Erik Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3839746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0156-2780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
You Can’t Write “tombsteans” in Shorthand: The Pitman Method, Polyglot Dictionaries, and the Suppression of Speech Difference in Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) offers the reader fantastical versions of two seemingly realistic office technologies: shorthand writing and polyglot dictionaries. In both cases, Stoker’s changes allow the reader to see varieties of spoken language in ways that the real technologies would not have allowed. Representing dialect through shorthand, as Mina Harker does, would have been impossible with Pitman shorthand as well as antithetical to the prin…
Networked Cross-Dressing: A Digital Refashioning of Shakespearean Gender Subversion
This paper uses network theory and network analysis to propose a new approach to analyzing cross-dressing in Shakespearean drama, specifically the key questions driving much of the scholarship on that topic in recent decades: What kind of disruption to the social order did cross-dressing represent in Early Modern England, and what did it mean to shift that disruption from the street to the stage? We know that the laws and customs of the age empha…
Bram Stoker’s dialects: Nation, race, and speech in the early Irish fictions
In his early Irish novels, Bram Stoker uses Irish speech and Standard English to wrestle with Ireland’s precarious status in the United Kingdom. In The Primrose Path, Stoker distinguishes the speech of the Irish characters from the narrator’s Standard English, ultimately associating Standard English with the corrupting forces in London that doom the story’s protagonist. Contrarily, in The Snake’s Pass, Stoker ultimately imagines a joint Anglo-Iri…
Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina
Archaeological research on the Gallina (AD 1100–1300) inhabitants of the region west of the Rio Chama and centered on the Llaves valley has focused on constructing a culture history and examining functional characteristics of artifacts and architecture. Limited research has attempted to understand who the residents of the Gallina heartland were. In this article, using new findings and historical contexts, we argue that the Gallina people had a co…
Modeling Post–AD 700 Population Movements and Culture in the Upper San Juan Region
Germaine de Staël’s and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English
This chapter describes the emergence of the terminology of improvisation in the English language. Terms relating to improvisation began to appear in the eighteenth century and came to be used frequently in the nineteenth. Germaine de Staël’s 1807 novel Corinne ou L’Italie (published in French and translated into English the same year) was an important part of this emergence of improvisation. By attending to the content and language of Corinne, in…
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
This book proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to…
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830 , Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social d…
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
Mercenaries In British And American Literature 17901830 Writing Fighting And Marrying For Money
"In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social d…
Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830
This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone
The Minstrel Mode
This study explores a literary convention: the representation of a poet, harp, or lyre in hand, performing for an audience. Before 1750, minstrels and bards had traditionally played only a peripheral role in British literature, appearing as fleeting decorations in numerous works but rarely, if ever, taking center stage. After 1750, the situation changed. Some authors began to pay sustained attention to minstrels, bards, and their continental cous…
Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina
Archaeological research on the Gallina (AD 1100–1300) inhabitants of the region west of the Rio Chama and centered on the Llaves valley has focused on constructing a culture history and examining functional characteristics of artifacts and architecture. Limited research has attempted to understand who the residents of the Gallina heartland were. In this article, using new findings and historical contexts, we argue that the Gallina people had a co…
Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830
This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone
The Minstrel Mode
This study explores a literary convention: the representation of a poet, harp, or lyre in hand, performing for an audience. Before 1750, minstrels and bards had traditionally played only a peripheral role in British literature, appearing as fleeting decorations in numerous works but rarely, if ever, taking center stage. After 1750, the situation changed. Some authors began to pay sustained attention to minstrels, bards, and their continental cous…
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
This book proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to…
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830 , Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social d…
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
Mercenaries In British And American Literature 17901830 Writing Fighting And Marrying For Money
"In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social d…
Germaine de Staël’s and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English
This chapter describes the emergence of the terminology of improvisation in the English language. Terms relating to improvisation began to appear in the eighteenth century and came to be used frequently in the nineteenth. Germaine de Staël’s 1807 novel Corinne ou L’Italie (published in French and translated into English the same year) was an important part of this emergence of improvisation. By attending to the content and language of Corinne, in…
Modeling Post–AD 700 Population Movements and Culture in the Upper San Juan Region
Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina
Archaeological research on the Gallina (AD 1100–1300) inhabitants of the region west of the Rio Chama and centered on the Llaves valley has focused on constructing a culture history and examining functional characteristics of artifacts and architecture. Limited research has attempted to understand who the residents of the Gallina heartland were. In this article, using new findings and historical contexts, we argue that the Gallina people had a co…
Networked Cross-Dressing: A Digital Refashioning of Shakespearean Gender Subversion
This paper uses network theory and network analysis to propose a new approach to analyzing cross-dressing in Shakespearean drama, specifically the key questions driving much of the scholarship on that topic in recent decades: What kind of disruption to the social order did cross-dressing represent in Early Modern England, and what did it mean to shift that disruption from the street to the stage? We know that the laws and customs of the age empha…
Bram Stoker’s dialects: Nation, race, and speech in the early Irish fictions
In his early Irish novels, Bram Stoker uses Irish speech and Standard English to wrestle with Ireland’s precarious status in the United Kingdom. In The Primrose Path, Stoker distinguishes the speech of the Irish characters from the narrator’s Standard English, ultimately associating Standard English with the corrupting forces in London that doom the story’s protagonist. Contrarily, in The Snake’s Pass, Stoker ultimately imagines a joint Anglo-Iri…
You Can’t Write “tombsteans” in Shorthand: The Pitman Method, Polyglot Dictionaries, and the Suppression of Speech Difference in Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) offers the reader fantastical versions of two seemingly realistic office technologies: shorthand writing and polyglot dictionaries. In both cases, Stoker’s changes allow the reader to see varieties of spoken language in ways that the real technologies would not have allowed. Representing dialect through shorthand, as Mina Harker does, would have been impossible with Pitman shorthand as well as antithetical to the prin…
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