Deborah Shapple Spillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5624455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Shapple Spillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah Shapple |
| FAMILY NAME | Spillman |
| SIGNATURE | SPILLMAN D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Connecticut State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All That Is Solid Turns into Steam
Deborah Shapple Spillman, “All That Is Solid Turns into Steam: Sublimation and Sympathy in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss” (pp. 338–373) This essay argues that steam and its gaseous properties in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1861) represent capital’s increasing abstraction in the nineteenth century that threatened to disrupt economic and affective relations between people, property, and places associated with the past while neverth…
Introduction
When passing through King William’s Town on an 1884 expedition through British southern Africa, the ethnologist and collector Wilhelm Joest encountered a troubling scene that would later return to haunt him. Fixing his acquisitive gaze on an elaborately ornamented article of traditional Xhosa leatherwork worn below the waist, Joest repeatedly tried and failed to purchase a particularly desirable exemplar from an elder member of the community. Six…
The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden
While addressing the Royal African Society, founded in honor of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Edward Wilmot Blyden reflected on one of his more memorable experiences in Victorian England: During a visit to Blackpool many years ago, I went with some hospitable friends to the Winter Garden where there were several wild animals on exhibition. I noticed that a nurse having two children with her, could not keep her eyes from the spot where I stood, looking…
British Colonial Realism in Africa
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Heart of Darkness The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in The Story of an African Farm Coda Notes Bibliography Index
African Skin, Victorian Masks
While addressing the Royal African Society, founded in honor of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Edward Wilmot Blyden reflected on one of his more memorable experiences in Victorian England: During a visit to Blackpool many years ago, I went with some hospitable friends to the Winter Garden where there were several wild animals on exhibition. I noticed that a nurse having two children with her, could not keep her eyes from the spot where I stood, looking…
African Skin, Victorian Masks
While addressing the Royal African Society, founded in honor of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Edward Wilmot Blyden reflected on one of his more memorable experiences in Victorian England: During a visit to Blackpool many years ago, I went with some hospitable friends to the Winter Garden where there were several wild animals on exhibition. I noticed that a nurse having two children with her, could not keep her eyes from the spot where I stood, looking…
African Skin, Victorian Masks
While addressing the Royal African Society, founded in honor of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Edward Wilmot Blyden reflected on one of his more memorable experiences in Victorian England: During a visit to Blackpool many years ago, I went with some hospitable friends to the Winter Garden where there were several wild animals on exhibition. I noticed that a nurse having two children with her, could not keep her eyes from the spot where I stood, looking…
Introduction
When passing through King William’s Town on an 1884 expedition through British southern Africa, the ethnologist and collector Wilhelm Joest encountered a troubling scene that would later return to haunt him. Fixing his acquisitive gaze on an elaborately ornamented article of traditional Xhosa leatherwork worn below the waist, Joest repeatedly tried and failed to purchase a particularly desirable exemplar from an elder member of the community. Six…
The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden
While addressing the Royal African Society, founded in honor of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Edward Wilmot Blyden reflected on one of his more memorable experiences in Victorian England: During a visit to Blackpool many years ago, I went with some hospitable friends to the Winter Garden where there were several wild animals on exhibition. I noticed that a nurse having two children with her, could not keep her eyes from the spot where I stood, looking…
British Colonial Realism in Africa
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Heart of Darkness The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in The Story of an African Farm Coda Notes Bibliography Index
All That Is Solid Turns into Steam
Deborah Shapple Spillman, “All That Is Solid Turns into Steam: Sublimation and Sympathy in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss” (pp. 338–373) This essay argues that steam and its gaseous properties in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1861) represent capital’s increasing abstraction in the nineteenth century that threatened to disrupt economic and affective relations between people, property, and places associated with the past while neverth…
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)