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Romanticism and the Emotions, 2014
CR: The New Centennial Review, 2011
European Romantic Review, 2010
This article begins as an improvisation on terms developed in Hannah Arendt’s collection Men in D... more This article begins as an improvisation on terms developed in Hannah Arendt’s collection Men in Dark Times. Dark times for Arendt signal disastrous conditions under which life and the ideas about such a life remain invisible or obscure. Lives led under dark times are marked by a resistance to public declaration and display, and they are intelligible only in terms
Criticism, 2005
There is nothing I shrink from more fearfully than publicity—I have too much of it—& what is ... more There is nothing I shrink from more fearfully than publicity—I have too much of it—& what is worse I am forced by my hard situation to meet it in a thousand ways—Could you write my husband’s life, without naming me it were something—but even then I should be terrified at the rouzing the slumbering voice of the public—each critique, each mention of your work, might drag me forward . . . now that I am alone in the world, [I] have but the desire to wrap night and the obscurity of insignificance around me. This is weakness—but I cannot help it—to be in print—the subject of men’s observations—of the bitter hard world’s commentaries, to be attacked or defended!—this ill becomes one who knows how little she possesses worthy to attract attention—and whose chief merit— if it be one—is a love of that privacy, which no woman can emerge from without regret . . . But remember, I pray for omission—for it is not that you will not be too kind too eager to do me more than justice—But I only seek to be forgotten. Mary Shelley
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, 2008
Romanticism and the Emotions, 2014
CR: The New Centennial Review, 2011
European Romantic Review, 2010
This article begins as an improvisation on terms developed in Hannah Arendt’s collection Men in D... more This article begins as an improvisation on terms developed in Hannah Arendt’s collection Men in Dark Times. Dark times for Arendt signal disastrous conditions under which life and the ideas about such a life remain invisible or obscure. Lives led under dark times are marked by a resistance to public declaration and display, and they are intelligible only in terms
Criticism, 2005
There is nothing I shrink from more fearfully than publicity—I have too much of it—& what is ... more There is nothing I shrink from more fearfully than publicity—I have too much of it—& what is worse I am forced by my hard situation to meet it in a thousand ways—Could you write my husband’s life, without naming me it were something—but even then I should be terrified at the rouzing the slumbering voice of the public—each critique, each mention of your work, might drag me forward . . . now that I am alone in the world, [I] have but the desire to wrap night and the obscurity of insignificance around me. This is weakness—but I cannot help it—to be in print—the subject of men’s observations—of the bitter hard world’s commentaries, to be attacked or defended!—this ill becomes one who knows how little she possesses worthy to attract attention—and whose chief merit— if it be one—is a love of that privacy, which no woman can emerge from without regret . . . But remember, I pray for omission—for it is not that you will not be too kind too eager to do me more than justice—But I only seek to be forgotten. Mary Shelley
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, 2008