Jolene Zigarovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 6041740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jolene Zigarovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jolene |
| FAMILY NAME | Zigarovich |
| SIGNATURE | ZIGAROVICH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern Iowa |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-8648-5435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
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…
Opium, Incapacitation, and Rape in Eighteenth‐Century Culture and Fiction
This article examines the expanded availability of opium through colonial trade and analyzes eighteenth‐century rape trials with unconscious victims. Through this lens, the study identifies the rising frequency of plots featuring incapacitated victims and asserts that women's bodily autonomy declined in eighteenth‐century fiction. With the most discussed drug‐facilitated rape in English literature—Richardson's Clarissa—as a primary influence, the…
Absent Husbands and Scandalous Plots: Presumption of Death and Its Bigamous Consequences
This article discusses the complicated legal issue of declaring dead a person who is absent or missing. In England, a decree of presumption of death allowed for the dissolution of marriage following the continual absence of a spouse for a period of seven years. Marriage, property, and inheritance laws were additionally affected by the absent; in essence, modern common law was troubled by the untraceable body. Following the examination of this com…
A Review of Jennifer Maclure’s The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
A review of Jennifer MacLure’s The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Jolene Zigarovich
Victorian Necropolitics: Introduction
Charging the Dead: The Necroeconomies of Burial Laws and the Legal Suspension of the Dead
While Victorian studies have traditionally examined anatomy laws and the dissection of executed criminals, this article discusses laws that required payment for execution and burial costs, and uncovers actual cases in which families refused payment and as a result the state refused to release the corpse. Capital punishment looms over novels such as Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations, and Thomas Hardy’s Te…
Becoming a Nonperson: Conceptualizing the Departed, Missing, and Absent
Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Absentees impressively demonstrates the global treatment of personhood and legal bodies. Probing culturally rich sources such as ancient myths and popular culture items such as children’s games, Heller-Roazen makes a provocative and compelling argument about how we classify existence and experience loss of others. Heller-Roazen theorizes that while the legal state of the missing has temporal limits, and disallows perpetual …
Alexandra Valint, Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein
TransGothic in Literature and Culture
This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we…
Proleptic Death in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Little Dorrit
As Gerard Genette defined it, prolepsis typically refers to an evocation in advance of an event that will take place later (40); it links two points within the narrative that are out of turn. I am
Arresting the Dead”: Victorian Insolvency Laws and the Novel
In a New York Times article from 4 March 2010 titled “You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector,” David Streitfeld reveals that in these trying economic times collecting from the dead is expa
Death Embraced: Camilla’s Dream as Vampiric Fantasy
New World Courtships: Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage , by Melissa M. Adams-Campbell Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction , by Talia Schaffer
Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Foreword Regina Barreca Introduction Jolene Zigarovich Part I. Marriage and Grave Plots 1. The Wages of Sanctity: Fatal Consequences of Marriage and Motherhood in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel Ruth Bienstock Anolik 2. Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels Bonnie Blackwell 3. Courting Death: Necrophilia in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Jolene Zigarovich 4. Venus Dissected: The Visual Blazon of Mid-18th Century Medical…
Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains
Preserved Remains: Embalming Practices in Eighteenth-Century England
This paper looks at the cultural discourse of embalming in the eighteenth century. Not uncommon, embalming was performed, improved, and commercialized. From mummy unrollings, to churchyard reorderings, to public viewings of “curiosities,” the embalmed were often exposed to public circulation and commodification. As a mortuary practice, embalming spread beyond royal tradition, infiltrating the burial rites of the wealthy and aristocratic in an eff…
Preserved Remains: Embalming Practices in Eighteenth-Century England
This paper looks at the cultural discourse of embalming in the eighteenth century. Not uncommon, embalming was performed, improved, and commercialized. From mummy unrollings, to churchyard reorderings, to public viewings of “curiosities,” the embalmed were often exposed to public circulation and commodification. As a mortuary practice, embalming spread beyond royal tradition, infiltrating the burial rites of the wealthy and aristocratic in an eff…
Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains
Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Foreword Regina Barreca Introduction Jolene Zigarovich Part I. Marriage and Grave Plots 1. The Wages of Sanctity: Fatal Consequences of Marriage and Motherhood in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel Ruth Bienstock Anolik 2. Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels Bonnie Blackwell 3. Courting Death: Necrophilia in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Jolene Zigarovich 4. Venus Dissected: The Visual Blazon of Mid-18th Century Medical…
Proleptic Death in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Little Dorrit
As Gerard Genette defined it, prolepsis typically refers to an evocation in advance of an event that will take place later (40); it links two points within the narrative that are out of turn. I am
Arresting the Dead”: Victorian Insolvency Laws and the Novel
In a New York Times article from 4 March 2010 titled “You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector,” David Streitfeld reveals that in these trying economic times collecting from the dead is expa
Death Embraced: Camilla’s Dream as Vampiric Fantasy
New World Courtships: Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage , by Melissa M. Adams-Campbell Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction , by Talia Schaffer
TransGothic in Literature and Culture
This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we…
The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein
Becoming a Nonperson: Conceptualizing the Departed, Missing, and Absent
Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Absentees impressively demonstrates the global treatment of personhood and legal bodies. Probing culturally rich sources such as ancient myths and popular culture items such as children’s games, Heller-Roazen makes a provocative and compelling argument about how we classify existence and experience loss of others. Heller-Roazen theorizes that while the legal state of the missing has temporal limits, and disallows perpetual …
Alexandra Valint, Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Victorian Necropolitics: Introduction
Charging the Dead: The Necroeconomies of Burial Laws and the Legal Suspension of the Dead
While Victorian studies have traditionally examined anatomy laws and the dissection of executed criminals, this article discusses laws that required payment for execution and burial costs, and uncovers actual cases in which families refused payment and as a result the state refused to release the corpse. Capital punishment looms over novels such as Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations, and Thomas Hardy’s Te…
A Review of Jennifer Maclure’s The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
A review of Jennifer MacLure’s The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Jolene Zigarovich
Absent Husbands and Scandalous Plots: Presumption of Death and Its Bigamous Consequences
This article discusses the complicated legal issue of declaring dead a person who is absent or missing. In England, a decree of presumption of death allowed for the dissolution of marriage following the continual absence of a spouse for a period of seven years. Marriage, property, and inheritance laws were additionally affected by the absent; in essence, modern common law was troubled by the untraceable body. Following the examination of this com…
Introduction: New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
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…
Opium, Incapacitation, and Rape in Eighteenth‐Century Culture and Fiction
This article examines the expanded availability of opium through colonial trade and analyzes eighteenth‐century rape trials with unconscious victims. Through this lens, the study identifies the rising frequency of plots featuring incapacitated victims and asserts that women's bodily autonomy declined in eighteenth‐century fiction. With the most discussed drug‐facilitated rape in English literature—Richardson's Clarissa—as a primary influence, the…
Art (10 works) · Literature (8 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)