Jane Stevenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5638431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Stevenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Veil of Silence
Florence's soundscape is a testimony to the grotesque gender polarization in the cradle of the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the ability to make a noise was considered a masculine attribute. Male Florentines were expected to shout and assert themselves, while women were supposed to be silent, and also invisible. Women who were not, prostitutes above all, were vilified. Florentine men were typically aggressive and short-tempered, apt to m…
Baroque between the Wars
This book re-examines the arts in the 1920s and 1930s, arguing that rather than being dominated by modernism, the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque—eclectic, playful, and open to influence from popular culture—and modernism, which was theory-driven, didactic, and exclusive, features which suggest that it was essentially a neoclassical movement. Thus the period is characterized by the ancient competition between baroque and classical fo…
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, Vol. 2
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, Vol. 2
Inventing Fame
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Hiding in Plain Sight
This chapter explores the careers of some of the statistically implausible proportion of women in the interwar arts who were lesbians. One focus is patronage: the partnership of Dody Todd and Madge Garland at the helm of British Vogue , who not only made camp fashionable but made the magazine a vehicle for informed opinion by paying serious money for articles; and rich lesbians’ patronage of other women. Another focus is on the development of a l…
Masks
Masks were a feature of interwar culture in various contexts. African and Oceanic masks were admired and were powerfully influential on modern art. Masks were extensively used in theatre and ballet, and their popularity was such that they were also used for home decoration. The use of cosmetics became part of mainstream culture; this may relate to the increasing tendency for young women to work outside the home.
Climbing
This chapter examines the social aspect of the interwar arts. It demonstrates that the genuinely innovative were almost all dependent on personal patronage to support the early stages of their career. The necessity of clientage relationships influenced what was achieved, since the patrons’ interests could not be discounted. Cultural capital was exchanged for social opportunity and financial support. This also gave particular opportunities to gay …
The Tixall circle and the musical life of St Monica’s, Louvain
This article explores the possibility that poems preserved in the recusant coterie collection, Tixall Poetry may include verses written both by and for the Augustinian canonesses of St Monica’s, Louvain, and provide evidence for the cultural life of the convent. It then turns to a consideration of evidence for the cultivation of music, and argues for the practical importance of music to the lives of the canonesses. It explores the intense signifi…
British Authors Published Abroad
My present work is a study of British authors published abroad. In the seventeenth century, English and Scots had a negligible readership outside the British Isles. The principal languages of Europe were Latin, the language of the clerisy and of scientific exchange, and French, the language of chivalry and diplomacy. It follows that British authors could make an impression abroad only if they wrote in Latin or if their work underwent translation.…
Reading, Writing and Gender in Early Modern Scotland
Peer reviewed
'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore
Conclusion
The Laterculus has been easily available in both Migne's Patrologia Latina and Mommsen's edition in Monumenta Germaniae Historica for a century without attracting attention: it has always appeared to be a brief and unprepossessing text of which Angelo Mai could say, not unjustifiably, ‘Latinitas ualde squalet’. In a context of chronicle texts, it has seemed to earlier commentators to be poor stuff, naive and ill-informed. This study has sought to…
Old mortality
Women and the Cultural Politics of Printing
(2009). Women and the Cultural Politics of Printing. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 205-237
Women Latin Poets
This book addresses women's relationship to culture between the 1st century BC and the 18th century by identifying women who wrote poetry in Latin. It also considers women's prose writing in Latin and their performance as Latin orators. The earlier chapters move forward through time up to the Renaissance, which is then treated on a country-by-country basis, followed by a second suite of chapters on the early modern era. It surveys the phenomenon …
Women Latin poets
"Presenting the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, many for the first time, this study substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, elite culture. All verse quoted in the text is translated, and there is a comprehensive finding guide that lists manuscripts, editions, and translations."--BOOK JACKET
Women Latin Poets in Britain in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)The idea that, after the Elizabethan age, women's opportunities for education contracted is one which is very widely accepted. Certainly, there are a number of voices from the sixteenth century which express a delight in women's newly discovered abilities as classical scholars which it is not easy to parallel in later texts. William Kempe wrote in 1588 that 'the fair sex seemed to believe that Gre…
Women and classical education in the early modern period
INTRODUCTION The relevance of classical education to women was very much a subject of debate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is an enormous literature concerned with the proper extent of female learning, much of it in the form of lists, or catalogues, of learned women (to be discussed later in this chapter). Clearly, many were against it: equally clearly, many educators, both male and female, spoke in favour of educating girls, …
"We Would Know Again the Fields…"
Florence Boos, Elizabeth Campbell, Jane Stevenson, Mary Macpherson, "We Would Know Again the Fields...": The Rural Poetry of Elizabeth Campbell, Jane Stevenson, and Mary Macpherson, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 17, No. 2, Political Discourse/British Women's Writing, 1640-1867 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 325-347
The ‘Laterculus Malalianus’ and the School of Archbishop Theodore
The Laterculus Malalianus, a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury. Its language, style and intellectual frame of reference are thus of great importance for establishing the nature and scope of teaching at Canterbury, the first school of Anglo-Saxon England. This edition, with translation and commentary, is the third volume in this series to of…
Exhibited by Candlelight
Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition focuses on a number of strands in the Gothic. The first is Gothic as a way of looking. Paintings used as reference points, tableaux, or the Hammer Studios' visualizations of Dracula present ways of seeing which are suggestive and allow the interplay of primarily sexual passions. Continuity with the past is a further strand which enables us to explore how the sources of the…
The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe
This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. The studies, by leading scholars in the field, set out to provide the factual basis from which assessments of the significance of literacy in the early mediaeval world can be made, as well as analysing the …
Student attitudes toward language, learning, and language learning
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Student attitudes toward language, learning, and language learning
The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe
This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. The studies, by leading scholars in the field, set out to provide the factual basis from which assessments of the significance of literacy in the early mediaeval world can be made, as well as analysing the …
The ‘Laterculus Malalianus’ and the School of Archbishop Theodore
The Laterculus Malalianus, a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury. Its language, style and intellectual frame of reference are thus of great importance for establishing the nature and scope of teaching at Canterbury, the first school of Anglo-Saxon England. This edition, with translation and commentary, is the third volume in this series to of…
Exhibited by Candlelight
Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition focuses on a number of strands in the Gothic. The first is Gothic as a way of looking. Paintings used as reference points, tableaux, or the Hammer Studios' visualizations of Dracula present ways of seeing which are suggestive and allow the interplay of primarily sexual passions. Continuity with the past is a further strand which enables us to explore how the sources of the…
Women and classical education in the early modern period
INTRODUCTION The relevance of classical education to women was very much a subject of debate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is an enormous literature concerned with the proper extent of female learning, much of it in the form of lists, or catalogues, of learned women (to be discussed later in this chapter). Clearly, many were against it: equally clearly, many educators, both male and female, spoke in favour of educating girls, …
"We Would Know Again the Fields…"
Florence Boos, Elizabeth Campbell, Jane Stevenson, Mary Macpherson, "We Would Know Again the Fields...": The Rural Poetry of Elizabeth Campbell, Jane Stevenson, and Mary Macpherson, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 17, No. 2, Political Discourse/British Women's Writing, 1640-1867 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 325-347
Women Latin Poets in Britain in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)The idea that, after the Elizabethan age, women's opportunities for education contracted is one which is very widely accepted. Certainly, there are a number of voices from the sixteenth century which express a delight in women's newly discovered abilities as classical scholars which it is not easy to parallel in later texts. William Kempe wrote in 1588 that 'the fair sex seemed to believe that Gre…
Women Latin Poets
This book addresses women's relationship to culture between the 1st century BC and the 18th century by identifying women who wrote poetry in Latin. It also considers women's prose writing in Latin and their performance as Latin orators. The earlier chapters move forward through time up to the Renaissance, which is then treated on a country-by-country basis, followed by a second suite of chapters on the early modern era. It surveys the phenomenon …
Women Latin poets
"Presenting the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, many for the first time, this study substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, elite culture. All verse quoted in the text is translated, and there is a comprehensive finding guide that lists manuscripts, editions, and translations."--BOOK JACKET
Old mortality
Women and the Cultural Politics of Printing
(2009). Women and the Cultural Politics of Printing. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 205-237
'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore
Conclusion
The Laterculus has been easily available in both Migne's Patrologia Latina and Mommsen's edition in Monumenta Germaniae Historica for a century without attracting attention: it has always appeared to be a brief and unprepossessing text of which Angelo Mai could say, not unjustifiably, ‘Latinitas ualde squalet’. In a context of chronicle texts, it has seemed to earlier commentators to be poor stuff, naive and ill-informed. This study has sought to…
Reading, Writing and Gender in Early Modern Scotland
Peer reviewed
The Tixall circle and the musical life of St Monica’s, Louvain
This article explores the possibility that poems preserved in the recusant coterie collection, Tixall Poetry may include verses written both by and for the Augustinian canonesses of St Monica’s, Louvain, and provide evidence for the cultural life of the convent. It then turns to a consideration of evidence for the cultivation of music, and argues for the practical importance of music to the lives of the canonesses. It explores the intense signifi…
British Authors Published Abroad
My present work is a study of British authors published abroad. In the seventeenth century, English and Scots had a negligible readership outside the British Isles. The principal languages of Europe were Latin, the language of the clerisy and of scientific exchange, and French, the language of chivalry and diplomacy. It follows that British authors could make an impression abroad only if they wrote in Latin or if their work underwent translation.…
Baroque between the Wars
This book re-examines the arts in the 1920s and 1930s, arguing that rather than being dominated by modernism, the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque—eclectic, playful, and open to influence from popular culture—and modernism, which was theory-driven, didactic, and exclusive, features which suggest that it was essentially a neoclassical movement. Thus the period is characterized by the ancient competition between baroque and classical fo…
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, Vol. 2
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, Vol. 2
Inventing Fame
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Hiding in Plain Sight
This chapter explores the careers of some of the statistically implausible proportion of women in the interwar arts who were lesbians. One focus is patronage: the partnership of Dody Todd and Madge Garland at the helm of British Vogue , who not only made camp fashionable but made the magazine a vehicle for informed opinion by paying serious money for articles; and rich lesbians’ patronage of other women. Another focus is on the development of a l…
Masks
Masks were a feature of interwar culture in various contexts. African and Oceanic masks were admired and were powerfully influential on modern art. Masks were extensively used in theatre and ballet, and their popularity was such that they were also used for home decoration. The use of cosmetics became part of mainstream culture; this may relate to the increasing tendency for young women to work outside the home.
Climbing
This chapter examines the social aspect of the interwar arts. It demonstrates that the genuinely innovative were almost all dependent on personal patronage to support the early stages of their career. The necessity of clientage relationships influenced what was achieved, since the patrons’ interests could not be discounted. Cultural capital was exchanged for social opportunity and financial support. This also gave particular opportunities to gay …
A Veil of Silence
Florence's soundscape is a testimony to the grotesque gender polarization in the cradle of the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the ability to make a noise was considered a masculine attribute. Male Florentines were expected to shout and assert themselves, while women were supposed to be silent, and also invisible. Women who were not, prostitutes above all, were vilified. Florentine men were typically aggressive and short-tempered, apt to m…
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