Clare Pettitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Pettitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettitt |
| SIGNATURE | PETTITT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0676-9692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Morse’s Media
Content warning:'Some of the quotations from nineteenth-century publications in this essay are distressingly violent and racist.They have been included as they seemed necessary to evidence Morse's extreme
‘It might as well be Stephen’ essays in appreciation of Sondheim
In 1994, New York magazine asked whether Stephen Sondheim was God. The question, as Sondheim later pointed out, was not simply ‘unanswerable’ but ‘camp’.1 He didn’t elaborate, but anyone who knew Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’ would have understood. Indeed, for Sontag, one of camp’s defining qualities is not just ‘a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation’, but a knowingness or cliquishness about that appreciation. Taking delight in …
Ships, Serials, and Infrastructures of Empire in the Nineteenth Century
The drive toward precision, punctuality, and an accurate global mapping of the ocean has always been in tension with the forces that undermine and undercut the attempt: human failure, bad weather, broken instruments, bad luck, and so on. The serial labor of embedding infrastructure is risky and requires both improvisatory skills and persistence. The ships that paid out the telegraph cable, and the many kinds of serial writing that took place onbo…
Poets, Vegetarians, Reformers
Media After Kittler
Eleni Ikoniadou and Scott Wilson, eds., 2015 London and New York, Rowman & Littlefield International 208pp., ISBN: 978-1-78348-121-7 (pbk, £24.95, hbk £75.00)
Piracy
Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World
Collette Colligan and Margaret Linley introduce their collection of essays on image, sound and touch in the nineteenth century by wondering about how and when the plural form of the word ‘medium,’
Adrian JOHNS. Piracy
Adrian Johns concludes his monumental work by predicting “the end of intellectual property itself” (p. 498). In seventeen chapters, he moves across an impressive span of time, from the 1680s and the first use of the word “pirate” to describe violators of the Stationers' Register held by the Restoration Guild of Stationers, via the “piratical Enlightenment” fed by unlicensed reprinting in Ireland and America, taking in international intellectual p…
Time Lag and Elizabeth Gaskell's Transatlantic Imagination
By the 1860s, the process of mediation had become newly visible through repeated attempts to lay the Atlantic Cable. This article considers the status and affect of historical fiction in the age of telecommunications, examining Elizabeth Gaskell's deep engagement with American politics throughout the American Civil War in the context of her transatlantic correspondence with Charles Eliot Norton and her experience of the Cotton Famine in Mancheste…
Poetics and Perspectives
Roundtable: Victorian Glassworlds a procession.Unlike print sources, the survival of material artefacts is a matter of chance.But this is recent past and objects like these do survive; the Victoria and Albert Museum glass gallery has some on display and many more in its readily accessible store.I longed for Armstrong to engage with the fragile physicality of these things, the verbal representation of which she so eloquently invokes.All that I rea…
An everyday story
Time Lag and Elizabeth Gaskell's Transatlantic Imagination
By the 1860s, the process of mediation had become newly visible through repeated attempts to lay the Atlantic Cable. This article considers the status and affect of historical fiction in the age of telecommunications, examining Elizabeth Gaskell's deep engagement with American politics throughout the American Civil War in the context of her transatlantic correspondence with Charles Eliot Norton and her experience of the Cotton Famine in Mancheste…
An everyday story
Poetics and Perspectives
Roundtable: Victorian Glassworlds a procession.Unlike print sources, the survival of material artefacts is a matter of chance.But this is recent past and objects like these do survive; the Victoria and Albert Museum glass gallery has some on display and many more in its readily accessible store.I longed for Armstrong to engage with the fragile physicality of these things, the verbal representation of which she so eloquently invokes.All that I rea…
Time Lag and Elizabeth Gaskell's Transatlantic Imagination
By the 1860s, the process of mediation had become newly visible through repeated attempts to lay the Atlantic Cable. This article considers the status and affect of historical fiction in the age of telecommunications, examining Elizabeth Gaskell's deep engagement with American politics throughout the American Civil War in the context of her transatlantic correspondence with Charles Eliot Norton and her experience of the Cotton Famine in Mancheste…
Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World
Collette Colligan and Margaret Linley introduce their collection of essays on image, sound and touch in the nineteenth century by wondering about how and when the plural form of the word ‘medium,’
Adrian JOHNS. Piracy
Adrian Johns concludes his monumental work by predicting “the end of intellectual property itself” (p. 498). In seventeen chapters, he moves across an impressive span of time, from the 1680s and the first use of the word “pirate” to describe violators of the Stationers' Register held by the Restoration Guild of Stationers, via the “piratical Enlightenment” fed by unlicensed reprinting in Ireland and America, taking in international intellectual p…
Piracy
Media After Kittler
Eleni Ikoniadou and Scott Wilson, eds., 2015 London and New York, Rowman & Littlefield International 208pp., ISBN: 978-1-78348-121-7 (pbk, £24.95, hbk £75.00)
Poets, Vegetarians, Reformers
‘It might as well be Stephen’ essays in appreciation of Sondheim
In 1994, New York magazine asked whether Stephen Sondheim was God. The question, as Sondheim later pointed out, was not simply ‘unanswerable’ but ‘camp’.1 He didn’t elaborate, but anyone who knew Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’ would have understood. Indeed, for Sontag, one of camp’s defining qualities is not just ‘a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation’, but a knowingness or cliquishness about that appreciation. Taking delight in …
Ships, Serials, and Infrastructures of Empire in the Nineteenth Century
The drive toward precision, punctuality, and an accurate global mapping of the ocean has always been in tension with the forces that undermine and undercut the attempt: human failure, bad weather, broken instruments, bad luck, and so on. The serial labor of embedding infrastructure is risky and requires both improvisatory skills and persistence. The ships that paid out the telegraph cable, and the many kinds of serial writing that took place onbo…
Morse’s Media
Content warning:'Some of the quotations from nineteenth-century publications in this essay are distressingly violent and racist.They have been included as they seemed necessary to evidence Morse's extreme
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