Joanne E Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5875784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne E Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne E |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gettysburg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine
In recent years, Eleanor Sleath’s long-neglected The Orphan of the Rhine has received attention as a valuable addition to the Gothic canon. In particular, critics have hailed the unconventionality of her worldly heroine Julie de Rubine. In this article, we resituate Julie’s exceptionalism in a specifically post-Reformation context, arguing that, in Julie, Sleath has created a powerful maternal icon whose mediating authority contests iconoclastic …
Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents
This article examines the manuscript practices of Sister Cecily Joseph (Elizabeth) Cornwallis, an Englishwoman and Poor Clare sister who served as the scrivener for her Rouen convent from 1688 to 1737, when she created many beautiful and eclectic prayer books for the use of her order. These prayer books, I argue, constitute a form of “devotional authorship” that registers authorial presence while paradoxically effacing the author, through the dev…
Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies
Enthusiastic Improvement
Many commentators have contrasted the way that sociability is theorized in the writings of Mary Astell and Damaris Masham, emphasizing the extent to which Masham is more interested in embodied, worldly existence. I argue, by contrast, that Astell's own interest in imagining a constitutively relational individual emerges once we pay attention to her use of religious texts and tropes. To explore the relevance of Astell's Christianity, I emphasize b…
A Case of Murderous Sensibility
After murdering Martha Ray in April 1779, James Hackman enjoyed an improbable media celebrity that rested largely on his ability both to embody and complicate the performative conventions of the late eighteenth‐century discourse of sensibility, which tied virtue to its embodied visibility. Supporters who lauded Hackman, but wanted to conserve his and their own moral agency, disentangled his character from his crime by attributing to him an interi…
Enthusiastic Improvement
Many commentators have contrasted the way that sociability is theorized in the writings of Mary Astell and Damaris Masham, emphasizing the extent to which Masham is more interested in embodied, worldly existence. I argue, by contrast, that Astell's own interest in imagining a constitutively relational individual emerges once we pay attention to her use of religious texts and tropes. To explore the relevance of Astell's Christianity, I emphasize b…
A Case of Murderous Sensibility
After murdering Martha Ray in April 1779, James Hackman enjoyed an improbable media celebrity that rested largely on his ability both to embody and complicate the performative conventions of the late eighteenth‐century discourse of sensibility, which tied virtue to its embodied visibility. Supporters who lauded Hackman, but wanted to conserve his and their own moral agency, disentangled his character from his crime by attributing to him an interi…
Enthusiastic Improvement
Many commentators have contrasted the way that sociability is theorized in the writings of Mary Astell and Damaris Masham, emphasizing the extent to which Masham is more interested in embodied, worldly existence. I argue, by contrast, that Astell's own interest in imagining a constitutively relational individual emerges once we pay attention to her use of religious texts and tropes. To explore the relevance of Astell's Christianity, I emphasize b…
Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies
The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine
In recent years, Eleanor Sleath’s long-neglected The Orphan of the Rhine has received attention as a valuable addition to the Gothic canon. In particular, critics have hailed the unconventionality of her worldly heroine Julie de Rubine. In this article, we resituate Julie’s exceptionalism in a specifically post-Reformation context, arguing that, in Julie, Sleath has created a powerful maternal icon whose mediating authority contests iconoclastic …
Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents
This article examines the manuscript practices of Sister Cecily Joseph (Elizabeth) Cornwallis, an Englishwoman and Poor Clare sister who served as the scrivener for her Rouen convent from 1688 to 1737, when she created many beautiful and eclectic prayer books for the use of her order. These prayer books, I argue, constitute a form of “devotional authorship” that registers authorial presence while paradoxically effacing the author, through the dev…
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