Randi Lise Davenport
Biographic Data
| ID | 2938835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randi Lise Davenport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randi Lise |
| FAMILY NAME | Davenport |
| SIGNATURE | DAVENPORT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1141-9785 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Historias septentrionales cervantinas. Presentación
con ocasin de celebrarse los 400 aos de la publicacin de la novela pstuma de Cervantes.
Dando crédito al Septentrión: Ricla y el naufragio de Pietro Querini en la isla de Røst
Este artículo propone una interpretación de la ‘bárbara caritativa’ Ricla como personaje de inspiración tanto, o más, septentrional que ‘americana’. Esta interpretación se basa en una nueva lectura del relato del naufragio del gentilhombre veneciano, Pietro Querini, en la costa norte de Noruega en el año 1431-1432, un relato recogido en el segundo volumen de la muy difundida obra de Giovanni Battista Ramusio Delle navigationi et viaggi (1550 -155…
The Changing Shapes of Knowledge in Spain 1627-1726: From Dreams and Discourses to Universal Critical Theater
This article illustrates the changing shapes of knowledge in Spain in the period spanning from the Baroque (ca. 1600-1680) to the pre-Enlightenment (ca. 1730). Scepticism and the dichotomies engaño - desengaño (illusion - disillusion) and ser - parecer (reality - appearances) were at the heart of the Baroque obsession with the foundations of knowledge, which culminated in an epistemological crisis. In the pre-Enlightenment, epistemological preocc…
Thomas Malthus and maternal bodies politic: Gender, Race, and Empire
This essay explores the uneasy fit of representations of the Victorian monarchy and maternal metaphors of state with Malthusian doctrine and the debates over colonial initiatives and population pressures. Malthus's work on the principle of population authorized a potent mid-Victorian narrative which viewed the exalted body of the mother – and, by metaphoric homology, that of the state – as diseased, corrupt, and in imminent danger of putrefaction…
The Mother's Mistake: Sarah Stickney Ellis and Dreams of Empire
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The Mother's Mistake: Sarah Stickney Ellis and Dreams of Empire
Thomas Malthus and maternal bodies politic: Gender, Race, and Empire
This essay explores the uneasy fit of representations of the Victorian monarchy and maternal metaphors of state with Malthusian doctrine and the debates over colonial initiatives and population pressures. Malthus's work on the principle of population authorized a potent mid-Victorian narrative which viewed the exalted body of the mother – and, by metaphoric homology, that of the state – as diseased, corrupt, and in imminent danger of putrefaction…
The Changing Shapes of Knowledge in Spain 1627-1726: From Dreams and Discourses to Universal Critical Theater
This article illustrates the changing shapes of knowledge in Spain in the period spanning from the Baroque (ca. 1600-1680) to the pre-Enlightenment (ca. 1730). Scepticism and the dichotomies engaño - desengaño (illusion - disillusion) and ser - parecer (reality - appearances) were at the heart of the Baroque obsession with the foundations of knowledge, which culminated in an epistemological crisis. In the pre-Enlightenment, epistemological preocc…
Historias septentrionales cervantinas. Presentación
con ocasin de celebrarse los 400 aos de la publicacin de la novela pstuma de Cervantes.
Dando crédito al Septentrión: Ricla y el naufragio de Pietro Querini en la isla de Røst
Este artículo propone una interpretación de la ‘bárbara caritativa’ Ricla como personaje de inspiración tanto, o más, septentrional que ‘americana’. Esta interpretación se basa en una nueva lectura del relato del naufragio del gentilhombre veneciano, Pietro Querini, en la costa norte de Noruega en el año 1431-1432, un relato recogido en el segundo volumen de la muy difundida obra de Giovanni Battista Ramusio Delle navigationi et viaggi (1550 -155…
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