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Men, women, and not quite non-persons: derivatization in Roxana
(Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2018)
This article argues that Roxana exemplifies a peculiarly modern mode of “derivatization”: a form of “ontological reductionism” articulated by Ann J. Cahill in which individuals are diminished to “the reflection, projection, ...
Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)
Ossian Online is a
project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to
crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known
collectively as the Ossian poems. The
project will ...
For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)
The argument presented by a
scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a
very small group of editors. But is
it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multiple, perhaps
competing, ...
Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the symptoms of subjectivity
(The Eighteenth Century, 2010-12-01)
Proceeding from the academic orthodoxy that the eighteenth-century novel is a key site of the creation of modern subjectivity, this essay examines the representations of authority, morality, and community in Richardson's ...
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)
Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the
literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s
Ossian poems. Many
revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ...
Introduction
(Glyphi, 2012)
Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online
(2014)
James Macpherson s Ossian
poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First
published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly
translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ...
Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition
(2014)
This Digital Demo will present Ossian Online, a social edition of the sequence of
eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of ...
The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection
(2010)
David Lynch has long been identified with 'New American Gothic', a late capitalist cinematography that disrupts the glossy normalcy of the American dream with visions of violent menace, and physical and sexual aberrancy. ...