Charles Upchurch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Upchurch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Upchurch |
| SIGNATURE | UPCHURCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forum
Timed to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the United States of America, this series of articles complicates traditional narratives of this transformative event by situating it in a larger British world context. This article outlines the methodologies informing and content of my current book project, “Called it Macaroni”: A British Queer History of the…
Rethinking Periodization, Priorities, and Liberalism in British Queer History
This article revisits the development of the field of British queer history to argue that the division that began in the later 1970s—between works focused on the periods before and after the late nineteenth century—has obscured underlying methodological unities that developed within the scholarship since the 1990s. The failure to emphasize common cultural history methodologies that have been the hallmark of the best works analyzing same-sex desir…
Following Anne Lister
This article addresses the question of whether Anne Lister can be considered a lesbian through a reassessment of how the modern period is conceptualized within the history of sexuality. Returning to the original texts that first defined the history of sexuality project, the article emphasized that those texts indicate that the mechanisms of biopower and identity formation based on cultural texts undergo their most significant shift in the late se…
Dominic Janes. Oscar Wilde Prefigured
Dominic Janes’s new work, Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900, brings a fresh source base and methodology to the study of male same-sex desire in Britain. While others have used caricatures and satiric prints to analyze specific events in queer history from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, no scholar has previously sought to create an argument using primarily this type of source material over …
Full-Text Databases and Historical Research
Full-text electronic searching of books, periodicals, and government documents is providing historians with the ability to survey unprecedented amounts of historical material for references traditionally not associated with those sources. Yet because the research conducted with these new tools is often not possible or practical using other methods, the shortcomings of the results are not always evident. This article highlights some of those short…
Forgetting the Unthinkable
Forgetting the Unthinkable
Full-Text Databases and Historical Research
Full-text electronic searching of books, periodicals, and government documents is providing historians with the ability to survey unprecedented amounts of historical material for references traditionally not associated with those sources. Yet because the research conducted with these new tools is often not possible or practical using other methods, the shortcomings of the results are not always evident. This article highlights some of those short…
Forgetting the Unthinkable
Full-Text Databases and Historical Research
Full-text electronic searching of books, periodicals, and government documents is providing historians with the ability to survey unprecedented amounts of historical material for references traditionally not associated with those sources. Yet because the research conducted with these new tools is often not possible or practical using other methods, the shortcomings of the results are not always evident. This article highlights some of those short…
Dominic Janes. Oscar Wilde Prefigured
Dominic Janes’s new work, Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900, brings a fresh source base and methodology to the study of male same-sex desire in Britain. While others have used caricatures and satiric prints to analyze specific events in queer history from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, no scholar has previously sought to create an argument using primarily this type of source material over …
Following Anne Lister
This article addresses the question of whether Anne Lister can be considered a lesbian through a reassessment of how the modern period is conceptualized within the history of sexuality. Returning to the original texts that first defined the history of sexuality project, the article emphasized that those texts indicate that the mechanisms of biopower and identity formation based on cultural texts undergo their most significant shift in the late se…
Forum
Timed to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the United States of America, this series of articles complicates traditional narratives of this transformative event by situating it in a larger British world context. This article outlines the methodologies informing and content of my current book project, “Called it Macaroni”: A British Queer History of the…
Rethinking Periodization, Priorities, and Liberalism in British Queer History
This article revisits the development of the field of British queer history to argue that the division that began in the later 1970s—between works focused on the periods before and after the late nineteenth century—has obscured underlying methodological unities that developed within the scholarship since the 1990s. The failure to emphasize common cultural history methodologies that have been the hallmark of the best works analyzing same-sex desir…
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · History (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (2 works) · Homosexuality (2 works)