Tanya Agathocleous
Biographic Data
| ID | 253142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanya Agathocleous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Agathocleous |
| SIGNATURE | AGATHOCLEOUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disaffected
This book examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term “disaffection” to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, the book shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared …
Disaffected Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere
Disaffected examines the effects of anti-sedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124A, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing t…
Circulation
who exhibited work at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists during the 1880s and early 90s. If he created Cherry Un-Ripe, then he did it in his late 20s
Criticism on Trial
In the late nineteenth century, the British government in India attempted to quell anti-colonial critique by criminalizing negative affect. This essay explores the relationship between “disaffection” and critique in this period by comparing the trial of the Bangavasi in 1891 (the first attempt to prosecute a newspaper using the law against disaffection) and the trials of Oscar Wilde four years later; it demonstrates how and why both were centrall…
The Coming Clash of East and West
This essay analyses the modernist Indian journal ‘East and West’, published in Bombay from 1901 to 1921, as a significant instance of how and why syncretic ideals circulated in the colonial public sphere in India. The idea of East–West union, I argue, was a form of modernist cosmopolitanism that mediated between Enlightenment public sphere ideals and an emergent, ‘spiritual cosmopolitanism’, critical of Western values. It was also a way to confor…
Postcards from the Apocalypse
This article examines the way Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson’ film trilogy – and in particular the film London – draws on forms, images, and ideas from Victorian literary and visual culture. Like many Victorian texts that focus on the British capital, Keiller’s London uses antithetical scales. The fragmentary perspective of the visual–verbal sketch tradition, exemplified by Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, and the panoramic overview to which Victo…
In the Present of No Future
In the Present of No Future Tanya Agathocleous (bio) Questions about the relation between present and past have become increasingly urgent as we reach new levels of existential despair in the face of political impasse, neoliberal rationalization, and environmental catastrophe. There is an overriding sense—discernible across high theory and public discourse alike—that we are living in the present of no future.1 How can strategic presentism help us…
Imperial, Anglophone, Geopolitical, Worldly
In the last decade or so , Victorian studies – the only major literary field identified with a British ruler – has begun a slow but inexorable shift away from its traditional nation-based parameters. A cursory glance through the book review section of prominent Victorianist journals reveals that approximately half of new books reviewed treat subjects that extend beyond Britain and British literature: Ireland, India, slavery, settler literature, C…
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851
Cosmopolitanism and Literary Form
This essay examines recent work on cosmopolitanism in literary studies, with a focus on questions of form. Starting with the emergence of the ‘new cosmopolitanisms’ in the 1990s, I look at the controversies that have beset the term and show how these are related to its multiple meanings. I then turn to cosmopolitanism’s impact on the field of literary studies and argue that analyses of cosmopolitan literature that employ formalist as well as hist…
Victorian Cosmopolitanisms
Though it has become conventional to refer to the “new cosmopolitanisms” when discussing the resurgence of the term in the 1990s, current debates about cosmopolitanism can be traced back to its usages in the nineteenth century. In both its Victorian and contemporary contexts, cosmopolitanism ranges in connotation from the pejorative to the progressive and in denotation from a phenomenon to an ideal. This constitutive ambivalence helps to explain …
Metropolis on the Styx
Reviewed by: Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 Tanya Agathocleous (bio) Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001, by David L. Pike; pp. xvii + 377. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007, $69.95, $27.95 paper, £35.50, £13.95 paper. Metropolis on the Styx sets out to explore the significance of the underworld in modern urban culture and its crucial role in the ph…
London Mysteries and international conspiracies
In his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet (1888), Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery in question by dramatically demonstrating that a murder in the British capital is connected to political and
Victorian Cosmopolitanisms
Though it has become conventional to refer to the “new cosmopolitanisms” when discussing the resurgence of the term in the 1990s, current debates about cosmopolitanism can be traced back to its usages in the nineteenth century. In both its Victorian and contemporary contexts, cosmopolitanism ranges in connotation from the pejorative to the progressive and in denotation from a phenomenon to an ideal. This constitutive ambivalence helps to explain …
Disaffected Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere
Disaffected examines the effects of anti-sedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124A, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing t…
London Mysteries and international conspiracies
In his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet (1888), Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery in question by dramatically demonstrating that a murder in the British capital is connected to political and
Criticism on Trial
In the late nineteenth century, the British government in India attempted to quell anti-colonial critique by criminalizing negative affect. This essay explores the relationship between “disaffection” and critique in this period by comparing the trial of the Bangavasi in 1891 (the first attempt to prosecute a newspaper using the law against disaffection) and the trials of Oscar Wilde four years later; it demonstrates how and why both were centrall…
London Mysteries and international conspiracies
In his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet (1888), Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery in question by dramatically demonstrating that a murder in the British capital is connected to political and
Metropolis on the Styx
Reviewed by: Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 Tanya Agathocleous (bio) Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001, by David L. Pike; pp. xvii + 377. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007, $69.95, $27.95 paper, £35.50, £13.95 paper. Metropolis on the Styx sets out to explore the significance of the underworld in modern urban culture and its crucial role in the ph…
Cosmopolitanism and Literary Form
This essay examines recent work on cosmopolitanism in literary studies, with a focus on questions of form. Starting with the emergence of the ‘new cosmopolitanisms’ in the 1990s, I look at the controversies that have beset the term and show how these are related to its multiple meanings. I then turn to cosmopolitanism’s impact on the field of literary studies and argue that analyses of cosmopolitan literature that employ formalist as well as hist…
Victorian Cosmopolitanisms
Though it has become conventional to refer to the “new cosmopolitanisms” when discussing the resurgence of the term in the 1990s, current debates about cosmopolitanism can be traced back to its usages in the nineteenth century. In both its Victorian and contemporary contexts, cosmopolitanism ranges in connotation from the pejorative to the progressive and in denotation from a phenomenon to an ideal. This constitutive ambivalence helps to explain …
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851
Imperial, Anglophone, Geopolitical, Worldly
In the last decade or so , Victorian studies – the only major literary field identified with a British ruler – has begun a slow but inexorable shift away from its traditional nation-based parameters. A cursory glance through the book review section of prominent Victorianist journals reveals that approximately half of new books reviewed treat subjects that extend beyond Britain and British literature: Ireland, India, slavery, settler literature, C…
Postcards from the Apocalypse
This article examines the way Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson’ film trilogy – and in particular the film London – draws on forms, images, and ideas from Victorian literary and visual culture. Like many Victorian texts that focus on the British capital, Keiller’s London uses antithetical scales. The fragmentary perspective of the visual–verbal sketch tradition, exemplified by Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, and the panoramic overview to which Victo…
In the Present of No Future
In the Present of No Future Tanya Agathocleous (bio) Questions about the relation between present and past have become increasingly urgent as we reach new levels of existential despair in the face of political impasse, neoliberal rationalization, and environmental catastrophe. There is an overriding sense—discernible across high theory and public discourse alike—that we are living in the present of no future.1 How can strategic presentism help us…
The Coming Clash of East and West
This essay analyses the modernist Indian journal ‘East and West’, published in Bombay from 1901 to 1921, as a significant instance of how and why syncretic ideals circulated in the colonial public sphere in India. The idea of East–West union, I argue, was a form of modernist cosmopolitanism that mediated between Enlightenment public sphere ideals and an emergent, ‘spiritual cosmopolitanism’, critical of Western values. It was also a way to confor…
Circulation
who exhibited work at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists during the 1880s and early 90s. If he created Cherry Un-Ripe, then he did it in his late 20s
Criticism on Trial
In the late nineteenth century, the British government in India attempted to quell anti-colonial critique by criminalizing negative affect. This essay explores the relationship between “disaffection” and critique in this period by comparing the trial of the Bangavasi in 1891 (the first attempt to prosecute a newspaper using the law against disaffection) and the trials of Oscar Wilde four years later; it demonstrates how and why both were centrall…
Disaffected
This book examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term “disaffection” to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, the book shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared …
Disaffected Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere
Disaffected examines the effects of anti-sedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124A, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing t…
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