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{"title":"Review: <i>Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion</i>, by Dana Medoro","authors":"Jess Libow","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.172","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion, by Dana Medoro Dana Medoro, Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 213. $90 cloth; $29.95 paper. Jess Libow Jess Libow Haverford College Jess Libow is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, and Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life. She is currently at work on a book that traces how women writers leveraged their expertise in the domestic health science of physical education to intervene in debates about sex, race, and citizenship. jlibow@haverford.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar jlibow@haverford.edu Nineteenth-Century Literature (2023) 78 (2): 172–175. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.172 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jess Libow; Review: Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion, by Dana Medoro. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 September 2023; 78 (2): 172–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.172 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search Published less than one month after the United States Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned the protection of abortion as a constitutional right, Dana Medoro’s timely, incisive book, Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion, illuminates the longstanding entanglement of anti-abortion ideology and American nationalism. As Medoro demonstrates, both Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne composed some of their most famous works just as abortion was becoming a matter of public debate. The expansion of print technologies in the early nineteenth century granted women easier access to information on controlling reproduction than ever before, and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry made abortifacients more available and advertisements for them much more visible. The backlash against this proliferating discourse similarly occupied public attention, and Medoro offers the media’s harsh treatment of early nineteenth-century America’s most notorious abortion provider—a woman known as Madame Restell—as essential to abortion’s publicity.... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135255667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review: <i>Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style</i>, by Simon Reader","authors":"John Plotz","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135255669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mathematics of Truth","authors":"K. Avvirin Berlin","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.2.114","url":null,"abstract":"K. Avvirin Berlin, “The Mathematics of Truth: Peripatetic Freedom Calculations in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth” (pp. 114–141) This essay reads passages in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave (1850) that pertain to walking and Black motherhood. In doing so, it theorizes Truth’s 1843 walking migration as a political pilgrimage whose spatial-temporal schema challenged federal and state policy. Armed with tactics borrowed from mathematics and the natural sciences, “sojourner laws” and other federal dictates worked to confine African American mothers like Truth to particular social and geographic places and to their status as enslaved and low-wage laborers. Casting a critical eye on Truth’s white feminist co-author Olive Gilbert’s representations of motherhood in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, “The Mathematics of Truth” seeks to intervene into the reception of Truth’s life and politics.","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135255670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review: Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel, by Matthew Sussman","authors":"W. Xin","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.72","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48540985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex in the Summer-House","authors":"J. Niemann","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.42","url":null,"abstract":"Janice Niemann, “Sex in the Summer-House: Setting in Victorian Pornography” (pp. 42–69)\u0000 Despite scholarship on the history and publication of pornography, on laws surrounding Victorian pornography, and on pornography’s mutually informative relationship with nineteenth-century medical texts, actual Victorian pornographic texts remain relatively understudied. Taking up Lisa Sigel’s call to action that specific “motifs in nineteenth-century pornography deserve closer study,” and responding to previous scholars who have identified setting in Victorian pornography as largely inconsequential, I suggest that certain settings have significant literary impacts in Victorian pornography. Adopting the summer-house as a test case in three Victorian pornographic texts—The Romance of Lust (1873–76), Venus in India (1889), and Lovely Nights of Young Girls (c. 1895)—I investigate specific moments of sex in the summer-house, arguing that the liminality of summer-house settings facilitates character behavior and genre performance being pushed to their own liminal boundaries. Ultimately, I posit that the literary summer-house is a recognizable trope in Victorian pornography, and one that asks us to reexamine the impact of specific settings in the genre. Note: this paper discusses underage sex, incest, and rape.","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43230021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review: Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion, by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller","authors":"Jayne Hildebrand","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.76","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45845529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review: Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival, by Dennis Denisoff","authors":"L. Wilhelm","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.80","url":null,"abstract":"Casting fresh light on late nineteenthand early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science, and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive inluence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen, and others to address transtemporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; feminist decadence; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary, and transnational discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities – primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman, and Egyptian – in the framing of personal, social, and national identities.","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45533171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Desire for Lawlessness","authors":"J. Parra","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Jamie Luis Parra, “The Desire for Lawlessness: Law, Freedom, and the Aesthetic in The Bondwoman’s Narrative” (pp. 1–41)\u0000 This essay begins by discussing Hannah Crafts’s engagement with the debates of the 1850s over the relationship between civic law and moral philosophy. In her novel The Bondwoman’s Narrative (2002), a work probably completed in 1858, Crafts repudiates written language for its capacity to enforce and define slavery in the form of law, which snakes morality into itself by virtue of seeming to represent the people’s will when it actually contributes to also producing that will. Crafts indicates the necessity for a belief in a higher law, something beyond the written. She positively defines that something in her stunning reworking of ekphrasis. Presenting evidence for her familiarity with English language translations of writings on aesthetics by Immanuel Kant and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and close reading the novel’s depictions of visual aesthetic experience, the essay argues that Crafts theorizes a freedom disentangled from the law’s implicit definition of freedom as always dialectically opposed to enslavement. The novel’s narrator-protagonist, Hannah, reconceives freedom as the lawlessness expressed by her own speculative thinking, by her imaginative, creative response to visual representations.","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42588234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review: Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic, by Adam Gordon","authors":"Joanne Shattock","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.70","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41694554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review: Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology, by Tom Nurmi","authors":"John Evelev","doi":"10.1525/ncl.2023.77.4.256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.77.4.256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54037,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48763571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}