Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from September 22 2007

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from September 22 2007

Stones like women's paps: revising gender in Jane Sharp's Midwives Book.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Abstract I argue that Jane Sharp's images of male and female bodies in her Midwives Book (1671) mark an intervention into the rhetorical constructions of gender and patriarchy in the early modern period. While there was more than one...

Katherine O'Donnell and Michael O'Rourke, eds.: Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800..(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... KATHERINE O'DONNELL AND MICHAEL O'ROURKE, eds. Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2003. 206 pp. This important collection, edited by Katherine O'Donnell and Michael...

Helen Deutsch. Loving Dr. Johnson.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... HELEN DEUTSCH. Loving Dr. Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 304 pp. Helen Deutsch's Loving Dr. Johnson is a well-researched, perceptive, and innovative contribution to Johnson Studies. Dr. Johnson would hate it. ...

Julia V. Douthwaite and Mary Vidal, eds.: The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History, and Literature.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Julia V. Douthwaite and Mary Vidal, eds. The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History, and Literature. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005. 312 pp. Interdisciplinarity is a keyword for...

Constructing an icon: the self-referentiality and framing of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.(Reprint)
September 22, 2007... Abstract This article examines the ways in which Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's rhetorical self-representations, especially in her portrait poems, coincide with and challenge two visual representations of her that accompanied volumes of her...

In the name of the "incestuous mother": Islam and excremental Protestantism in De Quincey's infidel book.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Resisting most postcolonial readings of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, this essay argues that Thomas De Quincey's experience of Asiatic idolatry as excrement--the moment of radical abjection during the Malay encounter--is...

Nobody's argument: Jane Porter and the historical novel.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Despite recent scholarly interest in the historical novel and national tale, Jane Porter has not received the critical attention paid to other Romantic-era novelists like Sir Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth, and Lady Morgan. This...