Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2019.73.4.569
Oscar Wilde
B a r o n , S a b r i n a A l c o r n , E r i c N. L i n d q u i s t , and E l e a n o r F. S h e v l i n , eds. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, in association with The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2007. Pp. xii 442. $80 cloth; $29.95 paper.
B a r o n、S a B r i n a a l c o r n、E r i c n.l i n d q u i S t和E l E a n o r F.S h E v l i n编辑。《变革的代理人：伊丽莎白·l·艾森斯坦之后的印刷文化研究》。印刷文化与丛书史研究。阿默斯特和波士顿：马萨诸塞大学出版社，与美国国会图书馆图书中心合作，2007年。第xii 442页$80块布$29.95论文。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2022.76.4.427
W. Bond
William Bond, “Love the Live Oak: Sidney Lanier’s Ecopoetics and the Critique of Mediation” (pp. 427–454) Sidney Lanier’s poetry has long been read as an exercise in the poetics of pure sound (and as either an escape from or an affront to a poetics of subjective lyric expression). As this essay shows, in an early phase of Lanier’s poetic career, his poetics of pure sound is tied to a late-Romantic form of nature poetry, which anticipates the new materialist ecotheory of the twenty-first century: specifically, in the 1872 essay “Nature-Metaphors,” Lanier lays out a model of nature poetry founded on the belief that poetic form can embody an ontological continuity between human and nonhuman being. This essay argues that Lanier’s ontological model of ecopoetics negates the need for mediation in the experience of nature. This is, at bottom, a fantasy of immediacy that demands the erasure of human-nonhuman difference. In the final section of the essay, Lanier’s last poem “Sunrise” is examined; there, we can see Lanier outlining an alternative ecopoetics that, rather than trying to circumvent poetic mediation, relocates it within experiences of rhythm.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.396
Denise Gigante
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.388
S. Roberts
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.321
Michael Vignola
Michael Vignola, “Anthony Trollope’s Leap in the Dark: The Temporality of Victorian Political Reform and Victorian Women’s Suffrage” (pp. 321–353) Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn (1867; 1869) depicts the seminal expansion of democracy under the Second Reform Act, an event that had yet to conclude when he finished composing the novel. This unique circumstance gives rise in the novel to anticipations that await real-world contingencies to become legible. Phineas Finn’s thick particularities thus bring into focus the temporality of reform characterized by the indeterminacy encoded in the phrase “a leap in the dark.” Attention to the circulation of the phrase and its evocation in Phineas Finn reveals the centrality of women’s suffrage to the project of democratic reform, particularly in its promise to realign the boundaries of political and private life.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.263
Danny Luzon
Danny Luzon, “The Language of Transcendentalism: Mysticism, Gender, and the Body in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite” (pp. 263–290) This essay studies the idea of a “third” sex adapted by Julia Ward Howe and other American transcendentalists from the language and theology of European mysticism. It explores Howe’s design of a nonbinary gender category through her dialogue with the figure of the hermaphrodite in the mystic tradition. Specifically, I look at Howe’s unfinished “Laurence manuscript” (written throughout the 1840s and first published in 2004 under the title The Hermaphrodite), tracing how it gives shape to unique intersex modes of knowledge and expression. The novel’s intersex protagonist, who repeatedly claims “I am no man, no woman, nothing,” allows Howe to productively utilize a language of negation and multiplicity, making the apophatic quality of mystic speech, as well as her protagonist’s denial of intelligibility, into a means of spiritual transcendence. In doing so, Howe marks gender categories as dwelling beyond social expression, away from phallocentric discursive constraints and their production of fixed dualistic concepts. Her mystic phenomenology elucidates the indeterminacy of gender, revealing it as something that cannot be adequately conceptualized in language. Howe’s prose thus produces complex dynamics between the spirit and the flesh, in order to free both the self and the body from the sociolinguistic restrictions of social intelligibility.
Danny Luzon，“超验主义的语言：Julia Ward Howe的《Hermachrodite》中的神秘主义、性别和身体”（第263–290页）本文研究了Julia Ward Howe和其他美国超验主义者从欧洲神秘主义的语言和神学中改编的“第三”性的概念。通过与神秘传统中的两性人形象的对话，探讨了豪对非二元性别范畴的设计。具体来说，我看了豪未完成的《劳伦斯手稿》（写于19世纪40年代，2004年首次出版，标题为《爱马佛洛狄》），追溯了它是如何形成独特的双性人知识和表达模式的。小说中的双性人主人公一再声称“我不是男人，不是女人，什么都不是”，这让豪有效地利用了一种否定和多样性的语言，使神秘主义言论的极端品质，以及主人公对可理解性的否认，成为一种精神超越的手段。在这样做的过程中，豪将性别类别标记为超越社会表达，远离以阴茎为中心的话语限制及其固定的二元概念的产生。她的神秘现象学阐释了性别的不确定性，将其揭示为语言中无法充分概念化的东西。因此，豪的散文在精神和肉体之间产生了复杂的动态，以将自我和身体从社会可理解性的社会语言学限制中解放出来。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.354
Erik Fredner
Erik Fredner, “Hamlin Garland’s ‘Problem of Individual Life’” (pp. 354–383) This essay returns to the problem of representativeness in politically committed literature by analyzing Hamlin Garland’s advocacy for Henry George’s single tax in three different forms: Garland’s most famous short story (“Under the Lion’s Paw” [1889]), a dramatization of that story’s core themes (Under the Wheel [1890]), and a novelization of that drama (Jason Edwards: An Average Man [1892]). As Garland attests in his autobiography, the conclusion of George’s treatise Progress and Poverty (1879), which considers the possibilities for collective action despite what George calls “The Problem of Individual Life,” inspired Garland’s political message as well as his method of representation. After several prior attempts to balance his work’s “reform motive” with its “art motive,” Garland ultimately uses the emerging concept of the “average person” to address the problem of representativeness. By considering the aesthetic and political transformations that led from “Under the Lion’s Paw” to Jason Edwards, this essay reframes the problem of representativeness in nineteenth-century literature in relation to the rising centrality of statistical thinking.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.391
D. Emerson
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2021.76.3.291
M. A. Miller
Margaret A. Miller, “George Eliot’s Wetland Form” (pp. 291–320) This essay relies on the 1747 Lincolnshire bog-woman and her porosity of bodily boundaries as a useful heuristic to historicize the ontological unity between gender unconformity and the environment. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860), which shares its setting with the Lincolnshire bog-woman, is a novel of wetlands and women, of gender and drainage, and of femininity and floods. This essay reads the novel’s bog-women, including protagonist Maggie Tulliver and an oft-forgotten minor character, the widowed Mrs. Sutton, alongside nineteenth-century agricultural records of Lincolnshire, including manuals on the locally specific land-improvement technique—warping—used to drain the county’s various wetlands. In doing so, the essay argues that The Mill on the Floss reveals land improvement, particularly the postenclosure acts of drainage and warping, as a negative form for female Bildung. In negotiating how to write female development within a patriarchal society, Eliot exposes the violent limitations that ideas of arbitrarily redefining and reclaiming environments as arable and usable “land” during an era of enclosure and nascent global capitalism impose upon female futurity. Ultimately, Maggie’s alignment with wetland ecologies renders her an anachronistic figure of a preindustrial, predrainage past. In a present climate crisis moment of increased urgency to restore wetlands worldwide for their carbon storage capacities, what does it mean to read Maggie’s story not in spite of her death and foreshortened life, but instead as that of an incipient bog-woman who refuses to be drained?
Margaret A.Miller，“乔治·艾略特的湿地形式”（第291–320页）本文以1747年林肯郡沼泽地妇女及其身体边界的多孔性为基础，将性别不整合与环境之间的本体论统一历史化。乔治·艾略特（George Eliot）的《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》（The Mill on The Floss）（1860年）与林肯郡的沼泽地女性有着共同的背景，是一部关于湿地和女性、性别和排水、女性气质和洪水的小说。这篇文章阅读了小说中的沼泽妇女，包括主人公玛吉·图利弗和一个经常被遗忘的次要角色，寡居的萨顿夫人，以及林肯郡19世纪的农业记录，包括当地特有的土地改良技术——翘曲——的手册，该技术用于排水该县的各种湿地。在这样做的过程中，文章认为，《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》揭示了土地改良，特别是围封后的排水和翘曲行为，是女性粪便的一种负面形式。在协商如何在父权制社会中书写女性发展的过程中，艾略特揭露了在封闭和新生的全球资本主义时代，任意将环境重新定义和开垦为可耕地和可用的“土地”的想法对女性未来的暴力限制。最终，Maggie与湿地生态的一致性使她成为了一个前工业化、暴雨前的时代人物。在当前的气候危机时刻，恢复全球湿地的碳储存能力变得越来越紧迫，读玛吉的故事意味着什么？不考虑她的死亡和缩短的生命，而是读一个拒绝排水的初入沼泽的女人的故事？
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