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Author(s): Callander, Julia Kark | Advisor(s): Deutsch, Helen E | Abstract: Romantic-period autho... more Author(s): Callander, Julia Kark | Advisor(s): Deutsch, Helen E | Abstract: Romantic-period authors, reviewers, and critics persistently invoked sodomy and cannibalism when criticizing literary ‘perversions,’ the most significant of which was plagiarism. This dissertation accounts for this cluster of associations and elucidates their meaning for the histories of sexuality and authorship more broadly. First, I trace how critical discourse in the Romantic period projected older anxieties about sodomy and other kinds of ‘perverse incorporations’ onto authorship. Second, I contend that features of late eighteenth-century authorship actually prefigure structures integral to modern sexuality. In the eighteenth century, Britons and Americans used authorship as a primary concept with which to articulate the relationships between subjects, between a subject and the public, and between a subject and the law. By the end of the nineteenth century, heterosexuality had taken precedence as the def...
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2014
This essay contends that, in his penultimate Stella poem, Jonathan Swift endorses the redemptive ... more This essay contends that, in his penultimate Stella poem, Jonathan Swift endorses the redemptive power of language and of Christian liturgy in order to imagine his relationship with Stella as symbiotic. Swift not only invokes the Eucharist as a solution to the poem’s thematics of cannibalism but also exploits two formal issues that resemble that same ritual: lyric address and the distance between metaphor and identity. By linking content and form and by recasting dependency and predation as mutuality, Swift transcends the material and economical thinking he perceives as morally bankrupt; in effect, he transforms cannibalism into communion.
Author(s): Callander, Julia Kark | Advisor(s): Deutsch, Helen E | Abstract: Romantic-period autho... more Author(s): Callander, Julia Kark | Advisor(s): Deutsch, Helen E | Abstract: Romantic-period authors, reviewers, and critics persistently invoked sodomy and cannibalism when criticizing literary ‘perversions,’ the most significant of which was plagiarism. This dissertation accounts for this cluster of associations and elucidates their meaning for the histories of sexuality and authorship more broadly. First, I trace how critical discourse in the Romantic period projected older anxieties about sodomy and other kinds of ‘perverse incorporations’ onto authorship. Second, I contend that features of late eighteenth-century authorship actually prefigure structures integral to modern sexuality. In the eighteenth century, Britons and Americans used authorship as a primary concept with which to articulate the relationships between subjects, between a subject and the public, and between a subject and the law. By the end of the nineteenth century, heterosexuality had taken precedence as the def...
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2014
This essay contends that, in his penultimate Stella poem, Jonathan Swift endorses the redemptive ... more This essay contends that, in his penultimate Stella poem, Jonathan Swift endorses the redemptive power of language and of Christian liturgy in order to imagine his relationship with Stella as symbiotic. Swift not only invokes the Eucharist as a solution to the poem’s thematics of cannibalism but also exploits two formal issues that resemble that same ritual: lyric address and the distance between metaphor and identity. By linking content and form and by recasting dependency and predation as mutuality, Swift transcends the material and economical thinking he perceives as morally bankrupt; in effect, he transforms cannibalism into communion.