Deidre Shauna Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 283590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deidre Shauna Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deidre Shauna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charles Lamb's Pen-Pushing
This essay explores the works and work-life of Charles Lamb: essayist, East India Company "writer," or clerk, and a literary celebrity unusually willing to supply autographic writing to his fans. Against the backdrop of narratives of media shift and ideals of workforce efficiency crystallizing during Lamb's lifetime, it analyzes the conflicting cultures of penmanship that funneled into the manuscript book-a category that, we should more often rec…
On Keeping Things as Books
Music, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a reposit…
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature is part of a major reference publishing initiative from Oxford University Press to provide current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy research, read in 30 minutes or less, that better serves the changing needs of university-level digital research by acting as both a living repository and a timeless legacy. It evolves as the discipline evolves, constantly reflecting and inspiring new debates within the acade…
Persuasion
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with no fortune, ancestry, or prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chan…
On Keeping Things as Books
Music, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a reposit…
Persuasion
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with no fortune, ancestry, or prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chan…
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature is part of a major reference publishing initiative from Oxford University Press to provide current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy research, read in 30 minutes or less, that better serves the changing needs of university-level digital research by acting as both a living repository and a timeless legacy. It evolves as the discipline evolves, constantly reflecting and inspiring new debates within the acade…
Charles Lamb's Pen-Pushing
This essay explores the works and work-life of Charles Lamb: essayist, East India Company "writer," or clerk, and a literary celebrity unusually willing to supply autographic writing to his fans. Against the backdrop of narratives of media shift and ideals of workforce efficiency crystallizing during Lamb's lifetime, it analyzes the conflicting cultures of penmanship that funneled into the manuscript book-a category that, we should more often rec…
On Keeping Things as Books
Music, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a reposit…
History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · 19th century (1 work) · 823/.7 (1 work) · Anne Elliot (1 work) · anne Elliot (1787-) (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Armed Forces (1 work) · Armed Forces, fiction (1 work)