Laura Kirkley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5771999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Kirkley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirkley |
| SIGNATURE | KIRKLEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3718-1645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“ L’Esprit de Charité ”: Imaginative Action and Universal Benevolence in Wollstonecraft’s Of the Importance of Religious Opinions
This article analyses Mary Wollstonecraft’s Of The Importance of Religious Opinions (1788), a translation of De l’Importance des Opinions Religieuses (1788) by Jacques Necker. I demonstrate that Necker’s text resonates with Wollstonecraft’s early works and those of her mentor, Dissenting theologian Richard Price, both for its Providentialism and for its onus on caritas, or “l’esprit de charité”, a love of God expressed through love of our neighbo…
Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft
In the last 4 decades, Mary Wollstonecraft has been brought from the margins of Western literary history to assume her place as a feminist foremother, radical icon, and familiar meme. As the range of disciplinary responses to Wollstonecraft's writing expands, our knowledge is deepening of her intellectual landscapes and her local and transnational networks. Diversification of expertise has also led to closer, interdisciplinary scrutiny of her wor…
Hélène Cixous's Autre Bisexualité and the Eternal Feminine in the Works of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
This article analyses the creative engagement of the Irish-language poet Ní Dhomhnaill with Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine. Ní Dhomhnaill translates Cixousian images and concepts into her texts, returning on several occasions to the concept of l'autre bisexualité (‘the other bisexuality’). Cixous uses this concept to rehabilitate—and celebrate—what she designates as ‘the feminine’, the alterity within and outside the self. For both writers, th…
Shakespeare in Victorian Translation
Gail Marshall, Shakespeare and Victorian Women, Cambridge University Press, 2009, £53.00 hardback 978 0 5215 1523 8. Gail Marshall draws on translation theory to breathe fresh life into scholarship
Witnesses to War: Changing Perspectives on the Literature of the Second World War and the Kindertransport
Et in Academia Ego’: Mary Eagleton Resurrects the Woman Writer
Atwood Historicised: The Fiction of the Postfeminist Novelist
Hélène Cixous's Autre Bisexualité and the Eternal Feminine in the Works of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
This article analyses the creative engagement of the Irish-language poet Ní Dhomhnaill with Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine. Ní Dhomhnaill translates Cixousian images and concepts into her texts, returning on several occasions to the concept of l'autre bisexualité (‘the other bisexuality’). Cixous uses this concept to rehabilitate—and celebrate—what she designates as ‘the feminine’, the alterity within and outside the self. For both writers, th…
Et in Academia Ego’: Mary Eagleton Resurrects the Woman Writer
Atwood Historicised: The Fiction of the Postfeminist Novelist
Shakespeare in Victorian Translation
Gail Marshall, Shakespeare and Victorian Women, Cambridge University Press, 2009, £53.00 hardback 978 0 5215 1523 8. Gail Marshall draws on translation theory to breathe fresh life into scholarship
Witnesses to War: Changing Perspectives on the Literature of the Second World War and the Kindertransport
Hélène Cixous's Autre Bisexualité and the Eternal Feminine in the Works of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
This article analyses the creative engagement of the Irish-language poet Ní Dhomhnaill with Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine. Ní Dhomhnaill translates Cixousian images and concepts into her texts, returning on several occasions to the concept of l'autre bisexualité (‘the other bisexuality’). Cixous uses this concept to rehabilitate—and celebrate—what she designates as ‘the feminine’, the alterity within and outside the self. For both writers, th…
Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft
In the last 4 decades, Mary Wollstonecraft has been brought from the margins of Western literary history to assume her place as a feminist foremother, radical icon, and familiar meme. As the range of disciplinary responses to Wollstonecraft's writing expands, our knowledge is deepening of her intellectual landscapes and her local and transnational networks. Diversification of expertise has also led to closer, interdisciplinary scrutiny of her wor…
“ L’Esprit de Charité ”: Imaginative Action and Universal Benevolence in Wollstonecraft’s Of the Importance of Religious Opinions
This article analyses Mary Wollstonecraft’s Of The Importance of Religious Opinions (1788), a translation of De l’Importance des Opinions Religieuses (1788) by Jacques Necker. I demonstrate that Necker’s text resonates with Wollstonecraft’s early works and those of her mentor, Dissenting theologian Richard Price, both for its Providentialism and for its onus on caritas, or “l’esprit de charité”, a love of God expressed through love of our neighbo…
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