Seth Koven
Biographic Data
| ID | 181407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Koven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Koven |
| SIGNATURE | KOVEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4264-9989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
One British Archive: Seeing the Rev. John Clifford Archives and the Gender of Passive Resistance
This article discusses the archives of Westbourne Park Baptist Church in London and its world-renowned pastor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dr. John Clifford. As leader of the National Passive Resistance League, the fiery Clifford came to be synonymous with the Nonconformist conscience at the height of its political influence in the early twentieth century. The article foregrounds the tension between what I call archival intima…
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India
This article argues that fromcirca1845-1857, British colonial officials and administrators, abetted by Protestant missionaries and some so-called 'native Christians', attempted to replace Brahmanical regulation of everyday life with what I am calling 'governance by conscience' in British India. It uses the 1851 legal ruling inNarayen Ramchundur versus Luxmeebae, hailed by some for bringing 'liberty of conscience' and condemned by others as a want…
How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies
The Marriage of Social Science and Literary Criticism in The Other Victorians
The Marriage of Social Science and Literary Criticism in The Other Victorians Seth Koven (bio) “I begin this book with an account of its origins.” Preface to The Other Victorians Steven Marcus’s brilliant, field-forming book, The Other Victorians (1966) opens with a fragment of autobiography and a genealogy, at once personal and professional. Its preface captures a moment in the history of literary history and in the history of the history of sex…
Uncommon History
Alison Light’s Common People, the History of an English Family is uncommon history of the highest order. Light binds together thinking with feeling as she toggles between small and big; inside and out; the intimate and the impersonal; literature and history; the local, the national and the global. Common People reworks a venerable tradition of social history that reclaims the lives of humble people, like her own ancestors, who made nails, saddles…
Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
Thomas Laqueur
In this interview, Thomas Laqueur ranges widely across his childhood in 1940s Istanbul and 1950s small-town West Virginia to his “crisis” as a social historian that propelled him to cultural history and the study of sexuality and to his attempt to understand the cultural work of the dead. Friendship emerges not only as a thread connecting his various intellectual enterprises but as his way of exploring and living in the world
The "Sticky Sediment" of Daily Life: Radical Domesticity, Revolutionary Christianity, and the Problem of Wealth in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s
This essay examines an early twentieth-century Christian revolutionary habitus-a "technique of Christian living"-based on the conviction that everyday life was an essential site for reconciling the claims of individual and community, the material and the spiritual. The pacifist-feminist members of London's first "people's house," Kingsley Hall, linked their vision of Jesus's inclusive and unbounded love for humanity to their belief in the ethical…
Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914
Journal Article Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914 Get access Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914, by Ruth Livesey (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. 236. £30). Seth Koven Seth Koven Rutgers University, New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 515, August 2010, Pages 1031–1032, https://d…
The Queer Politics of Slumming
Heart of the Fire, p. 174 and Baxell, British Volunteers, pp. 63–4. 29 ‘There was always considerable tension between the Americans and the British’: Hopkins, Into the Heart of the Fire, pp. 273–4. See also Baxell, British Volunteers, p. 147. 30 Petrou, Renegades, p. 110.
Prisoners of Their Beds: Invalids, Injured Soldiers, and Cultures of Convalescence in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
Book Review| January 01 2006 Prisoners of Their Beds: Invalids, Injured Soldiers, and Cultures of Convalescence in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Britain Maria S. Frawley, Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004; Jeffrey S. Reznick, Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2005. Seth Kov…
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
The Selfless and the Helpless: Maternalist Origins of the U.S. Welfare State
Dr. Barnardo’s “Artistic Fictions”: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London
Research Article| October 01 1997 Dr. Barnardo's "Artistic Fictions": Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London Seth Koven Seth Koven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (69): 6–45. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1997-69-6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The U.S. Case
Remembering and Dismemberment: Crippled Children, Wounded Soldiers, and the Great War in Great Britain
The Fetus, the Mother, the State, Social Policy, and Women's Citizenship
Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, 1880-1920
Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State
Research Article| January 01 1989 Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State Seth Koven; Seth Koven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sonya Michel Sonya Michel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 112–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-43-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Seth Koven, Sonya Michel; Gender and …
Remembering and Dismemberment: Crippled Children, Wounded Soldiers, and the Great War in Great Britain
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The U.S. Case
The Selfless and the Helpless: Maternalist Origins of the U.S. Welfare State
Dr. Barnardo’s “Artistic Fictions”: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London
Research Article| October 01 1997 Dr. Barnardo's "Artistic Fictions": Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London Seth Koven Seth Koven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (69): 6–45. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1997-69-6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State
Research Article| January 01 1989 Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State Seth Koven; Seth Koven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sonya Michel Sonya Michel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 112–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-43-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Seth Koven, Sonya Michel; Gender and …
The "Sticky Sediment" of Daily Life: Radical Domesticity, Revolutionary Christianity, and the Problem of Wealth in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s
This essay examines an early twentieth-century Christian revolutionary habitus-a "technique of Christian living"-based on the conviction that everyday life was an essential site for reconciling the claims of individual and community, the material and the spiritual. The pacifist-feminist members of London's first "people's house," Kingsley Hall, linked their vision of Jesus's inclusive and unbounded love for humanity to their belief in the ethical…
Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State
Research Article| January 01 1989 Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State Seth Koven; Seth Koven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sonya Michel Sonya Michel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 112–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-43-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Seth Koven, Sonya Michel; Gender and …
Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, 1880-1920
Remembering and Dismemberment: Crippled Children, Wounded Soldiers, and the Great War in Great Britain
The Fetus, the Mother, the State, Social Policy, and Women's Citizenship
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The U.S. Case
Dr. Barnardo’s “Artistic Fictions”: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London
Research Article| October 01 1997 Dr. Barnardo's "Artistic Fictions": Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London Seth Koven Seth Koven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (69): 6–45. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1997-69-6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
The Selfless and the Helpless: Maternalist Origins of the U.S. Welfare State
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Prisoners of Their Beds: Invalids, Injured Soldiers, and Cultures of Convalescence in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
Book Review| January 01 2006 Prisoners of Their Beds: Invalids, Injured Soldiers, and Cultures of Convalescence in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Britain Maria S. Frawley, Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004; Jeffrey S. Reznick, Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2005. Seth Kov…
The Queer Politics of Slumming
Heart of the Fire, p. 174 and Baxell, British Volunteers, pp. 63–4. 29 ‘There was always considerable tension between the Americans and the British’: Hopkins, Into the Heart of the Fire, pp. 273–4. See also Baxell, British Volunteers, p. 147. 30 Petrou, Renegades, p. 110.
Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914
Journal Article Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914 Get access Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914, by Ruth Livesey (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. 236. £30). Seth Koven Seth Koven Rutgers University, New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 515, August 2010, Pages 1031–1032, https://d…
The "Sticky Sediment" of Daily Life: Radical Domesticity, Revolutionary Christianity, and the Problem of Wealth in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s
This essay examines an early twentieth-century Christian revolutionary habitus-a "technique of Christian living"-based on the conviction that everyday life was an essential site for reconciling the claims of individual and community, the material and the spiritual. The pacifist-feminist members of London's first "people's house," Kingsley Hall, linked their vision of Jesus's inclusive and unbounded love for humanity to their belief in the ethical…
Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
Thomas Laqueur
In this interview, Thomas Laqueur ranges widely across his childhood in 1940s Istanbul and 1950s small-town West Virginia to his “crisis” as a social historian that propelled him to cultural history and the study of sexuality and to his attempt to understand the cultural work of the dead. Friendship emerges not only as a thread connecting his various intellectual enterprises but as his way of exploring and living in the world
How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies
The Marriage of Social Science and Literary Criticism in The Other Victorians
The Marriage of Social Science and Literary Criticism in The Other Victorians Seth Koven (bio) “I begin this book with an account of its origins.” Preface to The Other Victorians Steven Marcus’s brilliant, field-forming book, The Other Victorians (1966) opens with a fragment of autobiography and a genealogy, at once personal and professional. Its preface captures a moment in the history of literary history and in the history of the history of sex…
Uncommon History
Alison Light’s Common People, the History of an English Family is uncommon history of the highest order. Light binds together thinking with feeling as she toggles between small and big; inside and out; the intimate and the impersonal; literature and history; the local, the national and the global. Common People reworks a venerable tradition of social history that reclaims the lives of humble people, like her own ancestors, who made nails, saddles…
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India
This article argues that fromcirca1845-1857, British colonial officials and administrators, abetted by Protestant missionaries and some so-called 'native Christians', attempted to replace Brahmanical regulation of everyday life with what I am calling 'governance by conscience' in British India. It uses the 1851 legal ruling inNarayen Ramchundur versus Luxmeebae, hailed by some for bringing 'liberty of conscience' and condemned by others as a want…
One British Archive: Seeing the Rev. John Clifford Archives and the Gender of Passive Resistance
This article discusses the archives of Westbourne Park Baptist Church in London and its world-renowned pastor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dr. John Clifford. As leader of the National Passive Resistance League, the fiery Clifford came to be synonymous with the Nonconformist conscience at the height of its political influence in the early twentieth century. The article foregrounds the tension between what I call archival intima…
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