Wendy Parkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5160850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Parkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkins |
| SIGNATURE | PARKINS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
At home in Rome? The place of the domestic in Frances Elliot's Italian essays
Between 1852 and 1868, Frances Elliot published over fifty periodical essays and the vast majority of these took Italy as their subject, combining travel writing with art history. Elliot's travel writing arose from adverse personal circumstances: a protracted divorce from an abusive marriage brought her extensive negative publicity so, from the early 1850s, she spent much of her time in Italy. Travel – and travel writing – thus offered Elliot a v…
Edward Carpenter’s Queer Ecology of the Everyday
This article considers the place of the everyday in Edward Carpenter’s life and writings through the concept of queer ecology, which draws on queer theory to challenge and expand the possibilities for pleasure, experience, and relationships that occur in the interactions between human and non-human agents. The simple mode of everyday life based on a more direct relationship with the natural world, as described and advocated by Carpenter, was one …
Introduction: Victorian Ecology and the Anthropocene
Ernst Haeckel’s formulation of the term ‘ecology’ occurred at a time when the ecology of the British environment — the material and social relations between humans, other organisms, and the wider natural world — was being transformed by the impact of industrial capitalism and imperialism. The introduction to this issue of 19 sketches out how the Victorian imagination responded to changing ideas about the relationship between the human and non-hum…
Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture
This chapter examines the development of the concept of the 'Stationary State' in published work, correspondence and practical activism. It considers how John Stuart Mill refined his ideas of it, how that thinking coincides with a trajectory set out by Ulrich Grober and, consequently, how Mill's reflections and elaborations on the 'Stationary State' speak to a growing preoccupation with sustainability in the environmental humanities, social scien…
Silkworms and Shipwrecks: Sustainability in Dombey and Son
Seeking to prepare her friend Lucretia Tox for the revelation of Mr Dombey's engagement, Louisa Chick, Dombey's sister, turns to the natural world to illustrate the inevitability of change: It's a world of change. . . .Why, my gracious me, what is there that does not change! Even the silkworm, who I am sure might be supposed not to trouble itself about such subjects, changes into all sorts of unexpected things continually. (434; ch. 29) For Mrs C…
Feeling for Beauty: Tactile Aesthetics and the Childhood of May Morris
May Morris (1862-1938), renowned craftswoman and daughter of William Morris, had an unconventional Victorian childhood in a home where all the members of the family were engaged in various forms of aesthetic labor, either as amateurs or professionals, and shared an aesthetic philosophy that blended the artisanal and the experimental from which would develop the Arts and Crafts movement. This article will examine the fragmentary recollections of h…
Jane Morris: The Burden of History
Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris and the muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, became the most identifiable face of Pre-Raphaelite art but has received little scholarly attention in her own right. This book argues that the enduring myth of Jane Morris – as a passive invalid, femme fatale and melancholy beauty – has derived from the continued circulation of selective anecdotes and recollections by contemporaries that reduced a complex historical …
Icon
Jane Morris’s starring role in Rossetti’s art has endowed her with a form of celebrity – in her own day and beyond. Drawing on recent understandings of celebrity and aesthetic self-formation, this chapter re-examines Jane Morris’s iconic status, with a particular emphasis on her distinctive dress style. Despite contemporary depictions of Jane Morris as a medieval muse or passive spectacle, this chapter argues that Jane Morris should be seen as a …
Domesticating Socialism and the Senses in Jane Hume Clapperton's Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home
Domesticating Socialism and the Senses in Jane Hume Clapperton's Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home Clapperton's utopian novel, Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home (1888), provides a good example of the way in which matters of everyday life – food, childcare, the home – were increasingly implicated in agendas for social transformation in the fin-de-siècle period, and seen as problems that could be solved by modernity. The varying programme…
Feeling at Home: Gender and Creative Agency at Red House
Much has been written about Red House, the home of Jane and William Morris between 1859 and 1865, as an example of architectural innovation and a place of artistic fellowship. In accounts by Morris's contemporaries and subsequent scholars, Red House has also been represented as a site of conviviality, creativity and youthful idealism, where a utopian way of life proved unable to withstand the vagaries of mature responsibilities. This essay recons…
Culture and the Politics of Alternative Food Networks
Much of the existing research on emerging alternative food networks has not sufficiently recognized the importance of culture and we seek to address this omission. Through two case studies of global and local forms of alternative food networks respectively, we demonstrate the centrality and complexity of the workings of culture in the places, practices and politics of alternative food networks. Firstly, a study of Slow Food's Terra Madre forum il…
Women on the Streets: Gender and Mobility in The Convert and Clash
Slow Living
Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today’s world. Slow Living explores the philosophy and politics of ‘slowness’ as it investigates the growth of Slow Food into a worldwide, ‘eco-gastronomic’ movement. Originating in Italy, Slow Food is not only committed to the preservation of traditional cuisines and sustainable agriculture but also the …
At Home in Tuscany: Slow Living and the Cosmopolitan Subject
This article will examine how the recent proliferation of "at home in Tuscany" literature represents a desire to live differently through both a change of location and a change in temporality. Slow living is offered as the key to an enriched life and is closely linked to notions of authenticity bound up with everyday practices of domesticity, especially those connected with food. In looking closely at some examples of this Tuscan farmhouse litera…
Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity
(2004). Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 425-441
Women, mobility and modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
Out of Time: Fast Subjects and Slow Living
Slow living involves the conscious negotiation of the different temporalities which make up our everyday lives, deriving from a commitment to occupy time more attentively. This article considers the significance of time in practices of slow living and the imbrication of time and speed in notions of 'slowness' where slowness is constructed as a deliberate subversion of the dominance of speed. By purposely adopting slowness, subjects seek to genera…
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship
With an afterword by Roger Griffin. Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the French Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and protest. Fashioning the Body Politic challenges the perception of helpless fashion vi…
Moving Dangerously: Mobility and the Modern Woman
This essay demonstrates how modernity in the work of some early twentieth-century women writers is itself a transitional phenomenon, ambivalently belonging to both the past and the future, the country and the city, a feminism of agency and a feminism of mobility. Despite their stylistic differences, Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North (1932) and Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm (1932) both feature heroines who are emblematic of a modernity associate…
Introduction: Serenity Now
Oprah Winfrey's Change Your Life TV and the Spiritual Everyday
Oprah Winfrey's Change Your Life TV and the Spiritual Everyday
Protesting like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency
This article examines feminist agency in the light of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological account of the body subject. Stressing the importance of embodiment to feminist agency (without reifying an essential female body), I argue that bodies inhabit specific social, historical and discursive contexts which shape our corporeal experience and our opportunities for political contestation. Beginning with the assertion that we cannot think of agency with…
Home and away: The new woman and domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage
(1999). Home and away: The new woman and domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 47-55
In search of the public introduction
Out of Time: Fast Subjects and Slow Living
Slow living involves the conscious negotiation of the different temporalities which make up our everyday lives, deriving from a commitment to occupy time more attentively. This article considers the significance of time in practices of slow living and the imbrication of time and speed in notions of 'slowness' where slowness is constructed as a deliberate subversion of the dominance of speed. By purposely adopting slowness, subjects seek to genera…
Protesting like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency
This article examines feminist agency in the light of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological account of the body subject. Stressing the importance of embodiment to feminist agency (without reifying an essential female body), I argue that bodies inhabit specific social, historical and discursive contexts which shape our corporeal experience and our opportunities for political contestation. Beginning with the assertion that we cannot think of agency with…
Culture and the Politics of Alternative Food Networks
Much of the existing research on emerging alternative food networks has not sufficiently recognized the importance of culture and we seek to address this omission. Through two case studies of global and local forms of alternative food networks respectively, we demonstrate the centrality and complexity of the workings of culture in the places, practices and politics of alternative food networks. Firstly, a study of Slow Food's Terra Madre forum il…
Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity
(2004). Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 425-441
Oprah Winfrey's Change Your Life TV and the Spiritual Everyday
Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture
This chapter examines the development of the concept of the 'Stationary State' in published work, correspondence and practical activism. It considers how John Stuart Mill refined his ideas of it, how that thinking coincides with a trajectory set out by Ulrich Grober and, consequently, how Mill's reflections and elaborations on the 'Stationary State' speak to a growing preoccupation with sustainability in the environmental humanities, social scien…
Taking Liberty's , breaking windows: Fashion, protest and the suffragette public
(1997). Taking Liberty's, breaking windows: Fashion, protest and the suffragette public. Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 37-46
Introduction: Victorian Ecology and the Anthropocene
Ernst Haeckel’s formulation of the term ‘ecology’ occurred at a time when the ecology of the British environment — the material and social relations between humans, other organisms, and the wider natural world — was being transformed by the impact of industrial capitalism and imperialism. The introduction to this issue of 19 sketches out how the Victorian imagination responded to changing ideas about the relationship between the human and non-hum…
Feeling at Home: Gender and Creative Agency at Red House
Much has been written about Red House, the home of Jane and William Morris between 1859 and 1865, as an example of architectural innovation and a place of artistic fellowship. In accounts by Morris's contemporaries and subsequent scholars, Red House has also been represented as a site of conviviality, creativity and youthful idealism, where a utopian way of life proved unable to withstand the vagaries of mature responsibilities. This essay recons…
At Home in Tuscany: Slow Living and the Cosmopolitan Subject
This article will examine how the recent proliferation of "at home in Tuscany" literature represents a desire to live differently through both a change of location and a change in temporality. Slow living is offered as the key to an enriched life and is closely linked to notions of authenticity bound up with everyday practices of domesticity, especially those connected with food. In looking closely at some examples of this Tuscan farmhouse litera…
Home and away: The new woman and domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage
(1999). Home and away: The new woman and domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 47-55
In search of the public introduction
Taking Liberty's , breaking windows: Fashion, protest and the suffragette public
(1997). Taking Liberty's, breaking windows: Fashion, protest and the suffragette public. Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 37-46
Home and away: The new woman and domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage
(1999). Home and away: The new woman and domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 47-55
Protesting like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency
This article examines feminist agency in the light of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological account of the body subject. Stressing the importance of embodiment to feminist agency (without reifying an essential female body), I argue that bodies inhabit specific social, historical and discursive contexts which shape our corporeal experience and our opportunities for political contestation. Beginning with the assertion that we cannot think of agency with…
Moving Dangerously: Mobility and the Modern Woman
This essay demonstrates how modernity in the work of some early twentieth-century women writers is itself a transitional phenomenon, ambivalently belonging to both the past and the future, the country and the city, a feminism of agency and a feminism of mobility. Despite their stylistic differences, Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North (1932) and Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm (1932) both feature heroines who are emblematic of a modernity associate…
Introduction: Serenity Now
Oprah Winfrey's Change Your Life TV and the Spiritual Everyday
Oprah Winfrey's Change Your Life TV and the Spiritual Everyday
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship
With an afterword by Roger Griffin. Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the French Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and protest. Fashioning the Body Politic challenges the perception of helpless fashion vi…
At Home in Tuscany: Slow Living and the Cosmopolitan Subject
This article will examine how the recent proliferation of "at home in Tuscany" literature represents a desire to live differently through both a change of location and a change in temporality. Slow living is offered as the key to an enriched life and is closely linked to notions of authenticity bound up with everyday practices of domesticity, especially those connected with food. In looking closely at some examples of this Tuscan farmhouse litera…
Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity
(2004). Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 425-441
Women, mobility and modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
Out of Time: Fast Subjects and Slow Living
Slow living involves the conscious negotiation of the different temporalities which make up our everyday lives, deriving from a commitment to occupy time more attentively. This article considers the significance of time in practices of slow living and the imbrication of time and speed in notions of 'slowness' where slowness is constructed as a deliberate subversion of the dominance of speed. By purposely adopting slowness, subjects seek to genera…
Slow Living
Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today’s world. Slow Living explores the philosophy and politics of ‘slowness’ as it investigates the growth of Slow Food into a worldwide, ‘eco-gastronomic’ movement. Originating in Italy, Slow Food is not only committed to the preservation of traditional cuisines and sustainable agriculture but also the …
Women on the Streets: Gender and Mobility in The Convert and Clash
Culture and the Politics of Alternative Food Networks
Much of the existing research on emerging alternative food networks has not sufficiently recognized the importance of culture and we seek to address this omission. Through two case studies of global and local forms of alternative food networks respectively, we demonstrate the centrality and complexity of the workings of culture in the places, practices and politics of alternative food networks. Firstly, a study of Slow Food's Terra Madre forum il…
Feeling at Home: Gender and Creative Agency at Red House
Much has been written about Red House, the home of Jane and William Morris between 1859 and 1865, as an example of architectural innovation and a place of artistic fellowship. In accounts by Morris's contemporaries and subsequent scholars, Red House has also been represented as a site of conviviality, creativity and youthful idealism, where a utopian way of life proved unable to withstand the vagaries of mature responsibilities. This essay recons…
Domesticating Socialism and the Senses in Jane Hume Clapperton's Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home
Domesticating Socialism and the Senses in Jane Hume Clapperton's Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home Clapperton's utopian novel, Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home (1888), provides a good example of the way in which matters of everyday life – food, childcare, the home – were increasingly implicated in agendas for social transformation in the fin-de-siècle period, and seen as problems that could be solved by modernity. The varying programme…
Jane Morris: The Burden of History
Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris and the muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, became the most identifiable face of Pre-Raphaelite art but has received little scholarly attention in her own right. This book argues that the enduring myth of Jane Morris – as a passive invalid, femme fatale and melancholy beauty – has derived from the continued circulation of selective anecdotes and recollections by contemporaries that reduced a complex historical …
Icon
Jane Morris’s starring role in Rossetti’s art has endowed her with a form of celebrity – in her own day and beyond. Drawing on recent understandings of celebrity and aesthetic self-formation, this chapter re-examines Jane Morris’s iconic status, with a particular emphasis on her distinctive dress style. Despite contemporary depictions of Jane Morris as a medieval muse or passive spectacle, this chapter argues that Jane Morris should be seen as a …
Feeling for Beauty: Tactile Aesthetics and the Childhood of May Morris
May Morris (1862-1938), renowned craftswoman and daughter of William Morris, had an unconventional Victorian childhood in a home where all the members of the family were engaged in various forms of aesthetic labor, either as amateurs or professionals, and shared an aesthetic philosophy that blended the artisanal and the experimental from which would develop the Arts and Crafts movement. This article will examine the fragmentary recollections of h…
Silkworms and Shipwrecks: Sustainability in Dombey and Son
Seeking to prepare her friend Lucretia Tox for the revelation of Mr Dombey's engagement, Louisa Chick, Dombey's sister, turns to the natural world to illustrate the inevitability of change: It's a world of change. . . .Why, my gracious me, what is there that does not change! Even the silkworm, who I am sure might be supposed not to trouble itself about such subjects, changes into all sorts of unexpected things continually. (434; ch. 29) For Mrs C…
Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture
This chapter examines the development of the concept of the 'Stationary State' in published work, correspondence and practical activism. It considers how John Stuart Mill refined his ideas of it, how that thinking coincides with a trajectory set out by Ulrich Grober and, consequently, how Mill's reflections and elaborations on the 'Stationary State' speak to a growing preoccupation with sustainability in the environmental humanities, social scien…
Edward Carpenter’s Queer Ecology of the Everyday
This article considers the place of the everyday in Edward Carpenter’s life and writings through the concept of queer ecology, which draws on queer theory to challenge and expand the possibilities for pleasure, experience, and relationships that occur in the interactions between human and non-human agents. The simple mode of everyday life based on a more direct relationship with the natural world, as described and advocated by Carpenter, was one …
Introduction: Victorian Ecology and the Anthropocene
Ernst Haeckel’s formulation of the term ‘ecology’ occurred at a time when the ecology of the British environment — the material and social relations between humans, other organisms, and the wider natural world — was being transformed by the impact of industrial capitalism and imperialism. The introduction to this issue of 19 sketches out how the Victorian imagination responded to changing ideas about the relationship between the human and non-hum…
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