{"title":"Helen Maria Williams on Militancy: Women's Anger and Political Change in Letters From France (1790, 1796)","authors":"Kelly Fleming","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Across the eight volumes of her <i>Letters from France</i>, Helen Maria Williams closely attends to women's participation in the French Revolution. This essay explores Williams's views on militancy by examining her representations of women's participation in the first and final insurrections of the Revolution: the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and the coup of Prairial III (May 20–23, 1795). Despite similar backgrounds and the same method of political participation, Williams depicts these angry women differently: she praises the women who storm the Bastille and condemns the women who march on the National Convention for bread, the constitution of 1793, and the Mountain faction. While Williams's views on gender and class influence the way she portrays women's militancy, I argue that the specific policies that the women militants fight for determine how she represents them. Williams only presents women's anger as a positive force for political change when it is motivated by democratic policies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"22 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stephen Dedalus and the Mourning Echoes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet","authors":"Christopher Chan, Vivien Chan","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article practises genetic criticism on James Joyce and extrapolates new instances of literary influence between William Shakespeare's <i>Hamlet</i> and Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>. Building on recent scholarship that sheds light on the compositional processes of <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i> and <i>Ulysses</i>, we unveil two Shakespearean echoes (one of them an allusion) hitherto undiscovered and unanthologised by Joyceans in “Telemachus”, and suggest that Shakespeare's impact on Joyce through <i>Hamlet</i>, though well-studied and much acknowledged, is more extensive than has been revealed. To that end, we examine afresh Joyce's familiarity with <i>Hamlet</i> and his creative practice of cross-referencing, and juxtapose the scene where Stephen Dedalus anchors himself next to the cape of Bay Head mourning the death of his mother with pertinent lines in <i>Hamlet</i> I.ii to reveal how both texts illuminate the physical attributes and woeful memories of Hamlet and Stephen. As a concluding remark, we highlight how <i>Hamlet</i> interweaves various episodes of <i>Ulysses</i>, in particular “Telemachus” and “Circe”, the latter of which may contain a part originally in Joyce's “the Hamlet chapter”.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"22 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Reading for Rage’ and Mary Chudleigh's Anger","authors":"Fauve Vandenberghe","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Drawing from the fields of affect theory and post-critique, this article defines and reflects on the ubiquity of ‘scholarly anger’ in feminist literary criticism. Feminist critique has sometimes approached historical women writers in affective, sympathetic and often identificatory ways. They have been, what I will call in this article, ‘reading for rage’, an affective reading method fuelled by anger and indignation which considers the emotion a key strategy of patriarchal resistance. A focus on locating a sense of identificatory universal anger in women's history, I argue, has sometimes eradicated the intersections of gender with other types of social identities and structural oppressions. This article will read Mary Chudleigh's The Ladies' Defence (1701) as a test case for understanding feminist ‘scholarly anger’. Chudleigh has often been studied as a brash proto-feminist troublemaker who fiercely condemns misogyny. However, such interpretations which singularly read the power dynamics of anger in Chudleigh's text through gender have tended to gloss over the racial dimensions of the imagery she instrumentalises to advance her cause.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"22 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You Can't Spell Tragedy Without Rage","authors":"Elaine McGirr","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A powerful performance focuses and unifies the diverse perspectives of pit, box, and gallery into a singular audience and teaches it (how) to feel. Spectatorship is both an embodied and an out-of-body experience that encourages identification with an Other. Looking at the experience of eighteenth-century tragedy and the impact of Mary Ann Yates (1728–1787), the celebrity actress who personified the genre for a generation, show us the centrality of rage, not pathos, to tragedy.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"22 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experience Retrieval Exercise (ERE): A Pedagogical Approach to Shakespeare, Race, and Empire","authors":"Willnide Lindor","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article employs Timothy Ponce's student-centered pedagogical approach which privileges the dialogical relationship between reader and texts to inquire if our 21st century students can see Shakespeare's works as engaging cites for questions about race and the residual impact of empire building in our world. This study traces how Shakespeare is recognized as a cultural and literary icon who is widely respected––however, to students from marginalized communities––is increasingly distant from their psychic reality. With the genesis of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, to the widely critiqued social trauma of police brutality, systematic racism, and other race-based issues––these examples of racial traumas in our contemporary moment are remnants of a longer history that predates our time. When Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) students think of literature that can engage these social issues, Shakespeare is not commonly cited. However, once a dialogic channel is established between Shakespeare's works and students, the playwright's interest in exploring––with complexity––a multiplicity of minoritized perspectives such as persons of color, women, individuals with disabilities, as well as Jewish and Muslim persons become visible. I propose thus that students can bring their questions about race to Shakespeare via what I call experience retrieval exercises. I import my experience of using this pedagogical approach with university students reading <i>The Tempest</i> (1611), which galvanizes students to recognize Shakespeare's works as rich intellectual touchstones to engage their questions about our uncritiqued biases on race and empire building.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immunological Poetics and Postcolonial Echoes: Traversing the Medical Narratives From T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee","authors":"Huiming Liu","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the intersection of immunological discourse and literary narrative through the works of T.S. Eliot and J.M. Coetzee. The paper examines the early twentieth-century shift from holistic disease models to germ theory, paralleling this scientific evolution with Eliot's use of chemical metaphors in “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” Eliot's essay is analyzed alongside scientific insights from scholars like Michael Whitworth and Kevin Brazil, highlighting the blend of personal insight and historical awareness in poetic and scientific innovation. This analysis extends to Coetzee's <i>Age of Iron</i>, contrasting Eliot's impersonal poetics with Coetzee's nuanced exploration of cancer, apartheid, and racial and gendered bodies. Through an immunological lens, the paper delves into how literature can challenge canonical boundaries, advocate for inclusive narratives, and foster cross-racial empathy. By drawing parallels between medical narratives and literary expressions of illness and identity, it proposes literature as a means to navigate and reconcile the divides between health, the body, and the postcolonial other.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"White Nationalist Identification With the Old English Exile: Or, Why Old English Poems Matter","authors":"Maggie Hawkins","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>White nationalists have coopted medieval symbols and perverted the history and culture of “Anglo-Saxons.” While these references are often ahistorical, they speak to the strong connection white nationalists feel toward a fantasied idea of the European Middle Ages. The most horrific examples of this practice are when medievalisms appear on the weapons and in the manifestos of white nationalist terrorists. We cannot know definitively if Brenton Tarrant, or Anders Breivik, both white nationalist terrorists, have read specific Old English poems, but white nationalist forum, Stormfront, and white nationalist book collection, The Colchester Collection, include references to, or full-text translations of the Old English poems <i>The Wanderer</i> and <i>The Seafarer</i>. By exploring the isolated heroicism, displacement, and ironic nostalgia in these Old English poems, the reasons for white nationalists' niche interest in and identification with Anglo-Saxon peoples and Old English poetry become clear. White nationalists believe the global “white” community is threatened by mass immigration from non-European countries and that the only way to protect “whites” is to take up arms. Since not all white nationalists can reside in Europe, they use medieval references to bolster the idea of Europe as an ethnoracial home for all “white” peoples. White nationalist terrorists specifically use medievalisms to portray themselves as isolated heroes, like the Anglo-Saxon warrior in exile, avenging the loss of “white” land.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142861329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to Introducing John Ganim's Theatricality, Medievalism, and Orientalism","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Queen, C. (2024), Introducing John Ganim's Theatricality, Medievalism, and Orientalism. <i>Literature Compass,</i> 21: e70001. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70001.</p><p>With regard to the essay entitled “Introducing John Ganim's Theatricality, Medievalism, and Orientalism,” by Christopher Queen published in September 2024 (vol. 21, issue 10–12), the author would like to acknowledge and thank Dr. Chelsea Keane (University of North Carolina – Wilmington) for her contributions as co-editor for the essays described therein.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where We Speak From—Some Global Visions From Oceania","authors":"Tina Makereti, Bonnie Etherington","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Oceania is always already home to vast global relations. In this introduction we invite readers to navigate literary and other creative expressions emerging from these relations in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Critic Epeli Hau‘ofa (1993) disrupts colonial and capitalist constructions of the Pacific that frame its islands as sparse and isolated, and reminds the world that ‘Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding’. Prior to Hau‘ofa's assertions, Albert Wendt points out that creative works allow people to engage with the diverse connections and mobility that Oceania makes possible. More recently, Alice Te Punga Somerville reasserts that the beings and lands of Oceania do not fit into the categories forced by colonial borders, as ‘Oceania proposes a dynamic regional sensibility that enlarges and puts pressure on contemporary structures of nature and region’. Yet, there are few publications, especially emerging from UK and European publishers, that prioritise the globality of Oceania expressed through its literatures. Entering the conversations sustained by scholars of Oceania, this special issue on ‘Some Global Visions from Oceania’ asks readers to think about what the ‘global’ looks like when centred in Indigenous Oceania, rather than in a Euro-American centre.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142708229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Weaving Te-Moana-nui-a-Kiwa: Wāhine Māori Bodies in Short Fiction","authors":"Marama Salsano","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>So much critical work about English language fiction by Indigenous writers from Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa is Eurocentric. Although Papua New Guinean writer-scholar Steven Winduo argued 2 decades ago for the need to unwrite Eurocentric views of an ‘imagined Oceania’ and Māori writer Keri Hulme wrote disparagingly of Anglocentric ‘gods of Literature’, Samoan fantasy writer Lani Wendt Young has more recently described traditional publishing houses as ‘white castles of literature’. Indigenous peoples across Kiwa's great ocean do not need the empire's eyes. Māori do not need the empire's eyes; we have seen ourselves in our narratives since our primordial parents, Ranginui and Papatūānuku, were separated. Yet too often, Indigenous wāhine bodies in fiction are read as stereotyped features of indigeneity or are simply ignored. As a single connecting node to the wider literary networks of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, this paper recentres oft-overlooked Indigenous rhythms and offers a wahine Māori reading of wāhine Māori lives in stories written by wāhine Māori. Specifically, this essay recentres wāhine Māori lives by weaving together extracts of the poem, ‘this tauiwi house’, with contemplations of wāhine bodies in two short stories written by wāhine Māori: ‘Flower Girls’ by Patricia Grace and ‘Birth Rights’ by J. C. Hart. Ultimately, careful readings of wāhine bodies offer rich insights into the wider tapestry of Indigenous lives and the societies we inhabit across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142708223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}