John Plotz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Plotz |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Plotz |
| SIGNATURE | PLOTZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5904-4046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Operating at a Loss
Robert Browning's "Beatrice Signorini" (1889) is a verse story about a love affair between two Baroque painters: Francesco Romanelli and Artemisia Gentileschi. The poem's drama comes from an art historian's falsehood that Romanelli and Gentileschi had been lovers and artistic collaborators and that Romanelli's wife Beatrice had taken revenge on his portrait of Artemisia. What makes this poem different from Browning's other dramatic monologues is …
Having It Both Ways with Erving Goffman
Historians of social science from Anthony Giddens forward have ably chronicled Erving Goffman's legacy. Goffman's resonant book titles alone hint at the Dickensian acuity of his social close-reading: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956), Behavior in Public Places (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). I envy newcomers the opportunity to read piece…
Science Fiction
F OUR decades ago, Darko Suvin floated a scholarly approach to sci- ence fiction that largely still prevails, emphasizing the genre's reliance, stretching back beyond Jules Verne to Mary Shelley and beyond, on a technological "novum." 1 Suvin emphasized the capacity of science fiction to challenge
Semi-Detached
Sarah Amato. Beastly Possessions
Sarah Amato’s first book, Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture, is a tale of “Victorian social life told through an examination of human-animal relations” (3). The project was initially inspired by a diorama (by the amateur taxidermist Walter Potter) depicting a complete late-Victorian wedding—only with nearly identical tabby kittens playing every role. Gaining a full understanding of the affectionate and macabre impulses be…
Materiality in Theory
The role that things, commodities, and ‘reification’ played in the writing of Marx and Dickens—as well as in the daily practice of nineteenth-century Britons—explains the Victorianist claim to intellectual priority when it comes to ‘thing theory’. Yet it is not easy to find helpful paradigms for explaining the distinctiveness of how Victorian thinkers make sense of the materiality of their habitus. Recent philosophical ‘object-centred’ approaches…
The Victorian Anthropocene
There is an important 19th century turning-point in thinking about the Anthropocene. Vermont environmentalist George Marsh's 1864 Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action is a seminal account of how the unintended consequences of human action give humans a previously unsuspected role to play in secular terrestrial change. The role that Darwinian 'natural materialism' played in shaping Marsh's insights is profound, and gr…
As If
Reviewed by: As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality by Michael Saler John Plotz (bio) As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, by Michael Saler; pp. x + 283. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, £60.00, £22.50 paper, $99.00, $27.95 paper. In As If, the intellectual historian Michael Saler explores the rise of complete fantasy worlds from the late Victorian period to…
The Empire Inside
The Semi-Detached Provincial Novel
John Plotz, The Semi-Detached Provincial Novel, Victorian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3, Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Eighth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Spring 2011), pp. 405-416
Victorian Glassworlds
Portable Property
The First Strawberries in India
This article examines a deep-seated Victorian preoccupation with the ways that portable property becomes the vector for the transplantation of national culture and individual identity. It argues that England's empire, the territory Charles Dilke labeled "Greater Britain," was the forcing bed from which cultural portability emerged as a new way of imagining self, community, and nation. A range of Anglo-Indian texts—among them Julia Maitland's Lett…
Pairing Empires
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
Crowd Power
Research Article| April 01 2000 Crowd Power: Chartism, Carlyle, and the Victorian Public Sphere John Plotz John Plotz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 87–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902894 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Crowd Power
Research Article| April 01 2000 Crowd Power: Chartism, Carlyle, and the Victorian Public Sphere John Plotz John Plotz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 87–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902894 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
The Semi-Detached Provincial Novel
John Plotz, The Semi-Detached Provincial Novel, Victorian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3, Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Eighth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Spring 2011), pp. 405-416
Crowd Power
Research Article| April 01 2000 Crowd Power: Chartism, Carlyle, and the Victorian Public Sphere John Plotz John Plotz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 87–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902894 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Pairing Empires
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
The First Strawberries in India
This article examines a deep-seated Victorian preoccupation with the ways that portable property becomes the vector for the transplantation of national culture and individual identity. It argues that England's empire, the territory Charles Dilke labeled "Greater Britain," was the forcing bed from which cultural portability emerged as a new way of imagining self, community, and nation. A range of Anglo-Indian texts—among them Julia Maitland's Lett…
Portable Property
Victorian Glassworlds
The Semi-Detached Provincial Novel
John Plotz, The Semi-Detached Provincial Novel, Victorian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3, Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Eighth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Spring 2011), pp. 405-416
The Empire Inside
As If
Reviewed by: As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality by Michael Saler John Plotz (bio) As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, by Michael Saler; pp. x + 283. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, £60.00, £22.50 paper, $99.00, $27.95 paper. In As If, the intellectual historian Michael Saler explores the rise of complete fantasy worlds from the late Victorian period to…
The Victorian Anthropocene
There is an important 19th century turning-point in thinking about the Anthropocene. Vermont environmentalist George Marsh's 1864 Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action is a seminal account of how the unintended consequences of human action give humans a previously unsuspected role to play in secular terrestrial change. The role that Darwinian 'natural materialism' played in shaping Marsh's insights is profound, and gr…
Materiality in Theory
The role that things, commodities, and ‘reification’ played in the writing of Marx and Dickens—as well as in the daily practice of nineteenth-century Britons—explains the Victorianist claim to intellectual priority when it comes to ‘thing theory’. Yet it is not easy to find helpful paradigms for explaining the distinctiveness of how Victorian thinkers make sense of the materiality of their habitus. Recent philosophical ‘object-centred’ approaches…
Semi-Detached
Sarah Amato. Beastly Possessions
Sarah Amato’s first book, Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture, is a tale of “Victorian social life told through an examination of human-animal relations” (3). The project was initially inspired by a diorama (by the amateur taxidermist Walter Potter) depicting a complete late-Victorian wedding—only with nearly identical tabby kittens playing every role. Gaining a full understanding of the affectionate and macabre impulses be…
Science Fiction
F OUR decades ago, Darko Suvin floated a scholarly approach to sci- ence fiction that largely still prevails, emphasizing the genre's reliance, stretching back beyond Jules Verne to Mary Shelley and beyond, on a technological "novum." 1 Suvin emphasized the capacity of science fiction to challenge
Having It Both Ways with Erving Goffman
Historians of social science from Anthony Giddens forward have ably chronicled Erving Goffman's legacy. Goffman's resonant book titles alone hint at the Dickensian acuity of his social close-reading: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956), Behavior in Public Places (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). I envy newcomers the opportunity to read piece…
Operating at a Loss
Robert Browning's "Beatrice Signorini" (1889) is a verse story about a love affair between two Baroque painters: Francesco Romanelli and Artemisia Gentileschi. The poem's drama comes from an art historian's falsehood that Romanelli and Gentileschi had been lovers and artistic collaborators and that Romanelli's wife Beatrice had taken revenge on his portrait of Artemisia. What makes this poem different from Browning's other dramatic monologues is …
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