Bibliography

• The Victorian Studies Bibliography. Lists noteworthy books, articles, and reviews on the Victorian period. Compiled by the staff of the journal Victorian Studies and representatives from the Victorian Division of the Modern Language Association. Access: http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/v/victbib/.

General resources

• NINES-Nineteeth-century Scholarship Online. NINES stands for Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship and is an organization that publishes and provides enhanced access to digital research on the 19th century and serves as a peer-reviewing body for digital resources in this area. Access: http://www.nines.org/.

  

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• The Victorian Dictionary. Compiled by Lee Jackson, an author of historical thrillers and nonfiction about Victorian London, this site is a searchable collection of excerpts from books, pamphlets, academic works and periodicals, original writings by the author, and images (including many from Punch). The site is worth a look for online researchers, although, as the author notes in his bibliography, serious scholars should consult an original copy of the materials referenced. Access: http://www.victorianlondon.org/.

• The Victorian Web. This comprehensive, well-maintained, and easy to navigate site is dedicated to all aspects of Victorian culture. Created and maintained by George Landow, professor of English and the History of Art at Brown University, the site contains thousands of scholarly articles, primary texts, images, and related material on Victorian literature, politics, science and technology, and much more. Access: http://www.victorianweb.org/.

  

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• Victoria Research Web. A guide to research on 19th-century Britain, including short reference works produced by scholars, such as guides to periodical research, locating and using Victorian publishing records, and planning a research trip to Britain. Additionally, the site hosts “At the Circulating Library,” a database that catalogs information about three-volume novels published during the Victorian period and serialization information for more than 60 periodicals. Access: http://victorianresearch.org/.

• Victorian Web: Victorian Social History: An Overview. An example of one of the many sub-pages of the Victorian Web that organizes links by topic, genre, or individual. A great starting point for any Web research on Victorian culture. Also see overview pages on political history, religion, visual arts, technology, and more accessible from the site’s home page. Access: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html.

Art and entertainment

• British Library: Early Photographically Illustrated Books. An online exhibit documenting the advent of photographically illustrated books, including nearly 1,500 early prints on a variety of subjects. Access: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/earlyphotos/index.html.

• The Victorian Web: The Arts in Victorian Britain. Overview page linking to resources on architecture, painting, fashion, photography, and much more. See description of The Victorian Web above for more about this site. Access: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/index.html.

• Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema. This site is based on the book by the same name published by the British Film Institute. The searchable site provides a biographical guide to Victorian film, from the 1870s through 1901. Includes 300 searchable biographies of filmmakers, actors, and other notable figures in early film. Access: http://www.victorian-cinema.net/.

Victorian serials and publication

• 19th Century British Pamphlets Online. The result of two large scale cataloging and digitization projects, records for nearly 180,000 pamphlets held within 21 UK research libraries have been created and linked to digitized versions in JSTOR (free to researchers and the public in the United Kingdom; elsewhere by subscription). Additionally, a useful Pamphlets Guide allows for easy browsing by collection, institution, and subject. Access: http://www.britishpamphlets.org.uk/.

• Aspects of the Victorian Book. Online exhibition from the British Library providing an introduction to printing technology, formats (including yellowbacks, “three-deckers,” and penny dreadfuls), illustration techniques, and more. Access: http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/intro.html.

• Internet Library of Early Journals. Includes digitized runs of six 18th and 19th century journals (at least 20 years each), including Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. The project was completed in 1999, and no additional material will be added. Access: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/.

• Nineteenth-century Serials Edition. Searchable database of the digitized versions of six 19th-century serials and newspapers segmented to the article level and downloadable. Access: http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html.

• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (Sci-Per) Index. Searchable index to the science, technology, and medical content of 16 19th-century nonscientific periodicals. Invaluable resource for those researching the representation and interpretation of science in the general literature of 19th-century Britain. Access: http://www.sciper.org/index.html.

• The Internet Archive. An essential resource for any researcher looking for digitized material in audio, video, or text formats. This immense “Internet library” offers almost two million digitized texts, including many 19th-century periodicals. Access: http://www.archive.org/index.php.

  

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• Victorian Women Writers Project. Includes transcriptions of the work of British women writers of the 19th-century, including poetry and verse, pamphlets, religious tracts, novels, and more. The site has not been updated since 2003, but it continues to be a useful source of 19th-century women’s writing. Access: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/.

Notable individuals and their work

• Darwin Correspondence Project. Site based on a project founded in 1974 to collect letters by and to Charles Darwin. Contains the full text of more than 6,000 letters and information on 9,000 additional letters, as well as essays and other supplementary material describing the letters and their context. All letters are published in the print volumes of Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press). Well organized and beautifully enhanced with relevant images, this site is a must for any Darwin researcher. Access: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/home.

  

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• The Carlyle Letters Online. A electronic collection of more than 10,000 letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle based on the print volumes that make up The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, published by Duke University Press. Advanced search and browsing is available, as well as the ability to create a free account with which the user can set up folders, save searches and letters, and create e-mail alerts. Access: http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/.

  

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• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. Comprehensive site containing more than 90,000 pages of searchable text and more than 200,000 electronic images. Contains a complete collection of Darwin’s publications, including both the digitized image of the text and the formatted electronic text. Includes many signed and annotated copies of texts and many are available in languages other than English. Also includes a large collection of Darwin’s manuscripts and private papers, many not published elsewhere. Another essential online resource for those researching Darwin and his work. Access: http://darwin-online.org.uk/.

• The Rossetti Archive. Extensive collection of high-quality digitized images and scholarly commentary representing the poems, prose, pictures, books, correspondence, and other works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Advanced searching available. Access: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/index.html.

Statistical and regional information

• A Vision of Britain Through Time. This site was created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at the University of Portsmouth. It provides a geographical survey of Britain from 1801 to 2001, including census reports, historical maps, election results, and the largest collection of historical British travel writing available online. Best used for tracking statistical trends for specific counties, districts, and parishes within Britain. Access: http://vision.port.ac.uk/index.jsp.

• Charles Booth and the Survey into Life and Labour in London (1886–1903). Provides an index to the original records of Booth’s Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London, an extensive study of working class life undertaken between 1886 and 1903, which is archived at the London School of Economics and Political Science library. Also contains a great deal of digitized material, including police notebooks and the Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, in which maps of London were color-coded to indicate the poverty level and social class in different areas of the city. Access: http://booth.lse.ac.uk/.

• Historical Directories. A collection of digitized local and trade directories for England and Wales from 1750 to 1919. Useful for research in local and genealogical history. Access: http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp.

• HISTPOP: The Online Historical Population Reports Website. HISTPOP provides online access to the British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937 as well as supplementary documents from the National Archives, critical essays, and other material. Access: http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/.

Crime and punishment

• Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815–1914. Digitized images of more than 420 separately published trial narratives from the extensive collections of the Harvard Law School Library. Included are American, British, and Irish cases from 1815 to 1914 involving child custody, bigamy, and violent crime as it relates to sex and marriage. Access: http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=scarlet.

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674–1913. Beautifully organized and fully searchable collection of the digitized images and electronic text of the proceedings of more than 197,745 criminal trials held at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, from 1674 to 1913. Also includes contemporary maps, images, and other supplementary material. Essential resource for anyone researching crime and punishment in Britain during this time period. Access: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/.

• The Workhouse. Detailed and comprehensive site on all aspects of the workhouses in Britain, including more than 5,000 illustrations and photos and 1,800 maps and building plans. Access: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/.

Amanda Dinscore is public services librarian at California State University-Fresno, e-mail: adinscore@csufresno.edu

Looking to order a film for your class?

The library maintains an easy-to-navigate database of our collection of DVDs which can be browsed online at https://setonhall.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=283&queryString=x0%3Avideo.

A typical record looks like this–you will need to know the VC# in order to borrow the DVD at the circulation desk. Faculty borrowing privileges are for 10 days, with no limit on renewals.

 

We also provide access to open source databases such as the AP Archive

 

and fee-based film databases  (all the images are hyperlinked) like

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To search the complete list of subscriber films databases go here http://library.shu.edu/az.php?t=12671

Questions? Contact your subject librarian, Marta Deyrup  Marta.Deyrup@shu.edu

Storybench
Digital storytelling in its many forms – including podcasts, online magazines, and interactive websites – provides Americans with increasingly popular ways to seek out news, commentary, and insights. Storybench, a project from the Media Innovation Program at Northeastern University, is dedicated to sharing and developing “the art and science of digital storytelling.” Designed for journalism professionals and students, web designers, and novice coders, Storybench explores the technological, journalistic, and aesthetic techniques of digital journalism through articles, interviews, and online tutorials. Recent Storybench features include a guide to using the data analysis and visualization tool RStudio; an interview with Matthew Jockers, who used RStudio in order to create the Syuzhet package, a unique  program that produces “story shapes” to outline the plot of a novel; and an analysis of how to create long form writing that can be easily read on mobile devices. Tutorials available on this site include a variety of map-making techniques. Educators, meanwhile, will want to check out the For Educators tab, which features a variety of workshops and activities designed for the classroom. Interested readers can subscribe to receive email updates. [MMB]

 The Collective Biographies of Women
A number of collective biographies, which each chronicled the lives of three or more women, were published in the United States and Britain between 1830 and 1940. Aimed at young women, these biographies featured famous women including Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, and Queen Elizabeth along with a number of lesser-known figures. In 2004, University of Virginia English scholar Alison Booth published How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographies from Victoria to the Present, analyzing how these “prosopographies” communicated correct moral conduct and, at times, challenged traditional views of femininity in ways that complicate our contemporary understanding of Victorian gender roles. Since 2003, Booth has also collaborated with UVA Libraries and the UVA Department of English to digitize these collective biographies. Visitors can search or browse for a specific biography, check out Featured Subjects, where the biographies of women are grouped with contemporary sources,  or explore links to archives and interpretive essays. One highlight of the website is the interactive Pop Chart, which allows users to explore popular biography subjects across time. This chart reveals, for example, that while early biographies focus on religious figures, queens, and revolutionary women, later biographies favor explorations of women in art, literature, and science. [MMB]

Z-Axis Mapping Tool
From the Canadian-based Modernist Versions Project, an initiative that promotes the analysis of literature through the development of new digital tools, comes Z-Axis, a mapping tool that enhances the critical study of setting in London-based novels. This innovative tool allows visitors to map out named locations, creating a three dimensional image that highlights frequently discussed sites. Visitors can explore maps created by the team, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, E.M. Forster’s Howard’s Endl and Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent. Alternatively, visitors can upload their own .txt files to generate new maps. In addition to the tool itself, readers will find two critical essays that utilize Z-Axis to analyze other works of modernist literature. Meanwhile, educators will want to check out the two lesson plans featured on the site. One facilitates exploration of Mrs. Dalloway;  the other allows students to explore H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, and Virginia Woolf’s Street Hunting: a London Adventure. [MMB]

Ensia
Published by the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and authored by science journalists, researchers, and educators across the country, Ensia is an independent, nonprofit magazine that reports on a wide variety of environmental issues and debates.  Founded in 2008 as a print magazine (and formerly titled Momentum), Ensia, which stands for Environmental Solutions In Action, expanded in 2013 to include an extensive online component. Here, visitors can peruse a variety of articles, editorials, infographics, multimedia, and interviews. Readers can search for content by Category (e.g. Health, Business, Ecosystems, Technology) or by Section (including Articles, Videos, and Voices – or editorial). Recent articles include a report about ongoing research to identify why some types of soil seem to protect plants from parasites – and the potential environmental benefits about such research; an editorial by the Director of the California Academy of Sciences that argues that the “urban agricultural” movement has environmental drawbacks; and a feature story about Madagascar’s ongoing efforts to rid the country of poisonous toads. [MMB]

The Fine Books Blog
Fine Books & Collections is a quarterly magazine dedicated to rare books and other publications, including maps and ephemera. On the magazine’s blog, which is updated almost daily, visitors can learn about new developments in the world of historical books and check out interviews and book reviews. Recent posts include news about the sale of a rare proof of Sylvia Plath’s first poetry collection (accompanied by publisher comments); an interview with David McConochie, who illustrated The Folio Book of Ghost Stories; and information about the long awaited publication of Beatrix Potter’s overlooked manuscript Kitty-in Boots. Visitors can browse archived posts by subject, including Bright Young Librarians (a series of interviews with up-and-coming library professionals), Current Events and Trends, and In the News. [MMB]

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Colleagues,
Please consult this link to review the list of books offered to English faculty

http://library.shu.edu/duplicate-literature-titles

You have until September 2nd to claim them. After that they will be discarded. There are over 2,000 books in all (including English) so if you would like to see lists of other subject areas, please let me know.

Marta

Colleagues,

I am trying something new this semester for your department. Students can drop by my office for research help every Wednesday from 2-3 PM or by appointment.  My office is Room 213, University Libraries (second floor).  I will also be available for online chat from 6:15-7:15 AM Monday and  5 PM to 6 PM, TUESDAY EVENING. The chat button needs to be accessed from my Libguide course pages.  I am hoping in this way to be able to reach out to both your on-campus and online students.  Please contact me if you have any questions or would like your students to try this service.

Marta

Dear Colleagues,

The application for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends  is due in a little over 2 weeks.

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, you must provide a draft of your 3-page narrative and 2-page CV, as discussed in the program guidelines (website below) to OGRS at grantsoffice@shu.edu be close of business on September 2, 2016.

Program website:  http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends

Below are recent recipients and their project descriptions from the disciplines of American, British and Comparative literature

Allison Hobgood

Willamette University (Salem, OR 97301-3922)   FT-248806-16

Disability in English Renaissance Literature

Completion of a book-length study of disability in English Renaissance literature.

Project fields: British Literature; Literary Criticism; Renaissance Studies

Grant period: 6/1/2017 – 8/31/2017

Hilary Christine Havens

University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Knoxville, TN 37996-0001)    FT-248660-16

From Manuscript to Print: Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

A book-length study of how 18th-century British novelists revised their works, using new digital software that recovers deleted text from manuscripts.

Project fields: British Literature

Grant period: 6/1/2016 – 7/31/2016

Kim Felicia Hall

Barnard College (New York, NY 10027-6909)        FT-248888-16

“Othello Was My Grandfather”: Shakespeare and Race in the African Diaspora

Research for a book on the relationship between William Shakespeare’s play Othello and African American culture, 19th century to the present.

This book project uses versions of Shakespeare’s Othello to connect Shakespeare and freedom dreams in the African Diaspora. It examines stage, print, transnational and digital “performances” of Othello from the 19th century until today to discuss several linked phenomena: the role of Shakespeare in constructions of blackness and race; discussions of race and genealogy in Afrodiasporic thought; the appropriation of Shakespeare by black communities; the policing of canonical literature along racial lines; and the race/gender politics of the American stage and popular media. Othello the play and its performance history become a space through which black writers explore issues of racial belonging, interracial relationships, gender, migration and power.

Project fields: African American Studies; British Literature; Theater History and Criticism

Grant period: 8/1/2016 – 9/30/2016

Christopher J. Lukasik

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN 47907-2040)         FT-249063-16

The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

A book-length study of the relationship between illustration and text in American literature.

Project fields: American Literature; American Studies; Art History and Criticism

Grant period: 6/1/2016 – 8/31/2016

Jacob Michael Jewusiak

Valdosta State University (Valdosta, GA 31698-0100)       FT-249066-16

Aging and the Elderly in 19th- and 20th-Century British Novels

Completion of a book-length study on aging and the elderly in 19th and 20th-century British novels.

Project fields: British Literature; Interdisciplinary Studies, Other; Literary Criticism

Grant period: 6/1/2016 – 7/31/2016

Matthew Rebhorn

James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA 22807-0001)            FT-249028-16

Mind-Body Relationship in Animate Body in Antebellum American Literature

A book-length study of the relationship between mind and body in antebellum American literature.

This project explores the interface between debates about the mind-body relationship in the antebellum period and the production of American letters. Building on early medical archives, this project explores the way artists imagined the animate body–that is, a body that seems to have a mind of its own–using it to achieve two interrelated ends. First, by wrestling with this conceptualization of the body, they changed how people read a novel, why people acted the way they did, and what constituted the rhythm of poetic expression. Second, by understanding the body in this way, these artists articulated a new kind of subjectivity for figures often linked to their bodies, such as chattel slaves, working-class laborers, and women. As I argue, some of the most aesthetically innovative as well as some of the most politically resistant modes of expression in the antebellum period were catalyzed by the way these various artists “minded the body.”

Project fields: American Literature; American Studies

Ben Preston Robertson

Troy State University Main Campus (Troy, AL 36082-0001)             FT-249036-16

The Plays of English Author and Critic Elizabeth Inchbald (1735-1821)

Preparation of the first complete scholarly edition of plays by English writer, Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821).

Project fields: British History; British Literature; Theater History and Criticism

Grant period: 6/1/2016 – 7/31/2016

Katy L. Chiles

University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Knoxville, TN 37996-0001)    FT-249099-16

The Idea of Authorship in Early African American and Native American Literatures

A book-length study of collaborative authorship in early African American and Native American literature.

Raced Collaboration tells the rich story of how-often against significant odds-early African Americans and Native Americans produced English language texts. Despite the fact that the majority of these works were produced through collaboration, Raced Collaboration is the first comprehensive study of the crucial role that collaboration played in early African American and Native American literatures. While much scholarship on antebellum American literature still has a propensity to focus on writers who we tend to think created their writings alone, this book investigates the remarkable–but heretofore unremarked upon–ways that these writers practiced many kinds of collaboration, in order to open up new understandings of the primary works and of the broader issue of authorship; to deepen our appreciation of what early African Americans and Native Americans have done with forms of communication; and to broaden our understanding of the literatures produced in antebellum America.

Project fields: African American Studies; American Literature; Native American Studies

Grant period: 6/1/2016 – 7/31/2016

James Lawrence Machor

Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506-0100)       FT-249250-16

Mark Twain: Historical Reception and Iconic Authorship

A book-length study of the reception history of Mark Twain and his works.

I am requesting a Summer Stipend to write chapter 4 of my book on Mark Twain’s reception from the 1860s through the 20th century. Although scholars have extensively explored Twain’s life and writings, attention to the reception of his works has been limited, focusing largely on “Huck Finn.” Indeed, though book-length reception studies have been done on the careers and “afterlives” of other major nineteenth-century authors such as Dickens and Whitman, no such study exists for Twain. In providing a full narrative history of the changing responses to his oeuvre, my book will be the first to draw on over 7,000 letters to Twain in the Mark Twain Papers. Given his canonical status and his nearly uninterrupted popularity since the 1870s, my book will thus fill a significant gap in reception study and in nineteenth-century literary studies while offering an original contribution that provides new insights into Twain’s position in literary history and his place in America’s cultural landscape.

Project fields: American Literature

Grant period: 6/1/2016 – 7/31/2016

Michael Gerard Devine, PhD

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2637)               FT-249295-16

Poetry, Film, and the Battle for a National Art, 1895-1930

Research and writing leading to a book-length study of the connections between poetry and cinema in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

My book project offers a timely prehistory of writing in an age of new media. It tells the story of poetry’s crisis in the early twentieth century—a machine age not unlike our own—when many considered the humanities doomed to disappear. Poetry, instead, became startlingly visible through films like Vitagraph’s The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1911), which deeply influenced boosters of a modern and American art. Interdisciplinary in scope, my project shows the revitalizing interplay between poetry and film: both poetry’s transformation on the screen and page and the efforts of Walt Whitman’s disciples—poets, but also painters, photographers, and filmmakers—to shape film into a mode of national expression. An archival account of how the humanities reemerged in the cinematic public square a century ago, my project explores what the NEH calls The Common Good—a primer for understanding our current moment when new media technologies promise again to transform the arts.

Project fields: American Literature; American Studies; Film History and Criticism

Kelly Wisecup

University of North Texas (Denton, TX 76203-5017)          FT-228749-15

Objects of Encounter: Native Americans’ Lists, 1600-1848

Summer research and writing in American Literature and Native American Studies.

Objects of Encounter investigates how Native Americans appropriated the form of the list between 1600 and 1840. Natives compiled lists of words, numbers, plants, and trade goods, in order to circulate tribal histories, to repair social and spiritual relationships disrupted by colonialism, and to maintain sovereignty over their languages and epistemologies. While scholars have overlooked lists to focus on narratives, this book shows that lists were a key part of early American cross-cultural exchanges. Natives shaped colonists’ lists by controlling their access to objects; they composed their own lists in order to recirculate their peoples’ histories. The book offers a new literary history of pre-1900 Native writing, and my proposed research will intervene in the history of science and museum studies by showing that Natives not only worked as assistants for men of science but also appropriated collecting and its textual practices for their own ends.

Project fields: American Literature; Native American Studies

Grant period: 5/1/2015 – 6/30/2015

Gerry Canavan

Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI 53233-2225)         FT-228766-15

Science Fiction and the Philosophical Concept of Totality

Summer research and writing on American Literature, and History and Philosophy of Science.

My research focuses on one of the most globally influential genres of the contemporary United States: science fiction. Science fiction offers an increasingly mainstream vocabulary for negotiating the relationship between individuals and their social fabric, as well as for understanding the place of the human species within the larger cosmos. I consequently argue that science fiction is a tremendously useful archive for interdisciplinary work in the humanities in the 21st century academy, both within the space of the classroom and in scholars’ attempts to communicate our knowledge practices with the public more broadly. The 20th and 21st centuries have been a time in which, as J.G. Ballard said, “everything is becoming science fiction”; as a result, far from occupying some literary periphery, science fiction plays a pivotal role in contemporary debates over history, identity, empire, justice, and, in our moment of escalating ecological crisis, the prospects for “the future” as such.

Project fields: American Literature; History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Grant period: 5/1/2015 – 6/30/2015

Sonja Drimmer

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA 01003)      FT-229294-15

Timeless Texts, Timely Illustrations: Origins and Illumination of the Middle English Literary Canon

Summer research and writing on Art History and Criticism, British Literature and Medieval Studies.

The formation of a native literary canon is one of the milestones in the establishment of a national identity. England’s moment came in the fifteenth century, against the background of two defining conflicts with lasting impact: the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) and the Wars of the Roses (1450-1485). At this time, royals and gentry alike commissioned manuscript copies of works by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve, who translated into English and radically revised stories central to Western culture. A seldom recognized fact is that many of these manuscripts contain images, and that these images express patrons’ ambitions to co-opt such narratives for their own individual and national designs. As a result, the role of the manuscript illuminator in this history has never been acknowledged. My book will offer the first in-depth study devoted to the emergence of England’s first literary canon as a visual as well as a linguistic event.

Project fields: Art History and Criticism; British Literature; Medieval Studies

Grant period: 6/1/2015 – 7/31/2015

Danielle Glassmeyer

Bradley University (Peoria, IL 61625-0001)            FT-229839-15

Introduction and Conclusion for monograph “The Stowe Effect: The Orientalization of Sentiment in America’s Cultural Cold War”

Summer research and writing on American Literature and Studies and U.S. History.

I will complete the introduction and conclusion for “The Stowe Effect: the Orientalization of Sentiment in America’s Cultural Cold War.” This book investigates how 1950s popular culture convinced an isolationist audience that intervention in Southeast Asia was desirable. I focus on three texts that use sentiment to make their cases: The King and I (1956); Tom Dooley’s memoirs about Medico, (1956-61); The Ugly American (1958). I examine the 1950s texts as recurrences of the “Stowe effect,” a persistent discursive thread of powerful tropes and methods that originate in Stowe’s call for abolition. I trace this effect as it develops in relation to manual education at the influential Hampton Institute, and as it further develops in Pearl Buck’s calls for Asia-focused social interventions. This genealogy reveals how sentiment in 1950s texts gains impact through a connection to Stowe that suggests it is part of a tradition fundamental to American identity.

Project fields: American Literature; American Studies; U.S. History

Grant period: 6/1/2015 – 7/31/2015

Valeria Sobol

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL 61820-5711)              FT-61594-14

The Haunted Empire: The Russian Literary Gothic and the “Imperial Uncanny,” 1793-1844

John T. Lynch

Rutgers University, Newark (Newark, NJ 07104-3010)     FT-61862-14

The Shakespeare Phantom: The Lives of 18th-century Forger William Henry Ireland

Project fields: British Literature

Grant period: 6/1/2014 – 7/31/2014

Katarzyna Lecky

Arkansas State University, Main Campus (Jonesboro, AR 72403-0600)     FT-61909-14

Poet Laureate Poetics and the Aesthetics of Pocket Maps in Renaissance Britain

Project fields: British Literature; Renaissance History; Renaissance Studies

Donna Christine Woodford-Gormley

New Mexico Highlands University (Las Vegas, NM 87701)             FT-62093-14

Caliban’s Books: Adaptations of Shakespeare in Cuba

Project fields: British Literature; Latin American Literature

Grant period: 5/1/2014 – 6/30/2014

Jason Eliot Powell

St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA 19131-1308)      FT-62096-14

Volume 2 of the Complete Works of Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1504-42)

Project fields: British Literature

Grant period: 6/1/2014 – 7/31/2014

Lianne Adele Habinek

Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-9800)    FT-62149-14

Early Modern Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience

Project fields: British Literature; History of Science; Renaissance Studies

Program: Summer Stipends

Sarah Wagner-McCoy

Reed College (Portland, OR 97202-8199)                FT-62169-14

The Complete Short Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt, African American Fiction Writer

Project fields: African American Studies; American Literature; American Studies

 

 

 

Colleagues,
Please consult this link to review the list of books offered to English faculty

http://library.shu.edu/duplicate-literature-titles

You have until August 19th to claim them. After that they will be discarded. There are over 2,000 books in all (including English) so if you would like to see lists of other subject areas, please let me know.

Marta