Rachel Ablow
Biographic Data
| ID | 283580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Ablow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ablow |
| SIGNATURE | ABLOW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Belief and Disbelief After Secularization
Readers have always been fascinated by the tension between belief and disbelief in the working of fiction. Until recently, however, critics have tended to agree that the questions it raises took on particular urgency in the eighteenth century with the development of the novel form—a form whose length and power to absorb the reader raise the stakes around what we think we're doing when we read them. The essays in this issue suggest that in the wak…
Revenge Tragedy: Harriet Martineau, the Haitian Revolution, and Reparations
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Postcritique and the Poetics of Disagreement in George Eliot's Romola
Research Article| August 01 2021 Postcritique and the Poetics of Disagreement in George Eliot's Romola Rachel Ablow Rachel Ablow RACHEL ABLOW is professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot (2007) and Victorian Pain (2017). She is the editor of The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature (2010) and a special issue of R…
An Interview with Elaine SCARRY
In this interview, Elaine Scarry elaborates on her writing and activism in relation to the threat of nuclear war
The Social Life of Pain
This essay introduces the topics discussed and the individual articles included in the special issue "The Social Life of Pain
The Counterfactual in the Age of Trump
“If Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election ...” Wouldn't it be nice to climb down into that imaginative rabbit hole and stay there for a while? The possibilities are so reassuringly normal—as opposed to the strange nightmare in which we find ourselves today. For the purposes of this roundtable, however, I wish to consider only one small potential consequence of a Hillary win: and that is what it would have been like to read Catherine Gallagher…
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Introduction: Victorian Emotions
Introduction: Victorian Emotions Rachel Ablow (bio) The emotions provide an especially appropriate subject for a journal committed to interdisciplinary inquiry. Those diverse feelings and sensations commonly grouped together as “the emotions” almost invariably fall between apparently stable domains—whether of the physiological and the psychological, the individual and the social, or the human and the nonhuman. As a result, they challenge the stab…
Victorian Feeling and the Victorian Novel
This article examines the recent explosion of interest in the emotions in the context of the Victorian novel. It focuses specifically on work published since the “theoretical turn” of the 1970s, describing how recent feminist critics have expanded the range of texts we examine and questioned the value we grant or refuse to sentimental literature, how Foucauldian critics have called attention to the historicity of the emotions, and how post‐Althus…
Victorian Feeling and the Victorian Novel
This article examines the recent explosion of interest in the emotions in the context of the Victorian novel. It focuses specifically on work published since the “theoretical turn” of the 1970s, describing how recent feminist critics have expanded the range of texts we examine and questioned the value we grant or refuse to sentimental literature, how Foucauldian critics have called attention to the historicity of the emotions, and how post‐Althus…
The Social Life of Pain
This essay introduces the topics discussed and the individual articles included in the special issue "The Social Life of Pain
Introduction: Victorian Emotions
Introduction: Victorian Emotions Rachel Ablow (bio) The emotions provide an especially appropriate subject for a journal committed to interdisciplinary inquiry. Those diverse feelings and sensations commonly grouped together as “the emotions” almost invariably fall between apparently stable domains—whether of the physiological and the psychological, the individual and the social, or the human and the nonhuman. As a result, they challenge the stab…
Victorian Feeling and the Victorian Novel
This article examines the recent explosion of interest in the emotions in the context of the Victorian novel. It focuses specifically on work published since the “theoretical turn” of the 1970s, describing how recent feminist critics have expanded the range of texts we examine and questioned the value we grant or refuse to sentimental literature, how Foucauldian critics have called attention to the historicity of the emotions, and how post‐Althus…
Introduction: Victorian Emotions
Introduction: Victorian Emotions Rachel Ablow (bio) The emotions provide an especially appropriate subject for a journal committed to interdisciplinary inquiry. Those diverse feelings and sensations commonly grouped together as “the emotions” almost invariably fall between apparently stable domains—whether of the physiological and the psychological, the individual and the social, or the human and the nonhuman. As a result, they challenge the stab…
The Counterfactual in the Age of Trump
“If Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election ...” Wouldn't it be nice to climb down into that imaginative rabbit hole and stay there for a while? The possibilities are so reassuringly normal—as opposed to the strange nightmare in which we find ourselves today. For the purposes of this roundtable, however, I wish to consider only one small potential consequence of a Hillary win: and that is what it would have been like to read Catherine Gallagher…
Keywords
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
An Interview with Elaine SCARRY
In this interview, Elaine Scarry elaborates on her writing and activism in relation to the threat of nuclear war
The Social Life of Pain
This essay introduces the topics discussed and the individual articles included in the special issue "The Social Life of Pain
Postcritique and the Poetics of Disagreement in George Eliot's Romola
Research Article| August 01 2021 Postcritique and the Poetics of Disagreement in George Eliot's Romola Rachel Ablow Rachel Ablow RACHEL ABLOW is professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot (2007) and Victorian Pain (2017). She is the editor of The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature (2010) and a special issue of R…
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Introduction: Belief and Disbelief After Secularization
Readers have always been fascinated by the tension between belief and disbelief in the working of fiction. Until recently, however, critics have tended to agree that the questions it raises took on particular urgency in the eighteenth century with the development of the novel form—a form whose length and power to absorb the reader raise the stakes around what we think we're doing when we read them. The essays in this issue suggest that in the wak…
Revenge Tragedy: Harriet Martineau, the Haitian Revolution, and Reparations
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