Maggie Tonkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3099019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maggie Tonkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maggie |
| FAMILY NAME | Tonkin |
| SIGNATURE | TONKIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
RD Laing, Feminism and the Politics of Birth and Re-birth
RD Laing’s phenomenological approach to madness influenced early second wave feminism, since it buttressed the feminist critique of the nuclear family and exposed the abuses of institutional psychiatry in policing gender roles. However, feminist perceptions of Laing’s ‘gender blindness’, as exemplified by Elaine Showalter’s The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, and the feminist turn towards Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, soon …
Angela Carter and Western Philosophy
Although she had no formal training in the discipline, Angela Carter was an avid reader of philosophy, as anyone who has dipped into her papers in the British Library can attest. For Carter, fiction and philosophy were inseparable. In the Omnibus documentary made just before her death, she declared, “I do think literature should be asking the great, unanswerable, adolescent questions. Why are we set upon this planet? For what purpose?” Even in he…
The Time of the Loony”
Although unfashionable today, R.D. Laing was one of the most influential psychiatrists of the twentieth century, an international countercultural guru, and an outspoken critic of conventional psychiatry whose theories were embraced by the New Left. The enthusiasm with which his theories of the dynamics of the family and the psychogenesis of mental illness were taken up by many feminists and female authors is particularly striking. As yet there ha…
Traveling Hopefully
Angela Carter’s political allegiances would seem to align her with the utopian, yet in the view of most critics, her relation to utopia is somewhat fraught. Utilizing Russell Jacoby’s distinction between blueprint and iconoclastic utopianism, this essay reexamines Carter’s work to show that her writing consistently negates any blueprint for an ideal society yet engages with the historical debates surrounding utopia. Although Carter refuses to end…
Martha Graham in Love and War. The Life in the Work
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaggie TonkinMaggie Tonkin is a Lecturer in English at The University of Adelaide. She has written substantially on Angela Carter, is the author of Angela Carter and Decadence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and is co-editor of a collection of essays on Victorian literature, Changing the Victorian Subject (Adelaide University Press, 2014). She has a background in dance, writes regularly for the national indu…
Changing the Victorian Subject
She has researched gendered histories
Angela Carter and Decadence
By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical con
The “Poe-etics” of Decomposition
Changing the Victorian Subject
She has researched gendered histories
The Time of the Loony”
Although unfashionable today, R.D. Laing was one of the most influential psychiatrists of the twentieth century, an international countercultural guru, and an outspoken critic of conventional psychiatry whose theories were embraced by the New Left. The enthusiasm with which his theories of the dynamics of the family and the psychogenesis of mental illness were taken up by many feminists and female authors is particularly striking. As yet there ha…
The “Poe-etics” of Decomposition
Angela Carter and Decadence
By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical con
Traveling Hopefully
Angela Carter’s political allegiances would seem to align her with the utopian, yet in the view of most critics, her relation to utopia is somewhat fraught. Utilizing Russell Jacoby’s distinction between blueprint and iconoclastic utopianism, this essay reexamines Carter’s work to show that her writing consistently negates any blueprint for an ideal society yet engages with the historical debates surrounding utopia. Although Carter refuses to end…
Martha Graham in Love and War. The Life in the Work
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaggie TonkinMaggie Tonkin is a Lecturer in English at The University of Adelaide. She has written substantially on Angela Carter, is the author of Angela Carter and Decadence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and is co-editor of a collection of essays on Victorian literature, Changing the Victorian Subject (Adelaide University Press, 2014). She has a background in dance, writes regularly for the national indu…
Changing the Victorian Subject
She has researched gendered histories
The Time of the Loony”
Although unfashionable today, R.D. Laing was one of the most influential psychiatrists of the twentieth century, an international countercultural guru, and an outspoken critic of conventional psychiatry whose theories were embraced by the New Left. The enthusiasm with which his theories of the dynamics of the family and the psychogenesis of mental illness were taken up by many feminists and female authors is particularly striking. As yet there ha…
Angela Carter and Western Philosophy
Although she had no formal training in the discipline, Angela Carter was an avid reader of philosophy, as anyone who has dipped into her papers in the British Library can attest. For Carter, fiction and philosophy were inseparable. In the Omnibus documentary made just before her death, she declared, “I do think literature should be asking the great, unanswerable, adolescent questions. Why are we set upon this planet? For what purpose?” Even in he…
RD Laing, Feminism and the Politics of Birth and Re-birth
RD Laing’s phenomenological approach to madness influenced early second wave feminism, since it buttressed the feminist critique of the nuclear family and exposed the abuses of institutional psychiatry in policing gender roles. However, feminist perceptions of Laing’s ‘gender blindness’, as exemplified by Elaine Showalter’s The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, and the feminist turn towards Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, soon …
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Decadence (2 works) · Enthusiasm (2 works) · Feminism (2 works)