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Alternative and Complementary TherapiesNumber of Followers: 14
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- Bookish Brains and Visionary Learning in the Apocalypsis goliae episcopi
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Abstract: In the proem to book 2 of the House of Fame, Geoffrey Chaucer identifies two interrelated problems endemic to all recorded visionary experience. He addresses first how any human mind might receive a revelatory vision and second how the experience of any such vision might later be described in text:O Thought, that wrot al that I mette,And in the tresorye hyt shetteOf my brayn, now shal men seYf any vertu in the beTo tellen al my drem aright1Caught up between the Temple of Venus and the House of Fame, Chaucer invokes cognition as though it were a Muse ("O Thought"). Fretting that he might not record his dream properly either in its initial experience ("al that I mette") or in its subsequent narration ("To ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-03-09T00:00:00-05:00
- George Herbert's Outlandish Wisdom
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Abstract: George Herbert produced a book of proverbs. Hardly anyone has bothered to read it. And it's hard to know exactly how this strange volume wants to be read.The book in question, Outlandish Proverbs, Selected by Mr. G. H., was printed by Thomas Paine for the London publisher Humphrey Blunden in 1640. In it are a thousand and thirty-two proverbs, numbered but otherwise unadorned and in no apparent order. Unlike most early modern proverb collections, Mr. G. H.'s book includes no dedications or apologies, no explications or commentary, no indices, tables, or organizing devices, and no indication of who might use these sayings or how. The only clue to the provenance or significance of this volume's contents appears in its ... Read More
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- Paradise Lost Under Heaven: Milton's Surveillance Society
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Abstract: There is not a more effectual means to persuade us to obedience, than that the eye of God is continually upon us.Paradise Lost book 9: Eve has just consumed the forbidden fruit and worries that God has seen her violate his command. She panics briefly, then decides that she is safe: I perhaps am secret; Heav'n is high,High and remote to see from thence distinctEach thing on Earth; and other care perhapsMay have diverted from continual watchOur great Forbidder, safe with all his spiesAbout him.2Eve's rationale involves a curious combination of ocular science ("High and remote to see from thence") and wishful thinking ("other care perhaps / May have diverted from continual watch"). Because heaven ... Read More
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- Silkworms and Panaceas: Margaret Cavendish, Infinite Nature, and the
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Abstract: In the writings that round out her unprecedented contribution to natural philosophy, Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle (1623–73) puts forward a devastating critique of manmade chemical panaceas with, at its core, a dogged valorization of nature over art. In her Philosophical Letters, she lambasts the philosophers' stone "which Chymists brag of so much; it consists rather in hope and expectation, than in assurance, for could the Chymists find it out, they would not be so poor, as most commonly they are."1 As for the iatrochemistry popularized by Jan Baptist van Helmont, she admits "[t]here may be some excellent Medicines found out and made by that art," but suspects the Helmontian quest for a universal ... Read More
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- Charlotte Brontë's Paper Dolls
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Abstract: The child narrator in Will Allen Dromgoole's poem "The Doll's Funeral" describes a widespread cultural practice when she recounts her own personal tragedy. She tells us that "[w]hen my dolly died, when my dolly died / I sat on the step and I cried, and I cried," but after an elaborate funeral, complete with neighboring dolls "all dressed in black" and many more tears, she confesses that she later "went out and dug up my doll again."1 Despite her insistence that her doll's death "truly hurt," the narrator reveals that neither death nor mourning was irreversible.2 Dromgoole's resourceful child is hardly alone in her game of funeral doll play: nineteenth-century literature and autobiographical accounts repeatedly ... Read More
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- George Eliot, Typology, and the Moral Psychology of Historicism
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Abstract: For the last two decades, George Eliot's ethical thinking has been an important focal point for critics, especially insofar as it has been understood to reflect her commitment to registering immanent historical conditions. Her complex theorization and representation of sympathy has been understood to anticipate, and so exemplify, the kind of suspicion of transcendent value claims that has been so central to historicist literary criticism in our own time: Eliot's ethical thinking is socially and culturally embedded, embodied, and modeled on hermeneutical practices, as we have learned from Amanda Anderson's work on disinterestedness and cosmopolitanism in Daniel Deronda, Catherine Gallagher's essay on the erotics of ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-03-09T00:00:00-05:00
- How Many Siblings Had Philip Pirrip': Counting Brothers and Sisters in
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Abstract: The popular novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge, author of over 250 works, is perhaps best known, by the Victorians and Victorianists alike, for her family chronicles, linked novels (think Anthony Trollope, Honoré de Balzac, or William Faulkner) which treat the intertwined lives of large sibling sets: the 11 May children of The Daisy Chain, the 13 Underwood children of The Pillars of the House, and the 11 Mohun siblings of Scenes and Characters, just to name a few. Ardent fans of Yonge's fiction, we idly wondered one evening, on the train home from a day-long Victorian studies conference, if any other Victorian novelist had achieved Yonge's feat of fictionalizing what Leonore Davidoff calls the "long" Victorian family ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-03-09T00:00:00-05:00
- "The Keener Touch": Walter Pater and the Hermeneutic Scene of Contact
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Abstract: Walter Pater's enigmatic and lyrical prose has long challenged interpretation. And with good reason: his carefully-wrought metaphors, as critics have shown, bear the weight of his effort to reconcile the philosophical legacies of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods with the scientific developments of the later nineteenth century. These negotiations have been the subject of renewed interest in recent scholarship, in which one can discern two especially novel and distinctive approaches to his thought. In the first, Kate Hext, breaking with a long tradition of understanding Pater to reject individual autonomy, shows a commitment to the autonomy and uniqueness of the self at the center of his entire project. Pater ... Read More
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- Art and the Poor
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Abstract: Can the poor appreciate art' Can the poor create art' If the poor cannot appreciate or create art, should the rich, who can do so, regard this as a deplorable condition in need of remedy' If the poor are victims of material inequality, are they also victims of aesthetic inequality' To begin to explore these questions, the rich must look at the poor themselves.Consider a photograph of a fireplace (Figure 1), taken from Walker Evans's and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The fireplace belongs to the Ricketts, one of the three cotton tenant families in Alabama that the writer-photographer team, on assignment for Fortune, visited in the summer of 1936. Agee reports that the Ricketts are "actively fond of ... Read More
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- Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and the British Poetry Revival
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Abstract: "I remember the name of every boy I ever slept with in the sixties, even if it was for one night. These encounters took place in bedsits in an atmosphere of frustration. Long bus rides, and when you were there, shellshocked inability to love. Tortuous, stilted conversation until you got to the point. It was the Americans, at the end of the decade, who said 'Hi, let's fuck!'"How queer was The New American Poetry' Perhaps the only sensible answer to such a question is not queer enough. Yet Donald Allen's legendary 1960 anthology includes work by at least a dozen gay men, and several of the more prominent—including Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and John Wieners—were, at different times, actively involved ... Read More
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