AngliaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0030
K. Dekker
{"title":"Rebecca Brackmann. 2023. Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century: Medievalism and National Crisis. Medievalism 23. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, xii + 235 pp., 14 illustr., £70.00 | $105.00 Hardcover, £29.95 | $24.99 Ebook.","authors":"K. Dekker","doi":"10.1515/ang-2024-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511813,"journal":{"name":"Anglia","volume":"30 3","pages":"388 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141414575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngliaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0024
Sergio García Jiménez
{"title":"No Country for God: The Brutality of Western Territorial Appropriation in Blood Meridian","authors":"Sergio García Jiménez","doi":"10.1515/ang-2024-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1985 American author Cormac McCarthy published Blood Meridian, a novel that is set against the backdrop of the conquest of the West, a momentous and still relevant process that has acquired quasi-mythical dimensions throughout history and that is undoubtedly embedded in the United States’ national consciousness. In this article I will show the different mechanisms employed by Cormac McCarthy to deconstruct conventional Western narratives that glorify and sanction the Westward expansion as a courageous endeavour that shaped the American nation, hence underplaying the more devastating and pernicious side of this chapter of America’s imperialistic undertakings. To that end, I will argue that McCarthy contests the main tenets of the crucial 1893 Frontier Thesis proposed by Frederick Jackson Turner, in particular the depiction of American colonial expansion as a source of progress and democratic development; likewise I will contend that, in Blood Meridian, McCarthy aligns himself with the ideas of New Western Historians that offer a revisionist perspective of the country’s past, revealing such brutality and wickedness exerted in the appropriation of the western territories that seemed to deprive the process of any hope of God’s mercy.","PeriodicalId":511813,"journal":{"name":"Anglia","volume":"9 1","pages":"319 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141402604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngliaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0023
Aida Rosende-Pérez
{"title":"Resisting Ireland’s Necropolitics of Asylum: Refugee Voices in Irish Literature and the Arts","authors":"Aida Rosende-Pérez","doi":"10.1515/ang-2024-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the representation of the Irish Asylum system – known as Direct Provision – by an artist and a writer who have experienced it first-hand. Vukašin Nedeljković’s art project Asylum Archive (2007 –) and Melatu Okorie’s short stories “Shackles” (2010) and “This Hostel Life” (2017) respectively engage in the visual and literary representation of unlivable life in this carceral system, both articulating a compelling critique of the necropolitical violence exerted in and through its operations. Their work foregrounds the spatial and time dimensions of detention, highlighting the vulnerability of international protection applicants whose lives are not only bounded by confinement but also deferred in indefinite waiting. Besides, this article contends that these works go far beyond critique, offering very powerful critical insights into the inmates’ affective responses to the injustices of the asylum regime, and how these can potentially open spaces of dissent and resistance.","PeriodicalId":511813,"journal":{"name":"Anglia","volume":"19 45","pages":"299 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141393734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngliaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0022
Houliang Chen
{"title":"Contours of Status and Power: Seats and Sitting Postures in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend","authors":"Houliang Chen","doi":"10.1515/ang-2024-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Victorians were notorious for their preoccupation with the posture and carriage of men and women, by which they outlined the contours of their refinement and moral characters. Drawing on Victorian etiquette manuals and modern social psychological studies regarding sitting postures, this article addresses scenes and melodramas featuring seats in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend so as to reveal how Dickens has created a scathing satire on the respectable pretension and deep moral vices of Victorian society through his seemingly exaggerated description of characters’ sitting manners. It argues that seat performance is not only a crucial means for Victorians’ self-representation but also a shrewd strategy for domination. While Dickens’s caricatured depictions of Lammle’s and Fledgeby’s abominable sitting manners manifests his biting attacks on Victorian predatory fortune-hunters’ thirst for power and money, his rendition of Jenny’s and Bella’s questionable sitting poses lays bare the miseries and imprisonment of women in that era.","PeriodicalId":511813,"journal":{"name":"Anglia","volume":"4 4","pages":"282 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141394841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngliaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0027
T. Birkett, Éamonn Ó Carragáin
{"title":"Kerstin Majewski. 2022. The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts. A New Reconstruction and an Edition of “The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem”. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 132. Berlin: de Gruyter, 26 + 397 pp., 39 illustr., €154.95 (hc. and e-book).","authors":"T. Birkett, Éamonn Ó Carragáin","doi":"10.1515/ang-2024-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511813,"journal":{"name":"Anglia","volume":"54 14","pages":"372 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141416218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngliaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0032
Fiona J. Doloughan
{"title":"Paul Dawson. 2023. The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel. Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 246 pp., $ 74.95.","authors":"Fiona J. Doloughan","doi":"10.1515/ang-2024-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511813,"journal":{"name":"Anglia","volume":"85 4","pages":"397 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141395209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}