Francis O’Gorman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis O’Gorman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Gorman |
| SIGNATURE | O’GORMAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0900-1056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Matthew Arnold
This essay proposes both an empirical argument and a (speculative) conceptual one. The empirical argument concerns the question: did the original readers of Matthew Arnold’s poetry anticipate later twentieth-century views that he was a Schopenhauer-like pessimist and representative of a deep seam of such thinking in the nineteenth century? The essay can find little evidence for this but rather for an Arnold whose periodical departures into mélanc…
Trollope, Orley Farm , and Dickens’s Marriage Breakdown
Anthony Trollope’s Orley Farm (1861-2) is peculiarly aware of Charles Dickens, the seemingly unsurpassable celebrity of English letters in the 1850s. This essay examines narrative features of Orley Farm that indicate Dickens was on Trollope’s mind-and then asks why. My first answer is that Trollope was, as he began Orley Farm, newly confident and ready to test himself against the towering presence of Dickens. My second is that Orley Farm covertly…
Forgetfulness
Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O’Gorman shows how forgetting has been embraced as a requirement for modern existence and how our education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnects us from our pasts. But he also examines the cult…
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” and the Channel Railway
When did Matthew Arnold write his most celebrated lyric, “Dover Beach”? Kenneth Allott and Miriam Allott in their Longman edition of Arnold’s poems (1979) say it was composed “probably late June 18
Personal Business
Journal Article The Way We Didn’t Live Then Get access Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, by AeronHunt, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, xii + 240 pp., £39.95 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-8139-3631-4 Francis O’Gorman Francis O’Gorman 1University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 December 2015…
Swinburne and Tennyson's Peerage
Algernon Charles Swinburne's poetic relations with Alfred Tennyson were mostly respectful. Where Swinburne differed, he still acknowledged the abilities of the Poet Laureate. There is one major exception: Swinburne's violent reaction—never noticed before—to Tennyson's acceptance of a barony in 1883. This article explores Swinburne's response and assesses the rich tangle of public and private reasons beyond the poet's well-known republican hatred …
Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son , Modernism, and a History of Nerves
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Modernism and Autobiography
This volume offers sixteen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ances…
"Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life
(2008). Matthew Arnold's 'The Buried Life' ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 42-44
Life Writing and Victorian Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Life Writing and Victorian Culture Francis O'Gorman (bio) David Amigoni , ed. Life Writing and Victorian Culture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. xv, 239 pp., illus. ISBN 0-754-63531-7, $99.95. "Life writing" in the Victorian period is now well recognized to comprise a diversity of literary forms. Diaries, obituaries, journals, fictionalized autobiographies, and letters are among the genres recently established alongside the corpus of…
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction
This paper introduces a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Victorian Literary Studies and future directions. This group of four essays was originally commissioned by Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds), who here provides an introduction. The full cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction’, Francis O’Gorman, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111…
Partly autonomous? Literary-historical reflections on Richard Price, British Society 1680–1880
stops well short of following Nairn in writing off present-day Britain as a Victorian theme park, but he generally supports the notion that British modernity's lengthy gestation placed it at a disadvantage relative to countries like Germany and Japan, which (in comparison) modernized overnight. Part of this support derives from the primacy of the second industrial revolution in his definition of modernity. A modern state, for Price, is an America…
Michael Field and Sapphic Fame
Long Ago (1889), Michael Field's inaugural collection of verse, celebrated Sappho, the ancient poetess of Lesbos. The volume proclaimed the diversity of her sexuality; it saluted verse that was connected to the self; and it urged the authenticity of her creative force in ages beyond her death. Taking surviving fragments of Sapphic writing as embarkation points for new poems in her spirit, Michael Field, the joint pseudonym of the two poets Kather…
Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and tangle
Clasping Hands Across the Gulf
Literary historians of the past have privileged reaction as a concept essential to comprehending the movement of generation to generation. This article examines dominant assumptions about the Victorians’ relationship with the literature and culture of the high eighteenth century, showing that the familiar model of hostile reaction is inadequate. Suggesting the complexities in the period's transactions with the previous century, the authors draw a…
Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” and Thomas Arnold's Travel Journals
Research Article| June 01 2003 Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” and Thomas Arnold's Travel Journals Francis O'Gorman Francis O'Gorman University of Leeds, UK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 61–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-40.4.61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Francis O'Gorman; Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” …
Ruskin's Memorial Landscapes
John Ruskin, on significant public occasions in his later life, affirmed the healthiness of the human imagination that found in nature not divine truths, but human histories. He celebrated as a sign of a community's well being, the capacity of the eye to look at landscape with awareness of its (imagined) history. Perceiving the environment in this way was to enter imaginatively into association with one's own society's past and ancestral heritage…
Landscape, Writing, Community
The British Isles and the War of American Independence, Stephen Conway
Victorian Natural History and the Discourses of Nature in Charles Kingsley's Glaucus
This essay argues that Victorian natural history, as a form of knowledge more accessible in the culture than the increasingly professionalised languages of empirical science, deserves more prominence in accounts of the formation and transmission of ideas about nature's value and human beings' relationship with it in Victorian England. The essay examines the constitutive discourses of a particular and popular example of such writing: Charles Kings…
Poincaré's retention of Euclid on apparently adverse parallactic findings
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction
This paper introduces a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Victorian Literary Studies and future directions. This group of four essays was originally commissioned by Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds), who here provides an introduction. The full cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction’, Francis O’Gorman, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111…
Partly autonomous? Literary-historical reflections on Richard Price, British Society 1680–1880
stops well short of following Nairn in writing off present-day Britain as a Victorian theme park, but he generally supports the notion that British modernity's lengthy gestation placed it at a disadvantage relative to countries like Germany and Japan, which (in comparison) modernized overnight. Part of this support derives from the primacy of the second industrial revolution in his definition of modernity. A modern state, for Price, is an America…
Michael Field and Sapphic Fame
Long Ago (1889), Michael Field's inaugural collection of verse, celebrated Sappho, the ancient poetess of Lesbos. The volume proclaimed the diversity of her sexuality; it saluted verse that was connected to the self; and it urged the authenticity of her creative force in ages beyond her death. Taking surviving fragments of Sapphic writing as embarkation points for new poems in her spirit, Michael Field, the joint pseudonym of the two poets Kather…
Poincaré's retention of Euclid on apparently adverse parallactic findings
Victorian Natural History and the Discourses of Nature in Charles Kingsley's Glaucus
This essay argues that Victorian natural history, as a form of knowledge more accessible in the culture than the increasingly professionalised languages of empirical science, deserves more prominence in accounts of the formation and transmission of ideas about nature's value and human beings' relationship with it in Victorian England. The essay examines the constitutive discourses of a particular and popular example of such writing: Charles Kings…
Ruskin's Memorial Landscapes
John Ruskin, on significant public occasions in his later life, affirmed the healthiness of the human imagination that found in nature not divine truths, but human histories. He celebrated as a sign of a community's well being, the capacity of the eye to look at landscape with awareness of its (imagined) history. Perceiving the environment in this way was to enter imaginatively into association with one's own society's past and ancestral heritage…
Landscape, Writing, Community
The British Isles and the War of American Independence, Stephen Conway
Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” and Thomas Arnold's Travel Journals
Research Article| June 01 2003 Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” and Thomas Arnold's Travel Journals Francis O'Gorman Francis O'Gorman University of Leeds, UK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 61–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-40.4.61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Francis O'Gorman; Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” …
Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and tangle
Clasping Hands Across the Gulf
Literary historians of the past have privileged reaction as a concept essential to comprehending the movement of generation to generation. This article examines dominant assumptions about the Victorians’ relationship with the literature and culture of the high eighteenth century, showing that the familiar model of hostile reaction is inadequate. Suggesting the complexities in the period's transactions with the previous century, the authors draw a…
Partly autonomous? Literary-historical reflections on Richard Price, British Society 1680–1880
stops well short of following Nairn in writing off present-day Britain as a Victorian theme park, but he generally supports the notion that British modernity's lengthy gestation placed it at a disadvantage relative to countries like Germany and Japan, which (in comparison) modernized overnight. Part of this support derives from the primacy of the second industrial revolution in his definition of modernity. A modern state, for Price, is an America…
Michael Field and Sapphic Fame
Long Ago (1889), Michael Field's inaugural collection of verse, celebrated Sappho, the ancient poetess of Lesbos. The volume proclaimed the diversity of her sexuality; it saluted verse that was connected to the self; and it urged the authenticity of her creative force in ages beyond her death. Taking surviving fragments of Sapphic writing as embarkation points for new poems in her spirit, Michael Field, the joint pseudonym of the two poets Kather…
Life Writing and Victorian Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Life Writing and Victorian Culture Francis O'Gorman (bio) David Amigoni , ed. Life Writing and Victorian Culture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. xv, 239 pp., illus. ISBN 0-754-63531-7, $99.95. "Life writing" in the Victorian period is now well recognized to comprise a diversity of literary forms. Diaries, obituaries, journals, fictionalized autobiographies, and letters are among the genres recently established alongside the corpus of…
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction
This paper introduces a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Victorian Literary Studies and future directions. This group of four essays was originally commissioned by Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds), who here provides an introduction. The full cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction’, Francis O’Gorman, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111…
"Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life
(2008). Matthew Arnold's 'The Buried Life' ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 42-44
Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son , Modernism, and a History of Nerves
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Modernism and Autobiography
This volume offers sixteen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ances…
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” and the Channel Railway
When did Matthew Arnold write his most celebrated lyric, “Dover Beach”? Kenneth Allott and Miriam Allott in their Longman edition of Arnold’s poems (1979) say it was composed “probably late June 18
Personal Business
Journal Article The Way We Didn’t Live Then Get access Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, by AeronHunt, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, xii + 240 pp., £39.95 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-8139-3631-4 Francis O’Gorman Francis O’Gorman 1University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 December 2015…
Swinburne and Tennyson's Peerage
Algernon Charles Swinburne's poetic relations with Alfred Tennyson were mostly respectful. Where Swinburne differed, he still acknowledged the abilities of the Poet Laureate. There is one major exception: Swinburne's violent reaction—never noticed before—to Tennyson's acceptance of a barony in 1883. This article explores Swinburne's response and assesses the rich tangle of public and private reasons beyond the poet's well-known republican hatred …
Forgetfulness
Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O’Gorman shows how forgetting has been embraced as a requirement for modern existence and how our education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnects us from our pasts. But he also examines the cult…
Trollope, Orley Farm , and Dickens’s Marriage Breakdown
Anthony Trollope’s Orley Farm (1861-2) is peculiarly aware of Charles Dickens, the seemingly unsurpassable celebrity of English letters in the 1850s. This essay examines narrative features of Orley Farm that indicate Dickens was on Trollope’s mind-and then asks why. My first answer is that Trollope was, as he began Orley Farm, newly confident and ready to test himself against the towering presence of Dickens. My second is that Orley Farm covertly…
Matthew Arnold
This essay proposes both an empirical argument and a (speculative) conceptual one. The empirical argument concerns the question: did the original readers of Matthew Arnold’s poetry anticipate later twentieth-century views that he was a Schopenhauer-like pessimist and representative of a deep seam of such thinking in the nineteenth century? The essay can find little evidence for this but rather for an Arnold whose periodical departures into mélanc…
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