Essaka Joshua
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Essaka Joshua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Essaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Joshua |
| SIGNATURE | JOSHUA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism – revolution and radicalism, poetry and “powerful feeli…
"Introduction to "Dis/enabling Narratives
Introduction to "Dis/enabling Narratives" Essaka Joshua (bio) "When one speaks of disability, one always associates it with a story, places it in a narrative. A person becomes deaf, became blind, was born blind, became quadriplegic. The disability immediately becomes part of a chronotope, a time-sequenced narrative, embedded in a story"—Lennard. J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy, 3–4. "Disability pervades literary narrative, first, as a stock feature …
Disabling Romanticism
William Weir, Thomas James Arnold, and the Attribution of Articles in the Wellesley Index and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The 'Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals' names the radical Scottish journalist William Weir, 1802-1858, as the author of an unsigned series of seven articles, published in Henry Colburn's 'New Monthly Magazine', entitled 'Recollections of a Gottingen Student', 1829-1830. While the old 'Dictionary of National Biography', which is referenced in 'Wellesley', is silent on the dates of Weir's time in Gottingen and does not attribute any material…
Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters
Wordsworth amongst the Aristotelians
Critics have ignored scholastic Aristotelianism as a possible source for WordsworthÃs philosophical outlook on the related areas of metaphysics and cognitive theory. Without denying fundamental orientations towards both empiricism and Platonism on these issues, I argue that Wordsworth also has much in common with the Aristotelians who debated with Locke. Wordsworth accepts, as these thinkers do, the passivity not just of sensation but of knowledg…
Wordsworth amongst the Aristotelians
Critics have ignored scholastic Aristotelianism as a possible source for WordsworthÃs philosophical outlook on the related areas of metaphysics and cognitive theory. Without denying fundamental orientations towards both empiricism and Platonism on these issues, I argue that Wordsworth also has much in common with the Aristotelians who debated with Locke. Wordsworth accepts, as these thinkers do, the passivity not just of sensation but of knowledg…
William Weir, Thomas James Arnold, and the Attribution of Articles in the Wellesley Index and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The 'Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals' names the radical Scottish journalist William Weir, 1802-1858, as the author of an unsigned series of seven articles, published in Henry Colburn's 'New Monthly Magazine', entitled 'Recollections of a Gottingen Student', 1829-1830. While the old 'Dictionary of National Biography', which is referenced in 'Wellesley', is silent on the dates of Weir's time in Gottingen and does not attribute any material…
Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters
Disabling Romanticism
"Introduction to "Dis/enabling Narratives
Introduction to "Dis/enabling Narratives" Essaka Joshua (bio) "When one speaks of disability, one always associates it with a story, places it in a narrative. A person becomes deaf, became blind, was born blind, became quadriplegic. The disability immediately becomes part of a chronotope, a time-sequenced narrative, embedded in a story"—Lennard. J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy, 3–4. "Disability pervades literary narrative, first, as a stock feature …
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism – revolution and radicalism, poetry and “powerful feeli…
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