Mary A Favret
Biographic Data
| ID | 955648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary A Favret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary A |
| FAMILY NAME | Favret |
| SIGNATURE | FAVRET M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How The Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) presented an engraving of a bookworm, a creature who devoured books and already figured the avid reader. The image launches a history of efforts to render visible—empirically verifiable—the bookworm. Repeatedly, the effort fails: Hooke is not the last to claim that he captured the critter, nor the last to mistake what he finds (his is a silverfish). Traces of devoured books appeared in every library, but what di…
Afterword
Research Article| September 01 2020 Afterword Mary A. Favret Mary A. Favret Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 160–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8718710 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary A. Favret; Afterword. Eighteenth-Century Life 1 September 2020; 44 (3): 160–164. doi: https://doi.…
The Study of Affect and Romanticism
What follows is a review essay in two parts: the first, a consideration of the general problem affect poses for literary criticism and for romantic studies in particular; the second a review of some recent, outstanding work on affect and its significance to Romanticism. The problem of affect derives primarily from the difficulty of defining or locating affect and from its equivocal relationship to modern science – as both an object of scientific …
The First TotalWar
Jane Austen at 25
Research Article| March 01 2008 Jane Austen at 25: A Life in Numbers Mary A. Favret Mary A. Favret Indiana University, Bloomington [email protected] Mary A. Favret teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she works primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Her publications include several essays on Jane Austen as well as the book, Romantic Correspondence; Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge UP, 1993)…
Everyday War
The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them. Or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess. (and thus which possesses them) —Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History1 In her novel Persuasion, Jane Austen offers up symptoms of a history not entirely possessed. The past presented in the novel is incomplete, interrupted. Over the narrative hangs the unaccounta…
Romantic Correspondence
Preface: The Public Letter, or 'La Lettre Perfide' 1. History and the fiction of letters 2. Letters or letters politics, interception and spy fiction 3. Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history 4. Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters 5. Jane Austen and the look of letters 6. The letters of Frankenstein Conclusion: the death of the letter-fiction, the Post Office and 'The English Mail Coach' List of works cited
Romantic Correspondence
Romantic Correspondence
The Contours of Masculine Desire
Romantic Correspondence
Preface: The Public Letter, or 'La Lettre Perfide' 1. History and the fiction of letters 2. Letters or letters politics, interception and spy fiction 3. Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history 4. Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters 5. Jane Austen and the look of letters 6. The letters of Frankenstein Conclusion: the death of the letter-fiction, the Post Office and 'The English Mail Coach' List of works cited
Everyday War
The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them. Or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess. (and thus which possesses them) —Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History1 In her novel Persuasion, Jane Austen offers up symptoms of a history not entirely possessed. The past presented in the novel is incomplete, interrupted. Over the narrative hangs the unaccounta…
The Study of Affect and Romanticism
What follows is a review essay in two parts: the first, a consideration of the general problem affect poses for literary criticism and for romantic studies in particular; the second a review of some recent, outstanding work on affect and its significance to Romanticism. The problem of affect derives primarily from the difficulty of defining or locating affect and from its equivocal relationship to modern science – as both an object of scientific …
The Contours of Masculine Desire
Romantic Correspondence
Romantic Correspondence
Romantic Correspondence
Preface: The Public Letter, or 'La Lettre Perfide' 1. History and the fiction of letters 2. Letters or letters politics, interception and spy fiction 3. Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history 4. Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters 5. Jane Austen and the look of letters 6. The letters of Frankenstein Conclusion: the death of the letter-fiction, the Post Office and 'The English Mail Coach' List of works cited
Everyday War
The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them. Or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess. (and thus which possesses them) —Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History1 In her novel Persuasion, Jane Austen offers up symptoms of a history not entirely possessed. The past presented in the novel is incomplete, interrupted. Over the narrative hangs the unaccounta…
Jane Austen at 25
Research Article| March 01 2008 Jane Austen at 25: A Life in Numbers Mary A. Favret Mary A. Favret Indiana University, Bloomington [email protected] Mary A. Favret teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she works primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Her publications include several essays on Jane Austen as well as the book, Romantic Correspondence; Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge UP, 1993)…
The Study of Affect and Romanticism
What follows is a review essay in two parts: the first, a consideration of the general problem affect poses for literary criticism and for romantic studies in particular; the second a review of some recent, outstanding work on affect and its significance to Romanticism. The problem of affect derives primarily from the difficulty of defining or locating affect and from its equivocal relationship to modern science – as both an object of scientific …
The First TotalWar
How The Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) presented an engraving of a bookworm, a creature who devoured books and already figured the avid reader. The image launches a history of efforts to render visible—empirically verifiable—the bookworm. Repeatedly, the effort fails: Hooke is not the last to claim that he captured the critter, nor the last to mistake what he finds (his is a silverfish). Traces of devoured books appeared in every library, but what di…
Afterword
Research Article| September 01 2020 Afterword Mary A. Favret Mary A. Favret Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 160–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8718710 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary A. Favret; Afterword. Eighteenth-Century Life 1 September 2020; 44 (3): 160–164. doi: https://doi.…
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