Ruth M McAdams
Biographic Data
| ID | 6324878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth M McAdams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth M |
| FAMILY NAME | McAdams |
| SIGNATURE | MCADAMS R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4136-5845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism
Mark Canuel's The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism offers a provocative and timely reconsideration of the intellectual history of progress, broadly conceived, and its relationship to major literary works of the Romantic period. Whereas in the eighteenth century, political, scientific, and cultural progress had been understood as necessarily coextensive and interlinked, Romantic writers imagined political progress as separate from and indep…
Three Cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal!”
In this piece, I discuss Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1855) in the context of my experience as one of the lead organizers of the successful campaign to unionize Skidmore College's non-tenure-track faculty. Dickens's novel outlines several claims that directly comprise modern anti-union discourse and that I saw straightforwardly rehearsed in 2022 as we sought to unionize. As an organizer and a Victorianist, I argue that we have ethical obligation…
Bending the Clock
Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The Victorians and Old Age (2009), Kay Heath’s Aging by the Book (2009), and Alice Crossley’s special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2017). Following the publication of two significant new monographs — Andrea Charise’s The Aesthetics of Senescen…
Peter N. Miller, History and its Objects
Progress
A S Victorianists, we are eager reject the ideological commitment to historical progress that ostensibly dominates our culture of study
Ladies Scorn Dates!”
As a young girl living on St. Helena in 1815, Betsy Balcombe met Napoleon Bonaparte. When she learned of the recently defeated emperor's imminent arrival, Betsy feared “a huge ogre or giant, with o
Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and The Trumpet-Major
This essay argues that William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1847–48) and Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major (1880) use the temporal multiplicity and ambiguity of fashion to depict historical time as striated and multidimensional. It challenges the critical paradigm that has long maligned conspicuous clothing in historical fiction as a kind of facile historicism. Such an approach fails to acknowledge the complex temporalities of fictional clot…
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
Georg Lukacs's The Historical Novel (1937, trans. 1962) has cast a long shadow over the field it defines. Although excellent work on historical fiction appears regularly, it has, until now, lacked
Ladies Scorn Dates!”
As a young girl living on St. Helena in 1815, Betsy Balcombe met Napoleon Bonaparte. When she learned of the recently defeated emperor's imminent arrival, Betsy feared “a huge ogre or giant, with o
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
Georg Lukacs's The Historical Novel (1937, trans. 1962) has cast a long shadow over the field it defines. Although excellent work on historical fiction appears regularly, it has, until now, lacked
Ladies Scorn Dates!”
As a young girl living on St. Helena in 1815, Betsy Balcombe met Napoleon Bonaparte. When she learned of the recently defeated emperor's imminent arrival, Betsy feared “a huge ogre or giant, with o
Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and The Trumpet-Major
This essay argues that William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1847–48) and Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major (1880) use the temporal multiplicity and ambiguity of fashion to depict historical time as striated and multidimensional. It challenges the critical paradigm that has long maligned conspicuous clothing in historical fiction as a kind of facile historicism. Such an approach fails to acknowledge the complex temporalities of fictional clot…
Progress
A S Victorianists, we are eager reject the ideological commitment to historical progress that ostensibly dominates our culture of study
Peter N. Miller, History and its Objects
Bending the Clock
Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The Victorians and Old Age (2009), Kay Heath’s Aging by the Book (2009), and Alice Crossley’s special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2017). Following the publication of two significant new monographs — Andrea Charise’s The Aesthetics of Senescen…
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism
Mark Canuel's The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism offers a provocative and timely reconsideration of the intellectual history of progress, broadly conceived, and its relationship to major literary works of the Romantic period. Whereas in the eighteenth century, political, scientific, and cultural progress had been understood as necessarily coextensive and interlinked, Romantic writers imagined political progress as separate from and indep…
Three Cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal!”
In this piece, I discuss Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1855) in the context of my experience as one of the lead organizers of the successful campaign to unionize Skidmore College's non-tenure-track faculty. Dickens's novel outlines several claims that directly comprise modern anti-union discourse and that I saw straightforwardly rehearsed in 2022 as we sought to unionize. As an organizer and a Victorianist, I argue that we have ethical obligation…
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