Recently added articles from CLIO:
The fictional afterlife of Anne Boleyn: how to do things with the Queen, 1901-2006.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Since the 1980s, feminists pondering the historical romance and its immediate cousin, the erotic historical, have complained that even when the heroine is uniquely powerful, "the majority of the novels ... end, as do the traditional formula romances, with either the marriage of the heroine ...
Conscience and the "gentle paines" of reform in A View of the Present State of Ireland.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Literary critics frequently turn to Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596) to illuminate the colonial politics that inform the depiction of justice in Book V of The Faerie Queene (1596)--and rightly so. There are conspicuous similarities between A View's plan for ...
The politics of ambivalence: romance, history, and gender in Mary W. Shelley's Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
Sep 22, 2007; ... I am doomed to a divided existence and I submit. (1) Published in 1830, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's second and last historical romance, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, elicited reviews that questioned not only her legitimacy as a historical romancer, but also the damaging ...
Autobiography, activism, and the carceral: an analysis of the prison writing of Lady Constance Lytton.
Sep 22, 2007; ... The social enemy was transformed into a deviant, who brought with him the multiple danger of disorder, crime, and madness. (1) Documents uncovered at the National Archives reveal that the votes-for-women movement probably became the first "terrorist" organisation subjected to ...
The postmodern enlightenment.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment. By Katerina Deligiorgi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xi + 248 pages. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. By Peter Hanns Reill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. x + 388 pages. The German ...