Elizabeth Helsinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 256378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Helsinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Helsinger |
| SIGNATURE | HELSINGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2242-0615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conversing in Verse
Picturing Music
What happens when the visual subject of ekphrastic writing is itself a representation of music – music as it is made and heard by the figures in a picture? In the six sonnets considered in this essay, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – himself an artist as well as a poet – doubles the ekphrastic action to summon an elusive music from what is offered to the eye alone. The poems on the page, in these examples, explore both the promise and the limits of poetr…
Jonathan Culler. Theory of the Lyric . Cambridge, Mass
Previous articleNext article FreeThe CI ReviewJonathan Culler. Theory of the Lyric. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 391pp.Elizabeth HelsingerElizabeth Helsinger Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreShould there be an article, definite or indefinite, before Theory? Is this theo…
Poem Into Song
Much attention has been given to what happens when a song becomes a poem-particularly in the case of the "artifactualization" of the ballad and folk song when it is collected and circulated in print (its "remediation," as Maureen McLane more neutrally puts it). Such medium-shifting was widespread in the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, with the collecting, editing, and printing of old songs and ballads. This essay looks…
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Desire & Excess
Elizabeth Helsinger, Victorian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Fourth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Held Jointly with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting (Winter, 2007), pp. 389-392
Reflections on Reflections; or, Moving On
Millennial Ruskins
Humphry Repton
Rural Scenes and National Representation
Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground. No image o…
Ruskin and the politics of viewing
In June of 1870, Charles Eliot Norton wrote his friend John Ruskin to thank him for a copy of a recent lecture. Ruskin had delivered the lecture four months earlier, when he was inaugurated as the first Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford. The American, then in Italy, had not yet begun his parallel efforts to incorporate the study of the fine arts into the Harvard undergraduate curriculum. Norton praised Ruskin's lecture, but added, With what …
Consumer Power and the Utopia of Desire
The language of Christina Rossetti's best-known poem, Goblin Market, is remarkably mercantile. Come come buy, the iterated cry of the merchant men that punctuates the poem, has few parallels in English poetry in the nineteenth century. While buying and selling, markets and merchants and their customers, are a staple of nursery rhymes-To market, to market, jiggety jigmost literary Victorian poetry, like the little pig, resolutely stays home from c…
The Woman Question
Constable
Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet
Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
Constable
Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet
Picturing Music
What happens when the visual subject of ekphrastic writing is itself a representation of music – music as it is made and heard by the figures in a picture? In the six sonnets considered in this essay, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – himself an artist as well as a poet – doubles the ekphrastic action to summon an elusive music from what is offered to the eye alone. The poems on the page, in these examples, explore both the promise and the limits of poetr…
The Woman Question
Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet
Constable
Consumer Power and the Utopia of Desire
The language of Christina Rossetti's best-known poem, Goblin Market, is remarkably mercantile. Come come buy, the iterated cry of the merchant men that punctuates the poem, has few parallels in English poetry in the nineteenth century. While buying and selling, markets and merchants and their customers, are a staple of nursery rhymes-To market, to market, jiggety jigmost literary Victorian poetry, like the little pig, resolutely stays home from c…
The Woman Question
Ruskin and the politics of viewing
In June of 1870, Charles Eliot Norton wrote his friend John Ruskin to thank him for a copy of a recent lecture. Ruskin had delivered the lecture four months earlier, when he was inaugurated as the first Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford. The American, then in Italy, had not yet begun his parallel efforts to incorporate the study of the fine arts into the Harvard undergraduate curriculum. Norton praised Ruskin's lecture, but added, With what …
Rural Scenes and National Representation
Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground. No image o…
Humphry Repton
Millennial Ruskins
Reflections on Reflections; or, Moving On
Desire & Excess
Elizabeth Helsinger, Victorian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Fourth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Held Jointly with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting (Winter, 2007), pp. 389-392
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Poem Into Song
Much attention has been given to what happens when a song becomes a poem-particularly in the case of the "artifactualization" of the ballad and folk song when it is collected and circulated in print (its "remediation," as Maureen McLane more neutrally puts it). Such medium-shifting was widespread in the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, with the collecting, editing, and printing of old songs and ballads. This essay looks…
Jonathan Culler. Theory of the Lyric . Cambridge, Mass
Previous articleNext article FreeThe CI ReviewJonathan Culler. Theory of the Lyric. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 391pp.Elizabeth HelsingerElizabeth Helsinger Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreShould there be an article, definite or indefinite, before Theory? Is this theo…
Conversing in Verse
Picturing Music
What happens when the visual subject of ekphrastic writing is itself a representation of music – music as it is made and heard by the figures in a picture? In the six sonnets considered in this essay, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – himself an artist as well as a poet – doubles the ekphrastic action to summon an elusive music from what is offered to the eye alone. The poems on the page, in these examples, explore both the promise and the limits of poetr…
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