English Literature (1700 to present)
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Making a "Nusance": Confronting Interpretation in Swift and Mandeville. Claude Willan, Stanford University
Comparing Swift and Mandeville as literary writers offers a representative sample of opposing responses to emergent interpretative practices in 1710/1711. This paper argues for Mandeville’s literariness and suggests how each writer is representative of his respective religious and political cadre.
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An Alternative (to) Utopia: The "Country Adjacent" to Millenium Hall. Annette Hulbert, San Francisco State University
This paper challenges the assertion that Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall depicts a utopian community for dispossessed women, instead arguing that Michel Foucault’s definition of heterotopia is a more accurate term for considering how Millenium Hall is linked to patriarchal structures.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Minors? Frances Burney's The Wanderer. Debra Channick, Independent Scholar
Frances Burney’s The Wanderer stages differing responses to the character Juliet in order to critique contemporary relations between adults and minors. If unfeeling, irrational adults are associated with tyranny, then benevolent children are linked to emergent democratic relations.
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The Oceanic Imaginary within Jane Austen's Novels. Maggie May, University of California, Santa Cruz
It is intriguing that the ocean is present, implicitly or explicitly, in all of Jane Austen's novels. Depending on gender and social station, the symbolism of the seashore in Jane Austen appears to differ according to separate novelistic contexts to be either a help or a hindrance.
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