Madelaine Beaumont
Biographic Data
| ID | 283983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madelaine Beaumont |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madelaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaumont |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUMONT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCL Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5638-6083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Rhythmic and the Metronomic
The Third City
This article explores the concept of the Third City, which the neo-Hegelian philosopher Gillian Rose developed in her late work, most signally the inaugural lecture she gave at the University of Warwick in 1993. Rose maps the Third City in relation to Athens and Jerusalem, two ‘philosophemes’ whose opposition has been of foundational importance to Western thinking (though she also maps it in relation to a Fourth City, which she identifies as Ausc…
Selecting Approaches for Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is a commonly used research methodology in the social and human sciences. In this paper, we highlight two different approaches to discourse analysis and discuss critical elements of each approach. As researchers new to discourse analysis, two Masters of Nursing students reflect on the process of making careful choices when deciding on using an approach developed by Fairclough or Foucault. The decision making must consider the s…
Standing upright, unsleeping
This article reinterprets Prometheus as an archetype of wakefulness and watchfulness. In the Aeschylean version, this mythical hero, is a victim of what might be characterised as sleep deprivation. The article begins by situating Prometheus in mythographic terms, arguing that scholars have overlooked the importance of sleeplessness to Zeus's punishment of him. It proceeds to trace the changes between Hesiod's and the Aeschylean account, paying at…
A Psychoanalysis of Milk
In memory of Roland-François Lack Like Lina’s, the viewer’s suspicions are centred on the glass of milk. And it is this glass of milk, putatively poisoned, that is the focal point of my attempt in this article, pursuing hints to be found in the writings both of Gaston Bachelard and Jean-Paul Sartre, to outline a psychoanalysis of this peculiarly blank substance. Milk is a liquid that, in a symbolic sense, is superficially secure in its identifica…
The politics of the visor
Do we feel at home in the cities we inhabit? There are of course innumerable ways in which people, and especially the poor and those from marginalized social groups, experience an almost permanent sense of displacement in the urban environments in which they live. The built environment, of course, actively contributes to this condition of unease; and in the early 21st century, an epoch in which metropolitan centres are increasingly dense with pri…
Looking Through Lidless Eyes
The German painter Caspar David Friedrich's The Monk by the Sea (1808–10), a picture that has played an important role in accounts of the prehistory of twentieth-century abstract art, is significant among other reasons because it bravely refused painting's narrative vocation and in so doing radicalized the optics characteristic of the contemporary aesthetics of the sublime. Friedrich's contemporary, the novelist and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist,…
Stumbling in the dark
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him
In Darkest London
Reviewed by: Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Monika Elbert and Bridget M. Marshall, and: In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature by Jamieson Ridenhour Matthew Beaumont (bio) Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Monika Elbert and Bridget M. Marshall; pp. x + 269. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013, £34…
Transnational Gothic
In the beginning was the big toe
This article goes back to Georges Bataille's ruminations on the big toe, published in Documents in 1929, in order to make a materialist case for the claim that this digit is, above all for evolutionary reasons, definitive of human beings’ humanity. It explores the contradiction whereby the big toe, in spite of its anatomical importance in distinguishing human beings from their ancestors and their genetic cousins, that is, from other hominids and …
The Spectre of Utopia
Beginnings, endings, births, deaths
This article explores Dickens's attempt to think through the narrative problem of beginning and ending, with particular reference to Bleak House. Dickens is acutely conscious, it argues, of the ways in which beginnings and endings are mutually entangled, though this has not been reflected in the extensive scholarship on his fiction. The article suggests that Dickens uses the example of Sterne and, in particular, The Life and Opinions of Tristram …
Pater as Psychagogue
This article explores Pater’s use of the term ‘psychology’ in order to explore the relationship in his work between psychology and aesthetics, proposing that his allusion in Plato and Platonism to ‘psychagogia’, an ancient rhetorical practice, can productively be used to rethink this relationship, especially in relation to Studies in the History of the Renaissance
A Little Political World of My Own”
“I READ THE PAPERS and have a little political world of my own.” So Margaret Harkness confided to her second cousin Beatrice Potter (who would later marry the Fabian Sidney Webb) in a letter sent in February 1880 (qtd. in Hapgood 130). Subsequently disavowed by her repressive father, an Anglican priest, because she was insufficiently subordinate to him, Harkness was still living at home at this time. Her social isolation, as well as her political…
Shopping in Utopia
In News from Nowhere (1891), William Morris’s well‐known socialist utopia, the reader’s initial impression of central London, in the idyllic conditions of post‐capitalist society, occurs in a chapt
Red Sphinx
This article commences with the familiar claim that science fiction is a literature of estrangement and argues that, at times—as in the seminal case of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (l895)—sf produces a particularly unsettling form of estrangement that can be identified with Freud’s notion of the “uncanny.” The Time Machine is an uncanny text because it portrays an alien future in which the not so much militant as triumphant working class is secr…
Heathcliff's Great Hunger
Heathcliff's Great Hunger: The Cannibal Other in Wuthering Heights Get access Matthew Beaumont Matthew Beaumont 1Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 137–163, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.137 Published: 01 January 2004
News from Nowhere and the Here and Now
The Here and Now stands too close to us. Raw experience transposes us from the drifting dream into another state: into that of immediate nearness. The moment just lived dims as such, it has too dark a warmth, and its nearness makes things formless. The Here and Now lacks the distance which does
William Reeves and late-Victorian Radical Publishing
The Bellamy Library was a series of fictional and non-fictional books, on political topics of more or less pressing importance to the late-Victorian movement for social reform, which were reprinted, from 1890 until the early 1900s, by William Reeves, a radical London publisher. It centred on the American novelist Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), an enormously popular state-socialist utopia that Reeves had successfully pirated in 1889. Th…
Not Yet
Not Yet
The politics of the visor
Do we feel at home in the cities we inhabit? There are of course innumerable ways in which people, and especially the poor and those from marginalized social groups, experience an almost permanent sense of displacement in the urban environments in which they live. The built environment, of course, actively contributes to this condition of unease; and in the early 21st century, an epoch in which metropolitan centres are increasingly dense with pri…
A Little Political World of My Own”
“I READ THE PAPERS and have a little political world of my own.” So Margaret Harkness confided to her second cousin Beatrice Potter (who would later marry the Fabian Sidney Webb) in a letter sent in February 1880 (qtd. in Hapgood 130). Subsequently disavowed by her repressive father, an Anglican priest, because she was insufficiently subordinate to him, Harkness was still living at home at this time. Her social isolation, as well as her political…
Heathcliff's Great Hunger
Heathcliff's Great Hunger: The Cannibal Other in Wuthering Heights Get access Matthew Beaumont Matthew Beaumont 1Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 137–163, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.137 Published: 01 January 2004
Not Yet
William Reeves and late-Victorian Radical Publishing
The Bellamy Library was a series of fictional and non-fictional books, on political topics of more or less pressing importance to the late-Victorian movement for social reform, which were reprinted, from 1890 until the early 1900s, by William Reeves, a radical London publisher. It centred on the American novelist Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), an enormously popular state-socialist utopia that Reeves had successfully pirated in 1889. Th…
Heathcliff's Great Hunger
Heathcliff's Great Hunger: The Cannibal Other in Wuthering Heights Get access Matthew Beaumont Matthew Beaumont 1Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 137–163, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.137 Published: 01 January 2004
News from Nowhere and the Here and Now
The Here and Now stands too close to us. Raw experience transposes us from the drifting dream into another state: into that of immediate nearness. The moment just lived dims as such, it has too dark a warmth, and its nearness makes things formless. The Here and Now lacks the distance which does
Shopping in Utopia
In News from Nowhere (1891), William Morris’s well‐known socialist utopia, the reader’s initial impression of central London, in the idyllic conditions of post‐capitalist society, occurs in a chapt
Red Sphinx
This article commences with the familiar claim that science fiction is a literature of estrangement and argues that, at times—as in the seminal case of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (l895)—sf produces a particularly unsettling form of estrangement that can be identified with Freud’s notion of the “uncanny.” The Time Machine is an uncanny text because it portrays an alien future in which the not so much militant as triumphant working class is secr…
A Little Political World of My Own”
“I READ THE PAPERS and have a little political world of my own.” So Margaret Harkness confided to her second cousin Beatrice Potter (who would later marry the Fabian Sidney Webb) in a letter sent in February 1880 (qtd. in Hapgood 130). Subsequently disavowed by her repressive father, an Anglican priest, because she was insufficiently subordinate to him, Harkness was still living at home at this time. Her social isolation, as well as her political…
Pater as Psychagogue
This article explores Pater’s use of the term ‘psychology’ in order to explore the relationship in his work between psychology and aesthetics, proposing that his allusion in Plato and Platonism to ‘psychagogia’, an ancient rhetorical practice, can productively be used to rethink this relationship, especially in relation to Studies in the History of the Renaissance
The Spectre of Utopia
Beginnings, endings, births, deaths
This article explores Dickens's attempt to think through the narrative problem of beginning and ending, with particular reference to Bleak House. Dickens is acutely conscious, it argues, of the ways in which beginnings and endings are mutually entangled, though this has not been reflected in the extensive scholarship on his fiction. The article suggests that Dickens uses the example of Sterne and, in particular, The Life and Opinions of Tristram …
Stumbling in the dark
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him
In Darkest London
Reviewed by: Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Monika Elbert and Bridget M. Marshall, and: In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature by Jamieson Ridenhour Matthew Beaumont (bio) Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Monika Elbert and Bridget M. Marshall; pp. x + 269. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013, £34…
Transnational Gothic
In the beginning was the big toe
This article goes back to Georges Bataille's ruminations on the big toe, published in Documents in 1929, in order to make a materialist case for the claim that this digit is, above all for evolutionary reasons, definitive of human beings’ humanity. It explores the contradiction whereby the big toe, in spite of its anatomical importance in distinguishing human beings from their ancestors and their genetic cousins, that is, from other hominids and …
The politics of the visor
Do we feel at home in the cities we inhabit? There are of course innumerable ways in which people, and especially the poor and those from marginalized social groups, experience an almost permanent sense of displacement in the urban environments in which they live. The built environment, of course, actively contributes to this condition of unease; and in the early 21st century, an epoch in which metropolitan centres are increasingly dense with pri…
Looking Through Lidless Eyes
The German painter Caspar David Friedrich's The Monk by the Sea (1808–10), a picture that has played an important role in accounts of the prehistory of twentieth-century abstract art, is significant among other reasons because it bravely refused painting's narrative vocation and in so doing radicalized the optics characteristic of the contemporary aesthetics of the sublime. Friedrich's contemporary, the novelist and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist,…
A Psychoanalysis of Milk
In memory of Roland-François Lack Like Lina’s, the viewer’s suspicions are centred on the glass of milk. And it is this glass of milk, putatively poisoned, that is the focal point of my attempt in this article, pursuing hints to be found in the writings both of Gaston Bachelard and Jean-Paul Sartre, to outline a psychoanalysis of this peculiarly blank substance. Milk is a liquid that, in a symbolic sense, is superficially secure in its identifica…
Standing upright, unsleeping
This article reinterprets Prometheus as an archetype of wakefulness and watchfulness. In the Aeschylean version, this mythical hero, is a victim of what might be characterised as sleep deprivation. The article begins by situating Prometheus in mythographic terms, arguing that scholars have overlooked the importance of sleeplessness to Zeus's punishment of him. It proceeds to trace the changes between Hesiod's and the Aeschylean account, paying at…
Selecting Approaches for Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is a commonly used research methodology in the social and human sciences. In this paper, we highlight two different approaches to discourse analysis and discuss critical elements of each approach. As researchers new to discourse analysis, two Masters of Nursing students reflect on the process of making careful choices when deciding on using an approach developed by Fairclough or Foucault. The decision making must consider the s…
The Third City
This article explores the concept of the Third City, which the neo-Hegelian philosopher Gillian Rose developed in her late work, most signally the inaugural lecture she gave at the University of Warwick in 1993. Rose maps the Third City in relation to Athens and Jerusalem, two ‘philosophemes’ whose opposition has been of foundational importance to Western thinking (though she also maps it in relation to a Fourth City, which she identifies as Ausc…
The Rhythmic and the Metronomic
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