Devoney Looser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1066937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devoney Looser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devoney |
| FAMILY NAME | Looser |
| SIGNATURE | LOOSER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0613-714X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
They Run with Surprising Swiftness
Bending the Clock
Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The Victorians and Old Age (2009), Kay Heath’s Aging by the Book (2009), and Alice Crossley’s special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2017). Following the publication of two significant new monographs — Andrea Charise’s The Aesthetics of Senescen…
Her Later Works Happily Forgotten”
This essay considers Frances Burney’s last published work, Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832), for its sustained attention to gender, aging, and authorship. When the Memoirs is read from cover to cover, significant and previously unnoticed patterns emerge that offer new insights into Burney’s conceptions of and ruminations on authorial celebrity in old age. The narration of the Memoirs provides a compelling picture of what an aged woman author was u…
Old Age and the End of Oblivion
That Karen Chase's fine book and my own have been selected for this roundtable forum demonstrates the level of seriousness with which we are now engaging the category of age in humanities scholarship. For the first time, it seems entirely possible that our being 'usually oblivious', as Teresa Mangum puts it, 'to the impress of age on texts and the ways we read them' could become a thing of the past. Conversations and debates like the ones that Ma…
Lexicography on the Inside
Since the compilation of the first dictionaries in English, lexicographers have been interested in chronicling the language of the criminal underworld. Over time, many methods of data-collection have been employed. One recent method is the sociolinguistic interview. In this study, the sociolinguistic interview was used to collect lexical information from inmates in all New Zealand prisons. The challenges of interviewing in prison are discussed, t…
Consuming Anxieties
Reviewed by: Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713–1833 Devoney Looser Charlotte Sussman., Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713–1833. (Stanford UP, 2000.) As Charlotte Sussman points out in the introduction to her book, “boycotts are so commonplace these days, one hardly notices them” (1). It takes something peculiar like a consumer protest by consumption to grab our attention: Jona…
Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath
(1993). Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 8, FEMINIST BIOGRAPHY, pp. 179-197
Old Age and the End of Oblivion
That Karen Chase's fine book and my own have been selected for this roundtable forum demonstrates the level of seriousness with which we are now engaging the category of age in humanities scholarship. For the first time, it seems entirely possible that our being 'usually oblivious', as Teresa Mangum puts it, 'to the impress of age on texts and the ways we read them' could become a thing of the past. Conversations and debates like the ones that Ma…
Lexicography on the Inside
Since the compilation of the first dictionaries in English, lexicographers have been interested in chronicling the language of the criminal underworld. Over time, many methods of data-collection have been employed. One recent method is the sociolinguistic interview. In this study, the sociolinguistic interview was used to collect lexical information from inmates in all New Zealand prisons. The challenges of interviewing in prison are discussed, t…
Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath
(1993). Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 8, FEMINIST BIOGRAPHY, pp. 179-197
Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath
(1993). Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 8, FEMINIST BIOGRAPHY, pp. 179-197
Consuming Anxieties
Reviewed by: Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713–1833 Devoney Looser Charlotte Sussman., Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713–1833. (Stanford UP, 2000.) As Charlotte Sussman points out in the introduction to her book, “boycotts are so commonplace these days, one hardly notices them” (1). It takes something peculiar like a consumer protest by consumption to grab our attention: Jona…
Lexicography on the Inside
Since the compilation of the first dictionaries in English, lexicographers have been interested in chronicling the language of the criminal underworld. Over time, many methods of data-collection have been employed. One recent method is the sociolinguistic interview. In this study, the sociolinguistic interview was used to collect lexical information from inmates in all New Zealand prisons. The challenges of interviewing in prison are discussed, t…
Old Age and the End of Oblivion
That Karen Chase's fine book and my own have been selected for this roundtable forum demonstrates the level of seriousness with which we are now engaging the category of age in humanities scholarship. For the first time, it seems entirely possible that our being 'usually oblivious', as Teresa Mangum puts it, 'to the impress of age on texts and the ways we read them' could become a thing of the past. Conversations and debates like the ones that Ma…
Her Later Works Happily Forgotten”
This essay considers Frances Burney’s last published work, Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832), for its sustained attention to gender, aging, and authorship. When the Memoirs is read from cover to cover, significant and previously unnoticed patterns emerge that offer new insights into Burney’s conceptions of and ruminations on authorial celebrity in old age. The narration of the Memoirs provides a compelling picture of what an aged woman author was u…
Bending the Clock
Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The Victorians and Old Age (2009), Kay Heath’s Aging by the Book (2009), and Alice Crossley’s special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2017). Following the publication of two significant new monographs — Andrea Charise’s The Aesthetics of Senescen…
They Run with Surprising Swiftness
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