Mary Jean Corbett
Biographic Data
| ID | 292746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jean Corbett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Corbett |
| SIGNATURE | CORBETT M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9306-788X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Modernity Stories
This short essay considers Kathy Psomiades’s recent book, Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel , from a feminist perspective
Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity by Kathy Alexis Psomiades (review)
Introduction: Transmedia turns in nineteenth-century studies
Victorian Metafiction , by Tabitha Sparks
Oxymoronic as it may sound, the title of Tabitha Sparks’s study of nineteenth-century “novels about women novelists” that “feature [their] own artistic construction as part of the story” is neither inaptly chosen nor purely polemical—although a subtitle might have been in order (1). Challenging the ongoing association of metafiction mainly with postmodernist experimentation and building on recent criticism that emphasizes realism’s “capacity for …
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approa…
Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850–1910; Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England
Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850-1910 Jane Hamlett Manchester: Manchester UP, 2010 xvi +264, 50 illustrations. ISBN 0-719-01863-7. Courtship and Mar
Special Issue, INCS 2012: Picturing the Nineteenth Century
Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family
W ITH AMPLE SELECTIONS FROM contemporary family letters, the sixth chapter of E. M. Forster's Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography (1956), entitled “Deceased Wife's Sister,” narrates the story of “a fantastic mishap” that the members of his grandparents' generation “could only regard as tragic” (189). After the death of his first wife, Harriet, in 1840, Henry Thornton decided to take another – Harriet's younger sister Emily – and at once, “the…
"Cousins in Love, &c." in Jane Austen
This article offers a reinterpretation of cousin-marriage in the works of Jane Austen. While earlier scholars argue that Austen rejects cousin-marriage in favor of unions with strangers in order to challenge aristocratic power, these readings are complicated by the union of cousins Fanny and Edmund which Austen supports in Mansfield Park. Instead, the article posits that by reexamining ideas of the marriage plot in light of the historical realiti…
Auto/Biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, and Practice
Performing Identities: Actresses and Autobiography
Through their theatrical performances and other public acts, the most successful actresses at the turn of the last century established a set of commodified images by which they were "known"; theatrical audiences, like the reading audiences for autobiography that Sidonie Smith describes, were prepared "to expect a certain kind of performativity that conforms relatively comfortably to criteria of intelligibility" from actresses, on and off the stag…
Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold
In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated through tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes works to sustain, sometimes to contest the structures of colonial inequality. Analyzing novels by Edgewort…
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790 - 1870 politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth to Arnold: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold
In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated through tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes works to sustain, sometimes to contest the structures of colonial inequality. Analyzing novels by Edgewort…
The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography . Liz Stanley De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography . Sidonie Smith , Julia Watson I Dw…
Public Affections and Familial Politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and the "Common Naturalization" of Great Britain
Recent critics of novel generally accept that marriage plot of nineteenth-century fiction, in Tony Tanner's words, represents means by which society attempts to bring into patterns of passion and patterns of property, as in, say, conclusion of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre.' Viewed in such terms, imperial use that Maria Edgeworth makes of marriage as an instrument of narrative closure in The Absentee (1812) figures yet anot…
Feminine authorship and spiritual authority in Victorian women writers' autobiographies
Sun gardens: Victorian photograms
Public Affections and Familial Politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and the "Common Naturalization" of Great Britain
Recent critics of novel generally accept that marriage plot of nineteenth-century fiction, in Tony Tanner's words, represents means by which society attempts to bring into patterns of passion and patterns of property, as in, say, conclusion of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre.' Viewed in such terms, imperial use that Maria Edgeworth makes of marriage as an instrument of narrative closure in The Absentee (1812) figures yet anot…
Feminine authorship and spiritual authority in Victorian women writers' autobiographies
Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family
W ITH AMPLE SELECTIONS FROM contemporary family letters, the sixth chapter of E. M. Forster's Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography (1956), entitled “Deceased Wife's Sister,” narrates the story of “a fantastic mishap” that the members of his grandparents' generation “could only regard as tragic” (189). After the death of his first wife, Harriet, in 1840, Henry Thornton decided to take another – Harriet's younger sister Emily – and at once, “the…
Performing Identities: Actresses and Autobiography
Through their theatrical performances and other public acts, the most successful actresses at the turn of the last century established a set of commodified images by which they were "known"; theatrical audiences, like the reading audiences for autobiography that Sidonie Smith describes, were prepared "to expect a certain kind of performativity that conforms relatively comfortably to criteria of intelligibility" from actresses, on and off the stag…
Sun gardens: Victorian photograms
Feminine authorship and spiritual authority in Victorian women writers' autobiographies
Public Affections and Familial Politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and the "Common Naturalization" of Great Britain
Recent critics of novel generally accept that marriage plot of nineteenth-century fiction, in Tony Tanner's words, represents means by which society attempts to bring into patterns of passion and patterns of property, as in, say, conclusion of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre.' Viewed in such terms, imperial use that Maria Edgeworth makes of marriage as an instrument of narrative closure in The Absentee (1812) figures yet anot…
The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography . Liz Stanley De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography . Sidonie Smith , Julia Watson I Dw…
Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold
In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated through tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes works to sustain, sometimes to contest the structures of colonial inequality. Analyzing novels by Edgewort…
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790 - 1870 politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth to Arnold: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold
In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated through tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes works to sustain, sometimes to contest the structures of colonial inequality. Analyzing novels by Edgewort…
Auto/Biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, and Practice
Performing Identities: Actresses and Autobiography
Through their theatrical performances and other public acts, the most successful actresses at the turn of the last century established a set of commodified images by which they were "known"; theatrical audiences, like the reading audiences for autobiography that Sidonie Smith describes, were prepared "to expect a certain kind of performativity that conforms relatively comfortably to criteria of intelligibility" from actresses, on and off the stag…
"Cousins in Love, &c." in Jane Austen
This article offers a reinterpretation of cousin-marriage in the works of Jane Austen. While earlier scholars argue that Austen rejects cousin-marriage in favor of unions with strangers in order to challenge aristocratic power, these readings are complicated by the union of cousins Fanny and Edmund which Austen supports in Mansfield Park. Instead, the article posits that by reexamining ideas of the marriage plot in light of the historical realiti…
Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family
W ITH AMPLE SELECTIONS FROM contemporary family letters, the sixth chapter of E. M. Forster's Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography (1956), entitled “Deceased Wife's Sister,” narrates the story of “a fantastic mishap” that the members of his grandparents' generation “could only regard as tragic” (189). After the death of his first wife, Harriet, in 1840, Henry Thornton decided to take another – Harriet's younger sister Emily – and at once, “the…
Special Issue, INCS 2012: Picturing the Nineteenth Century
Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850–1910; Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England
Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850-1910 Jane Hamlett Manchester: Manchester UP, 2010 xvi +264, 50 illustrations. ISBN 0-719-01863-7. Courtship and Mar
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approa…
Victorian Metafiction , by Tabitha Sparks
Oxymoronic as it may sound, the title of Tabitha Sparks’s study of nineteenth-century “novels about women novelists” that “feature [their] own artistic construction as part of the story” is neither inaptly chosen nor purely polemical—although a subtitle might have been in order (1). Challenging the ongoing association of metafiction mainly with postmodernist experimentation and building on recent criticism that emphasizes realism’s “capacity for …
Introduction: Transmedia turns in nineteenth-century studies
Modernity Stories
This short essay considers Kathy Psomiades’s recent book, Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel , from a feminist perspective
Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity by Kathy Alexis Psomiades (review)
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