"I listened with my eyes": writing speech and reading deafness in the fiction of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins [0.03%]
“我以眼睛聆听”——论查尔斯·狄更斯与威尔基·柯林斯小说中的聋人形象
Jennifer Esmail
Jennifer Esmail
While characters with disabilities appear frequently in Victorian fiction, deaf characters, specifically, are almost entirely absent. In fact, the only deaf characters who use sign language in Victorian fiction are Madonna Blyth in Wilkie C...
"A great break in the common course of confession": narrating loss in Charlotte Brontë's Villette [0.03%]
“一场告白的顿悟——夏洛特·勃朗特《维莱特》中讲述丧失的故事」
Gretchen Braun
Gretchen Braun
This essay suggests that a complex understanding of trauma can significantly explain both the narrative structure and the subject matter of Charlotte Brontë's Villette. The narrative structures attendant on traumatic experience provide a m...
What happens when pornography ends in marriage: the uniformity of pleasure in Fanny Hill [0.03%]
当色情终结在婚姻中会产生什么结果——《芬尼·希尔》中的快乐一致性
Andrea Haslanger
Andrea Haslanger
This essay argues that John Cleland's pornographic novel, Fanny Hill, conceals coercion by employing the language of materialism to suggest that all sex, commercial or not, produces pleasure. While the ostensible benevolence of human instin...
Melinda Rabb
Melinda Rabb
"Parting Shots" views eighteenth-century literature from across the body-strewn battlefields of the English Civil Wars, and analyzes the transformation of shattered men into cultural embodiments of meaning. The essay analyzes the processes ...
Joshua Gang
Joshua Gang
Many of close reading's most enduring assumptions and techniques have their origins in psychological behaviorism. Beginning with I. A. Richards's critical work from the 1920s, this article demonstrates the central place of behaviorist ideas...
"Young ladies are delicate plants": Jane Austen and Greenhouse Romanticism [0.03%]
“淑女是柔弱的植物”——简·奥斯汀与温室浪漫主义
Deidre Shauna Lynch
Deidre Shauna Lynch
By annotating how in Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey Jane Austen tracks between the novelist's domain and the naturalist's, this essay seeks to unsettle some entrenched assumptions about her relationship to realism—and the ideological ...
Envy rising [0.03%]
嫉妒日增
Frances Ferguson
Frances Ferguson
Simon Joyce
Simon Joyce