Michael Suk-Young Chwe
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691162447
- eISBN:
- 9781400851331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691162447.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter analyzes Jane Austen's six novels, arguing that each is a chronicle of how a heroine learns to think strategically. For example, in Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland must learn to make ...
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This chapter analyzes Jane Austen's six novels, arguing that each is a chronicle of how a heroine learns to think strategically. For example, in Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland must learn to make her own independent choices in a sequence of increasingly important situations, and in Emma, Emma Woodhouse learns that pride in one's strategic skills can be just another form of cluelessness. In Pride and Prejudice, people's strategic abilities develop the least. Sense and Sensibility explores through the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood how strategic thinking requires both thoughtful decision-making and fanciful speculation. The chapter also examines Persuasion and Mansfield Park. In all six novels, Austen theorizes how people, growing from childhood into adult independence, learn strategic thinking.Less
This chapter analyzes Jane Austen's six novels, arguing that each is a chronicle of how a heroine learns to think strategically. For example, in Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland must learn to make her own independent choices in a sequence of increasingly important situations, and in Emma, Emma Woodhouse learns that pride in one's strategic skills can be just another form of cluelessness. In Pride and Prejudice, people's strategic abilities develop the least. Sense and Sensibility explores through the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood how strategic thinking requires both thoughtful decision-making and fanciful speculation. The chapter also examines Persuasion and Mansfield Park. In all six novels, Austen theorizes how people, growing from childhood into adult independence, learn strategic thinking.
Marilyn Butler
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129684
- eISBN:
- 9780191671838
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129684.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Of all Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice seems at first glance the least likely to yield a conservative theme. Austen herself playfully confessed that the impression it made was not serious. ...
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Of all Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice seems at first glance the least likely to yield a conservative theme. Austen herself playfully confessed that the impression it made was not serious. Although the remedies Jane Austen suggests are intentionally absurd, the critical observation itself reads like a genuine one. At any rate, generations of Jane Austen readers have agreed in finding Pride and Prejudice the lightest, most consistently entertaining, and least didactic of the novels. It would not be in keeping with the serious-mindedness of modern scholarship to rest content with the popular view of Pride and Prejudice as having no meaning at all. However, the commonest interpretations, however they differ from each other, agree in placing it well outside the sphere of the anti-jacobin novel.Less
Of all Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice seems at first glance the least likely to yield a conservative theme. Austen herself playfully confessed that the impression it made was not serious. Although the remedies Jane Austen suggests are intentionally absurd, the critical observation itself reads like a genuine one. At any rate, generations of Jane Austen readers have agreed in finding Pride and Prejudice the lightest, most consistently entertaining, and least didactic of the novels. It would not be in keeping with the serious-mindedness of modern scholarship to rest content with the popular view of Pride and Prejudice as having no meaning at all. However, the commonest interpretations, however they differ from each other, agree in placing it well outside the sphere of the anti-jacobin novel.
Stephanie M. Stern and Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479835683
- eISBN:
- 9781479857623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479835683.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter reconsiders the persistent problems of discrimination and exclusion in light of psychology research on prejudice and bias. It focuses on three important topics in housing and land use ...
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This chapter reconsiders the persistent problems of discrimination and exclusion in light of psychology research on prejudice and bias. It focuses on three important topics in housing and land use law. First, it examines whether disparate impact claims (i.e., discrimination claims against facially neutral housing policies that have discriminatory effects but lack evidence of discriminatory intent) have the potential to redress implicit, largely unconscious bias. Second, it describes how psychology research on the effect of perceived social norms on prejudice lends support to a controversial provision of the US Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discriminatory housing advertisements and statements. Third, the chapter discusses how psychology research can inform, and ameliorate, exclusion and discrimination in neighborhood and block associations charged with budgeting, zoning, or spending powers.Less
This chapter reconsiders the persistent problems of discrimination and exclusion in light of psychology research on prejudice and bias. It focuses on three important topics in housing and land use law. First, it examines whether disparate impact claims (i.e., discrimination claims against facially neutral housing policies that have discriminatory effects but lack evidence of discriminatory intent) have the potential to redress implicit, largely unconscious bias. Second, it describes how psychology research on the effect of perceived social norms on prejudice lends support to a controversial provision of the US Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discriminatory housing advertisements and statements. Third, the chapter discusses how psychology research can inform, and ameliorate, exclusion and discrimination in neighborhood and block associations charged with budgeting, zoning, or spending powers.
Neil Jarman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097201
- eISBN:
- 9781526103994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097201.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Northern Ireland is a contradictory society in which prejudice and tolerance exist as uneasy neighbours, but where expressions of intolerance dominate public and media perceptions of the norms of ...
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Northern Ireland is a contradictory society in which prejudice and tolerance exist as uneasy neighbours, but where expressions of intolerance dominate public and media perceptions of the norms of inter-communal interaction. This chapter begins to unpack the notions of tolerance and prejudice in relation to Northern Ireland. It argues that tolerance and prejudice are not singular notions but rather may differ in relation to the nature and construct of the ‘other’, the background and status of the individual, and that expressions of intolerance may be triggered by different types of events and activities. These factors may therefore lead to an informal hierarchy of prejudice and tolerance, with some communities being less tolerated than others, while some sections of the community present themselves as more tolerant than others. Finally, while intolerance is individually held, it is experienced most severely when it is socially triggered and collectively expressed, and in the absence of a clear strategy and leadership to promote engagement and respect, outbursts of collective intolerance are only likely to increase.Less
Northern Ireland is a contradictory society in which prejudice and tolerance exist as uneasy neighbours, but where expressions of intolerance dominate public and media perceptions of the norms of inter-communal interaction. This chapter begins to unpack the notions of tolerance and prejudice in relation to Northern Ireland. It argues that tolerance and prejudice are not singular notions but rather may differ in relation to the nature and construct of the ‘other’, the background and status of the individual, and that expressions of intolerance may be triggered by different types of events and activities. These factors may therefore lead to an informal hierarchy of prejudice and tolerance, with some communities being less tolerated than others, while some sections of the community present themselves as more tolerant than others. Finally, while intolerance is individually held, it is experienced most severely when it is socially triggered and collectively expressed, and in the absence of a clear strategy and leadership to promote engagement and respect, outbursts of collective intolerance are only likely to increase.
Margaret Gough
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447353065
- eISBN:
- 9781447353089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447353065.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
Margaret Gough never expected to go to university and was shocked to find herself serving a long prison sentence. In this chapter she provides a vivid account of how one led to the other as she ...
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Margaret Gough never expected to go to university and was shocked to find herself serving a long prison sentence. In this chapter she provides a vivid account of how one led to the other as she rediscovered her talent for learning in prison. Her Open University studies opened more doors than she expected, and though her account of harrowing times moves toward hopeful conclusions, she remains circumspect that the stains of imprisonment can be removed while prejudice against those who have been in prison goes unchallenged.Less
Margaret Gough never expected to go to university and was shocked to find herself serving a long prison sentence. In this chapter she provides a vivid account of how one led to the other as she rediscovered her talent for learning in prison. Her Open University studies opened more doors than she expected, and though her account of harrowing times moves toward hopeful conclusions, she remains circumspect that the stains of imprisonment can be removed while prejudice against those who have been in prison goes unchallenged.
Robert A. Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199812042
- eISBN:
- 9780199315888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812042.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines the ubiquitous plot device of the marriage proposal. It argues that the marriage plot provides resolution in the novel of manners for the same reason that comedy has used the ...
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This chapter examines the ubiquitous plot device of the marriage proposal. It argues that the marriage plot provides resolution in the novel of manners for the same reason that comedy has used the wedding celebration as an ending since Aristophanes. Success in the comic mode requires a coming together of opposites, and marriage solves that problem on a characterological level better than other alternatives. Even so, the pattern in the nineteenth-century English novel is not without its mysteries, and unraveling those mysteries tells us something about understanding, expectations, problems, and anxieties in Regency and Victorian England. Two questions help to situate these mysteries, for even though marriages take place with numbing predictability in the nineteenth-century novel, a reader hardly ever finds a full-blown, articulated, successful marriage proposal in them. Why, then, to formalize these questions, are most successful proposals of marriage performed off stage or through indirect discourse or narrative summary, and why are so many of the unfortunate swains in these novels clergymen or lawyers who handle the situation directly but badly? These patterns continue across the nineteenth century and beyond, but the chapter focuses on two leading novelists, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, with special attention given to two of their most prominent and frequently cited novels, Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Dickens's Bleak House (1853).Less
This chapter examines the ubiquitous plot device of the marriage proposal. It argues that the marriage plot provides resolution in the novel of manners for the same reason that comedy has used the wedding celebration as an ending since Aristophanes. Success in the comic mode requires a coming together of opposites, and marriage solves that problem on a characterological level better than other alternatives. Even so, the pattern in the nineteenth-century English novel is not without its mysteries, and unraveling those mysteries tells us something about understanding, expectations, problems, and anxieties in Regency and Victorian England. Two questions help to situate these mysteries, for even though marriages take place with numbing predictability in the nineteenth-century novel, a reader hardly ever finds a full-blown, articulated, successful marriage proposal in them. Why, then, to formalize these questions, are most successful proposals of marriage performed off stage or through indirect discourse or narrative summary, and why are so many of the unfortunate swains in these novels clergymen or lawyers who handle the situation directly but badly? These patterns continue across the nineteenth century and beyond, but the chapter focuses on two leading novelists, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, with special attention given to two of their most prominent and frequently cited novels, Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Dickens's Bleak House (1853).
Mary Wills
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620788
- eISBN:
- 9781789629668
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620788.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines cultural encounters between British naval officers and West African peoples, and the role of racial attitudes and identity therein. It looks at the persistence or mutability of ...
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This chapter examines cultural encounters between British naval officers and West African peoples, and the role of racial attitudes and identity therein. It looks at the persistence or mutability of value sets taken out to Africa, and the resulting dialogues on race, ethnicity, identity and benevolence within the naval community. To an extent, naval officers perceived West Africans through the lens of metropolitan attitudes and many observations subscribed to common racial prejudices; yet others were more considered, born of experience, interaction and affiliation. This chapter examines officers’ encounters with the ‘exotic’ African women they met on their travels and their engagement with African cultures. As the century progressed, increasing contact with African peoples contributed to a shift in racial attitudes, fuelled by new scientific theories and the proliferation of printed material about race.Less
This chapter examines cultural encounters between British naval officers and West African peoples, and the role of racial attitudes and identity therein. It looks at the persistence or mutability of value sets taken out to Africa, and the resulting dialogues on race, ethnicity, identity and benevolence within the naval community. To an extent, naval officers perceived West Africans through the lens of metropolitan attitudes and many observations subscribed to common racial prejudices; yet others were more considered, born of experience, interaction and affiliation. This chapter examines officers’ encounters with the ‘exotic’ African women they met on their travels and their engagement with African cultures. As the century progressed, increasing contact with African peoples contributed to a shift in racial attitudes, fuelled by new scientific theories and the proliferation of printed material about race.
Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781800859487
- eISBN:
- 9781800852563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781800859487.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
The introduction critiques literary historians’ tendency to privilege Jane Austen’s representations of social dance when they inquire into the role of dance in nineteenth-century literature. The ...
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The introduction critiques literary historians’ tendency to privilege Jane Austen’s representations of social dance when they inquire into the role of dance in nineteenth-century literature. The era’s most broadly visible dancers were the continental ballet professionals who captivated English audiences with their performances at public theaters, not private assemblies, and the discussion begins by identifying the balletic elements (including potential references to Jean-George Noverre and the ballet d’action entitled La fille mal gardée) in Pride and Prejudice’s characterization and plotting. Then it describes the various formal and ideological factors that rendered poets (more so than novelists) and ballet professionals “sister artists” throughout the nineteenth century. Finally, the piece speculates about the reasons that underlie scholars’ reluctance to examine the influence of ballet on nineteenth-century verse and explains the merit in disrupting that critical tradition, which effectively dismisses nineteenth-century poets’ frequent references to dance as meaningless metaphor or arbitrary realist texture.Less
The introduction critiques literary historians’ tendency to privilege Jane Austen’s representations of social dance when they inquire into the role of dance in nineteenth-century literature. The era’s most broadly visible dancers were the continental ballet professionals who captivated English audiences with their performances at public theaters, not private assemblies, and the discussion begins by identifying the balletic elements (including potential references to Jean-George Noverre and the ballet d’action entitled La fille mal gardée) in Pride and Prejudice’s characterization and plotting. Then it describes the various formal and ideological factors that rendered poets (more so than novelists) and ballet professionals “sister artists” throughout the nineteenth century. Finally, the piece speculates about the reasons that underlie scholars’ reluctance to examine the influence of ballet on nineteenth-century verse and explains the merit in disrupting that critical tradition, which effectively dismisses nineteenth-century poets’ frequent references to dance as meaningless metaphor or arbitrary realist texture.
Margo Collins and Elson Bond
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823234462
- eISBN:
- 9780823241255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234462.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, Mythology and Folklore
This chapter probes the depiction of zombies in such contemporary novels as World War Z, Zombie Haiku, and the revisionist classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Authors Margo Collins and Elson ...
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This chapter probes the depiction of zombies in such contemporary novels as World War Z, Zombie Haiku, and the revisionist classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Authors Margo Collins and Elson Bond argue that the zombie is uniquely appealing to today's technologically savvy, fast-paced generation and, as such, can serve as a mirror for some of Generation Y's values and notions of identity. New millennium zombie-ism demonstrates an apparent divergence into what initially appears to be two distinct categories: zombie-as-comedy and zombie-as-threat, but as the chapter argues, time and again those two categories overlap in intriguing and symbolic ways. Ultimately, depictions of both kinds of zombies come to function as monstrous placeholders for potentially dangerous human interactions in an anomic society. Accustomed to instant communication with virtual strangers, insulated from the natural world and dependent on fragile transportation, communication, and power networks, millennial audiences have good reason to fear the chaotic anonymity of zombies.Less
This chapter probes the depiction of zombies in such contemporary novels as World War Z, Zombie Haiku, and the revisionist classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Authors Margo Collins and Elson Bond argue that the zombie is uniquely appealing to today's technologically savvy, fast-paced generation and, as such, can serve as a mirror for some of Generation Y's values and notions of identity. New millennium zombie-ism demonstrates an apparent divergence into what initially appears to be two distinct categories: zombie-as-comedy and zombie-as-threat, but as the chapter argues, time and again those two categories overlap in intriguing and symbolic ways. Ultimately, depictions of both kinds of zombies come to function as monstrous placeholders for potentially dangerous human interactions in an anomic society. Accustomed to instant communication with virtual strangers, insulated from the natural world and dependent on fragile transportation, communication, and power networks, millennial audiences have good reason to fear the chaotic anonymity of zombies.
Sarah Raff
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199760336
- eISBN:
- 9780199362257
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199760336.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Scholars usually envision Austen as the passive victim or beneficiary of the “Janeite” tributes that do so much to define her for the popular imagination. Raff’s claim, by contrast, is that the ...
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Scholars usually envision Austen as the passive victim or beneficiary of the “Janeite” tributes that do so much to define her for the popular imagination. Raff’s claim, by contrast, is that the phenomenon of Janeism—both the exorbitant devotion that Austen inspires in her readers and the peculiar forms this devotion often takes—is the consequence of Austen’s design. When today’s readers consult Austen-themed divination toys for advice about their romantic lives or declare themselves “in love” with Austen, they adopt a role that Austen actively prompted them to take. Raff explores the origins of this role in Austen’s experience as advisor to her niece Fanny Knight, in eighteenth-century literary debates, in the plots of Austen’s novels—including Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—and in the generalizing discourse of Austen’s narrator and characters. In the letters dissuading Fanny from marrying one John-Pemberton Plumptre and in the novels that Austen finished or revised after writing them, Austen aligns her persona with the Pygmalion-like novelist, lover and pander-author to the reader, who was the target of popular anti-novel diatribes. Handing down to the general reader the role of quixotic Galatea that Austen’s letters had offered Fanny, the narrators of the three last-published novels make Fanny their addressee and subject matter. They promote the fantasy that, to replace the suitor who got away, Austen’s narrator can supply Fanny—and, by extension, any reader—with a new lover: either Austen’s own loving spirit or a third party conjured by Austen’s voice.Less
Scholars usually envision Austen as the passive victim or beneficiary of the “Janeite” tributes that do so much to define her for the popular imagination. Raff’s claim, by contrast, is that the phenomenon of Janeism—both the exorbitant devotion that Austen inspires in her readers and the peculiar forms this devotion often takes—is the consequence of Austen’s design. When today’s readers consult Austen-themed divination toys for advice about their romantic lives or declare themselves “in love” with Austen, they adopt a role that Austen actively prompted them to take. Raff explores the origins of this role in Austen’s experience as advisor to her niece Fanny Knight, in eighteenth-century literary debates, in the plots of Austen’s novels—including Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—and in the generalizing discourse of Austen’s narrator and characters. In the letters dissuading Fanny from marrying one John-Pemberton Plumptre and in the novels that Austen finished or revised after writing them, Austen aligns her persona with the Pygmalion-like novelist, lover and pander-author to the reader, who was the target of popular anti-novel diatribes. Handing down to the general reader the role of quixotic Galatea that Austen’s letters had offered Fanny, the narrators of the three last-published novels make Fanny their addressee and subject matter. They promote the fantasy that, to replace the suitor who got away, Austen’s narrator can supply Fanny—and, by extension, any reader—with a new lover: either Austen’s own loving spirit or a third party conjured by Austen’s voice.
Sarah Raff
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199760336
- eISBN:
- 9780199362257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199760336.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter first describes the didactic literary culture from which Austen emerged. Taking shelter under the assumption that instructing and seducing are mutually exclusive, eighteenth-century ...
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This chapter first describes the didactic literary culture from which Austen emerged. Taking shelter under the assumption that instructing and seducing are mutually exclusive, eighteenth-century novelists pointed to the lessons their works contained to combat the charge that they promoted quixotism in readers. Once included in a novel, their precepts could, they claimed, undo licentious tendencies in its plot and guarantee the propriety of the novel’s relation with the reader. What Austen recognized was that generalizations in fact promoted the reader’s Galatean enthrallment to a Pygmalion-like author, for didacticism, the generalizing style of the emergent novel, is a mode of seduction and an invitation to quixotism. Raff goes on to show how modern Janeism renews eighteenth-century quixotism and concludes by sketching ways in which Austen’s early novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park—link didacticism with the Pygmalion-stance that Austen’s narrator was not yet prepared to adopt.Less
This chapter first describes the didactic literary culture from which Austen emerged. Taking shelter under the assumption that instructing and seducing are mutually exclusive, eighteenth-century novelists pointed to the lessons their works contained to combat the charge that they promoted quixotism in readers. Once included in a novel, their precepts could, they claimed, undo licentious tendencies in its plot and guarantee the propriety of the novel’s relation with the reader. What Austen recognized was that generalizations in fact promoted the reader’s Galatean enthrallment to a Pygmalion-like author, for didacticism, the generalizing style of the emergent novel, is a mode of seduction and an invitation to quixotism. Raff goes on to show how modern Janeism renews eighteenth-century quixotism and concludes by sketching ways in which Austen’s early novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park—link didacticism with the Pygmalion-stance that Austen’s narrator was not yet prepared to adopt.
Sarah Raff
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199760336
- eISBN:
- 9780199362257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199760336.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Raff here details how in Pride and Prejudice Austen’s narrator first adopts the Pygmalion stance and then disclaims it. The famous opening sentence of Austen’s most popular novel gives the narrator ...
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Raff here details how in Pride and Prejudice Austen’s narrator first adopts the Pygmalion stance and then disclaims it. The famous opening sentence of Austen’s most popular novel gives the narrator much the same role she holds in Austen’s three last-published novels, that of solver of every love problem and focus of affective attention. But the narrator does not retain the readerly love that she initially solicits; she passes it along instead to her character Mr. Darcy, who has become an object of Janeite devotion rivaling Austen herself and whose relation with Elizabeth Bennet reveals the latent eros of the narrator/reader relation it copies. While the narrators of Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion siphon interest from the protagonists, the protagonists of Pride and Prejudice borrow interest from the narrator.Less
Raff here details how in Pride and Prejudice Austen’s narrator first adopts the Pygmalion stance and then disclaims it. The famous opening sentence of Austen’s most popular novel gives the narrator much the same role she holds in Austen’s three last-published novels, that of solver of every love problem and focus of affective attention. But the narrator does not retain the readerly love that she initially solicits; she passes it along instead to her character Mr. Darcy, who has become an object of Janeite devotion rivaling Austen herself and whose relation with Elizabeth Bennet reveals the latent eros of the narrator/reader relation it copies. While the narrators of Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion siphon interest from the protagonists, the protagonists of Pride and Prejudice borrow interest from the narrator.
Paul K. Jones
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526123435
- eISBN:
- 9781526160966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526123442.00008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
A detailed reconstruction of the Institute’s full theorization of ‘modern demagogy’ is provided. The use of ‘demagogic’ rather than ‘authoritarian’ in ‘demagogic populism’ is explained as is the ...
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A detailed reconstruction of the Institute’s full theorization of ‘modern demagogy’ is provided. The use of ‘demagogic’ rather than ‘authoritarian’ in ‘demagogic populism’ is explained as is the division of labour between the demagogy studies and other sections of the Studies in Prejudice project. The reconstruction in this chapter and the following contest the common view that the Institute’s work simply imposed European understandings of fascism onto the US case. The psychoanalytic dimensions of this analysis are elaborated, notably the key role played by paranoia, false projection and narcissism. Also elaborated is the Institute’s little-known critical engagement with ‘liberal’ propaganda critique and its ‘liberal exposure’ strategy of countering demagogic propaganda with ‘truth’ and the popularization of critical awareness of demagogic ‘devices’. This leads on to the introduction of the relationship that both Lowenthal and Adorno saw between demagogic propaganda and the culture industry.Less
A detailed reconstruction of the Institute’s full theorization of ‘modern demagogy’ is provided. The use of ‘demagogic’ rather than ‘authoritarian’ in ‘demagogic populism’ is explained as is the division of labour between the demagogy studies and other sections of the Studies in Prejudice project. The reconstruction in this chapter and the following contest the common view that the Institute’s work simply imposed European understandings of fascism onto the US case. The psychoanalytic dimensions of this analysis are elaborated, notably the key role played by paranoia, false projection and narcissism. Also elaborated is the Institute’s little-known critical engagement with ‘liberal’ propaganda critique and its ‘liberal exposure’ strategy of countering demagogic propaganda with ‘truth’ and the popularization of critical awareness of demagogic ‘devices’. This leads on to the introduction of the relationship that both Lowenthal and Adorno saw between demagogic propaganda and the culture industry.
Arden Hegele
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780192848345
- eISBN:
- 9780191943638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192848345.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter considers the emergence of moral therapy in early psychiatry in order to argue that the Romantic-era innovation of free indirect style shares an affinity with eighteenth-century ...
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This chapter considers the emergence of moral therapy in early psychiatry in order to argue that the Romantic-era innovation of free indirect style shares an affinity with eighteenth-century psychiatric diagnosis and case records. While the origin of free indirect style is often ascribed to Jane Austen, the chapter finds emergent forms of free indirect style appearing in psychiatric notebooks by mad-doctors practicing moral management, as well as in the political literature of the 1790s and in Romantic-era realist prose fiction. Free indirect style has a monitory function that abetted the psychiatric practice of moral management in the late eighteenth century: as a strategy for mediating the voice of a speaker in a text, free indirect style allowed early psychiatrists, who believed madness was transmitted orally, to regulate their patients’ conditions by moderating their speech. Free indirect style continues to bear the traces of the madhouse in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen. The chapter thus uncovers pathological traces underlying the representational device that has been called the novel’s most distinctive formal feature. Free indirect style also thus inaugurates the association of the novel with the patient’s narrative, anticipating modern discussions of “psycho-narration” as a medico-literary formal device. Ultimately, free indirect style allows the writer to intimate forms of pathology that the reader is invited to, in effect, diagnose.Less
This chapter considers the emergence of moral therapy in early psychiatry in order to argue that the Romantic-era innovation of free indirect style shares an affinity with eighteenth-century psychiatric diagnosis and case records. While the origin of free indirect style is often ascribed to Jane Austen, the chapter finds emergent forms of free indirect style appearing in psychiatric notebooks by mad-doctors practicing moral management, as well as in the political literature of the 1790s and in Romantic-era realist prose fiction. Free indirect style has a monitory function that abetted the psychiatric practice of moral management in the late eighteenth century: as a strategy for mediating the voice of a speaker in a text, free indirect style allowed early psychiatrists, who believed madness was transmitted orally, to regulate their patients’ conditions by moderating their speech. Free indirect style continues to bear the traces of the madhouse in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen. The chapter thus uncovers pathological traces underlying the representational device that has been called the novel’s most distinctive formal feature. Free indirect style also thus inaugurates the association of the novel with the patient’s narrative, anticipating modern discussions of “psycho-narration” as a medico-literary formal device. Ultimately, free indirect style allows the writer to intimate forms of pathology that the reader is invited to, in effect, diagnose.
Carrie Williams Clifford
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781469659329
- eISBN:
- 9781469659343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659329.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In 1913, suffragists revived the strategy of amending the U.S. Constitution. Part 2 focuses on the story of women’s activism after this shift from 1913-1917.
While the Washington suffrage parade ...
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In 1913, suffragists revived the strategy of amending the U.S. Constitution. Part 2 focuses on the story of women’s activism after this shift from 1913-1917.
While the Washington suffrage parade symbolized the possibility of unified womanhood, the moment was fleeting. After the parade, growing racial tensions and divisions over suffrage strategy meant that women of color faced difficult choices regarding the paths they would take forward. Those paths were increasingly constrained by a rising tide of white supremacy. Women’s suffrage activism varied depending on both race and citizenship status. Black women’s suffrage activism was infused with antiracist work. In particular, black women drew specific parallels between race prejudice and sex prejudice to make the case for enfranchising women. For Carrie Clifford, the struggle for citizenship was a cultural battle as well as a political one. Moreover, she, like other black women, recognized that the suffrage struggle faced by her community was not only about woman’s suffrage but also about black men’s right to vote.Less
In 1913, suffragists revived the strategy of amending the U.S. Constitution. Part 2 focuses on the story of women’s activism after this shift from 1913-1917.
While the Washington suffrage parade symbolized the possibility of unified womanhood, the moment was fleeting. After the parade, growing racial tensions and divisions over suffrage strategy meant that women of color faced difficult choices regarding the paths they would take forward. Those paths were increasingly constrained by a rising tide of white supremacy. Women’s suffrage activism varied depending on both race and citizenship status. Black women’s suffrage activism was infused with antiracist work. In particular, black women drew specific parallels between race prejudice and sex prejudice to make the case for enfranchising women. For Carrie Clifford, the struggle for citizenship was a cultural battle as well as a political one. Moreover, she, like other black women, recognized that the suffrage struggle faced by her community was not only about woman’s suffrage but also about black men’s right to vote.
Alison M. Parker
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781469659381
- eISBN:
- 9781469659404
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659381.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This first full-length scholarly biography of the clubwoman, civil rights activist, and feminist, Mary (“Mollie”) Church Terrell highlights the interconnections between her private life and her ...
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This first full-length scholarly biography of the clubwoman, civil rights activist, and feminist, Mary (“Mollie”) Church Terrell highlights the interconnections between her private life and her public activism. As a black woman, Terrell told much of her story in her published memoir, but also elided some details as a shield to the racial prejudice she experienced. Terrell’s family shared their private papers (now at the Oberlin College Archives), allowing this biography to delve into her correspondence and diaries to gain a fuller understanding of Terrell’s life and activism.Less
This first full-length scholarly biography of the clubwoman, civil rights activist, and feminist, Mary (“Mollie”) Church Terrell highlights the interconnections between her private life and her public activism. As a black woman, Terrell told much of her story in her published memoir, but also elided some details as a shield to the racial prejudice she experienced. Terrell’s family shared their private papers (now at the Oberlin College Archives), allowing this biography to delve into her correspondence and diaries to gain a fuller understanding of Terrell’s life and activism.
Margaret P. Battin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719096235
- eISBN:
- 9781781708392
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096235.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Ethical Issues and Debates
Consider a simple thought-experiment: What if it were possible, say by dipping into a skin dye bath or using special pigmentation-altering lights in a converted tanning bed, to change one’s skin ...
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Consider a simple thought-experiment: What if it were possible, say by dipping into a skin dye bath or using special pigmentation-altering lights in a converted tanning bed, to change one’s skin colour temporarily and reversibly? You can be “Shirley Temple” white this week, “Louis Armstrong” black next week, “Genghis Khan” or “Madame Butterfly” Asian the week after that. Temporary skin colour change could be used to combat racism in hiring, education, admission to special societies; to facilitate social interaction in teaching or travel; or to pursue aesthetic and self-identity interests. But would race-colour change be deceptive or morally problematic? At issue is whether a person is somehow “really” a specific colour and if so, whether it would violate “race integrity” (if there is such a thing) to change it. Is skin colour a basic constituent of personal identity? The underlying theoretical race ontology issues involve racial skepticism, racial constructionism, and population naturalism, and whether deracialised interaction among individuals and peoples of the world might be possible.Less
Consider a simple thought-experiment: What if it were possible, say by dipping into a skin dye bath or using special pigmentation-altering lights in a converted tanning bed, to change one’s skin colour temporarily and reversibly? You can be “Shirley Temple” white this week, “Louis Armstrong” black next week, “Genghis Khan” or “Madame Butterfly” Asian the week after that. Temporary skin colour change could be used to combat racism in hiring, education, admission to special societies; to facilitate social interaction in teaching or travel; or to pursue aesthetic and self-identity interests. But would race-colour change be deceptive or morally problematic? At issue is whether a person is somehow “really” a specific colour and if so, whether it would violate “race integrity” (if there is such a thing) to change it. Is skin colour a basic constituent of personal identity? The underlying theoretical race ontology issues involve racial skepticism, racial constructionism, and population naturalism, and whether deracialised interaction among individuals and peoples of the world might be possible.
James A. W. Heffernan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300195583
- eISBN:
- 9780300206845
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300195583.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter probes hospitality and mating in English fiction. It examines domestic novels ranging from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. These novels all ...
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This chapter probes hospitality and mating in English fiction. It examines domestic novels ranging from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. These novels all reveal that the desire for a mate is bound up with domesticity, power, and hospitality. Among representations of hospitality in English fiction, The Mysteries of Udolpho displays treachery in its simplest form: Morano's designs on the niece of Montini, his host, prompt the two men to fight until Morano is severely wounded and carried out of the castle.Less
This chapter probes hospitality and mating in English fiction. It examines domestic novels ranging from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. These novels all reveal that the desire for a mate is bound up with domesticity, power, and hospitality. Among representations of hospitality in English fiction, The Mysteries of Udolpho displays treachery in its simplest form: Morano's designs on the niece of Montini, his host, prompt the two men to fight until Morano is severely wounded and carried out of the castle.
Stephen Davies
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9789888208203
- eISBN:
- 9789888268221
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208203.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The Keying arrived in Boston in November 1847 after all dues were paid to the twenty six Chinese crewmen. For the three months that the Keying was in Boston, almost nothing could be said about it, if ...
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The Keying arrived in Boston in November 1847 after all dues were paid to the twenty six Chinese crewmen. For the three months that the Keying was in Boston, almost nothing could be said about it, if it attracted any attention during those times, this attention was fleeting. Perhaps it was the increasing financial distress, Kellett took the risk to sail from Boston to Britain in the worst of winter. February is one of the coldest months and gales are 20 to 30 percent more frequent than in March or April. During the repairing of the rudder, the second mate was drowned while overseeing work, but on 11th March 1848, the Keying reached the British Channel Islands. The chapter also explained the performance of the Keying by comparing it with other vessels.Less
The Keying arrived in Boston in November 1847 after all dues were paid to the twenty six Chinese crewmen. For the three months that the Keying was in Boston, almost nothing could be said about it, if it attracted any attention during those times, this attention was fleeting. Perhaps it was the increasing financial distress, Kellett took the risk to sail from Boston to Britain in the worst of winter. February is one of the coldest months and gales are 20 to 30 percent more frequent than in March or April. During the repairing of the rudder, the second mate was drowned while overseeing work, but on 11th March 1848, the Keying reached the British Channel Islands. The chapter also explained the performance of the Keying by comparing it with other vessels.
Philip M. Rosoff
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027496
- eISBN:
- 9780262320764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027496.003.0006
- Subject:
- Biology, Bioethics
This chapter discusses the politically and morally contentious issue of whether strict fairness and justice in a rationing system can be accomplished in a democracy like the United States. Fairness ...
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This chapter discusses the politically and morally contentious issue of whether strict fairness and justice in a rationing system can be accomplished in a democracy like the United States. Fairness dictates that similar cases should be similarly treated, and morally irrelevant facts about people should be exactly that: irrelevant. However, it seems difficult to imagine (for example) that undocumented immigrants would be offered the same benefits under a comprehensive and rationed healthcare system as citizens, due to public opposition. On the other hand, the “better angels of our nature” have occasionally prevailed against apparent dominant opinion, such as in the case of civil rights. However, it is acknowledged that the tyranny of the majority may have to be mollified if that would ensure acceptance of comprehensive healthcare reform.Less
This chapter discusses the politically and morally contentious issue of whether strict fairness and justice in a rationing system can be accomplished in a democracy like the United States. Fairness dictates that similar cases should be similarly treated, and morally irrelevant facts about people should be exactly that: irrelevant. However, it seems difficult to imagine (for example) that undocumented immigrants would be offered the same benefits under a comprehensive and rationed healthcare system as citizens, due to public opposition. On the other hand, the “better angels of our nature” have occasionally prevailed against apparent dominant opinion, such as in the case of civil rights. However, it is acknowledged that the tyranny of the majority may have to be mollified if that would ensure acceptance of comprehensive healthcare reform.
