times were epochal or indeed apocalyptic.Less
Puritan teaching and practice during the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries formed a matrix within which spiritual autobiography would eventually flourish in England. Puritan pastoral theology, such as that of William Perkins, taught that the first use of the law was to intensify the pangs of introspective conscience on the part of the unregenerate, in fact to lead them to despair, and the crisis this induced was the centre of all the various ‘morphologies’ of conversion that appeared during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among Puritans, Pietists, and evangelicals of various sorts. This theology was reflected first in diaries and then in the full expression of narrative identity, the self-interpretation of the entirety of one’s life in terms of conversion. While Richard Kilby offers an early example of Puritan spiritual autobiography, the formal occasion for oral narrative appeared in the requirement of the gathered churches for evidence of personal conversion, a requirement that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and then became widely adopted. Still, throughout the seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth, a special motive to publish spiritual autobiography was required—especially specimens from ordinary folk without any social standing—and this motive was most often found in the need to defend oneself or the sense that the times were epochal or indeed apocalyptic.
J. Samaine Lockwood
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469625362
- eISBN:
- 9781469625386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625362.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American Colonial Literature
This introduction argues that New England regionalism included not only fiction writing but a range of women-dominated cultural practices including colonial home restoration, history writing, antique ...
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This introduction argues that New England regionalism included not only fiction writing but a range of women-dominated cultural practices including colonial home restoration, history writing, antique collecting, colonial fancy dressing, and photography. Using the example of Elizabeth Bishop Perkins, this introduction demonstrates the alternative intimate forms and temporalities central to New England regionalism's history-making project. It explicates how regionalist writers placed the unmarried daughter at the center of New England history, representing her as cosmopolitan, mobile, and queer. In foregrounding the unmarried daughter of New England as the ideal inheritor of a legacy of dissent, these regionalists theorized modes of white belonging based on women's myriad alternative desires rather than marriage and maternity.Less
This introduction argues that New England regionalism included not only fiction writing but a range of women-dominated cultural practices including colonial home restoration, history writing, antique collecting, colonial fancy dressing, and photography. Using the example of Elizabeth Bishop Perkins, this introduction demonstrates the alternative intimate forms and temporalities central to New England regionalism's history-making project. It explicates how regionalist writers placed the unmarried daughter at the center of New England history, representing her as cosmopolitan, mobile, and queer. In foregrounding the unmarried daughter of New England as the ideal inheritor of a legacy of dissent, these regionalists theorized modes of white belonging based on women's myriad alternative desires rather than marriage and maternity.
Dohra Ahmad
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195332766
- eISBN:
- 9780199868124
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195332766.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This book examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War II, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. The book ...
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This book examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War II, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. The book contributes to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this growing anti-colonial literature as part of an American utopian tradition. In the key early decades of the 20th century, the intellectuals of the colonized world carried out the heady work of imagining independent states, often from a position of exile. Faced with that daunting task, many of them composed literary texts—novels, poems, contemplative essays—in order to conceptualize the new societies they sought. Beginning by exploring some of the conventions of American utopian fiction at the turn of the century, this book goes on to show the surprising ways in which writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Rabindranath Tagore, and Punjabi nationalist Lala Lajpat Rai appropriated and adapted those utopian conventions toward their own end of global emancipation of peoples of color.Less
This book examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War II, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. The book contributes to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this growing anti-colonial literature as part of an American utopian tradition. In the key early decades of the 20th century, the intellectuals of the colonized world carried out the heady work of imagining independent states, often from a position of exile. Faced with that daunting task, many of them composed literary texts—novels, poems, contemplative essays—in order to conceptualize the new societies they sought. Beginning by exploring some of the conventions of American utopian fiction at the turn of the century, this book goes on to show the surprising ways in which writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Rabindranath Tagore, and Punjabi nationalist Lala Lajpat Rai appropriated and adapted those utopian conventions toward their own end of global emancipation of peoples of color.
Michael Robertson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691154169
- eISBN:
- 9781400889600
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691154169.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
For readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. This literary history of a time ...
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For readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. This literary history of a time before “Orwellian” entered the cultural lexicon reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late-nineteenth-century American and British writers. The book delves into the biographies of four key figures—Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian literature. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” wrote numerous utopian fictions. These writers, this book shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as the book describes in entertaining first-hand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.Less
For readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. This literary history of a time before “Orwellian” entered the cultural lexicon reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late-nineteenth-century American and British writers. The book delves into the biographies of four key figures—Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian literature. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” wrote numerous utopian fictions. These writers, this book shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as the book describes in entertaining first-hand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.
Roger G. Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195140552
- eISBN:
- 9780199848775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140552.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
In the final days of 1806, Robert Ashley and Aaron Burr departed Natchez, riding eastward in disguise. Dr. John Cummins, the son-in-law of Peter Bruin, came along a few days later, entrusted with ...
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In the final days of 1806, Robert Ashley and Aaron Burr departed Natchez, riding eastward in disguise. Dr. John Cummins, the son-in-law of Peter Bruin, came along a few days later, entrusted with Burr's precious maps of the Gulf Coast, and began a long career vindicating Mississippi's judgment in favor of Burr. A disguise was necessary, because Thomas Jefferson had made Burr a hunted man. Believing that Burr had knowingly violated Judge Thomas Rodney's post-hoc parole, Cowles Mead joined the pack against him, adding an additional two thousand dollars to James Wilkinson's bounty. As Burr and Ashley rode through the winter woods of the Choctaw Cession toward the McIntosh Bluffs on the Tombigbee, they were also riding into the ambitions of Nicholas Perkins and Edmund Gaines. This chapter also discusses the attempt by Benjamin Hawkins, the government's chief representative among the Muskogee, to capture Burr; imprisonment of Justus Eric Bollmann, a physician, for helping Burr; the role of Elijah Clarke as a proto-Burr; and Fort Wilkinson.Less
In the final days of 1806, Robert Ashley and Aaron Burr departed Natchez, riding eastward in disguise. Dr. John Cummins, the son-in-law of Peter Bruin, came along a few days later, entrusted with Burr's precious maps of the Gulf Coast, and began a long career vindicating Mississippi's judgment in favor of Burr. A disguise was necessary, because Thomas Jefferson had made Burr a hunted man. Believing that Burr had knowingly violated Judge Thomas Rodney's post-hoc parole, Cowles Mead joined the pack against him, adding an additional two thousand dollars to James Wilkinson's bounty. As Burr and Ashley rode through the winter woods of the Choctaw Cession toward the McIntosh Bluffs on the Tombigbee, they were also riding into the ambitions of Nicholas Perkins and Edmund Gaines. This chapter also discusses the attempt by Benjamin Hawkins, the government's chief representative among the Muskogee, to capture Burr; imprisonment of Justus Eric Bollmann, a physician, for helping Burr; the role of Elijah Clarke as a proto-Burr; and Fort Wilkinson.
Dohra Ahmad
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195332766
- eISBN:
- 9780199868124
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195332766.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter reads five turn-of-the-century utopian novels (Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, William Morris’s News from Nowhere, William Dean Howells’s A Traveler from Altruria and Through the Eye ...
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This chapter reads five turn-of-the-century utopian novels (Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, William Morris’s News from Nowhere, William Dean Howells’s A Traveler from Altruria and Through the Eye of a Needle, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland) from an anti-colonial point of view. Such a method entails identifying which of their techniques will be useful for later writers, and which will run counter to the purposes of self-determination for peoples of color. The techniques that prove worth appropriating include the utopian endeavor itself as well as some of the formal elements of utopian fiction. This chapter also elucidates the elements of turn-of-the-century utopian fiction that opposed emancipation. All of the novels of Bellamy and his school retain as their unit of governance a bordered but expansionist nation, imagine a unidirectional evolution toward Eurocentric civilization, and insist on racial purity and religious unity.Less
This chapter reads five turn-of-the-century utopian novels (Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, William Morris’s News from Nowhere, William Dean Howells’s A Traveler from Altruria and Through the Eye of a Needle, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland) from an anti-colonial point of view. Such a method entails identifying which of their techniques will be useful for later writers, and which will run counter to the purposes of self-determination for peoples of color. The techniques that prove worth appropriating include the utopian endeavor itself as well as some of the formal elements of utopian fiction. This chapter also elucidates the elements of turn-of-the-century utopian fiction that opposed emancipation. All of the novels of Bellamy and his school retain as their unit of governance a bordered but expansionist nation, imagine a unidirectional evolution toward Eurocentric civilization, and insist on racial purity and religious unity.
Ian Bostridge
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206538
- eISBN:
- 9780191677205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206538.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
This chapter examines the political context of beliefs about witchcraft in England in the 17th century and the ideological function of these beliefs among the English elite. It analyses the differing ...
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This chapter examines the political context of beliefs about witchcraft in England in the 17th century and the ideological function of these beliefs among the English elite. It analyses the differing witchcraft views of Calvinists William Perkins, George Gifford, and Reginald Scot. It also explores Sir Robert Filmer's Advertisement to the Jury-Men of England, Reginald Trevor Davies’ Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs, and the witchcraft beliefs in Scotland.Less
This chapter examines the political context of beliefs about witchcraft in England in the 17th century and the ideological function of these beliefs among the English elite. It analyses the differing witchcraft views of Calvinists William Perkins, George Gifford, and Reginald Scot. It also explores Sir Robert Filmer's Advertisement to the Jury-Men of England, Reginald Trevor Davies’ Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs, and the witchcraft beliefs in Scotland.
Joan D. Hedrick
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195096392
- eISBN:
- 9780199854288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096392.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Harriet Beecher's eight years in a female seminary shaped by Catharine Beecher's philosophy of independence and usefulness had not particularly fitted her for the marriage market, nor was the ...
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Harriet Beecher's eight years in a female seminary shaped by Catharine Beecher's philosophy of independence and usefulness had not particularly fitted her for the marriage market, nor was the arrangement of 19th-century men's and women's lives conducive to spontaneous relationships. The parlor was one of the few places where men's and women's spheres overlapped. In her Geography, Harriet contrasted the veiling of Muslim women to the more favorable situation of women in republican America, yet it is significant that the only Harriet's Geography had broached a number of social issues, including the status of women, education, and religion. She was well primed for the wide-ranging discussions of the Semi-Colon. Harriet was searching for a soul mate, and James Handasyd Perkins bore a strong resemblance to the man she eventually married, Calvin Stowe.Less
Harriet Beecher's eight years in a female seminary shaped by Catharine Beecher's philosophy of independence and usefulness had not particularly fitted her for the marriage market, nor was the arrangement of 19th-century men's and women's lives conducive to spontaneous relationships. The parlor was one of the few places where men's and women's spheres overlapped. In her Geography, Harriet contrasted the veiling of Muslim women to the more favorable situation of women in republican America, yet it is significant that the only Harriet's Geography had broached a number of social issues, including the status of women, education, and religion. She was well primed for the wide-ranging discussions of the Semi-Colon. Harriet was searching for a soul mate, and James Handasyd Perkins bore a strong resemblance to the man she eventually married, Calvin Stowe.
Joan D. Hedrick
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195096392
- eISBN:
- 9780199854288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096392.003.0027
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Thomas Perkins's death was the first since George Beecher's premature one in 1843 to strike within Harriet Beecher Stowe's generation. Perkins's death shook her security. The family was beginning to ...
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Thomas Perkins's death was the first since George Beecher's premature one in 1843 to strike within Harriet Beecher Stowe's generation. Perkins's death shook her security. The family was beginning to break up. Under the influence of her second season in Mandarin she opened a correspondence with George Eliot. Stowe poured out her heart in long, searching, reflective meditations on her past, her literary career, and their common interests as literary women. In October, all of her plans were jeopardized when she got word that Calvin Stowe had been stricken suddenly by paralysis. Her elegy to her New England childhood, Poganuc People, published in 1878, marked the end of the literary career she had begun forty-four years earlier. Like her best work, it had its origins in the oral tradition of the parlor. On July 1896, surrounded by a large group of family, including her children, she died, two weeks after her eighty-fifth birthday.Less
Thomas Perkins's death was the first since George Beecher's premature one in 1843 to strike within Harriet Beecher Stowe's generation. Perkins's death shook her security. The family was beginning to break up. Under the influence of her second season in Mandarin she opened a correspondence with George Eliot. Stowe poured out her heart in long, searching, reflective meditations on her past, her literary career, and their common interests as literary women. In October, all of her plans were jeopardized when she got word that Calvin Stowe had been stricken suddenly by paralysis. Her elegy to her New England childhood, Poganuc People, published in 1878, marked the end of the literary career she had begun forty-four years earlier. Like her best work, it had its origins in the oral tradition of the parlor. On July 1896, surrounded by a large group of family, including her children, she died, two weeks after her eighty-fifth birthday.
Val Gough and Jill Rudd (eds)
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780853235910
- eISBN:
- 9781781380420
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235910.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Almost all of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most widely celebrated for her darkly tragic story The Yellow ...
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Almost all of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most widely celebrated for her darkly tragic story The Yellow Wallpaper. The focus of this essay collection is Gilman's utopianism. Her best-known and critically addressed novel is Herland, and several contributors revisit it in order to deepen our understanding of the complexity of Gilman's utopian vision. The lesser-known Moving the Mountain – deserving of more attention than it has received – is the subject of a full essay, and other essays explore utopian ideas in Gilman's short stories.Less
Almost all of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most widely celebrated for her darkly tragic story The Yellow Wallpaper. The focus of this essay collection is Gilman's utopianism. Her best-known and critically addressed novel is Herland, and several contributors revisit it in order to deepen our understanding of the complexity of Gilman's utopian vision. The lesser-known Moving the Mountain – deserving of more attention than it has received – is the subject of a full essay, and other essays explore utopian ideas in Gilman's short stories.
Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823286638
- eISBN:
- 9780823288847
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823286638.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter approaches Romantic aesthetics through the “plant horror” of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), who had an ambivalent relationship to Romantic vitalism, and studies the way in which his ...
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This chapter approaches Romantic aesthetics through the “plant horror” of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), who had an ambivalent relationship to Romantic vitalism, and studies the way in which his arabesque vegetality travels into the work of later writers, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935). Poe’s foregrounding of the eighteenth-century notion of “the sentience of all vegetable things” in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) both responds to and undermines Romantic ideas about human affinities with plants. In “Usher,” Poe follows the Enlightenment analogy of human to plant to its logical conclusion in order to expose its aporias; for him, vegetal sentience cannot be contained within any hierarchy of being. At the same time, Poe destroys the Romantic fusional model—in which humans and plants commune within a shared physical world—by focusing on the destructive and rapacious qualities of the vegetal. The transcendental ideas of beauty and the sublime give way in Poe to a vegetality that invades the human consciousness. He suggests that humans might be horrified, rather than delighted, by the calamity that a vegetal modernity represents, even though (and perhaps because) they have no alternative to it.Less
This chapter approaches Romantic aesthetics through the “plant horror” of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), who had an ambivalent relationship to Romantic vitalism, and studies the way in which his arabesque vegetality travels into the work of later writers, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935). Poe’s foregrounding of the eighteenth-century notion of “the sentience of all vegetable things” in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) both responds to and undermines Romantic ideas about human affinities with plants. In “Usher,” Poe follows the Enlightenment analogy of human to plant to its logical conclusion in order to expose its aporias; for him, vegetal sentience cannot be contained within any hierarchy of being. At the same time, Poe destroys the Romantic fusional model—in which humans and plants commune within a shared physical world—by focusing on the destructive and rapacious qualities of the vegetal. The transcendental ideas of beauty and the sublime give way in Poe to a vegetality that invades the human consciousness. He suggests that humans might be horrified, rather than delighted, by the calamity that a vegetal modernity represents, even though (and perhaps because) they have no alternative to it.
Ben Nichols
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526132833
- eISBN:
- 9781526158338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526132840.00006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines lesbian feminist speculative fiction from across the twentieth century in order to reconsider queer theory’s widespread rejection of reproduction, particularly in the wake of ...
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This chapter examines lesbian feminist speculative fiction from across the twentieth century in order to reconsider queer theory’s widespread rejection of reproduction, particularly in the wake of Lee Edelman's critique of 'reproductive futurism’. In queer theory, reproduction often signifies as simply a dreary and repetitive commitment to more of the same thing, and is frequently linked intrinsically, in any form, to a dominant and conservative heteronormative order. However, the fiction that this chapter addresses demonstrates the value to queer worlds of biological, social and cultural reproduction. In novels ranging from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) to Joanna Russ's The Female Man (1975), to Suzy McKee Charnas's Motherlines (1978) to Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground (1979) to Nicola Griffith's Ammonite (1993), the women-only lesbian worlds presented are structured around forms of reproduction – both biological and social copying (sometimes literalised in the form of human cloning) – that are none the less in no way heteronormative or even heterosexual. Moreover, these novels dramatise the importance of structures for reproduction – for keeping things the same – especially where the conditions being reproduced are the result of minoritarian struggle.Less
This chapter examines lesbian feminist speculative fiction from across the twentieth century in order to reconsider queer theory’s widespread rejection of reproduction, particularly in the wake of Lee Edelman's critique of 'reproductive futurism’. In queer theory, reproduction often signifies as simply a dreary and repetitive commitment to more of the same thing, and is frequently linked intrinsically, in any form, to a dominant and conservative heteronormative order. However, the fiction that this chapter addresses demonstrates the value to queer worlds of biological, social and cultural reproduction. In novels ranging from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) to Joanna Russ's The Female Man (1975), to Suzy McKee Charnas's Motherlines (1978) to Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground (1979) to Nicola Griffith's Ammonite (1993), the women-only lesbian worlds presented are structured around forms of reproduction – both biological and social copying (sometimes literalised in the form of human cloning) – that are none the less in no way heteronormative or even heterosexual. Moreover, these novels dramatise the importance of structures for reproduction – for keeping things the same – especially where the conditions being reproduced are the result of minoritarian struggle.
Daniel Kanstroom
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199742721
- eISBN:
- 9780199950348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199742721.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter considers what the rule of law requires during deportation proceedings and after deportation has taken place? The answer cannot be “whatever the majority wills” or “whatever the ...
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This chapter considers what the rule of law requires during deportation proceedings and after deportation has taken place? The answer cannot be “whatever the majority wills” or “whatever the executive enforces.” That would countenance government behavior and consequences that we should not accept. And yet the answer also is not, “exactly the same rights as U.S. citizens have” or “infinite, endless, open-ended review.” The best legal solution lies somewhere in between, mediated by moderately flexible ideas of discretion, judicial oversight, and a humane understanding of basic human rights principles, especially those that mandate proportionality and reject arbitrariness whenever state power is brought to bear against people, regardless of their legal status or their location. The chapter analyzes possible building blocks for a re-conceptualized rule of law for deportation., including discretion, an ideal of “fair play” championed by Frances Perkins, and, finally, the model of international human rights law as determined by the Interamerican Commission, the European Court of Human Rights and other bodies.Less
This chapter considers what the rule of law requires during deportation proceedings and after deportation has taken place? The answer cannot be “whatever the majority wills” or “whatever the executive enforces.” That would countenance government behavior and consequences that we should not accept. And yet the answer also is not, “exactly the same rights as U.S. citizens have” or “infinite, endless, open-ended review.” The best legal solution lies somewhere in between, mediated by moderately flexible ideas of discretion, judicial oversight, and a humane understanding of basic human rights principles, especially those that mandate proportionality and reject arbitrariness whenever state power is brought to bear against people, regardless of their legal status or their location. The chapter analyzes possible building blocks for a re-conceptualized rule of law for deportation., including discretion, an ideal of “fair play” championed by Frances Perkins, and, finally, the model of international human rights law as determined by the Interamerican Commission, the European Court of Human Rights and other bodies.
John Milward
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252043918
- eISBN:
- 9780252052811
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043918.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter focuses on Elvis Presley, who was Sun Studio's biggest star until Sam Phillips sold his contract to RCA (Radio Corporation of America). Elvis was now the King, with hits such as ...
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This chapter focuses on Elvis Presley, who was Sun Studio's biggest star until Sam Phillips sold his contract to RCA (Radio Corporation of America). Elvis was now the King, with hits such as “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Hound Dog,” and Love Me Tender (1956) already in movie theaters. But Sun Studio was where he had crossed country and western with rhythm and blues to create rock and roll. The chapter then describes the gathering of what would become known as the Million Dollar Quartet, which includes Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee, and Carl Perkins. Ultimately, Elvis Presley's Sun singles galvanized musicians throughout the South. However, Sun Records was not the only place where rock and roll was born. In Chicago, Chess Records, the label that released the Howlin' Wolf tracks cut by Sam Phillips, spiced up its roster of blues artists with two seminal rockers: Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.Less
This chapter focuses on Elvis Presley, who was Sun Studio's biggest star until Sam Phillips sold his contract to RCA (Radio Corporation of America). Elvis was now the King, with hits such as “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Hound Dog,” and Love Me Tender (1956) already in movie theaters. But Sun Studio was where he had crossed country and western with rhythm and blues to create rock and roll. The chapter then describes the gathering of what would become known as the Million Dollar Quartet, which includes Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee, and Carl Perkins. Ultimately, Elvis Presley's Sun singles galvanized musicians throughout the South. However, Sun Records was not the only place where rock and roll was born. In Chicago, Chess Records, the label that released the Howlin' Wolf tracks cut by Sam Phillips, spiced up its roster of blues artists with two seminal rockers: Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Emily Herring Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635835
- eISBN:
- 9781469635859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635835.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
While Marion returns from her assignment in Europe, entertained by Anna Rosenberg, a dynamic member of the American delegation. In high spirits, she confronts Nancy at the dock, who has been weeping, ...
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While Marion returns from her assignment in Europe, entertained by Anna Rosenberg, a dynamic member of the American delegation. In high spirits, she confronts Nancy at the dock, who has been weeping, unable to tell her about the talk she had had with Eleanor. Marion invites Anna home to Val-Kill and the next day they go to give a report to FDR. Nancy is left to the side. This information is based on a long interview many years later with FDR's labor secretary Frances Perkins, no admirer of Marion. The political and the personal have collided, personal jealousies have emerged, and while Eleanor continues to exchange gifts with Marion and Nancy, the closeness has changed.Less
While Marion returns from her assignment in Europe, entertained by Anna Rosenberg, a dynamic member of the American delegation. In high spirits, she confronts Nancy at the dock, who has been weeping, unable to tell her about the talk she had had with Eleanor. Marion invites Anna home to Val-Kill and the next day they go to give a report to FDR. Nancy is left to the side. This information is based on a long interview many years later with FDR's labor secretary Frances Perkins, no admirer of Marion. The political and the personal have collided, personal jealousies have emerged, and while Eleanor continues to exchange gifts with Marion and Nancy, the closeness has changed.
Anna Lillios
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813038094
- eISBN:
- 9780813041551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813038094.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The purpose of this Introduction is to establish the personal and literary nature of Hurston's and Rawlings's friendship. The introduction begins with an interview with Donald Wilson, who attended ...
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The purpose of this Introduction is to establish the personal and literary nature of Hurston's and Rawlings's friendship. The introduction begins with an interview with Donald Wilson, who attended the tea that Rawlings hosted for Hurston at Castle Warden Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, on July 6, 1943. Wilson, the last surviving participant at this event, was only 10 years old at the time, but he recalls that Rawlings and Hurston “spoke at ease” with one another and “appeared to be great friends.” Over the next decade, the two women met and corresponded with each other. Their letters contain affectionate comments about each other—Hurston calls Rawlings her “sister” and Rawlings writes to her editor, Maxwell Perkins, that she is “very fond” of Hurston. This primary research, plus personal interviews with people who knew both authors, will provide valuable contextual material in a construction of Rawlings' and Hurston's biographies up to 1942, during which important period of their lives they were recognized as accomplished authors, before their personal tragedies were to ensue.Less
The purpose of this Introduction is to establish the personal and literary nature of Hurston's and Rawlings's friendship. The introduction begins with an interview with Donald Wilson, who attended the tea that Rawlings hosted for Hurston at Castle Warden Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, on July 6, 1943. Wilson, the last surviving participant at this event, was only 10 years old at the time, but he recalls that Rawlings and Hurston “spoke at ease” with one another and “appeared to be great friends.” Over the next decade, the two women met and corresponded with each other. Their letters contain affectionate comments about each other—Hurston calls Rawlings her “sister” and Rawlings writes to her editor, Maxwell Perkins, that she is “very fond” of Hurston. This primary research, plus personal interviews with people who knew both authors, will provide valuable contextual material in a construction of Rawlings' and Hurston's biographies up to 1942, during which important period of their lives they were recognized as accomplished authors, before their personal tragedies were to ensue.
Anna Lillios
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813038094
- eISBN:
- 9780813041551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813038094.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter delves into the source of Hurston's and Rawlings' creativity and how it inspired them to write their greatest works, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Rawlings' The Yearling. It ...
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This chapter delves into the source of Hurston's and Rawlings' creativity and how it inspired them to write their greatest works, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Rawlings' The Yearling. It looks at the common element in their works: connection to their communities. Both authors strongly associated with their Florida communities of Eatonville and Cross Creek and found their voices early in their careers by tapping into the rich oral traditions that they discovered in these cultures. When Rawlings sent a story based on Cross Creek to Maxwell Perkins, her Scribners editor, he highly praised her portrayal of the Florida crackers: “One great quality in what you have written is that you enable the reader to see them from a new point of view, by which he can sympathize with them.” Perkins notices the perfect “affinity between people and places” that Rawlings experiences at Cross Creek and urges her to apply it to The Yearling. Hurston became a writer once she reconnected with her community. When she first attempted to collect folklore under the direction of Franz Boas, her Barnard anthropology professor, she failed, because she spoke “Barnardese” to the residents. It was not until Rawlings lived in a lumber camp in Polk County, Florida, that she succeeded in capturing the language of the juke joints and of people specifying and playing “the dozens.” When Hurston sat down to write her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, a main theme was the difficulty of finding a voice.Less
This chapter delves into the source of Hurston's and Rawlings' creativity and how it inspired them to write their greatest works, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Rawlings' The Yearling. It looks at the common element in their works: connection to their communities. Both authors strongly associated with their Florida communities of Eatonville and Cross Creek and found their voices early in their careers by tapping into the rich oral traditions that they discovered in these cultures. When Rawlings sent a story based on Cross Creek to Maxwell Perkins, her Scribners editor, he highly praised her portrayal of the Florida crackers: “One great quality in what you have written is that you enable the reader to see them from a new point of view, by which he can sympathize with them.” Perkins notices the perfect “affinity between people and places” that Rawlings experiences at Cross Creek and urges her to apply it to The Yearling. Hurston became a writer once she reconnected with her community. When she first attempted to collect folklore under the direction of Franz Boas, her Barnard anthropology professor, she failed, because she spoke “Barnardese” to the residents. It was not until Rawlings lived in a lumber camp in Polk County, Florida, that she succeeded in capturing the language of the juke joints and of people specifying and playing “the dozens.” When Hurston sat down to write her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, a main theme was the difficulty of finding a voice.
