Porscha Fermanis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5447848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Porscha Fermanis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Porscha |
| FAMILY NAME | Fermanis |
| SIGNATURE | FERMANIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8481-3898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Latin America
This chapter explores three key ideas about Latin America in nineteenth-century British prose writing: first, the medievalization and orientalization of Spain, Portugal, and their colonies; second, the region’s role in Britain’s movement towards free-trade liberalism and informal or economic empire; and third, the relevance of new world republicanism for British conceptions of nation-state formation. In each case, it situates British interests an…
Romantic Pasts
Romantic Pasts
Keyword
The 1820s were the decade when assisted migration emerged as a public measure to deal with the population explosion. Also recommended by some as the best means for dealing with economic and political unrest in the difficult years of Peterloo, emigration became central to political debate in the decade, not least because it was seen by some as a deflection from deep domestic difficulties. This new wave of emigration was the foundation of a massive…
Historical Style and the Man of Letters
Focusing on the reception history of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England and Thomas Carlyle’s French Revolution , this chapter rehabilitates prose style as part of a technical discourse that reflects and mediates the domain of historical knowledge production. More specifically, it argues that the stylistic innovations associated with review essays opened official history up to ‘the more visceral language of journalism’, as well as to m…
Brexit, Erewhon, and Utopia
Viewing Brexit as part of a longer history of Anglo-Saxon racial and cultural exceptionalism, this article reflects on what Samuel Butler’s satirical novel Erewhon , or Over the Range (1872) can tell us about the utopian impulses informing Brexit’s neoimperialist ideology and hence about British identity politics today. Set in an inward-looking, socially homogeneous, and postindustrial society somewhere in the colonial southern hemisphere, Erewho…
Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture
Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. First, because of their distinctive historical and structural conditions; second, because of the density of their interregional networks and relations across intersectin…
Capital, Conversion, and Settler Colonialism in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon
Viewing capitalism as emerging primarily from within the framework of empire rather than the nation state, this essay considers the relationship between capital, conversion, and settler colonialism in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872). It looks, first, at the novel’s critique of Wakefieldian organized settlement schemes as systems sustained by various forms of capital accumulation and free/unfree labour; and second, at its over-ar…
Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770–1845
Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845
Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 rethinks the ways in which we understand the historical writing and the historical consciousness of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by arguing that British historicism developed largely in quasi and para-historical genres such as memoir, biography, verse, fiction, and painting, rather than in works of 'real' history.--Provided by publisher
John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment
John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment
The Science of Man
This chapter focuses on Hyperion. In The History of America, William Robertson describes the effect on the colonies of a sophisticated but exploitative European government. Hyperion certainly has an imperialist flavour and Keats would have had a useful introduction to the history of empire from Voltaire's Essai sur les moeurs, Robertson's History of America and Gibbon's Decline and Fall. The idea of Apollo as an ambivalent, ‘modern’ Columbus figu…
Afterword
This chapter briefly extends the consideration of human understanding and the visionary imagination to Ode to Psyche and Ode on a Grecian Urn. It looks towards two arguments in relation to Ode to Psyche. It then tries to show that the idea of reverie is not primarily escapist, but rather has a longer intellectual history in Enlightenment understandings of the mind. The partial images of Ode on a Grecian Urn are only partial if they are expected t…
Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture
Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. First, because of their distinctive historical and structural conditions; second, because of the density of their interregional networks and relations across intersectin…
John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment
John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment
The Science of Man
This chapter focuses on Hyperion. In The History of America, William Robertson describes the effect on the colonies of a sophisticated but exploitative European government. Hyperion certainly has an imperialist flavour and Keats would have had a useful introduction to the history of empire from Voltaire's Essai sur les moeurs, Robertson's History of America and Gibbon's Decline and Fall. The idea of Apollo as an ambivalent, ‘modern’ Columbus figu…
Afterword
This chapter briefly extends the consideration of human understanding and the visionary imagination to Ode to Psyche and Ode on a Grecian Urn. It looks towards two arguments in relation to Ode to Psyche. It then tries to show that the idea of reverie is not primarily escapist, but rather has a longer intellectual history in Enlightenment understandings of the mind. The partial images of Ode on a Grecian Urn are only partial if they are expected t…
Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770–1845
Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845
Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 rethinks the ways in which we understand the historical writing and the historical consciousness of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by arguing that British historicism developed largely in quasi and para-historical genres such as memoir, biography, verse, fiction, and painting, rather than in works of 'real' history.--Provided by publisher
Capital, Conversion, and Settler Colonialism in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon
Viewing capitalism as emerging primarily from within the framework of empire rather than the nation state, this essay considers the relationship between capital, conversion, and settler colonialism in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872). It looks, first, at the novel’s critique of Wakefieldian organized settlement schemes as systems sustained by various forms of capital accumulation and free/unfree labour; and second, at its over-ar…
Brexit, Erewhon, and Utopia
Viewing Brexit as part of a longer history of Anglo-Saxon racial and cultural exceptionalism, this article reflects on what Samuel Butler’s satirical novel Erewhon , or Over the Range (1872) can tell us about the utopian impulses informing Brexit’s neoimperialist ideology and hence about British identity politics today. Set in an inward-looking, socially homogeneous, and postindustrial society somewhere in the colonial southern hemisphere, Erewho…
Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture
Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. First, because of their distinctive historical and structural conditions; second, because of the density of their interregional networks and relations across intersectin…
Romantic Pasts
Romantic Pasts
Keyword
The 1820s were the decade when assisted migration emerged as a public measure to deal with the population explosion. Also recommended by some as the best means for dealing with economic and political unrest in the difficult years of Peterloo, emigration became central to political debate in the decade, not least because it was seen by some as a deflection from deep domestic difficulties. This new wave of emigration was the foundation of a massive…
Historical Style and the Man of Letters
Focusing on the reception history of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England and Thomas Carlyle’s French Revolution , this chapter rehabilitates prose style as part of a technical discourse that reflects and mediates the domain of historical knowledge production. More specifically, it argues that the stylistic innovations associated with review essays opened official history up to ‘the more visceral language of journalism’, as well as to m…
Latin America
This chapter explores three key ideas about Latin America in nineteenth-century British prose writing: first, the medievalization and orientalization of Spain, Portugal, and their colonies; second, the region’s role in Britain’s movement towards free-trade liberalism and informal or economic empire; and third, the relevance of new world republicanism for British conceptions of nation-state formation. In each case, it situates British interests an…
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