Aviva Briefel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4055385 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aviva Briefel |
| NOMBRES | Aviva |
| APELLIDO | Briefel |
| FIRMA | BRIEFEL A |
| AFILIACIONES | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2878-9387 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Disaster
I examine the temporality of disaster through a condition that I term “retroactive hopefulness”: looking back at a time when we could still hope that we would be exempt from imminent catastrophe. I discuss this condition in relation to our current Covid moment and to H. G. Wells's dystopic novel The War of the Worlds (1898)
The Terror of Very Small Worlds
The Terror of Very Small Worlds:Hereditary and the Miniature Scales of Horror Aviva Briefel (bio) As a child, I escaped my nightmares by jumping through a dollhouse chimney. If I could just locate the dollhouse in my dream world and drop down its chimney like a tiny (Jewish) Santa, the horrors would cease, and I would wake up to my own real bedroom. The dollhouse in question did not have particular significance for me in waking life. Handed down …
Ride-Sharing with Little Nell
This article argues that Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop demonstrates the ways in which labor exploitation can occur in situations of apparent generosity, freedom, or even kindness. One of the most insidious aspects of Little Nell's victimization by labor is that the situation is hard for her to detect until it is too late. This aspect of the novel anticipates the particular hardships of the twenty-first-century gig economy, at the core …
Pandemic Metaphors
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Ghost Speed
This essay examines an important subgenre of the Victorian ghost story: narratives of phantom vehicles. Wilkie Collins's “The Last Stage Coachman” (1843), Charles Dickens's “The Story of the Bagman's Uncle” (1837), and Amelia Edwards's “The Phantom Coach” (1864), among others, feature vehicles from the past that return to haunt the living. I argue that that by using ghosts to express nostalgia for more human(e) modes of transportation, Victorian …
Undisciplined Reading
In their field-shaking 2020 essay, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies,” Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff, and Amy R. Wong set out to “think carefully and deliberately about how we can develop a truly relational thinking and set of practices that engage scholarship across fields and disciplines, enabling a cross-fertilization of ideas, a coalition-based politics and activism, and even a refashioning of academic structures to better se…
Materiality
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Parenting through Horror
This essay contends that Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) expands the subgenre of maternal horror by exploring reassurance as a fraught motherly act, one that is imbricated with the trauma of having to believe in the child's monsters. The film dissects the rituals that have conventionally been assigned to mothers—in this case, to single mothers—to demonstrate the precariousness of maternal authority. Maternal reassurance in particular comes to…
Freaks of Furniture”
With the advent of spiritualism in the early 1850s, tables and chairs in British households were making an array of unpredictable movements and noises. One of the most unsettling aspects of spiritualism was that it caused the animation of fabricated things. What did it mean that manufactured objects, produced by anonymous craftsmen or factory workers, could cast the middle-class home into disarray? In addition to fueling anxieties about the uphea…
The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination
The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of Victorian discussions of the body that tried to come to terms with the limits of racial identification. While religious, scientific, and literary discourses privileged hands as sites of physiognomic information, none of these found plausible explanations for what these body parts could convey about ethnicity. As com…
Forging Authenticity
Anita Fiderer Moskowitz. Forging Authenticity: Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence. Arte e archeologia: Studi e documenti 32. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. xvi + 172 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-88-222-6171-7. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Morbid Curiosities
Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011 xiii + 238, 30 illustrations. ISBN 978-0-19-958458-1 (hb). While reading Samuel J
Cosmetic Tragedies
Inasmuch as they offer advice on how to improve appearances, nineteenth-century beauty manuals also vividly describe the dangers of putting on a face. The consequences of using cosmetics – often comprised of toxic ingredients such as arsenic, mercury, and lead – might range from the discomfort of surface irritation to the fatality of poisoning. Several manuals recount the unfortunate story of Lady Mary Montagu, who suffered an allergic reaction t…
Hands of Beauty, Hands of Horror
This essay examines the gothicization of Egyptian manual productions in late-Victorian mummy narratives. These narratives often isolate the mummy's hand as a signifier of craftsmanship, a troubling object for a culture that was mourning the figurative loss of its artisans' hands to mechanized production. Focusing on Bram Stoker's 1903 novel, The Jewel of Seven Stars, I contend that the horror of the mummy's hand emanates from its ambiguous positi…
The Victorian Literature of Fear
This article examines the prolific field of literary criticism on the Victorian gothic. It begins by offering a brief history of the genre and by delineating differences between its eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century manifestations. The article then isolates major critical discussions on the important triad of anxiety, monstrosity, and identity, focusing primarily on the last fifteen years. Among the most promising developments are recent interve…
Sacred Objects/Illusory Idols
Before earning the status of a great original, Michelangelo began his career as a forger. Vasari (1568) recounts that the young artist made copies of Old Master drawings, smoking and staining them to give them an authentic appearance. He later fashioned a statue of a sleeping Cupid, which Lorenzo di Medici allegedly encouraged him to pass off as an ancient artifact. Vasari argues that the believability of his forgery was a major catalyst in estab…
How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman
Research Article| January 01 1996 "How much did you pay for this place?" Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman Aviva Briefel; Aviva Briefel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sianne Ngai Sianne Ngai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-1_37-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman
Research Article| January 01 1996 "How much did you pay for this place?" Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman Aviva Briefel; Aviva Briefel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sianne Ngai Sianne Ngai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-1_37-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
The Victorian Literature of Fear
This article examines the prolific field of literary criticism on the Victorian gothic. It begins by offering a brief history of the genre and by delineating differences between its eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century manifestations. The article then isolates major critical discussions on the important triad of anxiety, monstrosity, and identity, focusing primarily on the last fifteen years. Among the most promising developments are recent interve…
How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman
Research Article| January 01 1996 "How much did you pay for this place?" Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman Aviva Briefel; Aviva Briefel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sianne Ngai Sianne Ngai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-1_37-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
Sacred Objects/Illusory Idols
Before earning the status of a great original, Michelangelo began his career as a forger. Vasari (1568) recounts that the young artist made copies of Old Master drawings, smoking and staining them to give them an authentic appearance. He later fashioned a statue of a sleeping Cupid, which Lorenzo di Medici allegedly encouraged him to pass off as an ancient artifact. Vasari argues that the believability of his forgery was a major catalyst in estab…
The Victorian Literature of Fear
This article examines the prolific field of literary criticism on the Victorian gothic. It begins by offering a brief history of the genre and by delineating differences between its eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century manifestations. The article then isolates major critical discussions on the important triad of anxiety, monstrosity, and identity, focusing primarily on the last fifteen years. Among the most promising developments are recent interve…
Hands of Beauty, Hands of Horror
This essay examines the gothicization of Egyptian manual productions in late-Victorian mummy narratives. These narratives often isolate the mummy's hand as a signifier of craftsmanship, a troubling object for a culture that was mourning the figurative loss of its artisans' hands to mechanized production. Focusing on Bram Stoker's 1903 novel, The Jewel of Seven Stars, I contend that the horror of the mummy's hand emanates from its ambiguous positi…
Cosmetic Tragedies
Inasmuch as they offer advice on how to improve appearances, nineteenth-century beauty manuals also vividly describe the dangers of putting on a face. The consequences of using cosmetics – often comprised of toxic ingredients such as arsenic, mercury, and lead – might range from the discomfort of surface irritation to the fatality of poisoning. Several manuals recount the unfortunate story of Lady Mary Montagu, who suffered an allergic reaction t…
Morbid Curiosities
Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011 xiii + 238, 30 illustrations. ISBN 978-0-19-958458-1 (hb). While reading Samuel J
Forging Authenticity
Anita Fiderer Moskowitz. Forging Authenticity: Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence. Arte e archeologia: Studi e documenti 32. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. xvi + 172 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-88-222-6171-7. - Volume 67 Issue 2
The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination
The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of Victorian discussions of the body that tried to come to terms with the limits of racial identification. While religious, scientific, and literary discourses privileged hands as sites of physiognomic information, none of these found plausible explanations for what these body parts could convey about ethnicity. As com…
Parenting through Horror
This essay contends that Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) expands the subgenre of maternal horror by exploring reassurance as a fraught motherly act, one that is imbricated with the trauma of having to believe in the child's monsters. The film dissects the rituals that have conventionally been assigned to mothers—in this case, to single mothers—to demonstrate the precariousness of maternal authority. Maternal reassurance in particular comes to…
Freaks of Furniture”
With the advent of spiritualism in the early 1850s, tables and chairs in British households were making an array of unpredictable movements and noises. One of the most unsettling aspects of spiritualism was that it caused the animation of fabricated things. What did it mean that manufactured objects, produced by anonymous craftsmen or factory workers, could cast the middle-class home into disarray? In addition to fueling anxieties about the uphea…
Materiality
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Terror of Very Small Worlds
The Terror of Very Small Worlds:Hereditary and the Miniature Scales of Horror Aviva Briefel (bio) As a child, I escaped my nightmares by jumping through a dollhouse chimney. If I could just locate the dollhouse in my dream world and drop down its chimney like a tiny (Jewish) Santa, the horrors would cease, and I would wake up to my own real bedroom. The dollhouse in question did not have particular significance for me in waking life. Handed down …
Ride-Sharing with Little Nell
This article argues that Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop demonstrates the ways in which labor exploitation can occur in situations of apparent generosity, freedom, or even kindness. One of the most insidious aspects of Little Nell's victimization by labor is that the situation is hard for her to detect until it is too late. This aspect of the novel anticipates the particular hardships of the twenty-first-century gig economy, at the core …
Pandemic Metaphors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Ghost Speed
This essay examines an important subgenre of the Victorian ghost story: narratives of phantom vehicles. Wilkie Collins's “The Last Stage Coachman” (1843), Charles Dickens's “The Story of the Bagman's Uncle” (1837), and Amelia Edwards's “The Phantom Coach” (1864), among others, feature vehicles from the past that return to haunt the living. I argue that that by using ghosts to express nostalgia for more human(e) modes of transportation, Victorian …
Undisciplined Reading
In their field-shaking 2020 essay, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies,” Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff, and Amy R. Wong set out to “think carefully and deliberately about how we can develop a truly relational thinking and set of practices that engage scholarship across fields and disciplines, enabling a cross-fertilization of ideas, a coalition-based politics and activism, and even a refashioning of academic structures to better se…
Disaster
I examine the temporality of disaster through a condition that I term “retroactive hopefulness”: looking back at a time when we could still hope that we would be exempt from imminent catastrophe. I discuss this condition in relation to our current Covid moment and to H. G. Wells's dystopic novel The War of the Worlds (1898)
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