Human Abstracts

Shining a Light: Early Protest Art

Josiah Wedgwood, creator of the still-coveted matte-style pottery of the same name, was also a staunch abolitionist. He designed the “Wedgwood Slave Medallion” which served as the symbol for the British Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787 — “the first modern piece of…

“The Wheel Is Come Full Circle; I am Here”: An Inter-text Approach to King Lear, act 5

This lesson plan builds upon recent scholarship in history of the book such as Cynthia Clegg’s essay, “King Lear and Early Seventeenth-century Print Culture,” to foreground the necessary information for students to understand Shakespeare’s…

The Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary Novel

Habermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century England

Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Original Non-conforming Conformists

In the spirit of academic self-care, this week my reading response will consist in a reflection on the qualifying examination preparation process we have been engaging in early in…

“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away

Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and…

Found in Translation: Braving the Storm in King Lear Act 2 and Kurosawa’s Ran

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