Maureen N Mclane
Biographic Data
| ID | 375923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen N Mclane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclane |
| SIGNATURE | MCLANE M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shelley
This chapter reopens the case of Shelley’s ‘Defence’, both his famous manifesto and the question of defending (or critiquing) Shelley. The essay addresses Shelley’s vision of the poet; its salience for twenty-first-century readers, critics, and poets; the relation of lyric to law (marked in the famous phrase ‘unacknowledged legislators’); and the status of ‘Man’ as ‘an instrument’ (Shelley’s ‘Aeolianism’). Shelley emerges via philosopher Giorgio …
Notational/Poetics
This article establishes itself first in a kind of slough, a lack of inspiration, and transvalues this via Fred Wah’s poem “Ikebana” and Roland Barthes’s celebration of haiku as a form that “lacks inspiration.” Following Barthes on “the minimal act of writing that is Notation,” this article explores and theorizes the status of the notational in and for poetics. The article registers and sustains the ambiguity in notatio, notationis and suggests t…
Compositionism
Invoking Bruno Latour's notion of "compositionism," this essay proposes a "field theory" of poetry, exploring the use and abuse of plants as one crucial node for thinking about poiesis. Core cases include the traditionary ballads "The Three Ravens" and "Barbara Allen," with nods to romantic and contemporary lyrics. The essay also considers en route the pathetic fallacy in light of ongoing debates about anthropomorphism and personification, and co…
Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760–1830
This chapter presents an account of what antiquarians do to transmit ballads—gathering, citation, forensic editing, authentication, and quarrels over value. It argues that in its preoccupation with mediality and its navigation of both Enlightenment historiography and antiquarian eclecticism, balladeering asks us to complicate our standard accounts of "enlightenment" and "media." Antiquarian balladeering asks us to take another look at "close read…
Entre mythes et marché
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry
Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry:Of Milkmaids and Minstrels in 1771 Maureen N. McLane (bio) "Say that a ballad / wrapped in a ballad // a play of force and play // of forces . . . Dark ballad and dark crossing / old woman prowling // Genial telling her story . . ." —Susan Howe, "Speeches at the Barriers"1 "There are two things that are interesting, history and grammar. History is historical." —Gertrude Stein, History or Messages from History2 "T…
The Figure Minstrelsy Makes
The Figure Minstrelsy Makes
Notational/Poetics
This article establishes itself first in a kind of slough, a lack of inspiration, and transvalues this via Fred Wah’s poem “Ikebana” and Roland Barthes’s celebration of haiku as a form that “lacks inspiration.” Following Barthes on “the minimal act of writing that is Notation,” this article explores and theorizes the status of the notational in and for poetics. The article registers and sustains the ambiguity in notatio, notationis and suggests t…
The Figure Minstrelsy Makes
Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry
Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry:Of Milkmaids and Minstrels in 1771 Maureen N. McLane (bio) "Say that a ballad / wrapped in a ballad // a play of force and play // of forces . . . Dark ballad and dark crossing / old woman prowling // Genial telling her story . . ." —Susan Howe, "Speeches at the Barriers"1 "There are two things that are interesting, history and grammar. History is historical." —Gertrude Stein, History or Messages from History2 "T…
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Entre mythes et marché
Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760–1830
This chapter presents an account of what antiquarians do to transmit ballads—gathering, citation, forensic editing, authentication, and quarrels over value. It argues that in its preoccupation with mediality and its navigation of both Enlightenment historiography and antiquarian eclecticism, balladeering asks us to complicate our standard accounts of "enlightenment" and "media." Antiquarian balladeering asks us to take another look at "close read…
Compositionism
Invoking Bruno Latour's notion of "compositionism," this essay proposes a "field theory" of poetry, exploring the use and abuse of plants as one crucial node for thinking about poiesis. Core cases include the traditionary ballads "The Three Ravens" and "Barbara Allen," with nods to romantic and contemporary lyrics. The essay also considers en route the pathetic fallacy in light of ongoing debates about anthropomorphism and personification, and co…
Notational/Poetics
This article establishes itself first in a kind of slough, a lack of inspiration, and transvalues this via Fred Wah’s poem “Ikebana” and Roland Barthes’s celebration of haiku as a form that “lacks inspiration.” Following Barthes on “the minimal act of writing that is Notation,” this article explores and theorizes the status of the notational in and for poetics. The article registers and sustains the ambiguity in notatio, notationis and suggests t…
Shelley
This chapter reopens the case of Shelley’s ‘Defence’, both his famous manifesto and the question of defending (or critiquing) Shelley. The essay addresses Shelley’s vision of the poet; its salience for twenty-first-century readers, critics, and poets; the relation of lyric to law (marked in the famous phrase ‘unacknowledged legislators’); and the status of ‘Man’ as ‘an instrument’ (Shelley’s ‘Aeolianism’). Shelley emerges via philosopher Giorgio …
Art (7 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Poetry (5 works) · History (4 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)