Melinda Alliker Rabb
Biographic Data
| ID | 6114203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melinda Alliker Rabb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melinda Alliker |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabb |
| SIGNATURE | RABB M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
War
The concept of the evils of war weaves through Johnson’s work like a connective thread that at times appears visibly on the surface and at other times more subtly underlies the fabric of his thinking and expression. If the idea of war is pervasive, however, the actual body of the warrior is rare. Johnson avoided representation of the embattled flesh and bone of those who did the fighting and suffered its consequences. This dichotomy—confront the …
Swift, Secret History, and War
“Swift, Secret History, and War” argues that the relationship between Swift’s writing, reading, and his abiding interest in the English Civil Wars produced a distinctive contribution to the discourses that arose after the reestablishment of monarchy, called “secret histories.” These narratives claim to expose clandestine acts, to pull away veils that hide petty motives, and to expose abuses underlying the exercise of power. In Swift’s work, howev…
‘Little Snarling Lapdogs’
The domestic sphere increases as a subject for satire in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Literary histories assert satire’s decline after 1750 when creative energy shifts towards home, family, nature, individual subjectivity, and private feelings. But the apparent shift towards representations of domesticity does not simply displace but rather offers new opportunities to satire which insinuates itself into modes of writing almost as so…
Miniature and the English Imagination
Reading Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 To 1750
This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular cu
Toward a Theory of Satire II
Gossip and slander are not the only means of releasing competing stories into the world. ‘Secret histories,’ ‘memoirs,’ and ‘anecdotes are another way of giving birth to a succession of hidden possibilities. “Truth is the daughter of time, was the saying of old ” is Thomas Hooker’s nostalgic observation (A2r). But truth now propagates haphazardly because sometimes God “opens and shuts the womb of truth from bearing, as he sees fit.” Hooker gropes…
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Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 To 1750
This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular cu
Toward a Theory of Satire II
Gossip and slander are not the only means of releasing competing stories into the world. ‘Secret histories,’ ‘memoirs,’ and ‘anecdotes are another way of giving birth to a succession of hidden possibilities. “Truth is the daughter of time, was the saying of old ” is Thomas Hooker’s nostalgic observation (A2r). But truth now propagates haphazardly because sometimes God “opens and shuts the womb of truth from bearing, as he sees fit.” Hooker gropes…
Reading Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
‘Little Snarling Lapdogs’
The domestic sphere increases as a subject for satire in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Literary histories assert satire’s decline after 1750 when creative energy shifts towards home, family, nature, individual subjectivity, and private feelings. But the apparent shift towards representations of domesticity does not simply displace but rather offers new opportunities to satire which insinuates itself into modes of writing almost as so…
Miniature and the English Imagination
Swift, Secret History, and War
“Swift, Secret History, and War” argues that the relationship between Swift’s writing, reading, and his abiding interest in the English Civil Wars produced a distinctive contribution to the discourses that arose after the reestablishment of monarchy, called “secret histories.” These narratives claim to expose clandestine acts, to pull away veils that hide petty motives, and to expose abuses underlying the exercise of power. In Swift’s work, howev…
War
The concept of the evils of war weaves through Johnson’s work like a connective thread that at times appears visibly on the surface and at other times more subtly underlies the fabric of his thinking and expression. If the idea of war is pervasive, however, the actual body of the warrior is rare. Johnson avoided representation of the embattled flesh and bone of those who did the fighting and suffered its consequences. This dichotomy—confront the …
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