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Studies in the Humanities articles from December 2007
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Studies in the Humanities archives from December 2007
Editor's introduction to special issue: regency studies.(Essay)
December 1, 2007... The facts of the situation are fairly straightforward: George III, "old, mad, blind, despised, and dying," was declared unfit to rule in 1811 and his son, the Prince of Wales, and future George IV, was installed as Regent--a position he filled...
Silver forks, stereotypes, and regency romance.(Essay)
December 1, 2007... In his cultural study England and the English (1833), Edward Bulwer argues for the political significance of a literary genre little known today: the novel of fashionable life, also called the silver fork novel. (1) By describing and satirizing...
"A kind of necessary inhumanity": cultivating negative capability through the clinical gaze.(Essay)
December 1, 2007... [Tragedy] makes us all thoughtful spectators in the lists of life.
--William Hazlitt, review of Othello
The contemporary notion of "medical detachment" demands of physicians a complex ability to be both "actors" and "spectators", as...
The good, the bad, and the aesthetic: ballerinas and celebrity during the regency.
December 1, 2007... During its heyday from the 1820s well into the 1840s, the Romantic ballet featured some of the most famous ballerinas the dance world has ever produced. Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, and Fanny Elssler were among the first...
Reading beyond loss (1).(Essay)
December 1, 2007... This paper proceeds from the notion that literature and film can provide important insights into the production and dissemination of public discourses, as well as interrogating the value of the Western literary canon. My aim in this paper is to...
Filming 'princes' and princesses: race, class, and the regency in the 1990s.
December 1, 2007... In the process of introducing her 1997 anthology, Black British Feminism: A Reader, Heidi Safia Mirza offered what may appear to be an irrefutable proposition: "Gender is not experienced in the same way when you are positioned as working class...