Elaine Hadley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Hadley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadley |
| SIGNATURE | HADLEY E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody
“Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody” argues that the convergence of the Crimean War, liberal political ideology, and statistical thought created a crisis of accountability in the public sphere in mid-Victorian England, a crisis to which Dickens responded in his journalism by elaborating a rhetoric of indefiniteness through the use of the pronoun “somebody.” Statistics produced an abstract order of behavior that described humans en masse, whereas mor…
Living Liberalism
On a Darkling Plain
At the climactic crisis in Ian McEwan's recent novel, Saturday (2005), set in the days before the United States declares war on Iraq, Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1867) saves the day. Not a poem generally known for its optimism, let alone for its salvific capacities—"for the world...Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain" (30–34)—"Dover Beach" manages, even so, to tranquilize the savage path…
Melodramatic Tactics
Introduction: staging the melodramatic mode 1. Unromantic melodrama 2. The old price wars: melodramatising the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England 3. Storming the Bastille: Oliver Twist and the melodramatic resistance to the new Poor Law of 1834 4. The Queen's English: melodramatic rhetoric in Victoria's England 5. Blows into whispers: the melodramatic mode and intellectual culture in the 1870s and 1880s
The Language of Gender and Class
The Past Is A Foreign Country
The Past Is A Foreign Country: The Neo-Conservative Romance with Victorian Liberalism Elaine Hadley (bio) During the 1988 Presidential campaign, frustrated supporters of Michael Dukakis were heard to lament that “liberal” was becoming a dirty word. The results of that election seemed to confirm their prediction. Because it offended interlocutors in polite (and political) circles, this unsavory word was summarily dismissed by them from their exclu…
Melodramatic Tactics
Introduction: staging the melodramatic mode 1. Unromantic melodrama 2. The old price wars: melodramatising the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England 3. Storming the Bastille: Oliver Twist and the melodramatic resistance to the new Poor Law of 1834 4. The Queen's English: melodramatic rhetoric in Victoria's England 5. Blows into whispers: the melodramatic mode and intellectual culture in the 1870s and 1880s
On a Darkling Plain
At the climactic crisis in Ian McEwan's recent novel, Saturday (2005), set in the days before the United States declares war on Iraq, Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1867) saves the day. Not a poem generally known for its optimism, let alone for its salvific capacities—"for the world...Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain" (30–34)—"Dover Beach" manages, even so, to tranquilize the savage path…
The Past Is A Foreign Country
The Past Is A Foreign Country: The Neo-Conservative Romance with Victorian Liberalism Elaine Hadley (bio) During the 1988 Presidential campaign, frustrated supporters of Michael Dukakis were heard to lament that “liberal” was becoming a dirty word. The results of that election seemed to confirm their prediction. Because it offended interlocutors in polite (and political) circles, this unsavory word was summarily dismissed by them from their exclu…
The Language of Gender and Class
Melodramatic Tactics
Introduction: staging the melodramatic mode 1. Unromantic melodrama 2. The old price wars: melodramatising the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England 3. Storming the Bastille: Oliver Twist and the melodramatic resistance to the new Poor Law of 1834 4. The Queen's English: melodramatic rhetoric in Victoria's England 5. Blows into whispers: the melodramatic mode and intellectual culture in the 1870s and 1880s
On a Darkling Plain
At the climactic crisis in Ian McEwan's recent novel, Saturday (2005), set in the days before the United States declares war on Iraq, Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1867) saves the day. Not a poem generally known for its optimism, let alone for its salvific capacities—"for the world...Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain" (30–34)—"Dover Beach" manages, even so, to tranquilize the savage path…
Living Liberalism
Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody
“Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody” argues that the convergence of the Crimean War, liberal political ideology, and statistical thought created a crisis of accountability in the public sphere in mid-Victorian England, a crisis to which Dickens responded in his journalism by elaborating a rhetoric of indefiniteness through the use of the pronoun “somebody.” Statistics produced an abstract order of behavior that described humans en masse, whereas mor…
From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature
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