Emma Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5810-4692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Abîme Inconnus’: Raïssa Maritain’s Poetic and Mystical Gifts
Raïssa Maritain is one of the most compelling Catholic poets of the twentieth century, and yet her work is largely overlooked by literary critics. This short essay explores her mystical reading of darkness as a place of spiritual discernment, intuition, and kenosis and the poetic night vision she developed to negotiate it. The essay reads her as a fire-thief intent on stealing from poetry a light able to illuminate God’s dazzling darkness and the…
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel: A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision
"In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life. An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work -- from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing -- Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel reads the author's theology as articulating a compelling response to the claim that Christianity is …
Tree Being in Peter Larkin’s “Skies in Flight of Tree”
Cet article étudie le poème en douze parties de Peter Larkin « Skies in Flight of Tree » (2019) à partir de l’approche des Critical Plant Studies , pour analyser la puissance d’affect des arbres. Faisant appel aux travaux d’Eduardo Kohn, Emanuele Coccia et Michael Marder, l’auteur montre que Larkin sacralise cette puissance d’affect comme forme d’être inclusive, collective et organisationnelle liée à la cosmologie catholique. Il pose que l’être-a…
Tree Being in Peter Larkin’s “Skies in Flight of Tree”
Plants in contemporary poetry: Ecocriticism and the botanical imagination
Ryan’s thoughtful contribution to the evolving field of plant studies immerses the reader into what Bachelard calls the ‘poetisphere of our time’ through the being, language, and companionship of t
Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith
Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith suggests that the life and works of Christina Rossetti offer a commentary on the relationship between Christianity and ecology. It counters readings of her as a withdrawn or apolitical poet by reading her Anglo-Catholic faith in the context of her commitment to the nonhuman. Rossetti considered the doctrines and ideas associated with the Catholic Revival to be revelatory of an ecology of creation in whic…
Entanglement in Fir: "Thinking Matter in Peter Larkin's "praying // firs \\ attenuate
This article reads Peter Larkin's poem "praying // firs \\ attenuate" (2014) as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of the nonhuman and questions a secular fatigue with the divine. Through a Catholic metaphysics in which all things-human, nonhuman, holy-are entangled, Larkin…
Punctive grace: Reading religion in Barthes'Mourning Diary
This discussion locates the doctrine of grace as one way of negotiating Barthes’ references to Christianity in his late writings. The dynamic influence of the divine experienced by the believer through faith, grace has the capacity to transform suffering into a meditative or ‘neutral’ thinking analogous to meditation or prayer. For the grieving Barthes, grace promises relief without negating the course of bereavement and so enables the act of wri…
Religion, the Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age
This chapter locates religion at the heart of Victorian literary culture and explores the reciprocal relationship between literary and religious forms, texts, and aesthetics. After outlining the relationship between literature and religion in the period, the chapter reflects on how modern criticism reads this relationship, both historically and philosophically. Suggesting that new historicism and cultural formalism are sometimes methodologically …
Introduction: Exploring Forgiveness in Nineteenth‐Century Poetry
This essay serves as an introduction to the essays collected in the ‘Nineteenth‐century Poetry and Forgiveness’ cluster. It takes as its foundation the recent turn to questions of hospitality, forgiveness and gift in the intra‐disciplinary field of religion, philosophy and literature and highlights the centrality of these issues for reading nineteenth‐century poetry. The essay argues that nineteenth‐century poetry attempts to figure forgiveness a…
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible
Victorian Poetry When: Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems, Poetics
From his work on dissenting religious traditions to the significance of intertextual writing and reading practices and the status of critical theory in literary studies, Valentine Cunningham has shaped for himself a scholarly guise at once robustly intellectual and critically jocose. His critical voice – homiletic and idiosyncratic – resonates with a deep commitment to literary texts as well as a perceptive and often provocative humour that is no…
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible
There is a long-standing Jewish tradition, both religious and secular, of responding to catastrophe in the present by recalling, and recasting, models and archetypes from the past, particularly from the Bible. They may be recalled literally, as traditionally understood, or rewritten, even parodied (often violently), in order to challenge and/or subvert more traditional readings. Interrogating and/or deconstructing traditional responses and archet…
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
The Blackwell companion to the Bible in English literature
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. * An ambitious overview of the Bible's role and influence on English literature - as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history - from the medieval period up through the 20th century * Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information abou…
Reciprocal Scansion in Wordsworth's ‘There Was a Boy’
This article is part of a cluster that draws material from the recent conference Metre Matters: New Approaches to Prosody, 1780–1914 . It comprises an introduction by Jason David Hall and six articles presented at the conference, whose aim was to address renewed scholarly interest in versification and form across the long nineteenth century, as well as some of the methodologies underpinning it. The papers included in the cluster look both to the …
Dogs, detectives and the famous Sherlock Holmes
A B S T R A C T • The celebrity of Sherlock Holmes is almost universally signified through the iconic silhouetted image of a deerstalker hat and smoking pipe, one that secures his fame as a popular detective from the Victorian period to our own. Despite his aloof and sometimes prickly behaviour on the page, Holmes remains a favourite with a diverse group of audiences, instantly likeable to his contemporary readers. This article will connect the f…
The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition , edited by Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner
Reviewed by: The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition Emma Mason (bio) The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited by Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner; pp. xvi + 268. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004, £55.00, $99.00. C. S. Lewis is a largely discredited critical voice in current literary studies, but his work is worth returning to for many reasons, not least his assertion th…
Romanticism and Religion
The following discusses the renewed critical interest in the connections and intersections between Romanticism and Religion. A brief overview of Romantic criticism's approach to religious questions is offered as well as a general discussion of key topics such as Dissent, gender, prophecy and poetics
Some God of Wild Enthusiast's Dreams”: Emily Brontë's Religious Enthusiasm
IN EMILY BRONTË'S Gondal poem, “How do I love on summer nights” (1842–43), the spirit of Lord Alfred S. gloomily haunts Aspin Castle, shut out from heaven after committing suicide for the love of Queen A.G.A.References to Brontë's works are from Chitham and Roper's edition of her poetry and Nestor's edition of Wuthering Heights. Brontë's central Gondolian figure, A.G.A. dominates every poem in which she appears or is evoked, a ruthless and yet ar…
Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve
(2002). Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 196-219
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access EMMA MASON EMMA MASON Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 970–971, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.970 Published: 01 September 1998
Sources of International Refugee Law: A Bibliography
Sources of International Refugee Law: A Bibliography ELISA MASON ELISA MASON Associate Information Officer *Centre for Documentation and Research/UNHCR. This bibliography of sources was prepared for the 1996 AALL Summer Institute, ‘Contemporary Practice of Public International Law, ’ Bloomington, Indiana, 18 July 1996. The proceedings will be published by Oceana publications in 1997. The views expressed are those of the author, and do not necessa…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access EMMA MASON EMMA MASON Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 952–953, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.952 Published: 01 September 1996
Westminster Abbey and the Monarchy between the Reigns of William I and John (1066–1216)
The lavish patronage bestowed on Westminster Abbey by Edward the Confessor, and later by Henry III, ensured its status as the church which pre-eminently enjoyed royal favour and was designated by each as his mausoleum. During the intervening reigns the prestige of the abbey was less assured. The present paper seeks to examine the extent to which the genuine charters issued from, or for, Westminster between 1066 and 1216 testify to any special rel…
William Rufus: Myth and reality
The commonly accepted view of the reign of William II (1087–1100) is a political myth, primarily the work of Eadmer, who depicted the king as the villain against whom St Anselm strove to impose the revolutionary Gregorian reform programme in England. Henry I, moreover, denigrated his brother's regime as a cover for furthering William's harsh but constructive policies. Eadmer's writings were quarried by subsequent twelfth-century writers in the ma…
Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve
(2002). Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 196-219
Legends of the Beauchamps' ancestors: The use of baronial propaganda in medieval England
From the early part of the eleventh century, legendary propaganda was generated by the Tosny family. The Warwickshire branch of the Beaumonts did likewise from the late twelfth century, their efforts culminating in the popular romance Guy of Warwick. Such material was designed to romanticize those activities of the families which had led to their acquiring landed power, and to reinforce a widespread acceptance of the status which they endeavoured…
Entanglement in Fir: "Thinking Matter in Peter Larkin's "praying // firs \\ attenuate
This article reads Peter Larkin's poem "praying // firs \\ attenuate" (2014) as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of the nonhuman and questions a secular fatigue with the divine. Through a Catholic metaphysics in which all things-human, nonhuman, holy-are entangled, Larkin…
Punctive grace: Reading religion in Barthes'Mourning Diary
This discussion locates the doctrine of grace as one way of negotiating Barthes’ references to Christianity in his late writings. The dynamic influence of the divine experienced by the believer through faith, grace has the capacity to transform suffering into a meditative or ‘neutral’ thinking analogous to meditation or prayer. For the grieving Barthes, grace promises relief without negating the course of bereavement and so enables the act of wri…
Dogs, detectives and the famous Sherlock Holmes
A B S T R A C T • The celebrity of Sherlock Holmes is almost universally signified through the iconic silhouetted image of a deerstalker hat and smoking pipe, one that secures his fame as a popular detective from the Victorian period to our own. Despite his aloof and sometimes prickly behaviour on the page, Holmes remains a favourite with a diverse group of audiences, instantly likeable to his contemporary readers. This article will connect the f…
Some God of Wild Enthusiast's Dreams”: Emily Brontë's Religious Enthusiasm
IN EMILY BRONTË'S Gondal poem, “How do I love on summer nights” (1842–43), the spirit of Lord Alfred S. gloomily haunts Aspin Castle, shut out from heaven after committing suicide for the love of Queen A.G.A.References to Brontë's works are from Chitham and Roper's edition of her poetry and Nestor's edition of Wuthering Heights. Brontë's central Gondolian figure, A.G.A. dominates every poem in which she appears or is evoked, a ruthless and yet ar…
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that the practice of religion will be influenced by the social conditions prevailing in any given locality.’ The debate on this statement is largely concentrated for present purposes into a consideration of activities between c 1100 and c 1250 in two distinctive societies: Westminster abbey and its environs and, in contrast, the city and diocese of Worcester. The essential function of Westminster abbey was,…
The Role of the English Parishioner, 1100–1500
The present-day parishioner, constantly urged to take a more positive role in the life of the local church community, might be surprised to reflect that this onus of responsibility is a comparatively recent development, and that throughout most of the Middle Ages, on the rare occasions when parishioners as such were mentioned at all in the ecclesiastical records, it was virtually in the capacity of property, and often troublesome property at that
English Tithe Income of Norman Religious Houses
Journal Article English Tithe Income of Norman Religious Houses Get access Emma Mason Emma Mason Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 48, Issue 117, May 1975, Pages 91–94, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1975.tb02030.x Published: 12 October 2007
English Tithe Income of Norman Religious Houses
Journal Article English Tithe Income of Norman Religious Houses Get access Emma Mason Emma Mason Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 48, Issue 117, May 1975, Pages 91–94, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1975.tb02030.x Published: 12 October 2007
The Role of the English Parishioner, 1100–1500
The present-day parishioner, constantly urged to take a more positive role in the life of the local church community, might be surprised to reflect that this onus of responsibility is a comparatively recent development, and that throughout most of the Middle Ages, on the rare occasions when parishioners as such were mentioned at all in the ecclesiastical records, it was virtually in the capacity of property, and often troublesome property at that
The Mauduits and their Chamberlainship of the Exchequer
The Mauduits and their Chamberlainship of the Exchequer Get access EMMA MASON EMMA MASON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 49, Issue 119, May 1976, Pages 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1976.tb01669.x Published: 12 October 2007
Maritagium and the Changing Law
William Rufus: Myth and reality
The commonly accepted view of the reign of William II (1087–1100) is a political myth, primarily the work of Eadmer, who depicted the king as the villain against whom St Anselm strove to impose the revolutionary Gregorian reform programme in England. Henry I, moreover, denigrated his brother's regime as a cover for furthering William's harsh but constructive policies. Eadmer's writings were quarried by subsequent twelfth-century writers in the ma…
Timeo Barones Et Donas Ferentes
This sentiment might well have been voiced by any abbot contemplating the ambivalent relationship between his house and its patrons. They expected material, as well as spiritual returns on their investment, and these might well conflict with the best interests of the monastery. Ambivalence, though, was equally reflected in the attitude of religious houses towards their benefactors, as this brief survey of baronial patronage in England, between th…
In My Beginning Is My End
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that the practice of religion will be influenced by the social conditions prevailing in any given locality.’ The debate on this statement is largely concentrated for present purposes into a consideration of activities between c 1100 and c 1250 in two distinctive societies: Westminster abbey and its environs and, in contrast, the city and diocese of Worcester. The essential function of Westminster abbey was,…
The King, the Chamberlain and Southwick Priory
Journal Article The King, the Chamberlain and Southwick Priory Get access EMMA MASON EMMA MASON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 53, Issue 127, May 1980, Pages 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1980.tb01724.x Published: 12 October 2007
Pro statu et incolumnitate regni mei: Royal monastic patronage 1066–1154
Dangers to the cohesion of the Anglo-Norman regnum correlate to a marked extent with the fluctuating patronage extended by the Anglo-Norman kings towards Westminster Abbey, and other religious houses, in their search for one which would symbolize and enhance the stability of their dynasty. Westminster itself had royal connections from the outset. The original church of St Peter, on Thorney Island in the Thames, to the west of London, was founded …
Rocamadour in Quercy above all other Churches’: The Healing of Henry II
In the month of September (1170), King Henry fell sick almost to the point of death, at La Mote de Gerin (near Domfront). But by the divine mercy, and the supplication of the servants of God, to Whom he humbly commended himself... he recovered his health ... Then (he) travelled to Rocamadour to pray, This place, in the district of Quercy, is encircled by mountains and horrible wilderness.... King Henry, travelling hither in order to pray, as we s…
Legends of the Beauchamps' ancestors: The use of baronial propaganda in medieval England
From the early part of the eleventh century, legendary propaganda was generated by the Tosny family. The Warwickshire branch of the Beaumonts did likewise from the late twelfth century, their efforts culminating in the popular romance Guy of Warwick. Such material was designed to romanticize those activities of the families which had led to their acquiring landed power, and to reinforce a widespread acceptance of the status which they endeavoured…
Fact and fiction in the English crusading tradition: The earls of Warwick in the twelfth century
Two twelfth-century earls of Warwick, Roger and his son William, were depicted as crusaders by a later propagandist. These earls were at the hub of an aristocratic circle, comprising kinsmen, associates and tenants, which both supported crusading orders and also commissioned literature which reflected the crusading activities of its members. Neither Roger nor William can be proved to have been on crusade, but both men had practical reasons for ta…
Westminster Abbey and the Monarchy between the Reigns of William I and John (1066–1216)
The lavish patronage bestowed on Westminster Abbey by Edward the Confessor, and later by Henry III, ensured its status as the church which pre-eminently enjoyed royal favour and was designated by each as his mausoleum. During the intervening reigns the prestige of the abbey was less assured. The present paper seeks to examine the extent to which the genuine charters issued from, or for, Westminster between 1066 and 1216 testify to any special rel…
Sources of International Refugee Law: A Bibliography
Sources of International Refugee Law: A Bibliography ELISA MASON ELISA MASON Associate Information Officer *Centre for Documentation and Research/UNHCR. This bibliography of sources was prepared for the 1996 AALL Summer Institute, ‘Contemporary Practice of Public International Law, ’ Bloomington, Indiana, 18 July 1996. The proceedings will be published by Oceana publications in 1997. The views expressed are those of the author, and do not necessa…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access EMMA MASON EMMA MASON Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 952–953, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.952 Published: 01 September 1996
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access EMMA MASON EMMA MASON Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 970–971, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.970 Published: 01 September 1998
Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve
(2002). Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 196-219
Some God of Wild Enthusiast's Dreams”: Emily Brontë's Religious Enthusiasm
IN EMILY BRONTË'S Gondal poem, “How do I love on summer nights” (1842–43), the spirit of Lord Alfred S. gloomily haunts Aspin Castle, shut out from heaven after committing suicide for the love of Queen A.G.A.References to Brontë's works are from Chitham and Roper's edition of her poetry and Nestor's edition of Wuthering Heights. Brontë's central Gondolian figure, A.G.A. dominates every poem in which she appears or is evoked, a ruthless and yet ar…
Romanticism and Religion
The following discusses the renewed critical interest in the connections and intersections between Romanticism and Religion. A brief overview of Romantic criticism's approach to religious questions is offered as well as a general discussion of key topics such as Dissent, gender, prophecy and poetics
The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition , edited by Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner
Reviewed by: The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition Emma Mason (bio) The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited by Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner; pp. xvi + 268. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004, £55.00, $99.00. C. S. Lewis is a largely discredited critical voice in current literary studies, but his work is worth returning to for many reasons, not least his assertion th…
Dogs, detectives and the famous Sherlock Holmes
A B S T R A C T • The celebrity of Sherlock Holmes is almost universally signified through the iconic silhouetted image of a deerstalker hat and smoking pipe, one that secures his fame as a popular detective from the Victorian period to our own. Despite his aloof and sometimes prickly behaviour on the page, Holmes remains a favourite with a diverse group of audiences, instantly likeable to his contemporary readers. This article will connect the f…
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
The Blackwell companion to the Bible in English literature
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. * An ambitious overview of the Bible's role and influence on English literature - as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history - from the medieval period up through the 20th century * Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information abou…
Reciprocal Scansion in Wordsworth's ‘There Was a Boy’
This article is part of a cluster that draws material from the recent conference Metre Matters: New Approaches to Prosody, 1780–1914 . It comprises an introduction by Jason David Hall and six articles presented at the conference, whose aim was to address renewed scholarly interest in versification and form across the long nineteenth century, as well as some of the methodologies underpinning it. The papers included in the cluster look both to the …
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