Anna Neill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Neill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Neill |
| SIGNATURE | NEILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7518-9990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultivating Belief
Reviewed by: Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination by Sebastian Lecourt Anna Neill (bio) Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination, by Sebastian Lecourt; pp. vii + 229. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, £53.00, $74.00. Sebastian Lecourt’s Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imaginati…
Epigenetic emergence
The potential for an intervention by epigenetics into cultural theory and literary analysis has been a topic of recent inquiry from several directions. However, these approaches sometimes too easily align epigenetics with the Lamarckian ‘inheritance of acquired characteristics’, which presumes the direct influence of environment on the existence of particular traits across generations. This emphasis on environment in turn looks back to eighteenth…
The Made Man and the “Minor” Novel
Bruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast network of actors—entities, human and non-human—that are neither pure subjects nor pure objects. I examine firstly how novels by Charles Dickens and George Eliot depict the agency of non-human things within a network of actors. …
The Machinate Literary Animal
Current inquiry into nongenetic forms of inheritance has deep roots in the nineteenth century. Samuel Butler's evolutionary science writing and fiction points ahead, beyond the twentieth-century dismissal of pre-Darwinian science, to our own questions about how the experiences of an individual organism may effect change at the species level. This includes the way that symbolically mediated information, which rapidly shapes the human environment, …
Relational Theories of Art
Relational theories of art—paradigmatically, the ‘Institutional’ theory—arose from dissatisfaction with the Wittgenstein-inspired ‘family resemblance’ account of art, and were taken not merely to be preferable in various ways to that account, but actually to falsify it. We argue that this latter thought is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the falsification-conditions of a family resemblance account; and we suggest that, once the reason…
The Savage Genius of Sherlock Holmes
When Dr. Watson first meets Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet , the former is an itinerant medical veteran of the Second Afghan War who, sick and rootless, without “kith or kin” in England, is naturally drawn to London, “that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the empire are irreversibly drained” (6; ch. 1). Lacking emotional ties, physical strength, and purpose of any real kind, Watson seems to demonstrate the “feverish…
Criticism, Ethics, and the Problem of Rehabilitation
This essay will argue that the carceral literature classroom is at odds with the rehabilitative principles that have brought it into being. Teaching literature and criticism behind bars highlights the difference between a normalizing rationality implemented through institutions of correction and the concept of an ethical selffashioning that enables human beings to think and act in ways not determined purely by the force of their passions. While l…
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce
Swift and the Geographers
I begin this chapter with these much-quoted lines from Swift’s On Poetry: A Rhapsody because they argue so directly that ‘savagery’ is an invention of geography. Swift attacks geography as fraudulent learning, as a science that is always trying to cover the gaps and inconsistencies that it inevitably confronts by insisting on the barbarousness and barrenness of those regions about which it has little or no knowledge. Like the gaping lines of bad …
Introduction
Eighteenth-century British travellers have been much talked about in recent decades. The journal records of, among others, merchants, explorers, pirates, ordinary seamen, press-gang victims, slaves, slave dealers, passengers, indentured servants and convicts have provided a rich archive for investigating the discursive character of colonial relationships and of imperial expansion in the period of Britain’s rise to global commercial pre-eminence. …
International Trade and Individual Enterprise
By dramatizing the reform of the vagrant subject who has strayed beyond the line, Dampier’s journals in many ways provide the model for early eighteenth-century narratives of criminal adventure and economic endeavour. In Defoe’s novels, the behaviour of the itinerant yet enterprising protagonists, whether pirates, merchant adventurers, prostitutes or thieves, raises the problem of how individual profit can be reconciled with duty to family, God a…
Buccaneer Ethnography
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v033/33.2neill.html
Hume's 'Singular Phenomenon
Journal Article HUME'S ‘SINGULAR PHENOMENON‘ Get access Alex Neill Alex Neill Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St AndrewsSt Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 112–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/39.2.112 Published: 01 April 1999
The Sentimental Novel and the Republican Imaginary
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/465399
Buccaneer Ethnography
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v033/33.2neill.html
The Savage Genius of Sherlock Holmes
When Dr. Watson first meets Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet , the former is an itinerant medical veteran of the Second Afghan War who, sick and rootless, without “kith or kin” in England, is naturally drawn to London, “that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the empire are irreversibly drained” (6; ch. 1). Lacking emotional ties, physical strength, and purpose of any real kind, Watson seems to demonstrate the “feverish…
Relational Theories of Art
Relational theories of art—paradigmatically, the ‘Institutional’ theory—arose from dissatisfaction with the Wittgenstein-inspired ‘family resemblance’ account of art, and were taken not merely to be preferable in various ways to that account, but actually to falsify it. We argue that this latter thought is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the falsification-conditions of a family resemblance account; and we suggest that, once the reason…
Criticism, Ethics, and the Problem of Rehabilitation
This essay will argue that the carceral literature classroom is at odds with the rehabilitative principles that have brought it into being. Teaching literature and criticism behind bars highlights the difference between a normalizing rationality implemented through institutions of correction and the concept of an ethical selffashioning that enables human beings to think and act in ways not determined purely by the force of their passions. While l…
Hume's 'Singular Phenomenon
Journal Article HUME'S ‘SINGULAR PHENOMENON‘ Get access Alex Neill Alex Neill Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St AndrewsSt Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 112–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/39.2.112 Published: 01 April 1999
The Sentimental Novel and the Republican Imaginary
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/465399
Hume's 'Singular Phenomenon
Journal Article HUME'S ‘SINGULAR PHENOMENON‘ Get access Alex Neill Alex Neill Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St AndrewsSt Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 112–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/39.2.112 Published: 01 April 1999
Buccaneer Ethnography
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v033/33.2neill.html
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce
Swift and the Geographers
I begin this chapter with these much-quoted lines from Swift’s On Poetry: A Rhapsody because they argue so directly that ‘savagery’ is an invention of geography. Swift attacks geography as fraudulent learning, as a science that is always trying to cover the gaps and inconsistencies that it inevitably confronts by insisting on the barbarousness and barrenness of those regions about which it has little or no knowledge. Like the gaping lines of bad …
Introduction
Eighteenth-century British travellers have been much talked about in recent decades. The journal records of, among others, merchants, explorers, pirates, ordinary seamen, press-gang victims, slaves, slave dealers, passengers, indentured servants and convicts have provided a rich archive for investigating the discursive character of colonial relationships and of imperial expansion in the period of Britain’s rise to global commercial pre-eminence. …
International Trade and Individual Enterprise
By dramatizing the reform of the vagrant subject who has strayed beyond the line, Dampier’s journals in many ways provide the model for early eighteenth-century narratives of criminal adventure and economic endeavour. In Defoe’s novels, the behaviour of the itinerant yet enterprising protagonists, whether pirates, merchant adventurers, prostitutes or thieves, raises the problem of how individual profit can be reconciled with duty to family, God a…
Criticism, Ethics, and the Problem of Rehabilitation
This essay will argue that the carceral literature classroom is at odds with the rehabilitative principles that have brought it into being. Teaching literature and criticism behind bars highlights the difference between a normalizing rationality implemented through institutions of correction and the concept of an ethical selffashioning that enables human beings to think and act in ways not determined purely by the force of their passions. While l…
The Savage Genius of Sherlock Holmes
When Dr. Watson first meets Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet , the former is an itinerant medical veteran of the Second Afghan War who, sick and rootless, without “kith or kin” in England, is naturally drawn to London, “that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the empire are irreversibly drained” (6; ch. 1). Lacking emotional ties, physical strength, and purpose of any real kind, Watson seems to demonstrate the “feverish…
Relational Theories of Art
Relational theories of art—paradigmatically, the ‘Institutional’ theory—arose from dissatisfaction with the Wittgenstein-inspired ‘family resemblance’ account of art, and were taken not merely to be preferable in various ways to that account, but actually to falsify it. We argue that this latter thought is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the falsification-conditions of a family resemblance account; and we suggest that, once the reason…
The Machinate Literary Animal
Current inquiry into nongenetic forms of inheritance has deep roots in the nineteenth century. Samuel Butler's evolutionary science writing and fiction points ahead, beyond the twentieth-century dismissal of pre-Darwinian science, to our own questions about how the experiences of an individual organism may effect change at the species level. This includes the way that symbolically mediated information, which rapidly shapes the human environment, …
The Made Man and the “Minor” Novel
Bruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast network of actors—entities, human and non-human—that are neither pure subjects nor pure objects. I examine firstly how novels by Charles Dickens and George Eliot depict the agency of non-human things within a network of actors. …
Cultivating Belief
Reviewed by: Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination by Sebastian Lecourt Anna Neill (bio) Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination, by Sebastian Lecourt; pp. vii + 229. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, £53.00, $74.00. Sebastian Lecourt’s Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imaginati…
Epigenetic emergence
The potential for an intervention by epigenetics into cultural theory and literary analysis has been a topic of recent inquiry from several directions. However, these approaches sometimes too easily align epigenetics with the Lamarckian ‘inheritance of acquired characteristics’, which presumes the direct influence of environment on the existence of particular traits across generations. This emphasis on environment in turn looks back to eighteenth…
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