Stephanie Trigg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5406897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Trigg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Trigg |
| SIGNATURE | TRIGG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7546-2101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Face of the Australian Girl in Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career (1901) and Christina Stead’s For Love Alone (1944)
Modernist Australian women’s fiction explores varying degrees of social and political radicalism, especially in relation to the conventional marriage plot. Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career (1901) and Christina Stead’s For Love Alone (1944) feature heroines who defy traditional expectations about women’s desire for heterosexual romance and a happy marriage as the formal mark of narrative closure in the novel. The two women are also repeatedly …
Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature, written by Larrington, Carolyne
Rehearsing Words and Gestures in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde offers many rhetorical lessons and models in how to speak and behave well according to the mediaeval conventions of fin'amor. The first three books of the poem are especially concerned with the best ways to control and express deep feeling. The two lovers prepare nervously for their first meeting at the beginning of Book III. Troilus, in particular, rehearses and seeks to memorise the best words, gestures, …
Objects, Material Culture and the History of Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Ugly Book Feelings
Drawing on the work of Sianne Ngai in Ugly Feelings (2005), in this essay we focus on two examples from early fifteenth-century medieval literature that represent medieval books as ‘ugly’ either because they arouse negative feelings of aversion or disgust or because they are considered in some way aesthetically lacking or inadequate. Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames and Margery Kempe’s Book of Margery Kempe present women’s involvem…
The Contemporary Medieval in Practice
A good hater’
This essay takes as its starting point a reflection of a character in A. S. Byatt’s Still Life : ‘George Eliot, Stephanie thought, was a good hater’. This comment refers to Eliot’s satirical analysis of middle-class sensibilities and emotional affectations in The Mill on the Floss . This essay explores the emotional resonances of this phrase that links these two very different novels, written in different centuries and structured around very diff…
About the Cover
Facing Up to the History of Emotions
About the Cover
Novel medievalisms
Learning to Live
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed the proliferation of conduct books, an indication of the growing instability of class boundaries as well as concern about maintaining or acquiring the manners and customs of “courtesy.” Such books, especially those dealing with table manners and social decorum, contain principles that are akin to those of modern social governance. Jonathan Nicholls argued that conduct texts must be read as a way to…
Introduction
This editor’s introduction to the special issue analyzes some of the historical, semantic and disciplinary differences between the terms “feelings,” “passions,” “emotions,” “sentiments,” and “affects,” and assesses their usefulness in the study of medieval and early modern culture, and within the disciplinary frame of the “history of emotions.” The “affective turn” — both in cultural theory and in the autobiographical impulse in the humanities — …
Fire
Shame and Honor
With steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter
Blogging, Time and Displacement
This essay examines the relationship between blogging and other ostensibly more “serious” forms of writing, such as academic work. It explores the behavioural patterns known as “displacement activity” to describe the relationship between different kinds of writerly activity; and discusses the potential of blogging to break down some of the conventions of formal academic writing. It discusses the author’s Humanities Researcher blog
Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism
The hall-the great hall as it was properly termed [⋯] was not much unlike a church,-with a fireplace in it and all the pews turned out. There was a screen like a rood-screen at the lower end, dividing it from an outer vestibule; at the upper end the massive staircase [⋯] branched into galleries running down the sides. The windows were mullioned and filled with old glass, partly stained; the floor was of chequered stone; the roof a mass of oak bea…
Parliamentary Medievalism
This essay explores the ongoing importance of this medieval text, Magna Carta, as a powerful legimitating symbol of parliamentary democracy, and an example of institutional medievalism in the Australian federal parliament. The manuscript itself is presented and venerated as a secular relic of a distant past, its dark organic surface and almost indecipherable script offering a dramatic contrast with the modern light and airy spaces of Mitchell, Gi…
Response to Bruce Holsinger, ‘Getting metamedieval’
Transgression, perversion and fanaticism’
What Is Happening to the Middle Ages?
Shamed be
This essay explores the relationship between shame and honor in various texts and practices associated with medieval chivalry, and especially in The Order of the Garter. The meaning and significance of the motto of thr Order–Honi soit qui mal y pense–is contested, but it emphasizes the close relationship between shame and honor in courtly society. The motto may not be an embedded coded reference to an unknown event; it may have been coined by Edw…
Medieval Literature’ or ‘Early Europe’? How to Win Grants and Change the Course of Scholarship
This paper explores the unexpected success of the Network for Early European Research, based at the University of Western Australia, which was recently awarded A$1.6 million over a five‐year period to support research and postgraduate training in medieval and early modern studies in Australia. What lessons can be drawn from the success of this grant application for other projects in medieval studies that must compete for funding in national conte…
Richard the Redeless" and "Mum and the Sothsegger" . James M. Dean
Singing Clearly
Introduction
This editor’s introduction to the special issue analyzes some of the historical, semantic and disciplinary differences between the terms “feelings,” “passions,” “emotions,” “sentiments,” and “affects,” and assesses their usefulness in the study of medieval and early modern culture, and within the disciplinary frame of the “history of emotions.” The “affective turn” — both in cultural theory and in the autobiographical impulse in the humanities — …
Fire
Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism
The hall-the great hall as it was properly termed [⋯] was not much unlike a church,-with a fireplace in it and all the pews turned out. There was a screen like a rood-screen at the lower end, dividing it from an outer vestibule; at the upper end the massive staircase [⋯] branched into galleries running down the sides. The windows were mullioned and filled with old glass, partly stained; the floor was of chequered stone; the roof a mass of oak bea…
Parliamentary Medievalism
This essay explores the ongoing importance of this medieval text, Magna Carta, as a powerful legimitating symbol of parliamentary democracy, and an example of institutional medievalism in the Australian federal parliament. The manuscript itself is presented and venerated as a secular relic of a distant past, its dark organic surface and almost indecipherable script offering a dramatic contrast with the modern light and airy spaces of Mitchell, Gi…
Shamed be
This essay explores the relationship between shame and honor in various texts and practices associated with medieval chivalry, and especially in The Order of the Garter. The meaning and significance of the motto of thr Order–Honi soit qui mal y pense–is contested, but it emphasizes the close relationship between shame and honor in courtly society. The motto may not be an embedded coded reference to an unknown event; it may have been coined by Edw…
Singing Clearly
Singing Clearly
Richard the Redeless" and "Mum and the Sothsegger" . James M. Dean
Medieval Literature’ or ‘Early Europe’? How to Win Grants and Change the Course of Scholarship
This paper explores the unexpected success of the Network for Early European Research, based at the University of Western Australia, which was recently awarded A$1.6 million over a five‐year period to support research and postgraduate training in medieval and early modern studies in Australia. What lessons can be drawn from the success of this grant application for other projects in medieval studies that must compete for funding in national conte…
What Is Happening to the Middle Ages?
Shamed be
This essay explores the relationship between shame and honor in various texts and practices associated with medieval chivalry, and especially in The Order of the Garter. The meaning and significance of the motto of thr Order–Honi soit qui mal y pense–is contested, but it emphasizes the close relationship between shame and honor in courtly society. The motto may not be an embedded coded reference to an unknown event; it may have been coined by Edw…
Response to Bruce Holsinger, ‘Getting metamedieval’
Transgression, perversion and fanaticism’
Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism
The hall-the great hall as it was properly termed [⋯] was not much unlike a church,-with a fireplace in it and all the pews turned out. There was a screen like a rood-screen at the lower end, dividing it from an outer vestibule; at the upper end the massive staircase [⋯] branched into galleries running down the sides. The windows were mullioned and filled with old glass, partly stained; the floor was of chequered stone; the roof a mass of oak bea…
Parliamentary Medievalism
This essay explores the ongoing importance of this medieval text, Magna Carta, as a powerful legimitating symbol of parliamentary democracy, and an example of institutional medievalism in the Australian federal parliament. The manuscript itself is presented and venerated as a secular relic of a distant past, its dark organic surface and almost indecipherable script offering a dramatic contrast with the modern light and airy spaces of Mitchell, Gi…
Shame and Honor
With steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter
Blogging, Time and Displacement
This essay examines the relationship between blogging and other ostensibly more “serious” forms of writing, such as academic work. It explores the behavioural patterns known as “displacement activity” to describe the relationship between different kinds of writerly activity; and discusses the potential of blogging to break down some of the conventions of formal academic writing. It discusses the author’s Humanities Researcher blog
Fire
Introduction
This editor’s introduction to the special issue analyzes some of the historical, semantic and disciplinary differences between the terms “feelings,” “passions,” “emotions,” “sentiments,” and “affects,” and assesses their usefulness in the study of medieval and early modern culture, and within the disciplinary frame of the “history of emotions.” The “affective turn” — both in cultural theory and in the autobiographical impulse in the humanities — …
Learning to Live
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed the proliferation of conduct books, an indication of the growing instability of class boundaries as well as concern about maintaining or acquiring the manners and customs of “courtesy.” Such books, especially those dealing with table manners and social decorum, contain principles that are akin to those of modern social governance. Jonathan Nicholls argued that conduct texts must be read as a way to…
About the Cover
Novel medievalisms
A good hater’
This essay takes as its starting point a reflection of a character in A. S. Byatt’s Still Life : ‘George Eliot, Stephanie thought, was a good hater’. This comment refers to Eliot’s satirical analysis of middle-class sensibilities and emotional affectations in The Mill on the Floss . This essay explores the emotional resonances of this phrase that links these two very different novels, written in different centuries and structured around very diff…
About the Cover
Facing Up to the History of Emotions
Objects, Material Culture and the History of Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Ugly Book Feelings
Drawing on the work of Sianne Ngai in Ugly Feelings (2005), in this essay we focus on two examples from early fifteenth-century medieval literature that represent medieval books as ‘ugly’ either because they arouse negative feelings of aversion or disgust or because they are considered in some way aesthetically lacking or inadequate. Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames and Margery Kempe’s Book of Margery Kempe present women’s involvem…
The Contemporary Medieval in Practice
Rehearsing Words and Gestures in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde offers many rhetorical lessons and models in how to speak and behave well according to the mediaeval conventions of fin'amor. The first three books of the poem are especially concerned with the best ways to control and express deep feeling. The two lovers prepare nervously for their first meeting at the beginning of Book III. Troilus, in particular, rehearses and seeks to memorise the best words, gestures, …
Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature, written by Larrington, Carolyne
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