Meegan Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6625113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meegan Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meegan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9789-6605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Smile or weep even in the social circle’
‘Stanhope’ viewers are optical bijoux most popular in the 1860s, when they were first mass-produced in France, although they were widely available in Britain. These small novelty items contained a microscopic photograph (microphotograph) that could only be viewed or indeed seen through a tiny cylindrical magnifying lens, which was often hidden in the design of the object. Stanhopes were developed in the context of a rich media ecology. They draw …
Diagnosis
The trope of critical reading as diagnosis draws on health humanities scholarship to enable responsive, collaborative readings that pair attention to form (symptoms and signs) with a meticulous address to how author, publisher, text, and reader co-create diverse strands of meaning within different settings. This model can assess how most Victorian texts feature a spectrum of overlapping literary genres, and how these genres are formed in the work…
Tono-Bungay and Burroughs Wellcome
H. G. Wells's 1908 novel Tono-Bungay is a remarkable concoction, binding together characters and setting out of Dickens, sparkling imitations of fin-de-siécle commodity culture and new media, bitter social satire inflected by Wells's socialism, fascination with invention and flight, and murderous imperial adventure. Readers, though often seduced by the wit and precision of Wells's depiction of patent medicines and their advertisements, have not k…
Open Annotation and Close Reading the Victorian Text
Observers of the digital humanities often see them as shifting literary study away from close reading. However, the digital humanities also present opportunities to refine our capabilities for close reading. These digital reading tools, often useful to scholars, may be just as helpful in the classroom. Students working on long Victorian texts often resist close reading. Ideally, they will have multiple low-pressure opportunities to practice this …
Let Me Die in Your House”
This essay examines the prevalence of a romantic discourse (e.g., associated with the genre of romance) in nineteenth-century British treatises on diseases of the heart. The nineteenth century brought remarkable changes to cardiac medicine, from the stethoscope to the sphygmograph, rendering medical practice increasingly clinical. However, case histories of cardiac disorders from this period maintain a surprising frequency of three affective elem…
Modernist Autobiography, Hysterical Narrative, and the Unnavigable River
Modernist Autobiography, Hysterical Narrative, and the Unnavigable River:The Case of Freud and H.D. Meegan Kennedy (bio) The Freudian case history, which reads the history of the self as the history of a psyche, offers a useful model of autobiographical narrative. This essay examines Freud's famous case history of "Dora" as a context for H.D.'s memoir Tribute to Freud. Freud's portrait in Dora of what scholars now call "hysterical narrative" has …
Fictions of Affliction
Reviewed by: Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture Meegan Kennedy (bio) Martha Stoddard Holmes . Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 228 pp. Hardcover, $65.00. Martha Stoddard Holmes's Fictions of Affliction can best be described as an attempt to dismantle our ability to uncritically accept "disability" as such by focusing our attention on its …
The Ghost in the Clinic
I N 1856, WHEN MANY VICTORIAN PHYSICIANS WERE STRUGGLING TO DEFINE A MODEL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE , the reviewer of one collection of case histories voiced his dismay at the physician-author's preference for “dreadful incidents” and “cases exceptional and strange” (“Works” 473). Indeed, although physicians of the clinical era did not disguise their efforts to achieve a new kind of discourse, productive of a “realist” vision, few acknowledge how oft…
Open Annotation and Close Reading the Victorian Text
Observers of the digital humanities often see them as shifting literary study away from close reading. However, the digital humanities also present opportunities to refine our capabilities for close reading. These digital reading tools, often useful to scholars, may be just as helpful in the classroom. Students working on long Victorian texts often resist close reading. Ideally, they will have multiple low-pressure opportunities to practice this …
The Ghost in the Clinic
I N 1856, WHEN MANY VICTORIAN PHYSICIANS WERE STRUGGLING TO DEFINE A MODEL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE , the reviewer of one collection of case histories voiced his dismay at the physician-author's preference for “dreadful incidents” and “cases exceptional and strange” (“Works” 473). Indeed, although physicians of the clinical era did not disguise their efforts to achieve a new kind of discourse, productive of a “realist” vision, few acknowledge how oft…
The Ghost in the Clinic
I N 1856, WHEN MANY VICTORIAN PHYSICIANS WERE STRUGGLING TO DEFINE A MODEL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE , the reviewer of one collection of case histories voiced his dismay at the physician-author's preference for “dreadful incidents” and “cases exceptional and strange” (“Works” 473). Indeed, although physicians of the clinical era did not disguise their efforts to achieve a new kind of discourse, productive of a “realist” vision, few acknowledge how oft…
Fictions of Affliction
Reviewed by: Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture Meegan Kennedy (bio) Martha Stoddard Holmes . Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 228 pp. Hardcover, $65.00. Martha Stoddard Holmes's Fictions of Affliction can best be described as an attempt to dismantle our ability to uncritically accept "disability" as such by focusing our attention on its …
Modernist Autobiography, Hysterical Narrative, and the Unnavigable River
Modernist Autobiography, Hysterical Narrative, and the Unnavigable River:The Case of Freud and H.D. Meegan Kennedy (bio) The Freudian case history, which reads the history of the self as the history of a psyche, offers a useful model of autobiographical narrative. This essay examines Freud's famous case history of "Dora" as a context for H.D.'s memoir Tribute to Freud. Freud's portrait in Dora of what scholars now call "hysterical narrative" has …
Let Me Die in Your House”
This essay examines the prevalence of a romantic discourse (e.g., associated with the genre of romance) in nineteenth-century British treatises on diseases of the heart. The nineteenth century brought remarkable changes to cardiac medicine, from the stethoscope to the sphygmograph, rendering medical practice increasingly clinical. However, case histories of cardiac disorders from this period maintain a surprising frequency of three affective elem…
Open Annotation and Close Reading the Victorian Text
Observers of the digital humanities often see them as shifting literary study away from close reading. However, the digital humanities also present opportunities to refine our capabilities for close reading. These digital reading tools, often useful to scholars, may be just as helpful in the classroom. Students working on long Victorian texts often resist close reading. Ideally, they will have multiple low-pressure opportunities to practice this …
Tono-Bungay and Burroughs Wellcome
H. G. Wells's 1908 novel Tono-Bungay is a remarkable concoction, binding together characters and setting out of Dickens, sparkling imitations of fin-de-siécle commodity culture and new media, bitter social satire inflected by Wells's socialism, fascination with invention and flight, and murderous imperial adventure. Readers, though often seduced by the wit and precision of Wells's depiction of patent medicines and their advertisements, have not k…
Diagnosis
The trope of critical reading as diagnosis draws on health humanities scholarship to enable responsive, collaborative readings that pair attention to form (symptoms and signs) with a meticulous address to how author, publisher, text, and reader co-create diverse strands of meaning within different settings. This model can assess how most Victorian texts feature a spectrum of overlapping literary genres, and how these genres are formed in the work…
‘Smile or weep even in the social circle’
‘Stanhope’ viewers are optical bijoux most popular in the 1860s, when they were first mass-produced in France, although they were widely available in Britain. These small novelty items contained a microscopic photograph (microphotograph) that could only be viewed or indeed seen through a tiny cylindrical magnifying lens, which was often hidden in the design of the object. Stanhopes were developed in the context of a rich media ecology. They draw …
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