English Faculty Research and Publications

Charles Knight and Sir Francis Bond Head: Two Early Victorian Perspectives on Printing and the Allied Trades

Sarah Wadsworth — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46:12 PDT

Canonicity and the American Public Library: The Case of American Women Writers

Sarah Wadsworth — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:02:24 PDT

Beginning with an overview of the debate over American women writers and the academic canon, this essay inventories four clusters of American women writers—domestic novelists, regionalists, modernists, and writers of diverse ethnicities—within a representative sampling of small-town public libraries across the Midwest from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The survey reveals some surprising disjunctures that run counter to trends in the academy. It also highlights the role publishers and bibliographers have played in establishing favored texts for a general readership and demonstrates that publishers of literary classics and bibliographies geared toward librarians have not always promoted the same texts as their academic counterparts. On the whole, it concludes, women writers fared quite well in the hands of publishers and public libraries promoting “the classics” at the same time that they suffered at the hands of major textbook publishers and scholarly editors intent on defining “the canon.”

Review of Women’s Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley by Emma J. Clery

Diane L. Hoeveler — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:59:55 PDT

Death of a Salesman as Psychomachia

Diane L. Hoeveler — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:18:42 PDT

Game Theory and Ellison’s King of the Bingo Game

Diane L. Hoeveler — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:05:32 PDT

Introduction [to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Frederick S. Frank and Diane Hoeveler, eds.]

Diane Hoeveler — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:09:24 PDT

Review of Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring by Harry C. Denny

Beth Godbee — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:42:16 PDT

[Review of ] The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice

Beth Godbee — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:42:14 PDT

[Review of] Writing Across Borders

Beth Godbee et al. — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:42:13 PDT

Review of Gothic Plays and American Society, 1794-1830, by M. Susan Anthony

Diane Hoeveler — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:19:51 PDT

A Multi-Dimensional Pedagogy for Racial Justice in Writing Centers

Rasha Diab et al. — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:19:50 PDT

Review of Gilbert & Gubar’s ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ After Thirty Years, edited by Annette R. Federico

Diane Hoeveler — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:44:17 PDT

Review of Equivocal Beings by Claudia Johnson; and Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry by Daniel Watkins

Diane Hoeveler — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:33:25 PDT

Review of The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age by Jonathan Wordsworth; and Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of the British Romantic Women Writers by Catherine R. Burroughs

Diane Hoeveler — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:02:30 PDT

Review of Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century by George Haggerty, and Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 by Eleanor Ty

Diane Hoeveler — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:36:31 PDT

Review of Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race by Claudia Tate

Diane Hoeveler — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:27:33 PDT

Gothic Drama as Nationalistic Catharsis in Siddons, Boaden, and Lewis

Diane Hoeveler — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:21:50 PST

Joanna Baillie and the Gothic Body: Reading Extremities in Orra and De Monfort

Diane Hoeveler — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:55:55 PST

At the time of their publication, Joanna Baillie's dramas were considered to be works of genius in their sustained and powerful fixation on one of the several possible human passions. In their very focus on these intense emotions, however, the plays actually reified the dangers inherent in the extremes of human passion. In other words, by fixing her attention on the passions, Baillie revealed that the emotions she was supposedly focused on often masked other, even more powerful desires. Thus, in Orra fear is the result of the heroine's hatred of male dominance, while in De Monfort hatred is shown to be the symptom of incestuous love. But what has not been noticed about Baillie's plays is their almost obsessive interest in dead, abjected male bodies. Both plays present a very gothic vision of the indestructible patriarchy, an uncanny phallic power that cannot die, that persistently resurrects and feeds on itself or the legends that it has constructed.

Review [of Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture by Beth Torgerson]

Diane Hoeveler — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:48:26 PST

Henry James Rides Again

Sarah Wadsworth — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:35:09 PST

This essay explores Henry James's friendship with Alice Bartlett, a favorite companion in equestrian adventures during James's 1873 residence in Rome. Reading James's travel essay "Roman Rides" in the context of the mutual friendship of James, Bartlett, and the Emersons suggests that Bartlett profoundly influenced James, albeit in oblique, unacknowledged, and sometimes belated ways. "Roman Rides," to which Bartlett provided impetus, presents a textual response to the Roman Campagna that reflects James's early engagement with Emersonian Transcendentalism. This response reverberates, in transmuted form, in the fiction of the late, modern James, as revealed in the tale "The Great Good Place."