The Lady’s Poetical Magazine and the Fashioning of Women’s Literary Space

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Octavia Cox
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
Elizabeth Carter ◽  
The Many

This chapter offers a detailed account of the place of women poets in the Lady’s Poetical Magazine (1781–2), a periodical that ran to four volumes under the editorship of the entrepreneurial James Harrison. Octavia Cox begins by interrogating the physical space that women writers occupy in the Lady’s Poetical Magazine as well as other contemporary publications (especially George Colman and Bonnell Thornton’s Poems by Eminent Ladies and Oliver Goldsmith’s Poems for Young Ladies), as well as considering the periodical’s contribution to eminent women’s canonisation in the late-century. The chapter proceeds to detail Harrison’s own poetic contributions before turning to the many poets the magazine published and the self-circumscription these writers performed and the self-liberation they attempted. In light of the case of writers such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Susan Scott (Susan Carnegie) and Elizabeth Carter, Cox concludes that Harrison’s publication constructed a vital space in which women poets contested and challenged authorial ‘female-ness’.

Institutions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn ◽  
Mark Lipovetsky ◽  
Irina Reyfman ◽  
Stephanie Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
The Creation

The chapter examines the emergence of literature from coteries and domestic routine. It describes how male poetic circles, held together by friendship and common intellectual interests, produced the interconnected institutions of literature necessary to literature. While early in the century, women writers mostly worked privately, they eventually moved into more public venues such as the salon. An interest in subjectivity, the self, and friendship networks, which were also reading communities, fostered the creation of a performative and reflective self that gave rise to literary heroes to satisfy the new interests and demands of writers and readers.

Tracing Bio-Political and Eugenic Connections in Education and Treatment of ‘Youth Problems’

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Judith Bessant
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Intelligence Testing ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Student Violence ◽  
Biological Explanations ◽  
The Many

Against a backdrop of increasing popular concern about teenage street ‘gangs’, student violence in schools, high levels of youth joblessness and its perceived relationship to crime, substance abuse, suicide and homelessness, this article explores some of the biological explanations of ‘juvenile anti-social behaviour’. One of the many spheres in which eugenics has been influential is education, particularly in its application of psychology, intelligence testing and similar mechanisms for ensuring citizenship and the self-governance of young people. The article contextualises and critically analyses some of the current debates about education and young people within a critical historical analysis of eugenics.

When the Absence of Reasoning Breeds Meaning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey K. Morewedge ◽  
Daniella M. Kupor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
External Source ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making ◽  
Dream Interpretation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Thoughts ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Insight Into

Intuitions, attitudes, images, mind-wandering, dreams, and religious messages are just a few of the many kinds of uncontrolled thoughts that intrude on consciousness spontaneously without a clear reason. Logic suggests that people might thus interpret spontaneous thoughts as meaningless and be uninfluenced by them. By contrast, our survey of this literature indicates that the lack of an obvious external source or motive leads people to attribute considerable meaning and importance to spontaneous thoughts. Spontaneous thoughts are perceived to provide meaningful insight into the self, others, and the world. As a result of these metacognitive appraisals, spontaneous thoughts substantially affect the beliefs, attitudes, decisions, and behavior of the thinker. We present illustrative examples of the metacognitive appraisals by which people attribute meaning to spontaneous secular and religious thoughts, and the influence of these thoughts on judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, dream interpretation, and prayer discernment.

The Divinized Human in the Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Peter Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Many

This chapter focuses on the Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran, which is among the many writings of the community that had withdrawn from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea and dedicated itself to apocalyptic fantasies of the end of days. The Hymn was written in the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian period, which is, the second half of the first century BCE. In it, an unidentified hero boasts that he was elevated among and even above the angels in heaven. The chapter describes the two parallel fragments of the hymn that take the superior, angel-like status of its author yet further. It analyzes the line, “Who is like me among the divine beings?” which is a rhetorical question that evidently means, “Who else is like me among the angels? Is there anyone else who is as elevated as I am among the angels or above them?”

A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s “little book on poetry”

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-135
Author(s):  
Emily Kopley
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
The Prestige

In several essays concurrent with her major experimental works of the 1920s, Woolf proclaims that the novel will usurp the tools and the place of poetry. Most important among these essays is the book-length A Room of One’s Own (1929). Here Woolf identifies the lack of poet foremothers available as models to women writers. She urges young women to fill this gap by writing not poetry per se, but rather prose whose greatness qualifies it as “poetry.” Woolf wants to gain for prose, and by extension women writers, the prestige historically accorded to verse. This chapter sketches the historic link among English Studies, poetry, and patriarchy. This link contributed to Woolf’s vision of the novel as the democratic, feminist alternative to poetry. It also spurred her subtle challenge in A Room of One’s Own to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who had doubted women’s ability to write poetry. This chapter concludes by considering the real women poets who inspired Woolf’s fiction of Judith Shakespeare.

“Owing to the Many Reports”

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Terryl Givens ◽  
Brian M. Hauglid
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The Many

In 1832, Joseph Smith first recorded an encounter with God, now commonly referred to as his “First Vision.” In 1838, he recorded a more detailed account. Other, secondhand recitals exist as well. In recent years, critics have pointed to apparent discrepancies in the narratives. For example, angels appear in some but not others. Smith’s first version appears to reference one divine figure; the 1838 version describes two. His personal spiritual standing is the focus of the 1832 version, and the state of the Christian world the focus of the second. This chapter elucidates the varying contexts for the production of the different narratives, seeks to understand the conditions of their creation, and identifies features common and consistent to all of them.

scholarly journals ‘I Have My Own History’: Queensland Women Writers from 1939 to the Present

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivienne Muller
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Cultural Movements ◽  
The Many

It has become a commonplace to note that women writers in Australia have historically produced their work in a literary and social context that has largely been regarded as a male domain. Second wave feminism in the wake of the counter-cultural movements of the sixties and seventies, together with the developments in poststructuralist theories have contested this privileged intellectual space and triggered new ways of looking at literary history, the relations between production and consumption, and the significance of gender, race and class in literary analysis (Ferrier 1992:1). This chapter deals with a number of texts written by Queensland women in the latter part of the twentieth century, and thus is concerned principally with the many ‘configurations of female subjectivity’ (Ferrier 1998:210) and self-definition that Elaine Showalter saw as belonging to the third phase of women's writing. However as this is a chapter about women writers writing in and about Queensland, it will also be interested in narrative representations of women's experiences of the local place and culture, in which gendered relationships are always implicated.

Sree Narayana Guru

Hinduism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pati
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Caste System ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Worship Services ◽  
The Many ◽  
Lower Castes

Sree Narayana Guru (b. 1856?–d. 1928), a member of the Īzhava caste, a low-caste group in the fourfold caste system of Kerala, and a pioneer in socioreligious reform in early-20th-century Kerala, was born in Chempazhanthi, Kerala, possibly on August 20, 1856. A learned man, he was fluent in Malayalam, Sanskrit, and Tamil. From 1876 to 1879 he studied Sanskrit at Puthupalli in Karunagapally taluk, and was broadly trained in various traditions, including vyākarṇa (grammar), nyāya (logic), Vedānta, kāvya (poetry), nātaka (drama), and alaṁkāra (rhetoric), in addition to Ayurveda and astrology. After his formal education, he was more interested in finding the truth about the self and its relation to the Ultimate Reality. Once he had attained aṟivu (self-knowledge), he returned to his village and became an itinerant sanyāsin, recognized as a saint, and people from all strata of the caste-oriented Kerala society—Nāyars, Īzhavas, Christians, and Muslims—sought his teachings and blessings. In his teachings Guru emphasized the knowledge of self as essential to his notion of oneness. He claimed that oneness depends on consciousness of the self in relation to others and plays a significant role in spiritual and social emancipation. Guru, who at one point in life was a devotee of Viṣṇu, after attaining self-realization, emphasized the concept of “one God” and the unity of all being in a singular divinity. This oneness was not confined to his concept of God, but he considered the whole world to be of one family—vasudhaiva kudumbakam. In 1903 Guru founded the Śrī Nārāyaṇa Dharma Paripālana Yōgam (SNDP), with its manifesto, “One Caste, One Religion, One God for Mankind,” which directed the many Hindus of Kerala from belief in many gods to belief in one God. Narayana Guru had the support of Dr. Palpu, a medical doctor and social revolutionary, and Kumaran Asan, a disciple and poet, and founding secretary of the SNDP. The oneness of God and unity of all humankind became apparent when Narayana Guru propelled religious and social reforms in Kerala. More importantly, his exposure to the inhumane condition of people in the lower castes and his education in the various philosophical schools, especially Advaita Vedānta, or nondualism, served as a foundation for his literary works and social and religious reforms in Kerala. On September 20, 1928, Guru attained samādhi (liberation upon death). Since his death, the SNDP organization has continued to function, propelled by those who follow Guru’s teachings, who hold regular meetings and worship services affirming Guru as a divine being.

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