Josephine Mcdonagh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1648276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josephine Mcdonagh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josephine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonagh |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONAGH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6401-4781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Literature and Migration
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Introduction to Laura Marcus, Rhythm
This Introduction to Laura Marcus's final monumental but unfinished work describes her wholly new understanding of the central importance of rhythm across the arts and sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The turn to rhythm was formative in many fields and comprehended poetry, music, dance, sculpture, painting, photography, film, gymnastics, physics, education, psychology, physiology, thinking about race, class and gender, the past…
Victorians in Dislocation
Population mobility is an analytic category through which we can reconsider nineteenth-century literature and its locations, and not just through an imperial lens. If we look beyond the geographical boundaries of empire, we get a clearer sense of the stakes of Victorian place-making. In this essay I briefly examine a case of two hundred migrants from Scotland to Venezuela in the 1820s as a model for a different kind of analysis that thinks about …
Hospitality in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda
This article considers two works by Eliot, Silas Marner , her most provincial of novels, and Daniel Deronda , the most cosmopolitan, through the lens of hospitality. Both novels repeatedly stage scenes in which a stranger arrives, and is welcomed or excluded by their hosts. Through these scenes, both novels examine questions regarding refuge, asylum, and settlement, as well as the politics of kinship and the exclusion of women from democratic soc…
The nineteenth-century opium complex
This introduction to the special issue proposes that two discrete nineteenth-century histories of opium – a literary history, initiated by the drug confessions of De Quincey, and a colonial history, exemplified by the commercial activities of the East India Company (in which Thomas Love Peacock participated) in cultivating opium in Bengal for export to China, leading to the first Opium War – are common elements in a nineteenth-century ‘opium comp…
Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics
The following Turning Point offers responses, from four leading critics, to Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth Century Fiction. At a time when the meaning and
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
Scope and content: "Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global int…
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
‘he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked – “Mamma, why are you so wicked?”’ The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, 'Helen Graham' is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive influence. Her diary entries reveal the shocking world …
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)
De Quincey, Malthus and the Anachronism-Effect
READERS HAVE LONG BEEN PERPLEXED BY THE QUESTION OF DE QUINCEY'S place in literary history. A writer whose works traverse five decades, from some juvenilia and an early diary written in 1803, to his death in 1859, he is most often taken to be a minor, late Romantic, out of step with the times, an ineffectual dreamer, whose preoccupations and voice betray an allegiance with the older generation of Lakeland writers. (1) Alina Clej, on the other han…
De Quincey, Malthus and the Anachronism-Effect
READERS HAVE LONG BEEN PERPLEXED BY THE QUESTION OF DE QUINCEY'S place in literary history. A writer whose works traverse five decades, from some juvenilia and an early diary written in 1803, to his death in 1859, he is most often taken to be a minor, late Romantic, out of step with the times, an ineffectual dreamer, whose preoccupations and voice betray an allegiance with the older generation of Lakeland writers. (1) Alina Clej, on the other han…
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
Scope and content: "Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global int…
Victorians in Dislocation
Population mobility is an analytic category through which we can reconsider nineteenth-century literature and its locations, and not just through an imperial lens. If we look beyond the geographical boundaries of empire, we get a clearer sense of the stakes of Victorian place-making. In this essay I briefly examine a case of two hundred migrants from Scotland to Venezuela in the 1820s as a model for a different kind of analysis that thinks about …
The nineteenth-century opium complex
This introduction to the special issue proposes that two discrete nineteenth-century histories of opium – a literary history, initiated by the drug confessions of De Quincey, and a colonial history, exemplified by the commercial activities of the East India Company (in which Thomas Love Peacock participated) in cultivating opium in Bengal for export to China, leading to the first Opium War – are common elements in a nineteenth-century ‘opium comp…
De Quincey, Malthus and the Anachronism-Effect
READERS HAVE LONG BEEN PERPLEXED BY THE QUESTION OF DE QUINCEY'S place in literary history. A writer whose works traverse five decades, from some juvenilia and an early diary written in 1803, to his death in 1859, he is most often taken to be a minor, late Romantic, out of step with the times, an ineffectual dreamer, whose preoccupations and voice betray an allegiance with the older generation of Lakeland writers. (1) Alina Clej, on the other han…
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
‘he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked – “Mamma, why are you so wicked?”’ The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, 'Helen Graham' is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive influence. Her diary entries reveal the shocking world …
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
Scope and content: "Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global int…
Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics
The following Turning Point offers responses, from four leading critics, to Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth Century Fiction. At a time when the meaning and
Hospitality in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda
This article considers two works by Eliot, Silas Marner , her most provincial of novels, and Daniel Deronda , the most cosmopolitan, through the lens of hospitality. Both novels repeatedly stage scenes in which a stranger arrives, and is welcomed or excluded by their hosts. Through these scenes, both novels examine questions regarding refuge, asylum, and settlement, as well as the politics of kinship and the exclusion of women from democratic soc…
The nineteenth-century opium complex
This introduction to the special issue proposes that two discrete nineteenth-century histories of opium – a literary history, initiated by the drug confessions of De Quincey, and a colonial history, exemplified by the commercial activities of the East India Company (in which Thomas Love Peacock participated) in cultivating opium in Bengal for export to China, leading to the first Opium War – are common elements in a nineteenth-century ‘opium comp…
Victorians in Dislocation
Population mobility is an analytic category through which we can reconsider nineteenth-century literature and its locations, and not just through an imperial lens. If we look beyond the geographical boundaries of empire, we get a clearer sense of the stakes of Victorian place-making. In this essay I briefly examine a case of two hundred migrants from Scotland to Venezuela in the 1820s as a model for a different kind of analysis that thinks about …
Introduction to Laura Marcus, Rhythm
This Introduction to Laura Marcus's final monumental but unfinished work describes her wholly new understanding of the central importance of rhythm across the arts and sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The turn to rhythm was formative in many fields and comprehended poetry, music, dance, sculpture, painting, photography, film, gymnastics, physics, education, psychology, physiology, thinking about race, class and gender, the past…
The Oxford Handbook of Literature and Migration
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
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