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The 1890s Woman
Authors: Adams Jad
Published: September 2018

This chapter takes a fresh look at the role of women in the fin de siècle, with a focus on their role in publishing—as authors, as subjects and as editors. It shows that while this industry provided opportunities for women, they were also exploited, and that there was little evidence of female solidarity among the real ‘new women’ of the time. It also emphasises the sexual double-standards that obtained, and the price many women paid for seeking an independent life, noting that while some enjoyed significant professional success, few found lasting personal happiness.
American Nervousness: Motherhood and ‘The Mental Activity of Women’ in the Era of Sexual Anarchy
Authors: Coit Emily
Published: September 2018

This chapter revisits a site of foundational feminist scholarship to ask new questions about gender, class, race, health and motherhood. Examining two iconic fin-de-siècle female writers, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Gilman, it highlights an age-old tension in their work, articulated via contemporary eugenics, between the portrayal of the female body and that of the female intellect. It shows that both writers held antiquated views about female agency that sit uncomfortably with their common association with feminism and modernity.
German and British Sexual Sciences Across Disciplines at the Fin de Siècle: ‘Homosexuals’, ‘Inverts’ and ‘Uranians’
Authors: Linge Ina
Published: September 2018

This chapter re-examines the sexological research in Britain and Germany that has been seen to underpin the new understandings that developed at the time of same-sex desire. It shows the importance of interdisciplinarity to this process, and argues that what is singular at the time is not the dominance of the new quasi-scientific sexology—as earlier historians had argued. Rather, this perspective should be reversed so as to appreciate the formative role of literary and artistic tropes in the creation of that sexology.
The Fin-de-Siècle Detective: ‘But My Job Don’t End There’
Authors: Reitz Caroline
Published: September 2018

This chapter re-examines late nineteenth-century detective fiction. It challenges views of the genre as a conservative phenomenon that reassures its readers by exposing and then vanquishing threats to the social order. Through analysing a range of detective fiction, involving male and female detectives, it highlights the frailties of the specialist knowledge the detective processes, and how it is more often the case that the genre testifies to the inadequacy of professional knowledge to apprehend and control the world, pointing a persisting and threatening sense of violence and social chaos that eludes the detective’s grasp.
Theatres of Terror and Cruelty: From Noise to the Voice
Authors: Collett Guillaume
Published: September 2018

While, for many, Deleuze’s philosophy is synonymous with his concept of the ‘body without organs’, and even though he first explicitly develops this concept in The Logic of Sense, a large part of the present book argues that it is rather the organ-ised body – here figuring specifically as incarnated structure, building explicitly on Leclaire – on which his onto-logic of sense hinges. Nonetheless, this body only emerges later on in the ‘dynamic genesis’, the psychoanalytic portion of The Logic of Sense which provides a psycho-sexual account of language acquisition and of the emergence of sense, and first we must turn to the dis-organ-ised body of Klein and Artaud. In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze develops his conception of the body without organs based on a reading of the work of Antonin Artaud.
What Scottish Diaspora?
Authors: Fitzpatrick David
Published: September 2018

This chapter assesses the case for categorising migration from Scotland as a national ‘diaspora’, rather than a mere sub-stream of British or European migration. Focused on the period of mass migration between the 1850s and the Great War, it places Scottish emigration on a scale stretching between the massive exodus from post-Famine Ireland and the much less intense movement from industrialising England. A number of tests are applied to published studies of the ‘Scottish diaspora’, concerning its magnitude, economic context, ‘national’ character, success (as measured by the economic performance of emigrants), ethnic group-formation in the various countries of settlement, and reverse impact on the homeland. Statistical tables based on published but underused official returns are used to explore issues requiring further analysis. The chapter concludes that Scotland’s claim to a distinctive and coherent national diaspora has yet to be fully tested and vindicated, while declaring that the case has been presented with impressive erudition and panache.
A Closer Look: Kelly Reichardt
Authors: Hall E. Dawn
Published: September 2018

This chapter focuses on Reichardt’s career, definition of success, and specific model of filmmaking. Included is a brief biographical sketch of Reichardt’s life, detailing issues related to family, childhood, education, and other filmmaking experiences in addition to her feature films and shorts. This biography gives way to a discussion of the filmmaker’s experiences in the independent film industry as a woman director and an artist who defines success as controlling her artistic vision. The overview of Reichardt’s early growth and experiences as a student and filmmaker, informs the production details and close readings of her feature films.
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Authors: Bicket Linden
Published: September 2018

For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. Many of these writers trod in the footsteps of Graham Green, Evelyn Waugh and J. R R. Tolkien by converting to Catholicism. This book offers an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. By focussing on one of the best-known of Scotland’s literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the uniquely Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown’s writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown’s corpus, and also discusses the importance of Brown’s unpublished early works, manuscripts and letters. It includes detailed comparisons between Brown’s writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and Flannery O’Connor. Ultimately, this book contextualises Brown’s place within Scottish Catholic writing, while revealing that Brown’s imagination extended far beyond the ‘small green world’ of Orkney, and embraced a universal human experience.
Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British Vogue
Authors: Kalich Natalie
Published: September 2018

This chapter investigates the contributions to modernism of Dorothy Todd’s British Vogue (1922-1926) as the magazine traced the evolution of Bloomsbury in England and the Jazz Age in America. While scholarship on this periodical has traditionally focused on the publication of Bloomsbury artists in the magazine, this chapter examines Todd’s displacement of the high/popular cultural binary through her unflagging support of jazz music and avant-garde literature. Furthermore, in examining Anne Harriet Fish’s and Miguel Covarrubias’s cartoons and illustrations, the chapter reveals the era’s use of visual humour as a means of coping with deeper anxieties regarding women’s increasing independence and the emergence of African-American culture as a fixture in mainstream, American culture. Analysing the construction of the Modern Woman and the New Negro in a commercial magazine demonstrates readers’ initial introduction to Bloomsbury and the Harlem Renaissance, broadening our understanding of modernism’s function in commercial settings.
‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and Eve
Authors: Parkins Ilya
Published: September 2018

This chapter offers a close reading of the work of male writers on feminine beauty in Britannia and Eve, examining how authorial voice functions to make the masculine subject fully present in the magazine even where it is ostensibly marginal; men become the absent presence. The chapter considers these textual representations of feminine beauty against the visual field of the magazine, which, as would be expected, consists almost entirely of images of women: the present presence. It considers the mutually reinforcing effects of the feminization of visual spectacle and the masculinization of text, and how this formal tension might both shape and echo the arguments about women’s beauty being made by male journalists in the magazine.
Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930–40
Authors: Tinkler Penny
Published: September 2018

Interwar working girls’ papers constructed their intended readers as a distinct age-related group in terms of identity, activities and interests. Focusing on Miss Modern, a successful monthly magazine which ran from 1930 to 1940, this chapter looks closely at its construction of youthful feminine modernity, engaging with representations of lifestyle, including consumption, work, appearance, leisure, sociability, romance, and the pursuit of independence. The chapter demonstrates that a nascent teenage identity and lifestyle was cultivated in interwar working girls’ magazines, most notably in Miss Modern, and that the figure of ‘miss modern’ was a precursor to the teenager as imagined in the pages of postwar Honey, Britain’s first glossy teen magazine.
Housekeeping, Citizenship, and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home
Authors: Wood Alice
Published: September 2018

This chapter interrogates the framing of women as citizens through domestic work in two interwar service magazines: Modern Home and Good Housekeeping. It examines their treatment of housekeeping as a skilled occupation, contrasting Modern Home’s portrayal of homemaking as woman’s chief role and service to the nation with Good Housekeeping’s insistence on women’s citizenship within and outside the home. It argues that while both magazines presented nostalgic views of England and Englishness in keeping with a broader middle-class turn towards family and nation in the interwar period, Good Housekeeping also urged its readers to consider their role and responsibilities as homemaker citizens in international terms. This chapter demonstrates the danger of homogenising accounts of interwar service magazines and counters the belief that the home represented a straightforward retreat from society and politics at this time.
Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily Press
Authors: Bingham Adrian
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines the evolution of newspaper women’s pages – spaces designed to entice female readers with features and advice columns on fashion, cookery and domestic life – in the national daily press after 1918. The first section examines how the market leaders, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, modernized and repackaged the traditional content of these pages for a new generation widely deemed to be more independent, demanding and discriminating. The second half explores how three left-of-centre newspapers–the trade-union supporting Daily Herald, the liberal Manchester Guardian, and the Communist Daily Worker–tried to reimagine the women’s pages and domestic life, moving beyond the usual feminine stereotypes. Although none of these titles was entirely successful, the Manchester Guardian set out a model that would provide a lasting and significant space for moderate feminist perspectives across the twentieth century.
Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages, and the Manchester Guardian
Authors: Green Barbara
Published: September 2018

This chapter explores the workings of the innovative “women’s page” of the Manchester Guardian during the interwar period in relation to the contributions of feminist journalist and former suffrage activist Evelyn Sharp. Sharp became a central contributor to feminist interwar debates concerning the meaning of domestic modernity, and she turned feminist attention to women’s domestic lives as well as their professional experiences. Following in the tradition of earlier socialist-feminist women’s pages, the Guardian’s women’s page juxtaposed treatments of expected materials such as cooking, fashion, and housework with essays on politics and feminism, book reviews, and cultural analysis. This chapter traces Sharp’s formal experimentation evidenced in a blending of documentary strategies with fictional ones, particularly in her writings on children and urban childhood.
Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s
Authors: Hackney Fiona
Published: September 2018

The launch of over fifty titles put women and their magazines at the forefront of popular publishing in the interwar years. The buoyant market opened new opportunities for women as writers, on the editorial side, in publicity, art departments, and related areas such as advertising, in order to better ‘appeal to women’ and articulate the ‘woman’s point of view’. Driven by commercial imperatives–women were considered to hold the purse strings of the nation–woman appeal, nevertheless, signalled a more nuanced understanding of female psychology and a gendered perspective on life. This chapter examines how it was constructed in the domestic monthly Modern Woman in the 1920s, and popular weeklies Woman’s Weekly and Woman in the 1930s. It argues that while simultaneously serving to reinforce accepted notions of womanhood, the complex relationship between editorial and advertising produced a hybrid environment in magazines that offered their widening readerships a space to imagine other versions of womanhood which, albeit quietly, challenged established class and gender norms.
Calling the West Indies: Una Marson’s Wireless Black Atlantic
Authors: Whittington Ian
Published: September 2018

As a colonial subject and woman of colour, Una Marson occupies a unique place in the history of wartime broadcasting in Britain. Her weekly programCalling the West Indies began as a “message home” program for Caribbean soldiers stationed in the UK but grew, as the war progressed, into a literary and cultural forum for writers from across the Black Atlantic. Though barred from advocating openly for independence, Marson used her program to promote West Indian cultural autonomy by spotlighting emerging Caribbean literary figures and forging connections with activists and intellectuals from the U.S., Britain, Africa, and elsewhere. Beyond building such transatlantic networks, Calling the West Indies afforded listeners in the Caribbean the first opportunities to hear literature spoken in the West Indian forms of English which Edward Kamau Brathwaite would go on to call “nation language.” By focusing on Marson’s wartime work, this chapter rectifies a persistent tendency, in histories of Caribbean literature and broadcasting, to omit not only the central role played by this progressive feminist intellectual, but also the role of the war itself as catalyst to the postwar literary renaissance in the West Indies.
Coda: Coronation
Authors: Whittington Ian
Published: September 2018

In the years after the war, radio faced a new threat from within Britain, as television rose to become the new dominant channel for the mediation of national culture. This transition is best represented by the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the first national event to draw more television viewers than radio listeners across the country. This double coronation—of monarch and medium—represents not so much the total eclipse of radio as the recalibration of the media ecology, as technologies continued to jostle for primacy in a crowded sensory landscape. For the writers who helped to write the radio war, however, it nonetheless signalled the passing of a moment of cultural primacy for those whose work encompassed the written and the spoken word.
‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and Arrival
Authors: Goldman Jane
Published: September 2018

In this chapter, Jane Goldman focuses on one of the novel’s most direct sentences: ‘The Queen had come’. While this sentence reports the arrival of a Queen, presumably Elizabeth I, it is also an equally direct report of a woman’s orgasm as a fait accompli: ‘vulgar, bawdy, openly celebrating female autoeroticism’, yet ‘coded, cryptic, somehow hidden in plain sight’. Taking the multiple queen figures evoked in this ‘orgasmic feminist Sapphic coup’ as her starting point, Goldman pursues Orlando’s queer and queenly genealogy from Mary, Queen of Scots, via Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein to Woolf’s and Vita Sackville-West’s erotic intimacy.
Orlando, Greece and the Impossible Landscape
Authors: Kolocotroni Vassiliki
Published: September 2018

Tracing the trope of landscape as it appears in Orlando’s experience on Mount Athos – a monastic site upon which women were historically forbidden to trespass – Vassiliki Kolocotroni explores the poet Orlando’s allegorical and pastoral scene-making impulses. Grounded in the thought of classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison, Orlando’s vision of the Greek landscape enacts a feminist transgression, Kolocotroni argues, at the same time as it problematically appropriates this space and the classical past. This chapter thereby highlights Orlando’s ambivalence as ‘emblem of an impossibility, a female creature on a sacred, forbidding all-male space’.
Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in Orlando
Authors: Spiropoulou Angeliki
Published: September 2018

The spectres of past and future imagined literary spaces pervade Angeliki Spiropoulou’s chapter. Drawing on classical and Renaissance constructions of the hero and the poet, Spiropoulou addresses ideas of literary fame and immortality in Orlando. From the caricatured writer Nick Greene, who extols ‘La Gloire’ above material gain while simultaneously seeking patronage, to the gender politics of anonymity and obscurity, Spiropoulou interrogates the traditional ways in which biography builds fame. Her chapter explores the historically bound nuances of writing for glory, and considers Woolf’s own complex relationship to fame in light of Orlando’s popular success.
Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience
Authors: Putzel Steven
Published: September 2018

In this chapter, Steven Putzel introduces Roman Ingarden’s concept of satzdenken – the ‘flow of thinking the sentence’ – to examine the theatricality of Woolf’s sentences. Approaching his selected sentence through audience reception theory, Putzel also engages rich contextual material from Woolf’s preoccupation with Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. His reading historicises textual variants between the first UK and US editions of Orlando, and stages for us his own analytic processing of the sentence – which included consulting the opinion of ‘a few grammarians’, who recommended he ‘rewrite the sentence’.
A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion
Authors: Avery Todd
Published: September 2018

In this chapter, Todd Avery takes the sentence ‘Orlando it seemed had a faith of her own’ as a prompt to explore the many expressions of spirituality and religion in the text. He traces through Orlando an unconventional, anti-institutional form of ‘Woolfian worship’ indebted to Walter Pater’s aestheticism and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Engaging multiple intersections between modernism and theology, Avery argues that ‘the spirituality of Orlando emerges from a deep wonder before the mystery, strangeness, and absurdity of life’. Avery’s reading illuminates the revelatory potential of Woolf’s writing.
The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of Knowledge
Authors: Koppen Randi
Published: September 2018

Calling on thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, George ‘Bishop’ Berkeley and G. E. Moore, Randi Koppen identifies, in this chapter, a Woolfian reading practice that is alert to dense textual allusion. Her chosen sentence prompts examination of the ‘freakish and unequal’ aspects of Orlando and, more specifically, the ‘unequal juxtaposition’ of ‘biscuits and philosophy, Bishop and negress’, in Chapter V. Koppen discusses the manifold allusions encompassed in this sentence – including its dialogue with Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915) – and throws into relief its ‘questions of marriage, of language and what we have in common, but also of the colonial origins of modernist aesthetics and life-styles’.
Guerrilla Filmmaking with Rachid Djaïdani
Authors: Reeck Laura
Published: September 2018

For many years, hexagonal writer-turned-filmmaker Rachid Djaïdani worked and resided outside of the French filmic establishment. With unconventional modes of filming and producing, including not working from a script, Djaïdani produced two guerrilla films that fit within a wave of guerrilla filmmaking in France, specifically his first fiction-feature Rengaine (2012) and his first documentary-feature Encré (2014). These films were self-financed and self-produced; actors were most often non-professional and handpicked from Djaïdani’s family and closest friends; and Djaïdani never received a license to film from the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée. In some ways, his guerrilla filmmaking can be seen to invest the local, skip over the national, and yet nevertheless accede to the global. This chapter asks to what degree Djaïdani complicates cinéma-monde by probing where guerrilla filmmaking and France’s postcolonial ethnic minority filmmakers fit into its purview.
Globalisation, Cinéma-monde and the Work of Abderrahmane Sissako
Authors: Oscherwitz Dayna
Published: September 2018

This chapter compares and contrasts Abderrahmane Sissako’s better-known films with the English-language novels of the Afropolitanism movement, whose African-born characters
all share a familiarity with the realities of the Global North. The chapter further surveys the most celebrated films of the Mauritanian-born, Malian-raised, Russian-trained, French-based director, demonstrating how they dispute the universal narrative on globalisation and concomitantly root themselves in the specific context of francophone Africa. The chapter contains a detailed discussion of La Vie sur terre/Life on Earth (1998, Mali/France/Mauritania), Heremakono/Waiting for Happiness (2002, France/Mauritania), and Timbuktu (2014, Mauritania/France).
Reframing the Alhambra
Authors: Bush Olga
Published: September 2018

The book undertakes an inter-medial approach to the study of the Alhambra, the medieval palatial city built in Granada by the Nasrids, the last Muslim dynasty in the Iberian Peninsula. Its aesthetic principles have been obscured by the lack of relevant texts from the period. The inter-medial approach seeks to overcome that impasse, above all, by bringing new attention to the abundant inscriptions as a much overlooked documentary resource. The poetic epigraphy, in particular, articulates the imaginative processes inherent in the perception and understanding of the architectural spaces. The loss of the furnishings has also posed an obstacle to scholarship, but rather than limit study to today's empty rooms, consideration of extant Nasrid textiles and other luxury objects enables a fuller account of the original integrated aesthetic design. The inter-medial relationships between architecture, inscribed texts and textiles are examined through analysis of little-studied, controversial and enigmatic spaces in the Alhambra, supported by conservation work, contemporary literary theory, and comparative historical contextualization. The book concludes with a study of the one remaining medieval account of a court ceremonial in the Alhambra, which testifies to the inter-medial aesthetic in the context of the politics and ideology of the Nasrid period.
Introduction
Authors: Bush Olga
Published: September 2018

IN THE SUMMER of 1832, the youngest son of Ferdinand VII of Spain (r. 1808 and 1813–33), the infante Francisco de Paula, and his wife Luisa Carlota, made a visit to Granada, and, following hasty efforts to rehabilitate some of the dilapidated precincts, they were lavishly celebrated in the palaces of the Alhambra on the Sabīka hill over-looking the city (...
Addressing the Beholder: The Work of Poetic Inscriptions
Authors: Bush Olga
Published: September 2018

Inscriptions appear on the walls throughout the Alhambra, including verses from the Qurʾān, formulaic phrases and poetry, yet there has been little effort to understand the epigraphy in relation to the architecture and the decorative programs. This chapter argues on both historical and theoretical grounds that the epigraphy in the Alhambra, and above all, the poetic inscriptions, served a vital role as a guide to the aesthetic experience of the Nasrid beholder.
Discussion begins with an overview of the functions of the various epigraphic modes, especially the use of poetic inscriptions in the history of Islamic architecture and luxury objects within a comparative Mediterranean context. The analysis then draws on contemporary literary theory to explain one of the characteristic poetic tropes in the Alhambra, namely prosopopeia, the figure that creates the fiction that an otherwise inanimate object, such as a building, is speaking in the first person. The discussion focuses on the Sala de la Barca, in which the prosopopeia in the poetic inscriptions allows the architecture to address the beholders directly, arresting their movement in this threshold space, and leading them— in the terms of the optical theory examined in chapter one—from perception to cognition.
Graves and Shrines in Medieval Islam: From Pre-Islamic Times to Ibn Taymiyya’s Legacy
Authors: Beránek Ondřej , Ťupek Pavel
Published: September 2018

This chapter provides an overview of the broader context within which debates regarding graves, funeral architecture and ziyāra have taken place. The early Islamic interdictions against certain funerary structures and grave-related rites did not arise in a vacuum. Therefore, the chapter contextualises these debates and the gap that began to emerge between the traditionalists’ (Ahl al-hadith) vision of ideal Islam and the reality of popular Islam. The chapter also offers a detailed focus on the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, as it was his narrative of Islamic history and the ideal Islamic community that inspired later Sunni reformists, among them the Salafis, who sought to defend Islamic identity against the incursion of foreign influences and impurities, be they elements of Christianity, Judaism, syncretism or modernity.
Following Current Paths of Destruction: ISIS and Beyond
Authors: Beránek Ondřej , Ťupek Pavel
Published: September 2018

This chapter outlines the context within which various iconoclastic incidents have taken place in various parts of the Islamic world in recent years. After focusing on ISIS and the massive destruction of funerary monuments for which they have been responsible in Iraq and Syria, with a particular emphasis on Mosul, we deal with similar incidents, especially in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of Africa and central and south Asia.
The Iron Curtain Effect: Nordic Eastern Noir
Authors: Estera Mrozewicz Anna
Published: September 2018

The introduction looks at the importance of geopolitical borders for Nordic cinematic constructions of the neighbouring countries that lay behind the Iron Curtain. Offering an overview of rich depictions of Russia and Eastern Europe from the silent film era to the end of the Cold War, the chapter traces anti-Russian and anti-Soviet sentiment in early Nordic films. The chapter elaborates on the definition of Eastern noir, within the discourse of which Russia is constructed as a crime scene and Russians (Soviets) as threatening the existence of the Nordic subjects. It draws an important distinction between representations of Russia and the other eastern neighbours in Nordic cinemas. Eastern noir is considered in relation to the currently much discussed genre of Nordic noir. The introduction also elaborates on the conceptual frame of border/boundary underlying the book’s main argument, and discusses the research scope and structure of the book.
Beyond Eastern Noir: Toward a New (Cinematic) Space
Authors: Estera Mrozewicz Anna
Published: September 2018

The afterword discusses the Finnish film Sauna which, albeit utilising conventions of the horror genre, makes a powerful breach in the border discourse and disturbs easy dichotomies. The film combines a popular format potentially appealing to a wide audience and complex philosophical content which approaches ‘border’ in a manner typical of weak (rather than dominant) narratives. As such, it represents a rare example of amalgamating various registers, thereby harbouring a potential to transform broader cultural imagination. Both thematically and aesthetically, Sauna makes us rethink the means available for engaging one’s own national, regional and transnational (hi)stories. A similar qualification applies to the films analysed throughout this book, offering a valuable testing ground for what has been defined as boundary discourses, and reaching beyond the paradigm of the Eastern noir.
An Unfinished Story: White’s Fictions of the Self
Authors: Moran Patricia
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines how the consolidation of White’s identity narrative influenced her later novels. Seventeen years separate the publication of White’s first novel from the later three in the series, years in which White revised her imaginative reconstruction of the father-daughter relationship and the family constellation more generally to reflect her now unshakeable conviction that the daughter’s illness develops from her vexed relationship with her father. The later novels thus trace the emergence of ‘schizophrenia’ in White’s protagonist. At the same time, White’s fidelity to her own experiences of illness surfaces in her explorations of depression and mania, providing a hitherto overlooked account of the onset of manic-depressive illness. The fractures that characterise both composition and publication history constitute important sites that reveal the evolution of White’s identity narratives and the subsequent changes in her fictional representations of illness, Catholicism and the father-daughter relationship as well as family dynamics more generally.
New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics and the collection
Authors: Coffman Elizabeth , Stein Erica
Published: September 2018

The chapter tells the history of New Day Films, a film collective founded 1972. Today, New Day is one of the most financially stable nontheatrical distribution collectives in North America, boasting more than 165 members and 1m USD in yearly revenues. Films distributed by the collective have been screened, broadcast and awarded around the workd, studied in media journals, discussed at organised events, showcased in museums and collected by libraries. New Day’s collective (and its collection) provide compelling objects of study for the history of gender and documentary authorship.
More Than One
Authors: Daniel Sharon
Published: September 2018

“This is a multivocal essay. It is an attempt to both describe, and in a sense, embody the philosophy and methodology on which [the author] has built her practice as a new media documentary maker. The first section, The Personal is Political, looks at the relation between politics and aesthetics in conversation with Jacques Rancière, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Gail Vanstone and others. In the remaining four sections, Convictions, Place, Body and Perspective, [the author] uses an essay written by Belgian Art critic, Pieter Van Bogaert, in response to an exhibition of Daniel’s work at STUK Kunstcentrum, as a kind of way-finder to guide [the reader] through a body of work that examines systems of justice and punishment.”
Blogging the Female Self: Authorship, Self-performance and Identity Politics in Fashion Blogs
Authors: Titton Monica
Published: September 2018

The essay analyses fashion blogs as discursive and performative sites for the dissemination and production of fashion and provides a critical analysis of the processes of authorship, identity and persona construction from a feminist perspective. It also traces the recent cultural-historical developments, which have paved the way for the representation of identity and selfhood performed and displayed on fashion blogs. The author discusses continuities and dis-continuities in written and visual female authorship from the 1960s to the present.
Hybrid Practices and Voice Making in Contemporary Female Documentary Film
Authors: Munro Kim
Published: September 2018

This essay discusses how feminist filmmaking techniques embody the explicit construction of identity through a shared and collaborative approach to subject participation and performance in relation to ideas around ‘voice’. It highlights the use of ‘hybrid’ practices and border-crossing in film and art processes. The author shows how strategies of participation and performance allow for non-binary complexities and voice-making to emerge.
‘Reflecting Through Images’: The Documentaries of Mercedes Álvarez
Authors: Ehrlich Linda
Published: September 2018

The author studies Mercedes Álvarez’ hybrid form of the essay film format, and her outright attempt to preserve the collective memory of certain places, through her films. According to the author, Álvarez is ‘conscious of the flow of the diary as one means of revealing a woman’s voice and interior life’. The poignant female gaze and consistency of her work, from a both cinematographic and narrative point of view, indicates that Álvarez fully represents the female auteur.
The Apes of God and the World of the Commedia
Authors: Armond Kate
Published: September 2018

When Sacheverell Sitwell’s Southern Baroque Art was published in 1924 the term ‘baroque’ was still considered a pejorative in Britain, Italy and much of southern Europe, denoting vulgar extravagance and a lack of formal restraint. Sacheverell’s original account of a largely forgotten incarnation of the Italian and Spanish baroque changed this perception of the period dramatically for the well-read British public. His text was at once a critically-acclaimed source for the art-historian and a lyrical, imaginative recreation of the artistic and architectural splendours of Lecce, Noto and Naples and other destinations that Sacheverell and his brother visited in Italy and Spain. I explore the literary techniques and historical sources that led to the book’s particular success, and compare this account of the baroque with the very different approach taken in his later, more factual German Baroque Art. This chapter summarises the ways in which Sacheverell Sitwell’s recreation of the baroque period through the arts, and in particular the Commedia dell’Arte, helped to shape the playful and exclusive Sitwell aesthetic during the 1920s.
Constructing Women’s History in the Lady’s Museum
Authors: Sagal Anna K.
Published: September 2018

Katie Sagal’s essay takes up Charlotte Lennox’s groundbreaking periodical, the Lady’s Museum (1760–1), and shows how it cultivated populations of women as both learners and teachers simultaneously, offering a ‘comprehensive educational recourse’ to all of its readers. The Lady’s Museum, argues Sagal, had a pointedly feminist approach based in its unusual handling of history, which it envisions as enmeshed with the genre of romance. For Lennox, who arranges both available histories by others as well as her own translations of such works as The History of Bianca Capello and the Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, the value of history reading is less for its facts than in the way it can open up new worlds and possibilities to its readers, especially for women and especially when merged with the more frequently feminocentric genre of romance.
Dunton and Singer after the Athenian Mercury: Two Plots of Platonic Love
Authors: Stewart Dustin D.
Published: September 2018

Dustin Stewart revisits the well-known but poorly understood relationship between John Dunton and Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the ‘Pindarick Lady’ whose poetry became a major feature of Dunton’s game-changing Athenian Mercury (1691–7). Rowe’s periodical verse, often downplayed by modern critics, was pivotal in shaping her future fame and career, argues Stewart, as she and Dunton, as well as contemporary figures such as John Norris and Mary Astell, navigated differing views on the theme of ‘Platonick Love.’ Through Dunton, Rowe evolved from reader to periodicalist to poet, making good use of her early work and eventually leaving Dunton behind.
Protesting the Exclusivity of the Public Sphere: Delarivier Manley’s Examiner
Authors: Carnell Rachel
Published: September 2018

The well-known Delarivier Manley quietly took over editorship of the partisan Tory Examiner (1710-14) from Jonathan Swift in 1711, becoming the first woman known to write and edit a political periodical in England. While she did so via the male eidolon that Swift had developed, Rachel Carnell’s sensitive reading of her contributions against Manley’s other work, including the New Atlantis, reveals important divergences from the male-established model: the Tory public sphere Manley allowed herself to imagine was not an idealized or even especially inclusive or just one. Though she was free, writing in masculine periodical mode, to relish mocking the rival Whiggish periodical Medley and Arthur Maynwaring, Manley also registered that public discourse between men had strictures inimical to feminine voices and female friendships.
Travel Writing and Mediation in the Lady’s Magazine: Charting ‘the meridian of female reading’
Authors: DeLucia JoEllen
Published: September 2018

A regular feature of eighteenth-century periodicals, travel narratives allowed magazine readers to imagine their relationship to the world outside of Britain. Via detailed accounts of a range of serialised, excerpted and abridged travel writings in the Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832), JoEllen DeLucia’s essay reveals the role mediation and magazine culture played in producing readers’ sense of women as both self-interested members of the British Empire. Reading texts such as the magazine’s serialisation of Cook’s voyages and the Embassy of Lord Macartney alongside oriental tales and exotic fashion plates, the chapter argues that, on the one hand, travel writing made the world a smaller place, while on the other, its discussions of global politics and theories of good governance, extended the parameters of the feminine sphere. In examining the complex horizontal identifications that magazine travel narratives fostered, DeLucia concludes that women’s magazines present an alternative to the well-worn scripts we have developed about women readers that revolve around the domestic and often very English novel.
John Dunton’s Ladies Mercury and the Eighteenth-Century Female Subject
Authors: Ross Slaney Chadwick
Published: September 2018

Highlighting the role that surveillance culture and rhetoric plays in early periodical writing, Slaney Chadwick Ross argues that women’s surveillance activities and the contributions of female correspondents were a crucial element to the periodical eidolon’s emergent authority. Through the provocative pairing of John Dunton’s Ladies Mercury (1693) with Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s Spectator (1711–12), Ross unspools how conventions of which forms of female representation would come to be championed in periodical culture, arguing in the process that Dunton’s venture was the more radical of the twain. In the Mercury, women are allowed to testify to their own experiences, and they are believed when they do so: this was not at all in keeping with the broader the legal or literary trends that would emerge in the decades that followed.
Conclusion
Authors: Cislaghi Ben
Published: September 2018

The chapter looks at what can be learnt and done using the model of development analysed in the book. It also examines the theoretical and practical implications of an approach such as Tostan’s for indirect development. Most importantly, this chapter details a theory of change that emerged from the analysis in the other chapters (motivation – deliberation – action). In addition, the chapter looks at other programmes, including Abriendo Oportunidades in Guatemala, SASA! In East Africa, and VAMP in India. Their models, field methods, and results are explored and compared with Tostan’s. This comparative analysis offers to the reader solid evidence of the results that indirect development programmes can achieve in various contexts and through various approaches. Finally, the chapter offers to the reader a look into the future, and how advocates for a rapid shift in development practices, calling for implementing genuine people-centred approaches.
Queer Practices, or How to Unmoor Feminism from Liberal Feminism
Authors: Popa Bogdan
Published: September 2018

This introductory chapter clarifies the goals and the method of the book. My claim here is that a genealogical approach pushes political theory away from traditional liberal models about politics. In doing genealogy, I put Jacques Rancière’s work in conversation with queer theory and challenge a liberal feminist conception of shame, which understands shame as being primarily negative and dangerous for politics. In turn, I conceptualize shame as a political act which interrupts a given hierarchy of power and social roles.
Shame as a Line of Escape: Victoria Woodhull, Dispossession, and Free Love
Authors: Popa Bogdan
Published: September 2018

This chapter shows that Judith Butler’s concept of mode of dispossession and Jacques Rancière’s concept of line of escape reframes a traditional understanding about shame's political potential. Shame has the capacity to dispossess, that is, to expose one as defective and vulnerable to critical judgment. On the other hand, shame dispossess not only because it restricts but also because it produces innovative political interventions. To show this potential of shame, I investigate the actions of a nineteenth-century U.S. feminist radical, Victoria Woodhull. Although Woodhull was shamed for her advocacy of free love, she imagined bold and provocative political interventions. Her tactic of political exposures was an innovative tool to contest conventional gender norms in the context of nineteenth-century United States.
Travelling Bioscopes and Borrowed Spaces
Authors: Vélez-Serna María A.
Published: September 2018

In this chapter, Maria Vélez-Serna maps itinerant exhibition practices and the film supply systems that supported them. Focusing mostly on the period before the Cinematograph Act of 1909, but documenting also the survival of travelling exhibition alongside fixed sites, this chapter will discuss fairgrounds, music halls and public halls as the main non-dedicated sites of film exhibition in Scotland.
Making a Living at the Cinema: Scottish Cinema Staff in the Silent Era
Authors: Griffiths Trevor
Published: September 2018

In this chapter, Trevor Griffiths focuses on the people who ran and staffed cinemas and who shaped the experience of going to the cinema. These were not simply the entrepreneurs who owned the cinema or the distribution companies but also the more publicly visible employees of the cinema such as the manager, the ushers and usherettes, the musicians and the projectionists who were central to the experience of going to a show. The chapter charts, through reference to the trade press and trade union records, developments in the employment experience of cinema staffs, and in particular traces the impact of growing levels of unionization and labour militancy from the First World War onwards.
Rob Roy: Britain’s First Feature Film
Authors: Merz Caroline
Published: September 2018

What was the potential for the development of a Scottish film industry? Current histories largely ignore the contribution of Scotland to British film production, focusing on a few amateur attempts at narrative film-making. In this chapter, Caroline Merz offers a richer and more complex view of Scotland’s incursion into film production,. Using a case-study approach, it details a production history of Rob Roy, produced by a Scottish company, United Films, in 1911, indicating the experience on which it drew, placing it in the context of other successful British feature films such as Beerbohm’s Henry VIII, and noting both its success in Australia and New Zealand and its relative failure on the home market faced with competition from other English-language production companies.
Sinn Féin and the IRA
Authors: Whiting Mathew
Published: September 2018

When Sinn Féin and the IRA emerged in Northern Ireland in 1969 they used a combination of revolutionary politics and violence to an effort to overthrow British rule. Today, the IRA is in a state of ‘retirement’, violence is a tactic of the past, and Sinn Féin is a co-ruler of Northern Ireland and an ever growing political player in the Republic of Ireland. This is one of the most startling transformations of a radical violent movement into a peaceful political one in recent times. So what exactly changed within Irish republicanism, what remains the same, and, crucially, what caused these changes? Where existing studies explain the decision to end violence as the product of stalemate or strategic interplay with the British state, this book draws on a wealth of archival material and interviews to argue that moderation was a long-term process of increasing inclusion and contact with political institutions, which gradually extracted moderate concessions from republicanism. Crucially, these concessions did not necessitate republicans forsaking their long-term ethno-national goals. The book also considers the wider implications of Irish republicanism for other cases of separatist conflict, and has significance for the future study of state responses to violent separatism and of comparative peace processes.
Suffragist Artists in Partnership
Authors: Rose Lucy Ella
Published: September 2018

This book explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and the De Morgans: Victorian artists, writers and suffragists. The couples were close friends and collaborators. The study demonstrates how Mary and George Watts, and Evelyn and William De Morgan worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality and female liberation in the nineteenth century. The author traces their relationship to early and more recent feminism, reclaiming them as influential early feminists and reading their works from twentieth-century theoretical perspectives. By focusing on neglected female figures in creative partnerships, the book challenges longstanding perceptions of them as the subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists and of their marriages as representative of the traditional gender binary. This is also the first academic critical study of Mary Watts’s recently published diaries, Evelyn De Morgan’s unpublished writings, and other previously unexplored archival material by the Wattses and the De Morgans. It offers a more nuanced understanding of power relations between the sexes as well as of the relationship between feminism, literature and art in the period.
Evelyn and William De Morgan
Authors: Rose Lucy Ella
Published: September 2018

Chapter 2 focuses on Evelyn and William De Morgan. It explores the feminist dynamics of the couple’s conjugal creative partnership, their professional creative practices, and the ways in which they supported the women’s suffrage movement and women’s liberation more generally. Evelyn De Morgan signed women’s suffrage petitions, and William De Morgan wrote impassioned letters in support of women’s suffrage. Chapters 1 and 2 show how, for both Mary Watts and Evelyn De Morgan, professional creative practices and partnerships were liberatory strategies through which they achieved and promoted greater female emancipation and empowerment. The Wattses and the De Morgans had a shared agenda for greater gender equality and women’s liberation, which they advocated in their visual and literary work. They can thus be reclaimed as early feminists with coinciding socio-political and aesthetic aims.