Ellen L O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen L O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen L |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Historical Fiction and the Breton Landscape
For authors of historical fiction, landscapes and ruins can suggest a means of reanimating the world inhabited by the subject and breaching any gaps in the historical record. In 1868, a Breton-born poet, Émile Péhant (1813–1876), wrote an eight-thousand-line epic about the life of fourteenth-century Breton noblewoman turned militant rebel, Jeanne de Belleville (1300–1359). Published during a popular resurgence of Breton culture and regional touri…
The “Medical Plot Thickens”
Britain's Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869) mandated the use of medical detention and speculum exams to manage the bodies of "common prostitutes" and thereby reduce sexually transmitted diseases among enlisted men. Repeal advocates challenged the gendered power structure of the Acts but also used melodramatic frameworks to produce a broader critique of nineteenth-century Britain's centralizing medical orthodoxy and to argue for unregula…
Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger
The Most Beautiful Murder”
To say that this common [criminal] fate was described in the popular press and commented on simply as a piece of police news is, indeed, to fall short of the facts. To say that it was sung and balladed would be more correct; it was expressed in a form quite other than that of the modern press, in a language which one could certainly describe as that of fiction rather than reality, once we have discovered that there is such a thing as a reality of…
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The Most Beautiful Murder”
To say that this common [criminal] fate was described in the popular press and commented on simply as a piece of police news is, indeed, to fall short of the facts. To say that it was sung and balladed would be more correct; it was expressed in a form quite other than that of the modern press, in a language which one could certainly describe as that of fiction rather than reality, once we have discovered that there is such a thing as a reality of…
Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger
The “Medical Plot Thickens”
Britain's Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869) mandated the use of medical detention and speculum exams to manage the bodies of "common prostitutes" and thereby reduce sexually transmitted diseases among enlisted men. Repeal advocates challenged the gendered power structure of the Acts but also used melodramatic frameworks to produce a broader critique of nineteenth-century Britain's centralizing medical orthodoxy and to argue for unregula…
Historical Fiction and the Breton Landscape
For authors of historical fiction, landscapes and ruins can suggest a means of reanimating the world inhabited by the subject and breaching any gaps in the historical record. In 1868, a Breton-born poet, Émile Péhant (1813–1876), wrote an eight-thousand-line epic about the life of fourteenth-century Breton noblewoman turned militant rebel, Jeanne de Belleville (1300–1359). Published during a popular resurgence of Breton culture and regional touri…
Art (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acquiescence (1 works) · Adventure (1 works)