Dennis Denisoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 5080522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Denisoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Denisoff |
| SIGNATURE | DENISOFF D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tulsa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9258-4028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature by Adrian Tait
In Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature, Adrian Tait adopts ecocritical and new materialist approaches to analyze nineteenth-century engagements with the issue of workers’ rights to live and prosper in a healthy, comfortable environment. He effectively argues that the damage to human lives caused by industrial modernity requires an awareness of the coreliances among humans, other species, and objects. His study gives primary attent…
The “practical mode of teaching” and the state of English studies in the United States
In the United States, student eagerness to pursue concentrated study in English literature as well as in other humanities fields has plummeted after the financial crisis of 2008. Envisioned strong career demand and high wages upon graduation are major drivers of program choices, and such demand is articulated through wealthy industries that can also offer funding to universities. That said, it becomes self‐fulfilling to contribute to the cliché o…
Environmentalism
In the mid-twentieth century, the term environmentalism became commonly used to refer to efforts to protect the natural environment from human abuse and disrespect. Attitudes to safeguarding the environment, however, had already been taking shape for some time, based on interpretive practices that affirmed the values, needs, and desires of some people and not others, and rarely those of nonhuman animals. Changing perceptions of species, race, gen…
Ecology
The modern decadent tradition began to form around the same time that ecology emerged as a recognized scientific field. The essentialist biologism at the historical root of decadence meshed with the interest that cultural theorists and artists of the nineteenth century had in models of society as an organically coherent, self-regulating system. Turning to conceptions of decay in Charles Baudelaire’s poetry and Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of D…
Feminist global decadence
To conceive of modernist feminist decadence without rehashing, let alone reinscribing, the primacy of the historical movement demands particularly malleable approaches to feminism, including fresh ways of engaging with the women authors who are considered part of the modernist decadent canon and their own often fraught relationships with feminism. It requires an understanding and theorizing of the ways in which women, in their roles as authors, a…
The Lie of the Land
Focusing on Vernon Lee's and Algernon Blackwood's portrayals of forests, this article argues that decadent ecology questions the privileging of humans over other sentient beings in relation to the moral conscriptions intending to channel attachments and desires toward productivist purposes. It addresses the ways in which these authors undermine human assumptions of self-control and managerial authority by encouraging an opening up to the affectiv…
Introduction
Recent scholars have been captivated by the indeterminate potentialities that decadence sets not in contradiction to, but in disarming misstep with, Victorian claims of individual, social, and global systems operating harmoniously toward a singular order. These systems also happened to privilege the aspirations of the middle class, the patriarchal machinery, white British colonial expansionism, and anthropocentric privilege. In a scene in The Imp…
The queer ecology of Vernon Lee’s transient affections
British author and philosopher Vernon Lee understood emotions not simply as personal experiences, but as phenomena occurring through trans-historical, trans-spatial ecologies existing beyond the body, the human, and even selfhood. Although this unique formulation can be found throughout her oeuvre, it is especially vividly rendered in her travel essays. During her lifetime, Lee published seven collections of travel writing – from the 1897 Limbo a…
Sexuality
T HE common view that modern sexuality was invented through sci- ence, and especially by sexologists and social scientists such as
The Dissipating Nature of Decadent Paganism from Pater to Yeats
The Dissipating Nature of Decadent Paganism from Pater to Yeats Dennis Denisoff (bio) The garden of the Decadents had always been rather crowded. While Charles Baudelaire tended his flowers of evil, Joris-Karl Huysmans rested bemused by his collection of sterile hybrids and Vernon Lee, off in the middle-distance, consumed the pulsating hills and valleys of Italian landscapes and other more carnal terrains. Simeon Solomon’s pouting Bacchi slouched…
Perennial Decay
When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents. But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, one hundred years after the famous trial…
The Dissipating Nature of Decadent Paganism from Pater to Yeats
The Dissipating Nature of Decadent Paganism from Pater to Yeats Dennis Denisoff (bio) The garden of the Decadents had always been rather crowded. While Charles Baudelaire tended his flowers of evil, Joris-Karl Huysmans rested bemused by his collection of sterile hybrids and Vernon Lee, off in the middle-distance, consumed the pulsating hills and valleys of Italian landscapes and other more carnal terrains. Simeon Solomon’s pouting Bacchi slouched…
Perennial Decay
When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents. But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, one hundred years after the famous trial…
The Dissipating Nature of Decadent Paganism from Pater to Yeats
The Dissipating Nature of Decadent Paganism from Pater to Yeats Dennis Denisoff (bio) The garden of the Decadents had always been rather crowded. While Charles Baudelaire tended his flowers of evil, Joris-Karl Huysmans rested bemused by his collection of sterile hybrids and Vernon Lee, off in the middle-distance, consumed the pulsating hills and valleys of Italian landscapes and other more carnal terrains. Simeon Solomon’s pouting Bacchi slouched…
Sexuality
T HE common view that modern sexuality was invented through sci- ence, and especially by sexologists and social scientists such as
The queer ecology of Vernon Lee’s transient affections
British author and philosopher Vernon Lee understood emotions not simply as personal experiences, but as phenomena occurring through trans-historical, trans-spatial ecologies existing beyond the body, the human, and even selfhood. Although this unique formulation can be found throughout her oeuvre, it is especially vividly rendered in her travel essays. During her lifetime, Lee published seven collections of travel writing – from the 1897 Limbo a…
Ecology
The modern decadent tradition began to form around the same time that ecology emerged as a recognized scientific field. The essentialist biologism at the historical root of decadence meshed with the interest that cultural theorists and artists of the nineteenth century had in models of society as an organically coherent, self-regulating system. Turning to conceptions of decay in Charles Baudelaire’s poetry and Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of D…
Feminist global decadence
To conceive of modernist feminist decadence without rehashing, let alone reinscribing, the primacy of the historical movement demands particularly malleable approaches to feminism, including fresh ways of engaging with the women authors who are considered part of the modernist decadent canon and their own often fraught relationships with feminism. It requires an understanding and theorizing of the ways in which women, in their roles as authors, a…
The Lie of the Land
Focusing on Vernon Lee's and Algernon Blackwood's portrayals of forests, this article argues that decadent ecology questions the privileging of humans over other sentient beings in relation to the moral conscriptions intending to channel attachments and desires toward productivist purposes. It addresses the ways in which these authors undermine human assumptions of self-control and managerial authority by encouraging an opening up to the affectiv…
Introduction
Recent scholars have been captivated by the indeterminate potentialities that decadence sets not in contradiction to, but in disarming misstep with, Victorian claims of individual, social, and global systems operating harmoniously toward a singular order. These systems also happened to privilege the aspirations of the middle class, the patriarchal machinery, white British colonial expansionism, and anthropocentric privilege. In a scene in The Imp…
The “practical mode of teaching” and the state of English studies in the United States
In the United States, student eagerness to pursue concentrated study in English literature as well as in other humanities fields has plummeted after the financial crisis of 2008. Envisioned strong career demand and high wages upon graduation are major drivers of program choices, and such demand is articulated through wealthy industries that can also offer funding to universities. That said, it becomes self‐fulfilling to contribute to the cliché o…
Environmentalism
In the mid-twentieth century, the term environmentalism became commonly used to refer to efforts to protect the natural environment from human abuse and disrespect. Attitudes to safeguarding the environment, however, had already been taking shape for some time, based on interpretive practices that affirmed the values, needs, and desires of some people and not others, and rarely those of nonhuman animals. Changing perceptions of species, race, gen…
Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature by Adrian Tait
In Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature, Adrian Tait adopts ecocritical and new materialist approaches to analyze nineteenth-century engagements with the issue of workers’ rights to live and prosper in a healthy, comfortable environment. He effectively argues that the damage to human lives caused by industrial modernity requires an awareness of the coreliances among humans, other species, and objects. His study gives primary attent…
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