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Good Turns and the Art of Merchandizing: Conceptualizing Exchange in Early Modern England
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsGood Turns and the Art of Merchandizing: Conceptualizing Exchange in Early Modern England Sebek, Barbara Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract For social transactors in early modern England, exchange... -
“Talking about Pennies” and the Dialectical Challange: A Response to Alan Sinfield’s “Selective Quotation”
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments“Talking about Pennies” and the Dialectical Challange: A Response to Alan Sinfield’s “Selective Quotation” Siar, David Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract Alan Sinfield argues that “a pattern emerges”... -
Selective Quotation
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsSelective Quotation Sinfield, Alan Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract I am grateful to Professor Elton for the invitation to respond to articles by Graham Bradshaw and Richard Levin... -
Response to Margreta de Grazia’s “Hamlet’s Thoughts and Antics”
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Margreta de Grazia’s “Hamlet’s Thoughts and Antics” Fleming, Juliet Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract In “Hamlet’s Thoughts and Antics” Margreta de Grazia offers a series of... -
Hamlet’s Thoughts and Antics
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsHamlet’s Thoughts and Antics de Grazia, Margreta Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract ‘In this tragedy I want a character who above all else THINKS. But can thinking possibly... -
Gee, Your Heir Smells Terrific: Response to “Shakespeare’s Perfume”
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsGee, Your Heir Smells Terrific:Response to “Shakespeare’s Perfume” Masten, Jeffrey Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract I like Richard Halpern’s enterprise in “Shakespeare’s Perfume,” and before raising some questions... -
Shakespeare’s Perfume
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsShakespeare’s Perfume Halpern, Richard Early Modern Culture, No. 2 (2001) Abstract This chapter is taken from a book manuscript entitled Shakespeare’s Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in Shakespeare, Wilde, Freud and... -
The Dancing Table and the Bloody Cloth: A Response to “The Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle”
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe Dancing Table and the Bloody Cloth: A Response to “The Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle” Sullivan, Jr., Garrett A. Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract The “career” of Prof.... -
The Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsThe Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle Wayne, Valerie Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract In 1602 at an entertainment performed before Queen Elizabeth at Harefield, the home of Sir Thomas... -
What Do You Do With a Woman Warrior?: A Response to “‘Effeminate Dayes’”
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsWhat Do You Do With a Woman Warrior?: A Response to “‘Effeminate Dayes’” Rackin, Phyllis Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Banks and Holderness make a convincing argument that... -
‘Effeminate Dayes’
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments‘Effeminate Dayes’ Banks, Carol & Holderness, Graham Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Whilst acknowledging that these accounts, or primary historical sources, are observations and possible generalisations from a... -
Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?: A Response to Peter Stallybrass’s “The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things”
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsOh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?: A Response to Peter Stallybrass’s “The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things” Bartolovich, Crystal Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract... -
The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsThe Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things Stallybrass, Peter Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract The need to distinguish clearly financial value from other kinds of value... -
Merchants and Kings, Cities and States, Wives and Whores: A Response to “Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity”
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsMerchants and Kings, Cities and States, Wives and Whores: A Response to “Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity” Leinwand, Theodore B. Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Jean Howard would... -
Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker’s The Honest Whore
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsCivic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker’s The Honest Whore Howard, Jean E. Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract In 1604 Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker published The Honest... -
Satire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsSatire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap Johns-Putra, Adeline Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010) Abstract This article examines the work of four... -
Anglo-Indian Lives in the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsAnglo-Indian Lives in the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Finn, Margot Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010) Abstract This essay explores the utility of individual and... -
Sophia Lee and the Genre Sérieux
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsSophia Lee and the Genre Sérieux Hynes, Peter Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010) Abstract This article measures the influence of Denis Diderot’s theory of the genre... -
Grub Street and Suicide: A View from the Literary Press in Late Eighteenth-Century France
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsGrub Street and Suicide: A View from the Literary Press in Late Eighteenth-Century France Caradonna, Jeremy L. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010) Abstract This article investigates... -
Performing Gender in Augustan Criticism and Pope’s To a Lady
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsPerforming Gender in Augustan Criticism and Pope’s To a Lady Jones, Tom Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, Volume 33 Issue 1 (March 2010) Abstract This piece explores the performance of... -
Statute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsStatute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England By Angus Winchester Confernce Paper (2008) Abstract: The role of seigniorial courts in... -
Rural and urban poaching in Victorian England
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsRural and urban poaching in Victorian England By M.J. Winstanley and H. Osborne Rural History, Vol. 17:2 (2006) Abstract: Poaching is commonly portrayed as the archetypal nineteenth-century ‘rural’ crime, particularly... -
Medea in the courtroom and on the stage in nineteenth century London
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsMedea in the courtroom and on the stage in nineteenth century London Goc, Nicola Elizabeth Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 14, No 1 (2009) Abstract In 430 BC Greek... -
Fast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsFast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany Moruzi, Kristine Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 14, No 1 (2009) Abstract The Girl of the Period... -
The Voice of Objects in The Old Curiosity Shop
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsThe Voice of Objects in The Old Curiosity Shop Hollington, Michael Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 14, No 1 (2009) Abstract Curiosities are objects on sale in an antique... -
Sympathy for the Devil: or, When was the ending of A Life’s Morning rewritten?
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsSympathy for the Devil: or, When was the ending of A Life’s Morning rewritten? Law, Graham Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 12, No 1 (2007) Abstract George Gissing (1857-1903)... -
“A Study in Starvation”: The New Girl and the Gendered Socialisation of Appetite in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments“A Study in Starvation”: The New Girl and the Gendered Socialisation of Appetite in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book Dennis, Abigail Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 12, No 1... -
Law, Literature and Symbolic Revolution: Bleak House
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsLaw, Literature and Symbolic Revolution: Bleak House Kieran, Dolin Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 12, No 1 (2007) Abstract In 1988 the House of Lords decided an appeal case... -
Victorian Beginnings
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsVictorian Beginnings Pykett, Lyn Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 12, No 1 (2007) Abstract The Victorian epoch was not the dawn of a new era; it was a hasty,... -
Purging the Self: Entering the Abject in Victorian Texts of Vaginal Exploration
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsPurging the Self: Entering the Abject in Victorian Texts of Vaginal Exploration McManus, Nicole Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 13, No 1 (2008) Abstract In the second half of... -
Taste, Appreciation and the Study of Literature: F.D. Maurice, R.G. Moulton and the Extramural Effect
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsTaste, Appreciation and the Study of Literature: F.D. Maurice, R.G. Moulton and the Extramural Effect James Buckridge, Patrick Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 13, No 1 (2008) Abstract The... -
Chance Encounters: The Detective as ‘Expert’ in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsChance Encounters:The Detective as ‘Expert’ in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan Leslie-McCarthy, Sage Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 13, No. 1 (2008) Abstract In the late Victorian period,... -
St Valentine’s Day in the nineteenth century
Posted on February 11, 2010 | No CommentsIf you’re interested in the history behind the Valentine’s card you’re sending this week, pay a visit to the February exhibition at the Bodleian Library. The Bodleian is showcasing 37... -
Newly digitised manuscripts to shed light on bloody rebellion
Posted on February 9, 2010 | No CommentsEye-witness statements of murder, pillage, rape and everyday life in 17th century Ireland go online this week as a set of aged and priceless manuscripts relating a bloody rebellion in... -
Polite consumption: shopping in eighteenth century England
Posted on February 8, 2010 | No CommentsPolite consumption: shopping in eighteenth century England By H.M. Berry Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth series, Issue 12 (2002) Abstract: Shopping was increasingly seen as a potentially pleasurable...