Doreen Thierauf
Biographic Data
| ID | 5870645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doreen Thierauf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Thierauf |
| SIGNATURE | THIERAUF D |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina Wesleyan College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0140-3648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
The editors review past and current scholarship on gender‐based violence in eighteenth‐century literature and culture. Moving beyond the legal implications of Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale's claim that rape is a charge ‘easily to be made and hard to be proved’ and building upon strategies centring victims' experiences instead of perpetrators' motivations, the editors further identify the misogyny, racism, and ableism inherent in eighteenth‐cent…
Between Men
This article offers two case studies to begin theorizing eighteenth‐century ‘rape culture’ for historians and literary scholars. We compare the behaviours of two men, Francis Charteris and Samuel Pepys, both of whom left considerable testimonial archives suggesting that they were, at least by modern standards, perpetrators of rape. We observe that archival evidence tracking these individuals' actions reveals how eighteenth‐century culture normali…
Teaching Through the Backlash
In this essay, I survey the North American literature classroom post‐#MeToo, using my Spring 2024 undergraduate honors course, an introduction to Literary Sexuality Studies, for my case study. Picking up Susan Faludi's classic concept of the anti‐feminist backlash, I show that Gen Z students (and their instructors) are aware of #MeToo's promises, breakthroughs, and challenges—and of the fact that last decade's period of intense agitation is, for …
Cultivating a Political Learning Ecology
This article details a collaboratively designed and taught honors course, Cultures of the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Survivance. The authors invite readers to consider interinstitutional political learning ecologies a viable and vibrant model of instruction for early-career scholars and experienced teachers seeking professional development and a profound pedagogical challenge
Kimberly Cox, Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901
Rape
The Victorian period was notorious for its oblique representations of sexual violence. This article argues that rape is a necessary word and concept for Victorian studies and, we contend, a keyword for a growing subfield of literary and cultural scholarship, humanistic rape studies. Without rape as a stable signifier of specific acts, we find ourselves transported back to the nineteenth century, fumbling like Tess Durbeyfield for language that ad…
Prioritizing Pedagogy in Victorian Studies
This essay argues that practical discussions about pedagogy in the field of Victorian studies warrant a regular place in major field-based conferences and journals as well as greater attention in graduate programs at large to maintain our discipline's viability. While conversations about and tools to help with teaching have become more prominent in digital projects like Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom and COVE , these topics continue to be…
Women”
This keyword essay on "women" responds to heated debates surrounding the term “pregnant person” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision and argues for the continued usefulness of “women” to Victorian studies. While “pregnant person” allows institutions and thinkers to signal their recognition that the population requiring reproductive services includes trans men and nonbinary people, the curtailment of reproductive rights is o…
Dara Rossman Regaignon, Writing Maternity
Rescuing the Magdalen
In the decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning drafted Aurora Leigh (1856), feminists, politicians, and reformers opened so-called Magdalen refuges, inviting working-class prostitutes and unmarried mothers into their own private homes. Upon entry, destitute women received clothing, private rooms, and humane treatment—and were subjected to the constant supervision of mostly older, socially superior women. Inmates were expected to submit to a stri…
Felicia Bonaparte, The Poetics of Poesis
Tending to Old Stories
The appearance of the word ‘dynamic’ on the first page of George Eliot's novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), to describe Gwendolen's unsettled/unsettling glance famously elicited critique from her publisher John Blackwood as well as from an anonymous reviewer at the Examiner , both of whom challenged Eliot's use of scientific jargon that had not yet entered her audience's everyday vocabulary. In line with this often-cited vignette, critics usually unde…
Forever After
The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Doreen Thierauf, The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Victorian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Eleventh Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Spring 2014), pp. 479-489
The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Doreen Thierauf, The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Victorian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Eleventh Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Spring 2014), pp. 479-489
Forever After
The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Doreen Thierauf, The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Victorian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Eleventh Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Spring 2014), pp. 479-489
Forever After
Felicia Bonaparte, The Poetics of Poesis
Tending to Old Stories
The appearance of the word ‘dynamic’ on the first page of George Eliot's novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), to describe Gwendolen's unsettled/unsettling glance famously elicited critique from her publisher John Blackwood as well as from an anonymous reviewer at the Examiner , both of whom challenged Eliot's use of scientific jargon that had not yet entered her audience's everyday vocabulary. In line with this often-cited vignette, critics usually unde…
Rescuing the Magdalen
In the decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning drafted Aurora Leigh (1856), feminists, politicians, and reformers opened so-called Magdalen refuges, inviting working-class prostitutes and unmarried mothers into their own private homes. Upon entry, destitute women received clothing, private rooms, and humane treatment—and were subjected to the constant supervision of mostly older, socially superior women. Inmates were expected to submit to a stri…
Dara Rossman Regaignon, Writing Maternity
Cultivating a Political Learning Ecology
This article details a collaboratively designed and taught honors course, Cultures of the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Survivance. The authors invite readers to consider interinstitutional political learning ecologies a viable and vibrant model of instruction for early-career scholars and experienced teachers seeking professional development and a profound pedagogical challenge
Kimberly Cox, Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901
Rape
The Victorian period was notorious for its oblique representations of sexual violence. This article argues that rape is a necessary word and concept for Victorian studies and, we contend, a keyword for a growing subfield of literary and cultural scholarship, humanistic rape studies. Without rape as a stable signifier of specific acts, we find ourselves transported back to the nineteenth century, fumbling like Tess Durbeyfield for language that ad…
Prioritizing Pedagogy in Victorian Studies
This essay argues that practical discussions about pedagogy in the field of Victorian studies warrant a regular place in major field-based conferences and journals as well as greater attention in graduate programs at large to maintain our discipline's viability. While conversations about and tools to help with teaching have become more prominent in digital projects like Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom and COVE , these topics continue to be…
Women”
This keyword essay on "women" responds to heated debates surrounding the term “pregnant person” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision and argues for the continued usefulness of “women” to Victorian studies. While “pregnant person” allows institutions and thinkers to signal their recognition that the population requiring reproductive services includes trans men and nonbinary people, the curtailment of reproductive rights is o…
Teaching Through the Backlash
In this essay, I survey the North American literature classroom post‐#MeToo, using my Spring 2024 undergraduate honors course, an introduction to Literary Sexuality Studies, for my case study. Picking up Susan Faludi's classic concept of the anti‐feminist backlash, I show that Gen Z students (and their instructors) are aware of #MeToo's promises, breakthroughs, and challenges—and of the fact that last decade's period of intense agitation is, for …
Introduction
The editors review past and current scholarship on gender‐based violence in eighteenth‐century literature and culture. Moving beyond the legal implications of Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale's claim that rape is a charge ‘easily to be made and hard to be proved’ and building upon strategies centring victims' experiences instead of perpetrators' motivations, the editors further identify the misogyny, racism, and ableism inherent in eighteenth‐cent…
Between Men
This article offers two case studies to begin theorizing eighteenth‐century ‘rape culture’ for historians and literary scholars. We compare the behaviours of two men, Francis Charteris and Samuel Pepys, both of whom left considerable testimonial archives suggesting that they were, at least by modern standards, perpetrators of rape. We observe that archival evidence tracking these individuals' actions reveals how eighteenth‐century culture normali…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)