Nicole Fluhr
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Fluhr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Fluhr |
| SIGNATURE | FLUHR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Connecticut State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Charnel House of Uncertainty, Doubt, and Error”
“A Charnel House of Uncertainty, Doubt, and Error”: Medical and Narrative Authority in Some Fin-de-Siècle Fictions Nicole Fluhr (bio) . . . an evolution marked by [the] reinsertion of the “I,” the narrator-doctor, into what is revealed not as the pristine marble halls of Æsclepius but a charnel house of uncertainty, doubt, and error. Terrence Holt The end of the nineteenth century saw a proliferation of fictional critiques of doctors’ misplaced c…
The Letter and the Law, or How Caroline Norton (Re)Wrote Female Subjectivity
This essay focuses on a largely overlooked aspect of Caroline Norton's work: her writing's powerful, if indirect, critique of the social codes according to which women were read. Analyzing the use of letters as plot elements, this essay argues that Norton's writing figures epistles as metonyms for women, first identifying and then exploding the ways in which letters and female subjects are characterized by a shared relation to the literal. Norton…
Their Calling Me ‘Mother’ Was Not, I Think, Altogether Unmeaning”
I N AUTUMN OF 1854 , Mary Jane Grant Seacole traveled to England from Jamaica and “laid...pertinacious siege” to the official and private residences of Sidney Herbert, Secretary-at-War, hoping to secure a post as hospital nurse in the Crimea. Thwarted in her attempts to see the Secretary, Seacole applied to his wife, Elizabeth Herbert, who informed her “that the full complement of nurses had been secured” (Seacole 78, 79). Seacole made one last e…
Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings
Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings Nicole Fluhr (bio) In 1913, novelist, literary critic, and aesthetic theorist Vernon Lee coined the term "empathy" ("Empathy" 62); twenty-three years earlier, in 1890, she had published a collection of four short stories entitled Hauntings that, I will argue, anticipates this notion. Both Lee's fiction and her aesthetic theory advocate a kind of knowledge that dissolves two interrelated sets of bound…
Their Calling Me ‘Mother’ Was Not, I Think, Altogether Unmeaning”
I N AUTUMN OF 1854 , Mary Jane Grant Seacole traveled to England from Jamaica and “laid...pertinacious siege” to the official and private residences of Sidney Herbert, Secretary-at-War, hoping to secure a post as hospital nurse in the Crimea. Thwarted in her attempts to see the Secretary, Seacole applied to his wife, Elizabeth Herbert, who informed her “that the full complement of nurses had been secured” (Seacole 78, 79). Seacole made one last e…
Their Calling Me ‘Mother’ Was Not, I Think, Altogether Unmeaning”
I N AUTUMN OF 1854 , Mary Jane Grant Seacole traveled to England from Jamaica and “laid...pertinacious siege” to the official and private residences of Sidney Herbert, Secretary-at-War, hoping to secure a post as hospital nurse in the Crimea. Thwarted in her attempts to see the Secretary, Seacole applied to his wife, Elizabeth Herbert, who informed her “that the full complement of nurses had been secured” (Seacole 78, 79). Seacole made one last e…
Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings
Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings Nicole Fluhr (bio) In 1913, novelist, literary critic, and aesthetic theorist Vernon Lee coined the term "empathy" ("Empathy" 62); twenty-three years earlier, in 1890, she had published a collection of four short stories entitled Hauntings that, I will argue, anticipates this notion. Both Lee's fiction and her aesthetic theory advocate a kind of knowledge that dissolves two interrelated sets of bound…
The Letter and the Law, or How Caroline Norton (Re)Wrote Female Subjectivity
This essay focuses on a largely overlooked aspect of Caroline Norton's work: her writing's powerful, if indirect, critique of the social codes according to which women were read. Analyzing the use of letters as plot elements, this essay argues that Norton's writing figures epistles as metonyms for women, first identifying and then exploding the ways in which letters and female subjects are characterized by a shared relation to the literal. Norton…
A Charnel House of Uncertainty, Doubt, and Error”
“A Charnel House of Uncertainty, Doubt, and Error”: Medical and Narrative Authority in Some Fin-de-Siècle Fictions Nicole Fluhr (bio) . . . an evolution marked by [the] reinsertion of the “I,” the narrator-doctor, into what is revealed not as the pristine marble halls of Æsclepius but a charnel house of uncertainty, doubt, and error. Terrence Holt The end of the nineteenth century saw a proliferation of fictional critiques of doctors’ misplaced c…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)