Timothy L Carens
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy L Carens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Carens |
| SIGNATURE | CARENS T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette
Nineteenth-century Protestant culture generally held marriage in high esteem, and the notion that marriage was “made in heaven” often explicitly undergirds the conventional resolution of domestic fiction. Despite many indications of a harmonious relationship between human love and religious faith, a countervailing cultural trend reveals a deep conflict between the two. Victorian Protestants worried that passionate love for another mortal creature…
Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel
Strange Relations
In their discussion of the ironies of Englishness, both Ian Baucom (1999) and Simon Gikandi (1996) trace a historical trajectory that culminates in the twentieth century. Granting that “it has never been clear where the identity between colonizer and colonized ends and the difference between them begins,” as Gikandi puts it, both critics characterize postcolonial culture as the moment in which the overlap reaches its clearest expression (2). Gika…
Mapping India
I N RUDYARD KIPLING'S Kim (1901), the hero's education as colonial spy entails learning how to map the natural and constructed features of the Indian landscape. On one of his first missions, Kim surreptitiously measures the “mysterious city of Bikanir” and, with the “help of his little Survey paint-box,” produces a diagram of the “wild, walled city” (218). Among other duties, he apparently serves as a subaltern agent of the Survey of India, an ac…
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Mapping India
I N RUDYARD KIPLING'S Kim (1901), the hero's education as colonial spy entails learning how to map the natural and constructed features of the Indian landscape. On one of his first missions, Kim surreptitiously measures the “mysterious city of Bikanir” and, with the “help of his little Survey paint-box,” produces a diagram of the “wild, walled city” (218). Among other duties, he apparently serves as a subaltern agent of the Survey of India, an ac…
Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel
Strange Relations
In their discussion of the ironies of Englishness, both Ian Baucom (1999) and Simon Gikandi (1996) trace a historical trajectory that culminates in the twentieth century. Granting that “it has never been clear where the identity between colonizer and colonized ends and the difference between them begins,” as Gikandi puts it, both critics characterize postcolonial culture as the moment in which the overlap reaches its clearest expression (2). Gika…
Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette
Nineteenth-century Protestant culture generally held marriage in high esteem, and the notion that marriage was “made in heaven” often explicitly undergirds the conventional resolution of domestic fiction. Despite many indications of a harmonious relationship between human love and religious faith, a countervailing cultural trend reveals a deep conflict between the two. Victorian Protestants worried that passionate love for another mortal creature…
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