Kristina Straub
Biographic Data
| ID | 324135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Straub |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Straub |
| SIGNATURE | STRAUB K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Censorship as Cultural Production
Christopher Smart’s drag orations as Mary Midnight were enabled by burgeoning British social policy legislation combined with widespread cultural aspirations for creating an educated British public through public oratory. Ironically, the state censorship enacted in the 1752 Public Entertainments Act, which sought to limit public performances outside the licensed London theatres, created conditions that enabled Smart’s innovative attempts at enter…
Elizabeth Boyd's Disappearing Act
How do we trace the historical processes that grant some writers visibility and, hence, legacy, while shoving others into the historical closet? This essay offers the case study of Elizabeth Boyd (1727-1745), a novelist, poet, and playwright who has received some attention from scholars interested in women’s contributions to the legacy of William Shakespeare in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. In particular, her unperformed play, Don…
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
This collection will interest more than just fans of the Irish actor Charles Macklin. At stake in examining Macklin’s life and work is the fashioning of a more capacious understanding of the Enlightenment. The editors, Ian Newman and David O’Shaughnessy, place Macklin in the frame of Enlightenment values: individual reason and an inclusive sociability. They push the limits of Kant’s understanding of the Enlightenment as the exercise of reason to …
Curating Will & Jane
“Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity, opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after their deaths, and the Will & Jane exhibition tells the story of that process through the display of many and various objects—from porcelain figurines and portraits, to advertisements and bobble…
Marilyn Morris. Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Marilyn Morris covers a long history, from the Restoration through the Georgian period, of personal character’s role in eighteenth-century British politics. The habit of equating personal integrity with public trustworthiness started in the courts of Charles II and gained momentum with the Georges. Morris relates her historical argument to modern American politics. This is a detailed, quotation-rich argument; however, it does not provide a trendy…
Yes, Miss Burney
Unnatural Affections
The Female Thermometer
Sexual Suspects
Sexual Suspects
Sexual Suspects
Sexual Suspects
From the Restoration through the 18th century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination. Actors were frequently suspected of heterosexual promiscuity or labelled effeminate, and actresses were often viewed as prostitutes or sexually ambivalent victims of their profession. This depiction of players, argues Kristina Straub, greatly shaped public debates over what made women feminine and men…
Divided Fictions
Body guards
Contributors include: Elizabeth Castelli, Anne Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass, Gary Kates, Morjorie Garber, Judith Shapiro, Bonnie B. Spanier, Janet E. Halley
Divided Fictions
Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In th…
Indecent Liberties with a Poet
Kristina Straub, Indecent Liberties with a Poet: Audience and the Metaphor of Rape in Killigrew's "Upon the Saying That My Verses" and Pope's Arbuthnot, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 27-45
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Indecent Liberties with a Poet
Kristina Straub, Indecent Liberties with a Poet: Audience and the Metaphor of Rape in Killigrew's "Upon the Saying That My Verses" and Pope's Arbuthnot, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 27-45
Body guards
Contributors include: Elizabeth Castelli, Anne Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass, Gary Kates, Morjorie Garber, Judith Shapiro, Bonnie B. Spanier, Janet E. Halley
Divided Fictions
Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In th…
Divided Fictions
Sexual Suspects
Sexual Suspects
From the Restoration through the 18th century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination. Actors were frequently suspected of heterosexual promiscuity or labelled effeminate, and actresses were often viewed as prostitutes or sexually ambivalent victims of their profession. This depiction of players, argues Kristina Straub, greatly shaped public debates over what made women feminine and men…
Sexual Suspects
Sexual Suspects
The Female Thermometer
Unnatural Affections
Yes, Miss Burney
Marilyn Morris. Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Marilyn Morris covers a long history, from the Restoration through the Georgian period, of personal character’s role in eighteenth-century British politics. The habit of equating personal integrity with public trustworthiness started in the courts of Charles II and gained momentum with the Georges. Morris relates her historical argument to modern American politics. This is a detailed, quotation-rich argument; however, it does not provide a trendy…
Curating Will & Jane
“Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity, opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after their deaths, and the Will & Jane exhibition tells the story of that process through the display of many and various objects—from porcelain figurines and portraits, to advertisements and bobble…
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
This collection will interest more than just fans of the Irish actor Charles Macklin. At stake in examining Macklin’s life and work is the fashioning of a more capacious understanding of the Enlightenment. The editors, Ian Newman and David O’Shaughnessy, place Macklin in the frame of Enlightenment values: individual reason and an inclusive sociability. They push the limits of Kant’s understanding of the Enlightenment as the exercise of reason to …
Censorship as Cultural Production
Christopher Smart’s drag orations as Mary Midnight were enabled by burgeoning British social policy legislation combined with widespread cultural aspirations for creating an educated British public through public oratory. Ironically, the state censorship enacted in the 1752 Public Entertainments Act, which sought to limit public performances outside the licensed London theatres, created conditions that enabled Smart’s innovative attempts at enter…
Elizabeth Boyd's Disappearing Act
How do we trace the historical processes that grant some writers visibility and, hence, legacy, while shoving others into the historical closet? This essay offers the case study of Elizabeth Boyd (1727-1745), a novelist, poet, and playwright who has received some attention from scholars interested in women’s contributions to the legacy of William Shakespeare in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. In particular, her unperformed play, Don…
Art (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)