Laura Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 6539004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | High Point University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Consciousness of Right”
Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion (1818), features a heroine in Anne Elliot whose humility, morality, and sense of duty nearly ruin her chances for happiness with Captain Wentworth. Though Anne endures loneliness through years of separation from Wentworth, she upholds ethical principles representing an Enlightenment model of moral action that Austen privileges in all her novels. Persuasion rejects utilitarian 'means-to-an-end' principles that …
Laetitia Pilkington’s “ Verses Wrote in a Library ” and the Poetical Imagination”
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
A Tale of Two Bigamists
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novel of sensation, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), adapts the earlier novella by Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun, or the Fair Vow-Breaker (1689). Both narratives consider
Anne Conway’s Vitalism
One of the earliest English women writers in the late seventeenth century to take an interest in Vitalist philosophy was Anne Finch, Vicountess Conway (1631–79). Conway’s Prinicipia philosophiae an
Rewriting Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard
One of the many poetical “responses” by eighteenth-century writers to Alexander Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard (1717) was Judith Cowper’s Abelard to Eloisa (written 1720, published 1728), a poem that retells the story of the ill-fated French medieval lovers, Peter Abelard and Héloise. Replete with Eloisa’s erotic longings, frustration and yearnings both for her lover, Abelard, and God, Pope’s poem especially appealed to readers and writers throughout t…
Devouring Desire
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Devouring Desire
Rewriting Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard
One of the many poetical “responses” by eighteenth-century writers to Alexander Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard (1717) was Judith Cowper’s Abelard to Eloisa (written 1720, published 1728), a poem that retells the story of the ill-fated French medieval lovers, Peter Abelard and Héloise. Replete with Eloisa’s erotic longings, frustration and yearnings both for her lover, Abelard, and God, Pope’s poem especially appealed to readers and writers throughout t…
Anne Conway’s Vitalism
One of the earliest English women writers in the late seventeenth century to take an interest in Vitalist philosophy was Anne Finch, Vicountess Conway (1631–79). Conway’s Prinicipia philosophiae an
A Tale of Two Bigamists
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novel of sensation, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), adapts the earlier novella by Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun, or the Fair Vow-Breaker (1689). Both narratives consider
Laetitia Pilkington’s “ Verses Wrote in a Library ” and the Poetical Imagination”
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
“Consciousness of Right”
Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion (1818), features a heroine in Anne Elliot whose humility, morality, and sense of duty nearly ruin her chances for happiness with Captain Wentworth. Though Anne endures loneliness through years of separation from Wentworth, she upholds ethical principles representing an Enlightenment model of moral action that Austen privileges in all her novels. Persuasion rejects utilitarian 'means-to-an-end' principles that …
Art (5 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (2 works) · Aphra (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Biology (1 work)