Robert Markley
Biographic Data
| ID | 256384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Markley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Markley |
| SIGNATURE | MARKLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fort Hays State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defoe and the Pacific
Daniel Defoe was fascinated by the Pacific Ocean. From his early journalistic works to his last novel, he projected onto the region a vision of the endless profits to be made by exploiting opportunities for trade, piracy, and colonization. In Defoe’s era, the Pacific was perceived as a mosaic of distinct regions and spheres of influence: the trade-rich coastal waters of China; the unapproachable empire of Japan; the South Seas along the coasts of…
The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England by Eric H. Ash
Reviewed by: The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England by Eric H. Ash Robert Markley (bio) The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England By Eric H. Ash. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 296. In his 1704 work The Storm, a text that describes the devastation of the extratropical hurricane that struck southwestern England…
Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company
Kim Stanley Robinson
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent
Although noteworthy historians – including Peter Beaglehole, O.H.K. Spate, Glyndwr Williams, John Gascoigne, Vivian Salmon, and Jonathan Lamb, among others – have authored ground-breaking works abo
Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read and influential science-fiction writers of our era. In dicussing eighteen of his novels published since 1984 and a selection of his short fiction, this study explores the significance of his work in reshaping contemporary literature. Three of the chapters are devoted to Robinson's major trilogies: the Orange County trilogy (1984-90), the Mars trilogy (1992-96), and…
As If: The Alternative Histories of Literature and Science
As If:The Alternative Histories of Literature and Science Robert Markley (bio) It may be difficult for some readers to imagine, but the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts antedates the appearance of the World Wide Web by almost a decade. From its beginnings in the 1980s, SLSA's conferences and later Configurations registered the widespread changes that computer technologies were making to the history and philosophy of science, medicine…
Alexander Hamilton, the Mughal War, and the Critique of the East India Company
Arguably the most influential account of South and Southeast Asia published in Britain before the mid-eighteenth century, Alexander Hamilton's New Account of the East-Indies (1727) has been ignored or marginalized by recent historians of the British East India Company. Hamilton spent thirty-five years in the East Indies as an independent trader, spoke several Asian languages, and offers the only eyewitness account in many cases of critical episod…
China and the English Enlightenment: Literature, Aesthetics, and Commerce
China played a crucial role in the transformation of English ideas of civilization, enlightenment, and aesthetics during the 18th century. Well into the century, China served two crucial and imaginary roles for British readers: it offered the fantasy of both an insatiable market for British exports and an inexhaustible storehouse of luxury goods (from tea to textiles) that could be paid for by exports rather than silver bullion. Such idealization…
How to go forward: Catastrophe and Comedy in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy dramatizes how climate change profoundly unsettles traditional understandings of ecology and politics. By treating science as an integral part of an ethical and spiritual-rather than instrumental-solution to environmental crisis, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below , and Sixty Days and Counting depict an ongoing project of national, as well as spiritual, renewal. Drawing on work in climat…
On Missing Links and Such: Interfaces between Cognitive Research and Everyday Problem-Solving
In this article, based on a symposium presented at the Gerontological Society meeting in 1982, several reconceptualizations of adult cognitive development and its relations with everyday problem-solving are presented. From research showing that older adults have little difficulty remembering sentences involving sudden insight, it is suggested that some age-related differences in remembering reflect a higher criterion for deeper semantic processin…
Monsoon Cultures: Climate and Acculturation in Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East Indies
Alexander Hamilton's account of his thirty-five years as a merchant and ship's captain in the Far East (c. 1688-1723) describes the interanimating processes of his acculturation to the peoples, languages, and cultures he encounters and his acclimatization to the monsoon-driven winds, tides, and seasons of a region alien to the experience of his British readers. In its geographical, environmental, and cultural specificity, Hamilton's New Account r…
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination
The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
With a tightly focussed discussion that bridges economics and textual analysis, Robert Markley challenges long-held historical narratives that place mercantilism in England and Europe as the dominant financial force of the seventeenth century.Markley examines China, Moghul India, and Japan as indispensable powerhouses in the business of trade.The English literature of 1600-1730 often imagines the Far East as simultaneously hungry for English good…
Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past
Robert Markley is professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is author of Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (1988), Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740(1993), and Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation (forthcoming). He is completing a book on European literature in the Asian-dominated world of the…
Riches, power, trade and religion: The Far East and the English imagination, 1600–1720
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
Land enough in the World: "Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of "Use
Research Article| October 01 1999 "Land enough in the World": Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of "Use" Robert Markley Robert Markley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 817–837. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-4-817 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Markley; "Land enough in the World": Locke's Gol…
Foucault, Modernity, and the Cultural Study of Science
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 1999
Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History
Research Article| May 01 1997 Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History Robert Markley Robert Markley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-75 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Markley; Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History. …
Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
From the Publisher: The recognition the cyberspace is a fiction--a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine 'really' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks
Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace
Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace Robert Markley (bio) I To listen to its proponents, one would think that cyberspace has no past. Since William Gibson coined the term in Neuromancer, his “consensual hallucination” has become almost a brand name for life in the postmodern, postindustrial age—a cyborg existence irrevocably dependent on technological interventions in and augmentations of our bodies. 1 Most descr…
Shreds and Patches: The Morphogenesis of Cyberspace
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1994
Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle: A Guide to the Manuscripts and Microfilm . Michael Hunter , Paul Kesaris , James P. Hoy
The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought
Reviewed by: The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought Robert Markley (bio) Betty Jo Tetter Dobbs. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii + 359 pp. $37.50. In the epilogue to The Janus Faces of Genius, Betty Jo Dobbs recounts the ways in which her book developed since it was first conceived (in 1974) as a continuation of the project she began i…
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
How to go forward: Catastrophe and Comedy in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy dramatizes how climate change profoundly unsettles traditional understandings of ecology and politics. By treating science as an integral part of an ethical and spiritual-rather than instrumental-solution to environmental crisis, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below , and Sixty Days and Counting depict an ongoing project of national, as well as spiritual, renewal. Drawing on work in climat…
Alexander Hamilton, the Mughal War, and the Critique of the East India Company
Arguably the most influential account of South and Southeast Asia published in Britain before the mid-eighteenth century, Alexander Hamilton's New Account of the East-Indies (1727) has been ignored or marginalized by recent historians of the British East India Company. Hamilton spent thirty-five years in the East Indies as an independent trader, spoke several Asian languages, and offers the only eyewitness account in many cases of critical episod…
Land enough in the World: "Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of "Use
Research Article| October 01 1999 "Land enough in the World": Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of "Use" Robert Markley Robert Markley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 817–837. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-4-817 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Markley; "Land enough in the World": Locke's Gol…
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Physical Attractiveness and Locus of Control in Elementary School Children
The relationship of physical attractiveness and locus of control in 126 elementary school children, Grades 3 through 6, was investigated. The study was an attempt to observe, with children, the phenomenon reported in 1978 by Anderson for college subjects, namely, a curvilinear relationship between physical attractiveness and locus of control. 10 independent adult observers rated yearbook pictures of children on physical attractiveness. The mean r…
Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism
Perceptions of Solicited Versus Unsolicited Selfdisclosure
The present investigation examined perception of persons who emitted unsolicited self-disclosure as compared to perception of persons who emitted solicited self-disclosure. Sex differences were also examined. Subjects were 158 undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to listen to one of four audiotapes. The audiotaped vignette consisted of actors emitting either solicited or unsolicited selfdisclosure. Subjects rated the actors on social…
Common and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in 18th-Century British Literature
Contributions to the History of Psychology: XLV. Attitude Research: George A. Kelly's Use of Polar Adjectives
This article presents information about Dr. George A. Kelly's work in attitude measurement while he was at Fort Hays Kansas State College (1931–1943). The use of bipolar scales to measure the attitudes and the progress of clients supports Kelly's Dichotomy Corollary, in addition to providing external validity for the use of the Semantic Differential
Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge
Other| December 01 1989 Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge James Engell. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. x + 322 pp. $30.00. Robert Markley Robert Markley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (4): 398–401. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-50-4-398 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robe…
Age and Living Conditions as Related to Perceptions of Ambiguous Figures
For ambiguous figures, reversing and embedded/hidden subfigures, data were obtained from four groups of 20 subjects each varying in age (young or elderly) and living environments (in college, in the community, and in nursing homes or confined to an institution). 10 men and 10 women were tested in each of the four groups. Dependent measures were the number of reversals passively reported for the Necker cube, the Mach book, the Schroeder staircase …
What Isn't History: The Snares of Demystifying Ideological Criticism
Complex Dynamics: Literature, Science, and Postdisciplinarity
A wager: postdisciplinarity will be to the 1990s what deconstruction was to the 1980s. This bet will, no doubt, offer scant comfort to those who thought it was safe to go back into the classroom, that historynew, old, or repackaged-had re-emerged to provide a basis from which to hold forth on Milton, Blake, Shelley, and other canonical figures. Postdisciplinarity has not yet caught on as a catchphrase nor sharply etched itself on the collective c…
Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle: A Guide to the Manuscripts and Microfilm . Michael Hunter , Paul Kesaris , James P. Hoy
The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought
Reviewed by: The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought Robert Markley (bio) Betty Jo Tetter Dobbs. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii + 359 pp. $37.50. In the epilogue to The Janus Faces of Genius, Betty Jo Dobbs recounts the ways in which her book developed since it was first conceived (in 1974) as a continuation of the project she began i…
Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace
Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace Robert Markley (bio) I To listen to its proponents, one would think that cyberspace has no past. Since William Gibson coined the term in Neuromancer, his “consensual hallucination” has become almost a brand name for life in the postmodern, postindustrial age—a cyborg existence irrevocably dependent on technological interventions in and augmentations of our bodies. 1 Most descr…
Shreds and Patches: The Morphogenesis of Cyberspace
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1994
Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History
Research Article| May 01 1997 Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History Robert Markley Robert Markley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-75 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Markley; Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History. …
Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
From the Publisher: The recognition the cyberspace is a fiction--a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine 'really' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks
Land enough in the World: "Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of "Use
Research Article| October 01 1999 "Land enough in the World": Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of "Use" Robert Markley Robert Markley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 817–837. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-4-817 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Markley; "Land enough in the World": Locke's Gol…
Foucault, Modernity, and the Cultural Study of Science
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 1999
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
Riches, power, trade and religion: The Far East and the English imagination, 1600–1720
Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past
Robert Markley is professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is author of Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (1988), Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740(1993), and Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation (forthcoming). He is completing a book on European literature in the Asian-dominated world of the…
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination
The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
With a tightly focussed discussion that bridges economics and textual analysis, Robert Markley challenges long-held historical narratives that place mercantilism in England and Europe as the dominant financial force of the seventeenth century.Markley examines China, Moghul India, and Japan as indispensable powerhouses in the business of trade.The English literature of 1600-1730 often imagines the Far East as simultaneously hungry for English good…
Monsoon Cultures: Climate and Acculturation in Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East Indies
Alexander Hamilton's account of his thirty-five years as a merchant and ship's captain in the Far East (c. 1688-1723) describes the interanimating processes of his acculturation to the peoples, languages, and cultures he encounters and his acclimatization to the monsoon-driven winds, tides, and seasons of a region alien to the experience of his British readers. In its geographical, environmental, and cultural specificity, Hamilton's New Account r…
On Missing Links and Such: Interfaces between Cognitive Research and Everyday Problem-Solving
In this article, based on a symposium presented at the Gerontological Society meeting in 1982, several reconceptualizations of adult cognitive development and its relations with everyday problem-solving are presented. From research showing that older adults have little difficulty remembering sentences involving sudden insight, it is suggested that some age-related differences in remembering reflect a higher criterion for deeper semantic processin…
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