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Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
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ISSN (Print) 0732-7730 - ISSN (Online) 1936-1645
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  Abstract: Last year, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature had the pleasure of publishing a special volume on Women and Archives, guest edited by Laura Engel and Emily Ruth Rutter, so it has been some time since I have had an opportunity to give an update on our office staff and editorial board. Since my last preface, our Subscriptions Manager, Danielle Calhoun, has graduated, and Jacob Crystal has stepped into her position. Jamie Walt has joined our team as Publicity Manager, taking over for Ciara Graham, who is currently training as our new Book Review Editor. She will take on the role full time at the end of the semester, as we say goodbye to her predecessor, Jennarae Niece, who will be much missed.I also have many outgoing ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
Marginalia as Feminist Use of the Book: Hester Piozzi’s Spectator
Annotations
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  Abstract: From 1790 until her death in 1821, Hester Lynch Piozzi energetically wrote in her books. Signed “H. L. P.,” her inscriptions collectively form an account of cultural change across the eighteenth century in ongoing dialogue with English writers, critics, editors, and taste-makers. 1 She annotated copiously on spiritual, social, and cultural topics, sometimes replying concisely (“True” to agree with Samuel Johnson on Joseph Addison’s civilizing influence; “certainly” to confirm Alexander Pope’s excellence as a gardener; “that’s gross” to censure a urinal in The Spectator), sometimes ruminating at length, and sometimes designing her writing as a kind of “calligraphy.” 2 Recognized by literary critics and historians ... Read More
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A Home for Hannah Crafts: Ecofeminism in The Bondwoman’s Narrative
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  Abstract: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests.The final scene of The Bondwoman’s Narrative, written in the 1850s by Hannah Crafts, occurs far from the oppressive plantations where the narrator had been enslaved and the woods that had offered her a haven as she escaped. Instead, the scene takes place at Hannah’s home, “a neat little Cottage,” where she lives with her husband and aging mother (p. 244).2 At the conclusion of this story about flight from slavery, Hannah describes her neighborhood of white cottages and domestic bliss, where husbands and wives dwell amidst cultivated vines, next door to the homes of old friends: “From the window where I sit, a tiny white cottage half-shaded in summer by ... Read More
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The Romance of Independence: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Telegraph
Literature
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  Abstract: If Henry James is to be believed, nineteenth-century women telegraph operators were a lonely lot. The heroine of his 1898 novella In the Cage is bitter, cynical, and above all, trapped: “It had occurred to her early that in her position—that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or magpie—she should know a great many persons without their recognizing the acquaintance.”1 James’s unnamed protagonist finds her job, her suitor, and her life dull and unsatisfying. Her only pleasures are vicarious, such as glimpses into the scandals of rich customers. Likewise, in “The Telegraph Girl,” a short story originally published in the December 1877 issue of Good Cheer, British ... Read More
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The Critical Insurgency of Austen’s Suffrage Afterlife: “I hope I
shall not be accused of pride and prejudice”
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  Abstract: A March 2017 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed an unsettling truth to many Jane Austen scholars and fans: Austen was being used as a political tool by the alt-right. 1 The article grapples with former Breitbert journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’s use of the opening lines of Pride and Prejudice (1813) to demean contemporary feminism: “As a Victorian novelist might have put it, it is a truth universally acknowledged that an ugly woman is far more likely to be a feminist than a hot one.” 2 Whether or not Yiannopoulos consciously transposed Austen from the Regency to Victorian era, it is clear that he recalled the nineteenth-century version of Austen as a representative of traditional conservatism and ... Read More
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The Danger of the Domestic in Ireland: Bridget Cleary, Big House
Modernism, and Tana French
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  Abstract: Angela Bourke’s groundbreaking study The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (2001) uses a true-crime story of domestic violence to expose the struggle between the modern and the primeval in the development of late nineteenth-century modernity in Ireland. Bourke details the story of a husband who burned his wife to death, claiming that fairy magic led him to do it. In his 2002 review of Bourke’s work, Cóilín Parsons points out that Bourke’s cultural history of late nineteenth-century Ireland “is a story of the failure of the modern state to provide adequate services, and, perhaps consequently, to construct a narrative of legitimization for itself.” 1 In his emphasis on the struggle of the British state to ... Read More
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Digital Subaltern Counterpublics and Muslim Women’s Resistance in Kamila
Shamsie’s Home Fire and Samira Ahmed’s Internment
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  Abstract: Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017) and Samira Ahmed’s Internment (2019) feature young South Asian diasporic Muslim women protagonists who challenge xenophobic states in a post-9/11 world. As Aparajita De notes in South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of Threat (2016), the politics of racialization changed in the United States after 9/11, and “the thin veneer of multiracial solidarity collapsed . . . and revealed the fissures within and among working class, minority, and diaspora communities.” 1 This racialization was not limited to the United States, and with the declaration of a global war on terror, South Asian diasporic Muslims in the West experienced intensifying Islamophobia and found ... Read More
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Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction by Li
Guo (review)
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  Abstract: Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction by Li Guo calls attention to the historically understudied genre of tanci fiction. The conventional understanding of Chinese literary canon often excludes texts written by women and those associated with regional cultures; hence, many tanci were not preserved. Moreover, women-authored tanci, with their unique format of alternating between lyrics and prose, are lengthy volumes, requiring patient and careful reading. However, in recent decades, tanci has drawn rising attention. As a much-needed, timely study, Guo’s work explores how women writers redefined social values, gender norms, and nationhood in the imagined realm of tanci. In addition to theorizing ... Read More
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New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832–1860 by
Alexis Easley (review)
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  Abstract: Deploying digital research methods but grounded in material archives, Alexis Easley’s New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832–1860 is a timely contribution to the growing body of work on celebrity women authors of the nineteenth century. It uses a carefully contextualized case study approach: chapters on individual authors such as Felica Hemans, Eliza Cook, George Eliot, the Brontës, and Frances Brown are set against detailed explorations of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal and women’s scrapbooks. The career trajectory of each writer forms the basis of a wider exploration of literary trends to show how “rather than defining networks strictly as a system of relationships between individual actors, we ... Read More
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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot by Thomas Albrecht (review)
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  Abstract: George Eliot’s fiction is capacious enough to accommodate virtually any critical perspective and complex enough to have attracted generations of critics employing a variety of methodologies. Recent approaches have included historicist, formalist, and ethical criticisms. As its title announces, Thomas Albrecht’s The Ethical Vision of George Eliot falls into the latter camp. Study of the role of ethics in Eliot’s fiction has been stimulated by the recent publication of Clare Carlisle’s edition of Eliot’s translation of Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics (2020). Albrecht, however, is not interested in Eliot’s relationship to the philosophical tradition of ethics or in any aspect of historical context. Rather, he is concerned ... Read More
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Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women’s Poetry in Nineteenth-Century
America by Elissa Zellinger (review)
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  Abstract: Elissa Zellinger’s Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women’s Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America is an engaging account of the lyric in relation to “social experiments in selfhood” in the work of four women poets writing between 1820 and 1920 (p. 6). The volume begins and ends with discussion of the lyric, or “strains” of lyric, in relation to recent scholarship. Zellinger argues that “lyric existed in the nineteenth century as a reading practice whose social function included determining the boundaries of the self” and that it can be read as attempting to “achieve, critique, or reject the promise of the liberal subject” (p. 6). Following Yopie Prins, Virginia Jackson, and others, Zellinger understands the lyric ... Read More
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Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century
American Women’s Writing by Melissa Gniadek (review)
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  Abstract: In her introduction to Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing, Melissa Gniadek turns from stories of women’s extraordinary experiences at sea (as cross-dressing pirates, captains’ wives, or missionaries) and toward a rich archive of the oceanic found “notably, in the quotidian” (p. 7). This innovative study of the imaginative uses of the sea in women’s writing about home convincingly demonstrates how far-flung maritime tales “enabled women writers to negotiate domestic concerns ranging from violence against Indigenous peoples, imperial anxiety, personal grief, and the speculative nature of frontier settlements” (p. 5). Across its three well-researched and ... Read More
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What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect
Books by Sheila Liming (review)
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  Abstract: Even among writers, Edith Wharton was exceptionally bookish. Or, perhaps, more accurately, the legend of Edith Wharton—constructed by both Wharton herself and the biographers and critics who have lionized her—is one of extreme bookishness. The question of what a library means to a woman, to borrow the evocative title of Sheila Liming’s work, seems to me deeply related to the question of what it means to be bookish. Wharton’s bookishness is present in her own origin stories as a writer. Her two published autobiographies, A Backward Glance (1934) and “Life and I” (1920–1922), both place early narrative significance on a scene of a collection of books. Like Isabel Archer in Wharton’s close friend Henry James’s The ... Read More
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Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout, and: Edith Wharton, Willa
Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp (review)
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  Abstract: Janis Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns and Julie Olin-Ammentorp’s Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture each offers a considerable contribution to Willa Cather studies and indeed to Edith Wharton studies in the case of the latter. Both books demonstrate exemplary scholarship in their blending of close literary analysis with historical and biographical insights. Stout and Olin-Ammentorp break new ground in the critical conceptualization of Cather in particular. Interestingly, both books approach their subjects as being deeply attuned to the cultures they occupied and deeply cognizant of the sociopolitical debates that they are often perceived as overlooking in favor of narratives of either ordinary ... Read More
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Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early
Twentieth-Century England by Judith W. Page and Elise L. Smith (review)
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  Abstract: In the early twentieth century, the English countryside was a site of nostalgia and continuity as well as a place of considerable change. In Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England, Judith Page and Elise Smith have written a fascinating account of this tension and of the role played by landscapes, gardens, and the natural world across a range of media, both visual and literary.Page and Smith make what turns out to be a brilliant choice when it comes to organizing this book. It is structured biographically, around the lives of eight representative—and very different—women. The result is that we see vividly the importance that the countryside held in each of these women’s ... Read More
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Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada by Marie
Carrière (review)
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  Abstract: Hoping to relaunch the term “metafeminism” to encompass a diverse set of analytical practices, a state of being, an ethos, and a style of both reading and writing by women, Marie Carrière’s Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada explains that the prefix “meta” expands feminism (pp. 30–32). It embraces pluralism, paradoxes, internal dissonances, and ambivalence about previous forms of feminism. She attributes the origin of the term to Lori Saint-Martin’s 1992 essay, “Le métaféminisme et la nouvelle prose féminine au Québec” (Metafeminism and the new women’s prose in Québec), but there is no sustained analysis of the genealogy of the term from then to now. Carrière argues that metafeminism both recalls ... Read More
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