Trev Lynn Broughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6559637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trev Lynn Broughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trev Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Broughton |
| SIGNATURE | BROUGHTON T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9580-6960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
It is a commonplace of the history of Victorian life-writing that influential commentators in the 1820s and 1830s professed to feeling swamped by a filthy deluge of autobiography. As John Gibson Lockhart fulminated in 1827, faced with a great pile of such works to review, ‘The mania for this garbage of Confessions, and Recollections, and Reminiscences, and Aniliana, “is indeed a vile symptom”’(p. 17). This moment of apparent cultural consensus – …
Victoria’s Victorians
Victoria’s Victorians, or How Contemporariness Strikes
The year 2019 represents a veritable traffic jam of bicentenaries. Not only are we commemorating the birth of Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert, but a range of notabilities, from George Eliot and John Ruskin to Charles Kingsley and Joseph Bazalgette. 1 While we are used to the upsurge of commemoration, republication and renewed scholarly, institutional, and commercial capital that goes into such anniversaries, we might pause to ponder …
Roundtable
Generations
T HE term "generations" is everywhere. Successive demographic cohorts are construed as being in zero-sum competition over authority, airtime, resources, or power. From serious sociological and economic analysis to pop-quiz punditry, it is taken for granted that the idea of a generation is useful. In cultural historiography, too, the term is ascribed explanatory force: first and second generation Romantic poets, "Bloomsbury" defying "Victorian," a…
Promoting a Life
This chapter suggests the ways in which the conjunction between promotion as biographical publicity, self-promotion and career promotion may have been a matter of historically specific struggles over the definition of manliness even, or perhaps especially, when the writers and readers involved were themselves Anglo-Indian officials. It explores evident in the reception of Philip Meadows Taylor&s;s posthumous The Story of My Life . Taylor&s;s Stor…
The Routledge Auto/biography Studies Reader
This collection, which is in part a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Routledge-published journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and the conference at which it was founded, draws liberally on
Life Writing and the Victorians
This chapter uses Margaret Oliphant’s work on a biography of the deposed Church of Scotland preacher Edward Irving (1792–1834) as a case study in the professionalization of Life writing in the nineteenth century. It points to some of the literary developments and fashions that made biography popular despite its tendency to over-respectful, hyper-respectable treatment of its subjects. It charts some of the challenges and opportunities biographical…
Infernal Desires of Angela Carter
The Bengal Obituary
David Arnold has drawn attention to the ways in which accounts of European death in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India, and of what he terms ‘deathscapes’, were put to rhetorical use in narrating, justifying and consecrating the colonial enterprise in the sub-continent. This essay examines a contemporaneous version of the colonial deathscape: the vogue in Calcutta for the collection and circulation of epitaphs and obituaries to Europe…
Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century
Men of Letters, Writing Lives
Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalizati…
Dissonant Voices
This article grows directly from a collaborative project on the pedagogies of women's studies at the College of Ripon and York, and the University of York, and from the presentation given at the Gender and Education conference at the University of Warwick in April 1999. It is presented as a dialogue which polarises two voices considering a variety of positions adopted by tutors of women's studies in relation to their students, and, in particular,…
Birds, Bees, and Hamsters
The Routledge Auto/biography Studies Reader
This collection, which is in part a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Routledge-published journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and the conference at which it was founded, draws liberally on
Dissonant Voices
This article grows directly from a collaborative project on the pedagogies of women's studies at the College of Ripon and York, and the University of York, and from the presentation given at the Gender and Education conference at the University of Warwick in April 1999. It is presented as a dialogue which polarises two voices considering a variety of positions adopted by tutors of women's studies in relation to their students, and, in particular,…
Victoria’s Victorians
Birds, Bees, and Hamsters
Dissonant Voices
This article grows directly from a collaborative project on the pedagogies of women's studies at the College of Ripon and York, and the University of York, and from the presentation given at the Gender and Education conference at the University of Warwick in April 1999. It is presented as a dialogue which polarises two voices considering a variety of positions adopted by tutors of women's studies in relation to their students, and, in particular,…
Men of Letters, Writing Lives
Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalizati…
Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century
The Bengal Obituary
David Arnold has drawn attention to the ways in which accounts of European death in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India, and of what he terms ‘deathscapes’, were put to rhetorical use in narrating, justifying and consecrating the colonial enterprise in the sub-continent. This essay examines a contemporaneous version of the colonial deathscape: the vogue in Calcutta for the collection and circulation of epitaphs and obituaries to Europe…
Life Writing and the Victorians
This chapter uses Margaret Oliphant’s work on a biography of the deposed Church of Scotland preacher Edward Irving (1792–1834) as a case study in the professionalization of Life writing in the nineteenth century. It points to some of the literary developments and fashions that made biography popular despite its tendency to over-respectful, hyper-respectable treatment of its subjects. It charts some of the challenges and opportunities biographical…
Infernal Desires of Angela Carter
Promoting a Life
This chapter suggests the ways in which the conjunction between promotion as biographical publicity, self-promotion and career promotion may have been a matter of historically specific struggles over the definition of manliness even, or perhaps especially, when the writers and readers involved were themselves Anglo-Indian officials. It explores evident in the reception of Philip Meadows Taylor&s;s posthumous The Story of My Life . Taylor&s;s Stor…
The Routledge Auto/biography Studies Reader
This collection, which is in part a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Routledge-published journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and the conference at which it was founded, draws liberally on
Generations
T HE term "generations" is everywhere. Successive demographic cohorts are construed as being in zero-sum competition over authority, airtime, resources, or power. From serious sociological and economic analysis to pop-quiz punditry, it is taken for granted that the idea of a generation is useful. In cultural historiography, too, the term is ascribed explanatory force: first and second generation Romantic poets, "Bloomsbury" defying "Victorian," a…
Victoria’s Victorians
Victoria’s Victorians, or How Contemporariness Strikes
The year 2019 represents a veritable traffic jam of bicentenaries. Not only are we commemorating the birth of Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert, but a range of notabilities, from George Eliot and John Ruskin to Charles Kingsley and Joseph Bazalgette. 1 While we are used to the upsurge of commemoration, republication and renewed scholarly, institutional, and commercial capital that goes into such anniversaries, we might pause to ponder …
Roundtable
The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
It is a commonplace of the history of Victorian life-writing that influential commentators in the 1820s and 1830s professed to feeling swamped by a filthy deluge of autobiography. As John Gibson Lockhart fulminated in 1827, faced with a great pile of such works to review, ‘The mania for this garbage of Confessions, and Recollections, and Reminiscences, and Aniliana, “is indeed a vile symptom”’(p. 17). This moment of apparent cultural consensus – …
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Australian History and Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (3 works) · Biography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)