Margaret D Stetz

Biographic Data

ID1356555
NAMEMargaret D Stetz
GIVEN NAMESMargaret D
FAMILY NAMEStetz
SIGNATURESTETZ M D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Delaware
ORCID0000-0002-6869-0103
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Orlando in Oxbridge’ (for Virginia Woolf)

    Margaret D Stetz, Margaret StetzARTICLEContinuum2026

    The Beadlebrows beetledperplexedfrozen mid-gesturelike the Thamesiced overthat long ago winterwhen boygirlsin Russian trousersskated on layersof Time ...The turf. For Fellows.The path. For women.whic...

  • Ella Erskine, Elkin Mathews, and the “Long Aesthetic Century”

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEWomen s Writing2024

    Scholars have used terms such as the “long nineteenth century” to convey the fact that the characteristics, principles, and artistic debates of the Victorian era did not suddenly vanish in 1900, but continued to inform British literature throughout the Edwardian era and into the start of the First World War. From work written by women, in particular, during the first decade of the twentieth century, it is obvious that one of the most significant …

  • Last Laughs

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEStudies in American Humor2023

    Rereading a work first encountered many years earlier always yields surprises. A month ago, I discovered on eBay a copy of a 1955 anthology that was a mainstay of my childhood, A Treasury of Humor and Toastmaster’s Handbook. Intended for adults, it found its way nonetheless into my young hands, and I read all of it with glee (though I did not have the least idea what was meant by a “toastmaster” and assumed it had something to do with bread). The…

  • Miss-Taken Identities

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzARTICLECahiers victoriens et édouardiens2022

    This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. Often, this misidentification takes a class-based turn, with men of the upper classes assuming that the girls they encounter in socially ambiguous spaces belong to a class lower than their own and are, therefore,…

  • The Age of Decadence

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2022References: 1

    What does “decadence” mean? Does it mean anything at all? Is it sinister or irresistibly appealing? Regardless of the ambiguity that surrounds the word “decadence” (often with a small “d”), no one can deny that decadence (frequently with a capital “D,” especially when it alludes to the late nineteenth-century European cultural movement) has been sweeping the world of academic publishing. Seen from the perspective of 2022, the past few years appea…

  • Anita Brookner and the Servants

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEÉtudes anglaises2021

    Quoique le service domestique ait disparu en tant qu’institution après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il n’en reste pas moins un élément majeur dans les romans qu’Anita Brookner publia au début des années 1980, tout comme dans l’œuvre d’avant-guerre de Virginia Woolf. Cependant, le rôle joué par le personnel de maison, notamment féminin, chez Brookner n’est pas une survivance uniforme du passé, ni le signe d’une forme de nostalgie envers les hiérarc…

  • Anita Brookner and the Servants

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEÉtudes anglaises2021

  • Lessons Still Being Learned from the “Comfort Women” of World War II

    Margaret D StetzCHAPTERGender Violence, 3rd Edition2020

  • Where Parody Meets Satire

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEPolysèmes2020

    Cet essai traite des rapports entre parodie et satire, et de la fonction politique de l’humour à partir d’une série de parodies écrites par Mary Dunn, auteure britannique associée au magazine satirique Punch. Ces textes publiés dans les années 1930-1940 imitent les véritables mémoires écrits par des femmes de l’aristocratie et ridiculisent leurs auteures et leur classe sociale. Lorsqu’elles furent republiées dans les années 1980, ces parodies fur…

  • Study in Black and White

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEStudies in American Humor2020

    Perhaps coincidentally, the year 2018 saw the publication not only of Tanya Sheehan's examination of the links bet-ween humor and racism in nineteenth-century American visual culture but of a second study covering related ground. That other volume might have seemed an unlikely candidate for such a task—Michèle Mendelssohn's Making Oscar Wilde—about the early career and transatlantic reputation building of the poet and future playwright. Nonethele…

  • Sharp

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEWomen s Studies2020

    What would Mary McCarthy have made of the demand today for Tweet-sized portions, whether in food or in ideas? As part of its survey of life from 2000 to 2010, the New York Times of December 17, 201

  • Reframing the “Comfort Women” Issue

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzCHAPTERGenocide and Mass Violence in…2019

    Reframing the "Comfort Women" Issue: New Representations of an Old War Crime

  • Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II

    Margaret D Stetz, Bonnie B C OhBOOKLegacies of the Comfort Women of…2015

    The stories of the former comfort women have galvanized both Asian and non-Asian intellectuals working in a variety of fields. Scholars of Asian history and politics, feminists, human rights activists, documentary filmmakers, visual artists, and novelists have begun to address the subject of the comfort system; to take up the cause of the surviving comfort women's sturggles; to call attention to sexual violence against women, especially during wa…

  • The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Neo-Victorian ‘Neo-Man’

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzARTICLEVictoriographies2015References: 1

    The New Man was a crucial topic of discussion and a continual preoccupation in late-Victorian feminist writing, precisely because he was more often a wished-for presence than an actual one. Nevertheless, creators of neo-Victorian fiction and film repeatedly project him backwards onto the screen of literary history, representing him as having in fact existed in the Victorian age as a complement to the New Woman. What is at stake in retrospectively…

  • Oscar Wilde—The Great Drama of His Life

    Margaret D StetzARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2014

  • Oscar Wilde and the New Woman

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzCHAPTEROscar Wilde in Context2013

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  • Why and How Should We Teach Empathy

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEJournal of Human Rights Practice2013

    Ideally, a multicultural education in social justice would come in many forms. In 2012, for instance, the global television-watching audience saw the film director Danny Boyle use a most unlikely medium – the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics – to retell the history of Britain in a way meant to raise awareness about everything from the destruction of pastoral landscapes by machinery, to the sufferings of industrial workers, to women's campa…

  • Enrobed and Encased

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2012

    Journal Article Enrobed and Encased: Dying for Art in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book Get access Margaret D. Stetz Margaret D. Stetz 1University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 17, Issue 1, 1 March 2012, Pages 89–95, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.662021 Published: 01 March 2012

  • Neo-Victorian Studies

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2012Cited by: 1

    Long ago, Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit (1922) taught us that toys become real when they are loved. Literary genres, however, become real when they are parodied. The neo-Victorian novel, therefore, must now be real, for its features have become so familiar and readily distinguishable that John Crace has been able to have naughty fun at their expense in Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century (2010), where John…

  • Reconsidering the 'Comfort Women' and Their Supporters

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEJournal of Human Rights Practice2010

    Reconsidering the 'Comfort Women' and Their Supporters C. Sarah Soh, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 384 pp. Cloth $70; paper $26. Margaret D. Stetz Margaret D. Stetz Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of HumanitiesUniversity of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …

  • Ballads in Prose”

    Open AccessMargaret D StetzARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2006

    “Oh, it is indeed a burning shame that there would be one law for men and another law for women. I think that there should be no law for anybody” (Beckson, I Can Resist 100). So said Oscar Wilde to a journalist interviewing him in January 1895. And for the first five years of the 1890s, it looked as though the British literary and publishing worlds, at least, were increasingly in accord with this Wildean perspective. Texts challenging the double …

  • Feminist Exhibitionism

    Margaret D StetzARTICLENWSA Journal2005

    While teaching Alice Walker's classic 1974 essay Search of Our Mothers' Gardens in my Introduction to Women's Studies courses, have for the past nine years supplemented it by showing an excerpt from a filmed documentary. This 1992 British-made documentary about Walker features readings from her work, dramatizations of scenes from the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, historical footage from the civil rights era in the United States, and comment…

  • Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture

    Margaret D Stetz, Frederick S RodenARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature2004

  • Feminism Beyond Modernism

    Margaret D Stetz, Elizabeth A FlynnARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature2003

  • Christine Parker's Peach

    Margaret D StetzARTICLEWomen s Studies2003

    Christine Parker's 1993 live-action short begins with music, the kind of repetitive, slow, percussion-heavy, saxophone-dominated score usually associated with low-budget porn. The film's opening visual, however, is a close-up not of the expected soft flesh, but of the skin of a soft fruit. Lest the viewer miss the joke-i.e., that the rounded, indented, rosy surfaces on display are not attached to a human body at all-the main title Peach appears, …