Lisa Merrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Merrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrill |
| SIGNATURE | MERRILL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Replaying and Rediscovering The Octoroon
For over one hundred and fifty years, productions and adaptations of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s explosive 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, have reflected differing and sometimes contentious meanings and messages about race and enslavement in a range of geographic locations and historical moments. Originally staged in New York in 1859, The Octoroon graphically portrayed the suicide of its white-appearing mixed-race heroine who had been auctio…
Amalgamation, moral geography, and ‘slum tourism’
This article examines depictions of the relationships between antebellum Irish and African-American residents in a particular space – the notorious, impoverished New York neighborhood called Five Points – from a spatial and performance perspective. In descriptions of this destitute area, journalists, reformers, and writers of sensation narratives portrayed spaces where black and white New Yorkers lived together as evidence of the depravity they a…
“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies
“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies1 Lisa Merrill (bio) Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, an avid abolitionist, first used the pulpit of his Brooklyn church as the site from which he staged mock slave auctions of young biracial enslaved girls. Beecher enacted several such performances in the lead-up to the Civil War. Appealing to…
Creating memorials, building identities
Exhibiting Race ‘under the World's Huge Glass Case’
This article examines the performance, representation and reception of images of American slavery prompted by fugitive slaves William Wells Brown and William and Ellen Craft's visit to the Great Exhibition in London, where they displayed themselves alongside American sculptor Hiram Powers' Greek Slave. In order to appreciate the visual rhetoric and modes of spectating-upon which the fugitive slaves drew, the author examines their performative int…
Feeling validated versus being correct
A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives. The studies examined information preferences in relation to attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in situations that provided choices between congenial information, which supported participants' pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, and uncongenial information, which challenged these tendencies. Analyses indicated a moderate preference for cong…
Geographies of Learning
In her essay "Spatializing Feminism," geographer Linda McDowell notes the importance of examining connections between "material, symbolic, and discursive constructions of space, in situated theory, in imagined communities, in the social constructions of different visions of space, and in the performative and fictive nature of subjectivities and social relations." Analogously, Jill Dolan's Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and…
Wearing the Breeches
In Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage, Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix contributes to the ongoing work on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice of breeches performance in several significant ways. Most notably, she provides [End Page 355] accounts of the earliest practitioners--women who appeared as male characters on the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American stage--and she places the nineteenth-century stage conv…
An interview with Lois weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deb Margolin
Feminist humor
You Never Can Tell
Feeling validated versus being correct
A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives. The studies examined information preferences in relation to attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in situations that provided choices between congenial information, which supported participants' pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, and uncongenial information, which challenged these tendencies. Analyses indicated a moderate preference for cong…
Replaying and Rediscovering The Octoroon
For over one hundred and fifty years, productions and adaptations of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s explosive 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, have reflected differing and sometimes contentious meanings and messages about race and enslavement in a range of geographic locations and historical moments. Originally staged in New York in 1859, The Octoroon graphically portrayed the suicide of its white-appearing mixed-race heroine who had been auctio…
Exhibiting Race ‘under the World's Huge Glass Case’
This article examines the performance, representation and reception of images of American slavery prompted by fugitive slaves William Wells Brown and William and Ellen Craft's visit to the Great Exhibition in London, where they displayed themselves alongside American sculptor Hiram Powers' Greek Slave. In order to appreciate the visual rhetoric and modes of spectating-upon which the fugitive slaves drew, the author examines their performative int…
Feminist humor
You Never Can Tell
Feminist humor
An interview with Lois weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deb Margolin
Wearing the Breeches
In Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage, Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix contributes to the ongoing work on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice of breeches performance in several significant ways. Most notably, she provides [End Page 355] accounts of the earliest practitioners--women who appeared as male characters on the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American stage--and she places the nineteenth-century stage conv…
Geographies of Learning
In her essay "Spatializing Feminism," geographer Linda McDowell notes the importance of examining connections between "material, symbolic, and discursive constructions of space, in situated theory, in imagined communities, in the social constructions of different visions of space, and in the performative and fictive nature of subjectivities and social relations." Analogously, Jill Dolan's Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and…
Feeling validated versus being correct
A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives. The studies examined information preferences in relation to attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in situations that provided choices between congenial information, which supported participants' pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, and uncongenial information, which challenged these tendencies. Analyses indicated a moderate preference for cong…
“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies
“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies1 Lisa Merrill (bio) Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, an avid abolitionist, first used the pulpit of his Brooklyn church as the site from which he staged mock slave auctions of young biracial enslaved girls. Beecher enacted several such performances in the lead-up to the Civil War. Appealing to…
Creating memorials, building identities
Exhibiting Race ‘under the World's Huge Glass Case’
This article examines the performance, representation and reception of images of American slavery prompted by fugitive slaves William Wells Brown and William and Ellen Craft's visit to the Great Exhibition in London, where they displayed themselves alongside American sculptor Hiram Powers' Greek Slave. In order to appreciate the visual rhetoric and modes of spectating-upon which the fugitive slaves drew, the author examines their performative int…
Amalgamation, moral geography, and ‘slum tourism’
This article examines depictions of the relationships between antebellum Irish and African-American residents in a particular space – the notorious, impoverished New York neighborhood called Five Points – from a spatial and performance perspective. In descriptions of this destitute area, journalists, reformers, and writers of sensation narratives portrayed spaces where black and white New Yorkers lived together as evidence of the depravity they a…
Replaying and Rediscovering The Octoroon
For over one hundred and fifty years, productions and adaptations of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s explosive 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, have reflected differing and sometimes contentious meanings and messages about race and enslavement in a range of geographic locations and historical moments. Originally staged in New York in 1859, The Octoroon graphically portrayed the suicide of its white-appearing mixed-race heroine who had been auctio…
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