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Introduction
Authors: Withers Jeremy
Published: January 2021

For the May 1967 issue of Analog, the influential science fiction magazine that began under the name Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930, editor (and sometimes author) John W. Campbell, Jr. composed an editorial titled ‘The Safest Form of Transportation.’ Campbell wrote the editorial, he tells us, in the days immediately following the Apollo 1 disaster, an incident that occurred on January 27, 1967, in which a cabin fire broke out in a space module as it sat on the ground during a launch rehearsal test. Three NASA astronauts were trapped inside the module and killed by the fire. Campbell, concerned that this disaster might halt subsequent development of human space flight programs, opens his editorial by brazenly declaring: ‘As of January 30th, 1967 travel by spaceship retains its unblemished record as the safest known form of travel; in hundreds of millions of miles of travel, not one person has been killed or injured.’...
Perfectibility and Techno-Optimism in the Pulp Era
Authors: Withers Jeremy
Published: January 2021

This chapter focuses on the pulp era (c. 1926-1940) of American science fiction and explores how a distinct techno-optimism dominated this era. This pulp era optimism is best exemplified by the influential editor Hugo Gernsback and the magazines he started: Amazing Stories and Wonder Stories. However, this chapter argues that many writers who appeared in Gernsback’s magazines stridently condemned the automobiles of their own time. Where their technological optimism manifests itself, then, is in their belief that the automobile is not worthy of abandonment and that a certain perfectibility resides in the machine.
Staying Mobile in Postapocalyptic Cli-Fi
Authors: Withers Jeremy
Published: January 2021

This chapter examines how the rising popularity since the 1990s of works of postapocalyptic cli-fi (i.e. climate change fiction) has provided science fiction writers a convenient opportunity to explore issues of mobility and transportation. After first examining an early postapocalyptic cli-fi work from the 1990s by Octavia E. Butler, the chapter then advances this book’s chronological analysis to some twenty-first century works of science fiction. In its discussion of a novel by Paolo Bacigalupi and one by Benjamin Parzybok, this chapter shows how more restrained modes of transport play a vital role during times of apocalypse in keeping a society functioning and keeping us as individuals from slipping into disempowerment.
Kids on Bikes in Twenty-First-Century Nostalgia Science Fiction
Authors: Withers Jeremy
Published: January 2021

This final chapter focuses on one of the most recent and most popular trends happening right now in science fiction, the rise of a decidedly nostalgic form of science fiction. In particular, the trend examined in this chapter is one called ‘1980s-nostalgia science fiction’ and is made up of science fiction literary and screen texts from c. 2010-present that exhibit a profound fondness for or interest in the American 1980s. The three nostalgia texts that comprise the focus of this chapter are Super 8, Stranger Things, and Paper Girls. After first discussing what is one of the most influential texts for this 1980s-nostalgia science fiction – Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra Terrestrial – this chapter then analyzes how these nostalgia texts align themselves with Spielberg’s blockbuster film by demonizing motorized transport while simultaneously exalting the bicycle.
‘Lorca, I’m Really Gonna Miss Killing You’
Authors: Böhlau Sarah
Published: January 2021

While time travel as a narrative device has been firmly entrenched in popular culture since the late 19th century, its sub-trope, the time loop, has been largely neglected until the 1990s. Star Trek, never a franchise to shy away from bold narrative tools, first introduced a time loop in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Cause and Effect” (1992). Since then, the trope has become a well-known storytelling device, especially within the realms of science fiction television series. A time loop occurs when the temporal fabric of a narrative world enfolds one or several characters in a recurring circular loop, while for the rest of the story world, time flows in its natural direction. Most crucial in many of these narratives is the question of emotional development and human connection, both equally enabled and denied by the time loop. This is also the case in Discovery’s seventh episode “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” (2017). This chapter looks at the episode, at the special narrative space created by the time loop, the counterfactuals it generates, and the emotional development it affords to the characters trapped inside – and outside.
The Cotton-Gin Effect
Authors: Peterson Whit Frazier
Published: January 2021

This chapter looks at the new television series Star Trek: Discovery, and investigate the troubling relationship Gabriel Lorca has with women of colour, particularly Michael Burnham. It specifically wants to analyse Lorca’s sense of propriety over the black body, one with a history that goes back to slavery, and that manifests itself here not only across time, but across alternate universes as well. It argues that the fact that certain assumptions about white male privilege manage to cross time, space and alternate universes in a series that successfully upends and criticizes many other racist and sexist tropes says a lot about how much room there is for us to examine aspects of our culture we accept uncritically. This chapter shows that afrofuturism as a critical approach is a strong tool for interrogating our cultural products and our cultural moment(s), past, present and future.
Introduction
Authors: Singer Kate , Cross Ashley , Barnett Suzanne L.
Published: January 2021

Building on Romantic scholarship that has opened the door to more capacious understandings of materiality that rethink the subject-object opposition of cultural materialism, the introduction makes the case that Romantic-era writers were, like us, material creatures living in an emphatically material world. In the perfect storm of historical and cultural changes in gender and sexuality, print culture, and science, Romantic writers sought alternative ways to explain materiality as fluid, unstable, and affective in order to challenge cultural narratives that insisted on notions of discrete sexed bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. The introduction establishes a literary, critical, historical, and theoretical context for reading texts, bodies, things, and language as transgressive materialities that entangle with and alter the matters of the world, as they move across prescribed limits and braid together mobile forms of affect, embodiment, and discursivity. To help uncover this dynamic materiality in Romantic-era texts, the introduction provides a primer on new materialism and offers it as theoretical model and praxis. The collection, the editors conclude, not only reveals a new materialist imaginary for Romanticism but also unveils material transgressions that alter new materialism’s often strictly ontological approach.
Hester Stanhope, ‘Un être à part’
Authors: Heydt-Stevenson Jillian
Published: January 2021

Hester Stanhope rethought tenets of Enlightenment and Sensibility that defined women at the mercy of biologically sexed bodies. Expected to marry for money and status, she left England to live independently in the Middle East, assuming agency in Syria as a warrior, tourist attraction, politician, and anchorite sibyl. She cross-dressed as a Turk and a Bedouin man, influenced Ottoman and tribal politics, took lovers, ruled the Syrians in her territory, accessed both male and female worlds, and enjoyed a liberty forbidden to women on British and Syrian grounds. Stanhope’s fluidity is apparent in multiple sources: accounts of travelers who visited her, her own letters, and the Memoirs of her physician Charles Meryon, wherein he quotes her correspondence (censored) and her conversations with him and others. Each genre—the letter, the memoir, and the travel account—creates a heroic persona for her. Two other phenomena add to these metafictional complexities: first, the competition between Stanhope’s and Meryon’s stories, and second, the filters of gender and class prejudice through which he views Stanhope. Such indeterminacy invites the question of how she both is and is not a speaking subject and of how these representations limit our interpretations of her and her actions.
Voices against the Universe
Authors: Lussier Mark
Published: January 2021

In William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion, when Oothoon finds her voice and re/fuses to function as the mirror of male desire, her heroics are undertaken against the backdrop of the baleful and jaundiced eye of patriarchal ideology. She thereafter moves into a free-flowing form of lamentation that articulates a transgressive poetics of self-assertion and self-determination. Oothoon’s voice goes unheeded (except by the daughters of Albion), yet her determination to arise daily and articulate the lamentative argument anew manifests the quiet heroism of everyday life. Oothoon’s act of assertion establishes, at the beginning of the prophecies, a model emulated by other female characters, with the female voice of semiosis providing a counter expression to the relentless monological language of the symbolic and all that it bears/bares. In Visions, the activity that Britta Timm Knudson and Carsten Stage term “affective textuality” is evident in its entangled force fields of semiosis, with the title plate and the frontispiece registering the split operations of what Lacan termed “The eye and the gaze.” The under analyzed visual field of Visions provides insight into the Blakean attempt through textual experimentation to render affect itself into a material condition of his textuality.
Hazlitt, Napoleon, and Literary Disinterestedness
Authors: Hunnekuhl Philipp
Published: January 2021

Chapter five examines the ‘strong intellectual affinity’ (Uttara Natarajan) between William Hazlitt’s early work and German philosophy, and in particular Kant, in the light of Robinson’s work on the philosopher and the meetings with Hazlitt that Robinson recorded in his unpublished manuscript diaries. Doing so reveals that a paradigm shift – from the imagination establishing disinterestedness diachronically to the ‘formative’, or synthesizing, mind along the lines of Kant – occurred in Hazlitt’s metaphysics around 1806, and that Robinson facilitated this paradigm shift. The chapter then looks at Robinson’s critical transmission of, and preface to, Gustav von Schlabrendorf’s Napoleon, and the French People under His Empire (1806), and how Robinson and Hazlitt began to drift apart as a result of their opposing views on Napoleon and the intensifying war with France. Ultimately, chapter five aims to demonstrate that Robinson’s critical admiration of Hazlitt the writer prevailed in accordance with Robinson’s theoretical principle of ‘Free Moral Discourse’. The originality and stylistic finesse of Hazlitt’s works opened up the kind of ethical discourse whose underlying philosophy – Dissenting disinterestedness amplified by Kant – Robinson continued to share.
Introduction Maurice through Time
Authors: Sutton Emma , Tsai Tsung-Han
Published: January 2021

The Introduction provides the biographical, literary and critical contexts for the book. It explores how previous criticism’s concentration on the novel’s portrayal of homosexuality has not only influenced the direction of Forster studies but also exemplified wider disciplinary trends. It illustrates how, by addressing previously overlooked themes and contexts such as feminism, Aestheticism, allegory and body-soul relations, the present volume offers a ground-breaking examination of Maurice and its legacies, sharpening critical appreciation of this under-discussed work and expanding recent revisionist attention to the novel in new modernist scholarship. The fact that the novel can be read divergently, from various approaches including but not limited to those informed by the author’s own sexuality and the representation of same-sex desires in the text, and in different contexts and afterlives, not only signals its protean texture but also prompts us to reconsider our assessments of Forster the writer. What emerges from the volume, the Introduction suggests, is the complexity of the novel, as a text and as a cultural phenomenon. Providing an overview of the volume’s three sections – interpersonal relationships, contemporary contexts and afterlives – the Introduction summarizes the contours of a new multifaceted understanding of Maurice set out in the volume.
‘An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort’
Authors: Bristow Joseph
Published: January 2021

This chapter explores the ways in which Maurice in 1913 processed the legacy of the Aesthete Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment in 1895. Even though the only direct allusion to Wilde occurs in Maurice’s interview with Dr Barry, the presence of Wilde’s reputation emerges in the ‘aesthetic push’ at Cambridge. In principle, Maurice’s abandonment of Clive marks the moment when the narrative confirms that an aesthetic homosexuality proves unappealing. Instead, Maurice’s intimacy with Alec marks a turn toward a physically intense homosexual desire that takes its cues from Edward Carpenter’s thought. At the same time, the threat of blackmail that haunts the intimacy between Maurice and Alec also recalls the disclosures about Wilde’s involvement with homosexual extortionists. The chapter therefore reveals that the influential argument that Robert K. Martin ventured in 1983 – where he claims that the first half of Maurice focuses on a Platonic homosexuality, while the second half stresses a male same-sex passion derived from Carpenter – is not as clear-cut as he suggests. Forster’s concerted efforts to dis-identify with Wilde point to the considerable degree to which the Aesthete’s plight in 1895 continued to shape understandings of homosexuality through the period leading up to the First World War.
Maurice and Religion
Authors: Fordoński Krzysztof
Published: January 2021

This chapter explores the role and representation of religion in the text of Maurice and in critical readings of the novel. Concentrating primarily on the text itself, the chapter offers close readings of those parts of the novel where religion/religions play a part, stressing their importance in the structure of the novel. This analysis retraces the influence of religion (predominantly Christianity but also ancient Greek and pagan religious thought) on the main characters’ psychological development and behaviour, especially on the way they try to deal with irreconcilable demands of religion and their own psyche. The chapter thus reflects on Forster’s attitude towards religious institutions and the changing role religion played in early twentieth-century British society and among Edwardian writers. The chapter also considers the role of religion in the reception of the novel, both in scholarship and among twenty-first-century readers. The chapter concludes by considering questions of reception and the relevance of Maurice to twenty-first-century (queer) readers as concepts of homosexuality have undergone considerable changes in parts of the world.
‘The Ghost of Roger Casement’
Authors: Garden Alison
Published: January 2021

The final chapter is concerned with the enormous number of poets that have responded to Casement. Beginning with poetry written by Casement’s close friend and intellectual companion, Eva Gore-Booth, this chapter discusses a range of poetry from throughout the twentieth century. As the chapter illustrates, this poetry depicts Casement in various guises, from the tragic nationalist hero of 1916 in Gore-Booth; to a man wronged and shamed by the British in Yeats’ poems from the late 1930s; to a symbol critiquing regressive U.S. politics and troubled transatlantic relations in Paul Muldoon’s ‘A Clear Signal’. This chapter traces how, throughout the twentieth century, we see poets begin to view the nebulous nature of Casement’s multiple and shifting allegiances as enabling, rather than anxiety inducing, and poets like Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian mobilise Casement as a hopeful symbol of plurality.
‘They could only look for a moderate success’: Recruiting in the South and West of Ireland
Authors: Bowman Timothy , Butler William , Wheatley Michael
Published: January 2021

This chapter is a narrative of wartime recruiting in the South and West, particularly during the war’s first months. While recruiting surged, civic mobilisation of support was ambivalent. The overwhelming majority of Irish opinion was clearly pro-war, but nationalist politicians appeared more intent on consolidating the Irish National Volunteers than recruiting into the army. Conscription, marked by endemic opposition and recurring scares, remained a key issue. In 1914, the fear of being called up rivalled the power of collective sacrifice. The narrative will then address 1915’s campaigns to revive recruiting, the formation of Pals units and efforts to recruit munitions workers. It will assess the impact of the Easter Rising, the moribund state of recruiting in 1916-17 and its revival in 1918, primarily into the RAF.
Irish Patriotes
Authors: McGaughey Jane G.V.
Published: January 2021

This chapter explores how codes of manliness and the culture of masculinity in Lower Canada revealed themselves in the public career of Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan, the final editor of The Vindicator newspaper in Montreal and a major figure within the parti patriote on the eve of the 1837 Lower Canadian Rebellion. Using the themes of gender, violence, and loyalty, the chapter analyses O’Callaghan’s fidelity to the patriote cause, his commitment to overthrowing British rule, and his ability to use gendered and inflammatory language in order to qualify what and who was truly ‘Irish’ in the Canadas. Through his Irishness, his radicalism, and his use of gendered language, Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan made the Irish element of the Lower Canadian Rebellion appear absolutely fundamental; in the end, however, appearance was not the same thing as reality.
Parenthood, Adolescence and Childhood Under the Knife
Authors: Leeder Murray , Leeder Murray
Published: January 2021

This chapter examines adolescence as a central theme in Halloween (1978) in a slightly different way, as invoking (and attempting to resolve) the rootlessness of adolescence in the Lost Generation. The character of Laurie Strode is divided between the realms of adults and children, but this capacity for category mobility ultimately proves valuable. Cast in the roles both of virgin and mother, her ability to properly navigate, embrace adult responsibilities and retrain a child's intuition is ultimately what allows Laurie to save herself. The 1950s and John Carpenter's childhood saw the birth of the teen horror film, which followed swiftly on the heels of the ‘invention’ of the American teenager as a discrete segment of the population. In a sense, Halloween is an inheritor to the ‘horror teenpics’ or the ‘weirdies’ of the 1950s, and similarly owed much of its success to its ability to knowingly target the large teenage demographic. The slasher films that followed Halloween would do the same, and it seems no major exaggeration to say that, if slasher films collectively are ‘about’ anything, they are about adolescence.
The Art of Cantorial Singing in the Polish Territories
Authors: Muszkalska Bożena
Published: January 2021

This chapter gives a general overview of the development of cantorial singing in the Polish lands. It discusses eastern Europe as the youngest when it came to the traditions of synagogue music. It also explains how eastern Europe is rooted in the Middle East and its direct origins lie in the medieval traditions of the Ashkenazi community in southern Germany. The chapter focuses on Poland and its pre-partition borders that became an important centre of Jewish culture, and the art of hazanut. It discusses the east European hazanim that were characterized by great mobility, which was the result of their studying with a hazan who did not live locally, of their attending Polish or foreign universities, and of travelling long distances with their meshorerim.
Musical Afterthoughts on Shmeruk’s ‘Mayufes’
Authors: Werb Bret
Published: January 2021

This chapter focuses on the mayufes, the song at the centre of the “Mah yafit” that was originally sung during the sabbath meal. It examines how the mayufes came to typify Jewish music and details how wealthy landowners would often command the Jews living on their estates to perform it as part of an evening's entertainment. It also reviews how mayufes made its way into urban popular entertainment. The chapter talks about the late historian Chone Shmeruk, who identified the obscure song-and-dance genre “majufes” as a sociological phenomenon unique to the Polish Jewish experience. It draws on an array of literary sources in order to investigate how Shmeruk recounted the pedigree of majufes.
Szpilman, Bajgelman, Barsht
Authors: Rubin Joel E.
Published: January 2021

This chapter focuses on the post-war fate of the Szpilmans, Bajgelmans, and Barshts, which are an extended family of professional Jewish instrumentalists that originated from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski in Poland. It explores how the Szpilmans, Bajgelmans, and Barshts played important roles as performers and composers in genres as diverse as instrumental klezmer, jazz, chamber, symphonic music, Yiddish theatre, vaudeville, and Brazilian dance music. It also mentions Władysław Szpilman as the most famous family member, whose memoirs formed the basis of Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, The Pianist. The chapter provides an ethnography of elderly living musicians that became part of salvage ethno-musicology, cultural history, and genealogy. It looks into activities of professional Jewish musicians from klezmer families, whose work and experience expanded in a number of directions, especially during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Władysław Szpilman’s Post-War Career in Poland
Authors: Mazurczak Filip
Published: January 2021

This chapter draws attention to Władysław Szpilman, who was the focus of Roman Polanski's critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2002 film adaptation of the bestselling memoir Smierc miasta. It looks into Szpilman's harrowing portrayal of the cruelty of the Holocaust and the German occupation of Warsaw, including his inspiring depiction of human kindness amidst absolute evil. It also discusses Szpilman's key role in Polish classical and popular music after the war, in which he's considered as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Polish music. The chapter provides an overview of Szpilman's contribution to Polish music, with a particular focus on the period beginning in 1945. It reviews archival and secondary sources and interviews with Szpilman's widow and son, which brings to light the enormous contribution of the man dubbed the “Polish Gershwin” and the “Polish Cole Porter” by leading composers.
Leo Zeitlin and the Flourishing of Jewish Art Music in Early 1920s Vilna
Authors: Eisenstein-Baker Paula
Published: January 2021

This chapter looks into the activity of the composer Leo Zeitlin in Vilna in the 1920s. It explores Zeitlin's musical life and whirlwind of activity in Vilna between his arrival in January 1922 and his departure for New York in May 1923. It also details how Zeitlin hired musicians and organized, rehearsed, and conducted at least ten symphony concerts in Vilna, Warsaw, and łódz. The chapter mentions bass baritone Moshe Rudinow and his wife, mezzo soprano Ruth Leviash and violinist and concertmaster of the Warsaw Philharmonic Mischa Fiber, who were often featured in Zeitlin's concerts. It highlights Zeitlin's involvement in the performances of Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin” in Yiddish, which was produced in Vilna by Aron Yitzchak Grodzenski in December 1922.
Ostbahnhof Berliń
Authors: Sacks Adam J.
Published: January 2021

This chapter explores the reasons why east European Jews sought to study at the Berlin Conservatory. It investigates the dramatic influx of Jewish students, both instrumentalists and composers, that found encouragement and advancement at the Berlin Conservatory between the years 1918 and 1933. It also mentions Władysław Szpilman, Jascha Horenstein, Joseph Rosenstock, and Karol Rathaus that studied in the Berlin Conservatory and went on to find international fame. The chapter analyzes how music functioned as a medium for mobility, nobility, and the transcendence of origins and the strictures of imposed identity. It looks into the eastern European music student's perception of the Berlin Conservatory, which served as a site of self-reinvention and a transit station to the wider world.
Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s American Years
Authors: Dobrzański Sławomir
Published: January 2021

This chapter examines the American career of Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. It recalls the personality of Kassern as a forgotten composer and one of the most neglected Polish composers of the twentieth century. It also references Violetta Kostka's book Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern as the most substantial source of information about him. The chapter looks into Kassern's appointment as cultural attaché in the Polish consulate in New York in October 1945, of which the decision was based on his experience as a lawyer, familiarity with the Polish cultural milieu in Poland and abroad, and knowledge of several foreign languages. It recounts how Kassern organized shipments of printed music, books, musical instruments, and clothes and food to Poland as part of the Chopin Fund that was initiated by the pianist Artur Rubinstein.
‘My Song, You Are My Strength’
Authors: Toltz Joseph D.
Published: January 2021

This chapter investigates the songs in Yiddish and Polish remembered by survivors of the łódz ghetto. It draws on interviews with two teenage survivors of the łódz ghetto who settled in Australia after the war in order to document and preserve personal musical experiences and memories of Jewish Holocaust survivors. It also references long and established literatures on examining witnesses and testifiers in Holocaust and trauma studies that speaks at length of delicate dynamics and ethical responsibilities of representation. The chapter analyzes the claim that sonic experiences remain in memories of people and travel with them throughout their lives, providing moments of nostalgia, evocations of past connections, ties to culture, friends, and family, and frames of reference. It explains how memories of dark, distant, and problematic times are enabled and returned to resonate in the present lives of testifiers and witnesses.
The Sound of Change
Authors: Shapiro Eleanor
Published: January 2021

This chapter observes the local manifestations of klezmer revival in Chmielnik, Lelów, and Szczekociny. It analyzes how the festivals and musical performances in the three cities contribute to an environment that encourages people to speak the unspoken. It also addresses the significance of a Jewish performance in a small Polish town that opens a cultural space for thinking in new ways about social identity and community. The chapter explains how a repertoire of particularly Jewish music influence the audience's perception of a town's past and future, as well as how festivals contribute to the social changes. It talks about small-town events with Jewish themes that focus on culture and draws on theatre, dance, film, and food, in addition to music.
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
Authors: Polonsky Antony
Published: January 2021

This chapter provides an obituary for Sir Sigmund Sternberg. It mentions that Sir Sternberg was a long-standing president of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, who died on 18 October 2016 at the age of 95. It also talks about Sir Sternberg's founding of the Three Faiths Forum, which is a dialogue group of Christians, Muslims, and Jews which he set up in 1997 with Sheikh Dr Zaki Badawi and the Reverend Dr. Marcus Braybrooke. The chapter describes Sir Sternberg's interfaith campaigning that won him the 1998 Templeton Prize for progress in religion. It notes Sir Sternberg as a generous supporter of Reform Judaism, particularly of the Leo Baeck College, which the most important Reform rabbinical college in Europe.
A Matter of Style
Authors: Curti Roberto , Curti Roberto
Published: January 2021

This chapter discusses how Mario Bava opted color for his film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino), which he had also done in his previous horror films. It talks about Bava's employment of Eastmancolor for the saturated colour compositions of his Gothic movies that drove the colour consultants on set to distraction. It also illustrates the context in which the characters moved in Blood and Black that ended up looking like a non-place, both baroque and abstract, that brought together elements typical of the Gothic genre. The chapter describes Blood and Black Lace's labyrinthine atelier of death as a modern-day subsidiary of Gothic's castles, with crypt, secret passages, curtains fluttering in the night, and mannequins instead of suits of armour. It also looks into the insistence of shapes that move with mechanical regularity that represented Blood and Black Lace's microcosm, where the distinction between human and nonhuman becomes uncertain, fleeting, and deceptive.
Granville Bantock (1868-1946)
Authors: Dressler John
Published: January 2021

This volume is the first published study to bring together a variety of materials which represent the life and works of Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946), British composer, arranger, editor, music department administrator, competitive singing promoter and adjudicator, world traveler, lover of life, literature and philosophy, radio talk presenter, champion of works of other rising British composers over his own, husband and father. His works alone total over 600, yet many remain in manuscript housed for access at the Cadbury Special Collections Library on the campus of the University of Birmingham. The reader will find citations of reviews of his music, reviews of performances during his lifetime and beyond as well as reviews of recordings both then in now in contemporary and modern newspapers and journals. Commercial and archival recordings are noted and locations given. Manuscripts that remain extant are identified and located. Up to and including 10 representative national and international live performances are noted for each work with names and venues provided. Within the Works section of the book are subcategories by medium for which they were composed for easy identification with minimal information the reader has at hand prior to opening the volume. The sketchbooks are also detailed with what materials are contained in each. Within the Bibliography section are citations of obituaries, writings by GB, dissertations, and pertinent files at: the BBC, Worcestershire Archive, Liverpool Record Office and Trinity Laban Conservatoire to name a few.
Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos
Authors: Bacigalupo Massimo
Published: January 2021

This exploration of the Italian background of The Cantos provides indispensable keys to an understanding of a major American epic. Bacigalupo follows Pound’s steps through Italian cities and landscapes, his contacts with writers from Dante to his contemporaries, his own writings in (and translations from) Italian, and his final introspective years between Rapallo and Venice—all of which is considered for the light it casts on his work. A new approach to Pound’s difficult poetry is thus offered, as well as the fascinating, dramatic and entertaining story of an American writer’s life-long concern with his adoptive country. An appendix offers a detailed chronology of Pound’s relation with and reception in Italy.
Greeting the Returning Gods—Rome
Authors: Bacigalupo Massimo
Published: January 2021

Pound’s fascination with the Middle Ages is exemplified by his dislike of Rome’s signature Baroque buildings and artworks, while he celebrates its medieval monuments. He also approved of the renovations undertaken in the 1920s and 30s by Mussolini’s government. Though not as central to the poetry as Venice and Liguria, Rome is still a key factor in Pound’s life and writings. He often referred to the anagram ROMA/AMOR.
Nature, History, and Myth—Montale
Authors: Bacigalupo Massimo
Published: January 2021

Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and Nobel Prize recipient, frequently met Pound before World War II and wrote about him and his plight in the 1950s and 60s. The chapter establishes parallels between the careers of the two poets and presents their reciprocal, mostly friendly, relations and views. The chapter is of special use in showing what an astute and canonical Italian intellectual like Montale made of the Pound phenomenon.
Moscardino and Enrico Pea
Authors: Bacigalupo Massimo
Published: January 2021

In 1941 Pound discovered a novella by Enrico Pea, Moscardino, decided that it was a masterpiece, and proceeded to translate it erratically. The translation was published after the war and is here considered for the light it throws on Pound’s scant knowledge of Italian, impatience with minutiae, and literary interests. Moscardino presents a rural, half-savage, community, dominated by primitive passions, reminiscent of D. H. Lawrence, a writer with whose primitivism Pound has much in common.
The Pisan Cantos in Progress
Authors: Bacigalupo Massimo
Published: January 2021

An interpretation and survey of Pound’s most famous poem and its processes of composition.
Sant’Ambrogio in the Half-Light
Authors: Bacigalupo Massimo
Published: January 2021

A personal account of Pound’s final years (1962-72) in Rapallo and of the crucial role his companion Olga Rudge played in his rehabilitation.
Introduction
Authors: Hall Dewey W. , Murphy Jillmarie
Published: January 2021

Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century is comprised of a diverse collection of essays featuring analyses of literary women writers, ecofeminism, feminist ecocriticism, and the value of the interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman, and nonliving entities as part of the environs. The book presents a case for the often-disregarded literary women writers of the long nineteenth century, who were active contributors to the discourse of natural history—the diachronic study of participants as part of a vibrant community interconnected by matter. While they were not natural philosophers as in the cases of Sir Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and Michael Faraday among others, these women writers did engage in acute observations of materiality in space (e.g., subjects, objects, and abjects), reasoned about their findings, and encoded their discoveries of nature in their literary and artistic productions. The collection includes discussions of the works of influential literary women from the long nineteenth century—Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Caroline Norton, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Margaret Fuller, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Celia Thaxter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Francis Wright, and Lydia Maria Child—whose multi-directional observations of animate and inanimate objects in the natural domain are based on self-made discoveries while interacting with the environs....
The “vast prison” of the World
Authors: Ottum Lisa
Published: January 2021

How might an Anthropocene feminism reshape literary history? Conventionally, green Romanticism is conceptualized as a cluster of proto-environmentalist attitudes articulated by (mostly male) Romantic poet-naturalists. In this paradigm, Romanticism gave rise to modern environmentalism, which is conceptualized as a progressive trajectory. Feminist accounts of the Anthropocene challenge this history, exposing the Anthropocene narrative as falsely totalizing in its view of man, history, and nature. This essay finds traces of a counter-Anthropocene in works by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley—that is, a vision of Earth that both enriches and complicates existing literary ecologies. In The Last Man (1826) and other texts, the Anthropocene’s unpredictable feedback loops register both formally and affectively: the novel’s multi-layered narrative structure captures a future “already here,” a future that feels paradoxically proximate and distant. The texts discussed, thus, challenge orderly models of geological change, offering instead a feminist view of history as radically contingent, dynamic, and multi-layered.
Animating Athens
Authors: Duquès Matthew
Published: January 2021

In the early nineteenth century, a revival of all things ancient Greek opened opportunities for women on either side of the Atlantic to study Greek history, literature, and myth as the products of a powerful world apart from their own, and to re-envision that world through fictional dialogues, sketches, and romances. While the resulting body of literature has been studied for its contributions to modern discourses on aesthetics, sexuality, and politics, little work has been done to understand how this popular, Romantic Hellenism served to expand upon an enlightenment-oriented environmental perspective that sought to counter the first effects of industrialization. This essay takes such a tack. It situates Wright's and Child's comments on the gender of suns, rivers, landscapes, and polities in "A Few Days in Athens" and “Philothea: A Grecian Romance,” two short, philosophical fictions that emphasize the pristine and luminous, yet fundamentally endangered natural worlds of ancient Greece. I argue that their visions of the Greek environments of the deep past as subject to cycles of declension and regeneration offer model for future theories of ecology.
Afterword
Authors: Bennett Jane
Published: January 2021

It is worth repeating the roll call: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Caroline Norton, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Margaret Fuller, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Celia Thaxter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Francis Wright, and Lydia Maria Child. The essays in Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century...
“The Journey is Everything”1
Authors: Bourne-Taylor Carole
Published: January 2021

Virginia Woolf had a European sensibility and a sense of Europe as an intellectual sphere. She was writing at a time when a syncretic European consciousness was emerging, as epitomized by Gide who hailed nomadism as a lifestyle. Woolf regarded the concept of nationality as obsolete and decried the ‘insularity’, ‘domesticity’ and ‘homeliness’ of England for which she produced a number of satirical metonyms. Possessing ‘the zest of travelling’, she found in France a ‘congenial civilisation’, where she could experience new trends of thought and sensory impressions, which would fuel her creativity. It was not just the blend of intellectuality and sensuality, but also the sheer strangeness of a foreign language and landscape that spurred her spirit of experimentation.
Variation of Magnetic Flux Ropes through Major Solar Flares
Authors: Duan Aiying , Jiang Chaowei , Zhou Zhenjun , Feng Xueshang , Cui Jun
Published: January 2021

It remains unclear how solar flares are triggered and in what conditions they can be eruptive with coronal mass ejections. Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) has been suggested as the central magnetic structure of solar eruptions, and their ideal instabilities, including the kink instability (KI) and torus instability (TI), are important candidates for triggering mechanisms. Here, using magnetic field extrapolations from observed photospheric magnetograms, we systematically studied the variation of coronal magnetic fields, focusing on MFRs, through major flares including 29 eruptive and 16 confined events. We found that nearly 90% of events possess MFRs before flares, and 70% have MFRs even after flares. We calculated the controlling parameters of KI and TI, including the MFR’s maximum twist number and the decay index of its strapping field. Using the KI and TI thresholds empirically derived solely from the pre-flare MFRs, two distinctly different regimes are shown in the variation of the MFR controlling parameters through flares. For the events with both parameters below their thresholds before flares, we found no systematic change of the parameters after the flares, in either the eruptive or confined events. In contrast, for the events with any of the two parameters exceeding their threshold before flares (most of them are eruptive), there is systematic decrease in the parameters to below their thresholds after flares. These results provide a strong constraint for the values of the instability thresholds and also stress the necessity of exploring other eruption mechanisms in addition to the ideal instabilities.
Taxonomic updates in Amphitecna (Bignoniaceae): A new Mexican species and the re-establishment of the giant-leaved A. megalophylla
Authors: Gómez-Domínguez Héctor , Ortiz-Rodríguez Andrés Ernesto , Velasco-Espino Delfilia , Hernández-Burguete Rene
Published: January 2021

In this study, we analyzed the morphological affinities of the 24 species of Amphitecna based on detailed morphological studies and multivariate cluster analyses. Our results suggest that the genus Amphitecna includes six morphological groups that can be easily distinguished based on floral and fruits characteristics: A. donnell-smithii group, A. macrophylla group, A. megalophylla group, A. molinae group, A. spathicalyx group, and A. steyermarkii group. A new species from Mexico, Amphitecna fonceti, is described. This new species is clearly differentiated by the predominantly ramiflorous inflorescences bearing multiple flowers per shoot, buds rounded at the apex, large flowers with a transverse fold in the corolla throat, calyx surface pubescent and strongly costate, and fruits elliptic, apiculate at the apex. We discuss the characteristics of each morphological group and their geographical distribution, provide a detailed description of the new species including ethnobotany notes, and propose the re-establishment of the giant-leaved species A. megalophylla.
(Re)construction identitaire et pratique infirmière en psychiatrie légale : réflexion critique sur les commissions d’examen
Authors: Domingue Jean-Laurent , Jacob Jean Daniel , Perron Amélie , Pariseau-Legault Pierre , Foth Thomas
Published: January 2021

Introduction : la portée caritative des soins infirmiers psycholégaux est rarement remise en question. Contexte : ces soins sont balisés indirectement par la Commission d’examen (CE), un tribunal parajudiciaire veillant à la sécurité publique. Objectif : nous proposons une réflexion critique au sujet des effets politiques et sociaux de la CE, des hôpitaux de psychiatrie légale et de la pratique des infirmières qui y travaillent. Méthode : notre réflexion est axée sur les concepts de biopouvoir, de cérémonie de dégradation, de carrière morale et de (re)construction identitaire. Résultats : les pratiques « thérapeutiques » infirmières s’insèrent, d’une part, dans la visée disciplinaire de l’hôpital psycholégal, dans la mesure où elles permettent l’identification et la gestion des personnes dangereuses, et d’autre part, dans la portée biopolitique de la CE puisqu’elles aident cette dernière à maintenir la sécurité publique. Discussion : le milieu psycholégal s’avère problématique pour les infirmières puisqu’il les confronte à une double allégeance mettant sous tension leurs responsabilités envers les patients (consentement et confidentialité) et celles qu’elles ont envers l’institution (protection du public). Conclusion : notre cadre d’analyse permet de repenser d’autres processus tenus pour acquis en milieux psychiatriques, mais qui constituent tout autant des rituels de (re)construction identitaire.
La fabrication d'œuvres de musique contemporaine
Authors: Robert Alexandre
Published: January 2021

Issu d’une enquête par observation et entretiens menée au sein du « Cursus de composition et d’informatique musicale » de l’Ircam, cet article cherche à saisir les façons dont se fabriquent des procédés compositionnels, c’est-à-dire les processus par lesquels des compositeurs en viennent à mettre en œuvre telle ou telle technique, schème ou matériau musical. Deux études de cas sont développées, chacune centrée sur un apprenti-compositeur et un procédé compositionnel qu’il élabore au cours de sa progressive familiarisation avec un vaste répertoire d’outils électronique de production et de manipulation du son. L’analyse montre alors comment les étudiants du Cursus sont amenés à « composer » avec leurs socialisations antérieures ou parallèles au moment de naviguer dans l’espace des possibles électro-sonores de l’Ircam.
La layette a-t-elle une histoire ?
Authors: Morel Marie-France
Published: January 2021

En Occident, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’au xx e siècle, tous les nourrissons sont emmaillotés pendant leurs premiers mois. Si la volonté de protéger le bébé du froid est universelle, le façonnage du corps par des pièces de layette variées s’explique par la hantise du corps difforme, « noué » par le rachitisme. Symboliquement, les contraintes exercées sur le corps du nourrisson ont aussi pour but de le tirer vers l’humanité, en l’arrachant à la position fœtale. Au cours des siècles, se produisent des changements, à la fois dans les manières de façonner le maillot, dans l’adjonction d’autres pièces de layette, et dans les motivations des pratiques.
Petite histoire de la mode pour bébés en Occident
Authors: Brosseau Clémentine
Published: January 2021

La mode pour bébés connaît de nombreuses évolutions en lien avec la place de l’enfant dans la société. Pendant plusieurs siècles, il est simplement emmailloté, puis porte des robes unisexes jusqu’à l’âge de 7 ans. Au xviii e  siècle apparaissent les premiers signes d’une mode qui lui est enfin dédiée. Ce phénomène de mode pour bébés n’a fait qu’évoluer pour arriver aujourd’hui à une part prépondérante de marché dans le milieu de la mode, de la fast fashion au monde du luxe.
Une armée de diplomates
Authors: Doppler-Speranza François
Published: January 2021

Dans l’imaginaire collectif et la représentation commune, la présence militaire américaine sur le sol français évoque immédiatement l’apparition de la culture de masse et la civilisation du loisir. Ce livre étudie les coulisses de ce phénomène et met en évidence le rôle des forces armées dans le déploiement d’une stratégie de communication visant à mettre la culture et l’information au service de la politique étrangère des États-Unis. Née en amont du « temps des bases », sur le front intérieur, cette politique culturelle entendait promouvoir une modernité aussi riche que fabriquée, maintenant les civils sur le qui-vive pour gagner la guerre des idées et la guerre froide. Une armée de diplomates est le récit d’un double choc des cultures avec, d’une part, les relations souvent conflictuelles entre les acteurs du département d’État et leurs homologues de la Défense autour de la stratégie culturelle et, de l’autre, les tensions entre la population autochtone et une présence militaire qui ravive le souvenir douloureux de la guerre. Basé sur le dépouillement d’archives inédites, cet ouvrage démontre la manière dont l’uniforme militaire a contribué à la promotion, sinon à la fabrique, d’une certaine culture américaine sur le sol français, de la guerre à l’OTAN.