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Introduction
Authors: Witt Joseph D.
Published: May 2017

In the summer of 2009, I participated in a rally against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The rally was held on the grounds of Marsh Fork Elementary, a school situated between the Coal River and Route 3 in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Sitting immediately below a slurry impoundment (a giant reservoir of toxic coal sludge produced by the coal preparation process and retained by an earthen dam), Marsh Fork Elementary also sat at the center of many debates surrounding the safety and justness of mountaintop removal. Activists cited increased health problems for Marsh Fork students due to their proximity to an active strip mine, such as abnormally high rates of asthma, and worried about the potentially disastrous consequences of any stresses or failures in the earthen dam retaining the slurry. The nearby mine and processing plant were owned and operated at the time by Massey Energy, one of the most controversial coal companies in the region. It was led by Don Blankenship, an outspoken and active opponent of labor unions and environmental regulations. Both Blankenship and his company were frequent targets for environmentalist outrage, and for his part, Blankenship seldom passed an opportunity to denounce “tree huggers” and others who, so he claimed, would destroy the jobs of hard-working Appalachian miners. In 2012 a new elementary school was built several miles from the original site, thanks to donations and ongoing political pressure; but in June 2009 these issues remained unsettled....
Religion, Place, and Mountaintop Removal
Authors: Witt Joseph D.
Published: May 2017

This chapter examines the historical development of anti-mountaintop removal activism in Appalachia in the early twenty-first century. The chapter first examines how twenty-first-century groups such as Mountain Justice emerged out of decades of localized activism against strip mining in the area. It then outlines the theoretical influences from Appalachian studies and religious studies that have shaped this discussion of religion and place in Appalachia, including studies of Appalachian history and development, critical regionalism, and approaches to “lived religion.” Based on these theoretical concepts, the remainder of the book explores multiple religious threads in the re-imagining of Appalachian place by anti-mountaintop removal activists in light of a physically transformed topography.
Defending Mother Earth
Authors: Witt Joseph D.
Published: May 2017

This chapter examines a third thread of religious resistance to mountaintop removal, a set of perspectives broadly listed under the category of nature-venerating spiritualities. Most basically, these forms of religious responses posit some sort of intrinsic, spiritual value in natural ecosystems. They often share similarities with biocentric arguments, particularly those associated with Deep Ecology and radical environmental movements. Nature-venerating spiritualities take many forms in the Appalachian movement, including the many types of dark green religion as described by Bron Taylor. Nature-venerating spiritualities are also expressed through a vernacular nature religion, or a localized expression of care for place based out of experience and work in Appalachia. The chapter describes several points where nature-venerating spiritualities entered the anti-mountaintop removal movement.
Introduction
Authors: Canady Andrew McNeill
Published: May 2017

In 1894 an eighteen-year-old white Texan traveled to a national YMCA student conference in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.1 There he met an African American student, roughly ten years his senior, from the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.2 It is very likely this interaction was the first time the former had ever encountered an African American man of such education and stature. In fact, a meeting like this one in the South in this period, and for the coming decades, would have been very unusual considering how segregated that world was. This event was indeed such a striking moment for the younger man that over forty years later he still remembered it. To an acquaintance in the late 1930s he recalled the following about that conference and this man: “I remember that he was rather popular, that he was the only Negro on the grounds and that those of us from the South at the time thought it a little queer that there should be a Negro delegate present.”...
Sowing the Seeds of Southern Liberalism
Authors: Canady Andrew McNeill
Published: May 2017

Chapter 3 examines the most important institution that Weatherford guided in his life, the Blue Ridge Assembly (a YMCA summer conference center in Black Mountain, N.C.) and the efforts he made there to improve race relations. Under Weatherford’s guidance in the 1910s and 1920s, the facility hosted African American speakers (among them George Washington Carver, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Robert Russa Moton) and students. These guests always endured some form of segregation during their stays, but their presence and interaction with whites are notable because such events were extremely rare at the time. Indeed, up until 1930 Blue Ridge was one of the few places in the South where such visits could occur and where the topic of race could be discussed. This chapter looks closely at the context of the South at the time, the limits to the programs at Blue Ridge, and why Weatherford did not push harder against segregation. It also illuminates the influence of this institution on a growing number of white liberals of the next era and how this place sowed the seeds of their activism. Finally, it explores the changing procedures Weatherford and Blue Ridge employed in handling racial issues.
Bringing a Revival to the Mountains
Authors: Canady Andrew McNeill
Published: May 2017

This chapter examines Weatherford’s close attention to the concerns of Appalachian poverty, education, and religion. His involvement in these issues grew out of his work with Berea College in Kentucky. Since the late 1910s he had been a member of its Board of Trustees, but upon retirement from Fisk in 1946, he turned his full effort toward Berea, sponsoring a play (Wilderness Road by the famed southern liberal playwright) to highlight the school’s history) as well as setting up accompanying conferences to “improve” mountain religious institutions. These programs also led him to guide a new survey of Appalachia in 1962 and to be a part of the War on Poverty movement at that time. Just as Weatherford’s belief that all persons were sacred had led him to a concern for blacks in the early 1900s, this same philosophy drove him to take up the plight of Appalachian residents. Still, his efforts, like those made for blacks during most of his life, stopped short of calling for major structural changes in the economic system of capitalism.
“The State of Society”
Authors: Cousins James P.
Published: May 2017

The trustees of Transylvania University offered Horace the presidency in the fall of 1817; he first declined but then agreed to suspend judgment until he visited the campus. His journey from Boston to Lexington commenced in the early spring of 1818. On his way, Horace hoped to investigate notable institutions of higher learning, the state of religious feelings in the United States, and the general condition of American society. He recorded his visits to Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, the medical college of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania in his travel diary and in letters to his wife and family. This chapter concludes with a discussion of Horace’s intentions and early attempts to modify established educational ideas within his new surroundings.
The Poet
Authors: Metzmeier Kurt X.
Published: May 2017

William Littell was known for his great scholarship, literary competence, and publishing experience. Nearly a dozen imprints bearing Littell’s name have been published, including a set of Kentucky statutes that were the state’s de facto code for decades, Kentucky’s first historical monograph, law reports, and a book of satire. Littell was a curious figure. He almost single-handedly created the infrastructure of legal research in the state. Outside of the law, he wrote history, poetry, and political satire and was learned in theology and medicine. But Littell was a solitary, eccentric figure; disliked by many; and politically and socially neutralized by his uncompromising pen, which skewered slave owners, abusive husbands, bankers, and politicians.
The Scattergun Approach
Authors: McKenna A. T.
Published: May 2017

This chapter details Levine’s activities during the mid-1960s, a particularly frenetic period for him. It investigates his investments in British and European cinemas, which were largely successful, and the numerous costly coproduction deals he entered into in America, many of which were failures. The chapter also examines his various investments in television. Levine always had a keen eye for opportunities and looked to capitalize on emerging trends, but his gambler’s instinct often led to recklessness, and this period of his career brought many costly failures alongside high-profile successes. The chapter argues that Levine’s production strategy became overreliant on television sales and that his approach during this period was often unfocused.
Joe’s Baby
Authors: McKenna A. T.
Published: May 2017

This chapter provides a detailed account of Levine’s production of A Bridge Too Far. The film was his labor of love and by far the biggest undertaking of his career. The chapter examines how Levine maintained his independence throughout the production by operating without any major funding source and how he funded the film by sparking a bidding war among potential distributors. The chapter also examines the close relationships Levine forged with screenwriter William Goldman and director Richard Attenborough and how Levine’s capacity for leadership enabled a very large-scale production to be completed without any significant problems. The chapter also analyzes the film’s critical reception, notes that the cultural climate of 1977 was not receptive to films of this nature, and suggests that Levine’s marketing campaign may have been inappropriately ostentatious for a film with such dour subject matter.
A Peculiar Talent
Authors: McKenna A. T.
Published: May 2017

The final chapter stresses the importance of the context of Levine’s rise to prominence—after the Paramount Supreme Court case in 1948 and before the corporatization of the 1960s—and argues that this period was conducive to the flourishing of the independent entrepreneur and showman in American cinema. The chapter also highlights some key figures that Levine influenced and areas of today’s cinema where his influence can be most keenly felt. And it questions whether the kind of entrepreneurial showmanship that Levine was famous for can find a place in the modern corporatized industry and argues that Levine should be much more fully represented in future histories of American cinema.
Redemptive Love, Vigilante Terror, and Rebellion
Authors: Pimblott Kerry
Published: May 2017

Chapter Two chronicles the key battles in Cairo’s Civil Rights Movement with a particular focus on how activists working with the local branch of the NAACP and SNCC mobilized Black congregations behind a powerful local movement aimed at upending the edifice of Jim Crow. By adopting a religious conception of civil rights liberalism rooted in Black Christian discourses of racial reconciliation and nonviolence, local activists were able to recruit intergenerational and cross-class support. However, this religiously based alliance ultimately fractured under the weight of white resistance and the growing disillusionment of Cairo’s Black working-class youth whose frustrations culminated in the urban rebellion of 1967.
From the Seminary to the Streets
Authors: Pimblott Kerry
Published: May 2017

Chapter Three explores how Black Power activists rebuilt the pre-rebellion coalition under the banner of a reconstructed and relevant Christianity that drew upon both formal Black Theology and grassroots religious traditions. This chapter chronicles the formation of the Cairo United Front, an organization that brought together Black Cairoites from across organizational, class, generational, and ideological lines in support of a broad-based and inclusive movement for racial change and social justice.
The Origins of the Screen Directors Guild Meeting
Authors: Brianton Kevin
Published: May 2017

Chapter 2 examines the background to the loyalty oath dispute. Once in power, the conservatives moved to introduce the loyalty oath for all SDG members. It examines the successful introduction of the loyalty oath and then the opposition by some quarters to the oath within the SDG. The divisions with the Guild eventually caused the conservatives to recall Mankiewicz, who began a countercampaign to save his position.
The Aftermath
Authors: Brianton Kevin
Published: May 2017

The aftermath of the SDG meeting saw the introduction of the loyalty oath that had been sought by DeMille. Mankiewicz and the SDG board introduced the measure, and it was ratified by directors. The loyalty oath stayed in place for sixteen years until it was removed by the U.S. Supreme Court. After the meeting, Ford successfully attempted to heal the rift between DeMille and the Guild over the next three years.
Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science: An Action Research Approach
Authors: Kong Ningning , Fosmire Michael , Branch Benjamin Dewayne
Published: May 2017

In the academic libraries’ efforts to support digital humanities and social science, GIS service plays an important role. However, there is no general service model existing about how libraries can develop GIS services to best engage with digital humanities and social science. In this study, we adopted the action research method to develop and improve our service model. Our results suggested that a library’s GIS service can support humanities and social science from the research collaboration, learning support, and outreach perspectives, with different focuses according to the stages of learning and research. The research framework adopted in this study not only can serve as an efficient tool for developing GIS services but also can be expanded to other library service areas.
Academic Librarians’ Changing Perceptions of Faculty Status and Tenure
Authors: Silva Elise , Galbraith Quinn , Groesbeck Michael
Published: May 2017

This study explores how time and experience affect an academic librarian’s perception of tenure. Researchers surveyed 846 librarians at ARL institutions, reporting on institutions that offer both tenure and faculty status for their academic librarians or neither. The survey reported how librarians rated tenure’s benefit to patrons, its effect in attracting and retaining quality employees, and tenure as a motivating factor in giving extra effort on the job. Researchers found that tenured librarians rated tenure as more beneficial than librarians without tenure who had more than six years of work experience at their institutions. Furthermore, non–tenure-track librarians with fewer than six years of experience at their institutions rated tenure’s effect on library patrons as more beneficial than tenure-track librarians who had not yet achieved tenure. The study implies a selective perception bias on the part of academic librarians that grows with time and warrants further consideration and study.
Publication Patterns of U.S. Academic Librarians and Libraries from 2003 to 2012
Authors: Blecic Deborah D. , Wiberley Jr. Stephen E. , De Groote Sandra L. , Cullars John , Shultz Mary , Chan Vivian
Published: May 2017

This study investigated contributions to the peer-reviewed library and information science (LIS) journal literature by U.S. academic librarian (USAL) authors over a ten-year period (2003–2012). The results were compared to those of two previous five-year studies that covered the time periods of 1993–1997 and 1998–2002 to examine longitudinal trends. For USAL authors as a group, publication productivity, the proportion of peer-reviewed articles contributed to the LIS literature, and sole-authorship declined. Among USALs who did publish, productivity patterns remained similar over twenty years, with a slight increase in the percentage of USAL authors who published three or more articles in five years. The top twenty high-publication libraries from 2003 to 2012 were from public research universities, unlike two earlier studies that found private university libraries among the top twenty.
Journey Mapping the User Experience
Authors: Samson Sue , Granath Kim , Alger Adrienne
Published: May 2017

This journey-mapping pilot study was designed to determine whether journey mapping is an effective method to enhance the student experience of using the library by assessing our services from their point of view. Journey mapping plots a process or service to produce a visual representation of a library transaction—from the point at which the student accesses a service to its final resolution. Service scenarios are identified, and maps are produced that reflect the journey from the student’s point of view. The student map is then compared to an “ideal” journey, and the differences are used to explore changes that would improve the service experience.
Developing Online Communities for Librarian Researchers: A Case Study
Authors: Luo Lili , Kennedy Marie , Brancolini Kristine , Stephens Michael
Published: May 2017

This study examines the role of online communities in connecting and supporting librarian researchers, through the analysis of member activities in the online community for academic librarians that attended the 2014 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL). The 2014 IRDL cohort members participated in the online community via Twitter and a Facebook group page. A content analysis of their posts and an online survey among them identified different patterns of engagement and four primary types of content—posts related to completing the IRDL research project required for each cohort member, announcements about research-related resources and opportunities, posts reminiscing about the IRDL experience, and arrangements of conference attendance and meetups. Implications for successfully designing online communities for librarian researchers are discussed.
Joe Eshleman, Richard Moniz, Karen Mann, and Kristen Eshleman. Librarians and Instructional Designers: Collaboration and Innovation. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2016. 198p. Paper, $65.00 (ISBN 978-0-8389-1455-7). LC 2016014823.
Authors: Cardoso Kristen
Published: May 2017

As institutions of higher education continue to question and transform their missions, values, and roles in teaching, learning, and research, academic libraries must also explore new ways to meet the changing needs of their communities. Building relationships and bridging divides between different offices are significant ways to contribute to the transformation taking place on our campuses. The authors of Librarians and Instructional Designers: Collaboration and Innovation argue convincingly that collaboration (in particular, collaboration with instructional designers or those in technology and design positions) will result in both enhanced teaching and learning and an increased visibility for librarians as leaders on campus.
Building Trustworthy Digital Repositories: Theory and Implementation. Ed. Philip C. Bantin. Lanham, Md.: Roman & Littlefield, 2016. 371p. Paper, $65.00 (ISBN 978-1-4422-6378-9).
Authors: McFall Lisa M.
Published: May 2017

Building Trustworthy Digital Repositories provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of how to create and support the development of digital repositories and archives. Edited by Philip C. Bantin, an adjunct associate professor and director of the Archives and Records Management Specialization in the Indiana University Department of Information and Library Science, this volume’s process-oriented organization is a testament to Bantin’s expert knowledge gained as a practitioner, teacher, presenter, and author on the topic of electronic records management. In the preface, Bantin states that this book was conceived to help fill a critical gap in the literature demonstrating the connection of the theory of constructing trustworthy digital repositories with examples of how to complete this implementation. He states that the target audiences for this book include a wide range of professionals in the fields of “archives, records management, library and information management, and information technology” (xv) who are looking to begin a trustworthy repository, as well as instructors and students interested in this topic.
Library Technology Buying Strategies. Ed. Marshall Breeding. Chicago: ALA editions, 2016. 136p. Paper, $55.00 (ISBN 978-0-8389-1467-0).
Authors: McGuire Michael C.
Published: May 2017

Writing about technology, especially writing guides for technology, has often been compared to hitting a moving target or trying to nail gelatin to a wall. In fact, the process is more akin to trying to nail smoke to a wall; at least one can hold gelatin in place. Changes in the technology landscape happen at such a pace that a guide composed a year ago is nearly obsolete, while anything greater than five years old often has little more than historical value. So, when writing a guide for technology, it is important to focus on concepts that will hold true over time rather than dwelling on particular providers or specific systems. With a few exceptions, Library Technology Buying Strategies falls neatly into this category. Of equal importance, the book meets its stated objective: “My aim is to provide substance beyond the buzzwords and hype” (viii).
Mastering Subject Specialties: Practical Advice from the Field. Ed. Karen Sobel. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited, 2016. 184p. Paper, $70.00 (ISBN 978-1-4408- 3964-1). LC 2015-043485.
Authors: Soltz Marisa
Published: May 2017

“Mastering Subject Specialties aims to share honest, thorough advice from subject specialistswith those who may be interested in entering similar fields or simply exploringthe range of possibilities,” writes Karen Sobel, the editor and associate professor andresearch and instruction librarian for art, architecture, music, and urban planning atthe University of Colorado Denver. This statement is a succinct summary of what onewill find in the book, and it is a beneficial read for both new and seasoned librarians.A timely work, Mastering Subject Specialties is a helpful guide for those who need moreinformation on how to become a subject specialist or how to move across and up thelibrary food chain. It is filled with advice and detailed guidance from those in the fieldand it serves as an exploration tool for anyone connected to librarianship.
From Guinea to Guernsey and Cornwall to the Caribbean
Authors: Carey Brycchan
Published: May 2017

This chapter synthesises evidence from a wide range of primary and secondary sources concerning slavery and the slave trade in the Western English Channel. It argues that Cornwall and the Channel Islands, despite their special claims to distinctiveness and detachment from the slave trade, were not in fact innocent bystanders, remote from the centres of trade and power, but were instead as fully involved in the slave economy as any other part of the British Isles. It shows that enslaved and free Africans visited both regions, and that Channel Islanders and Cornish people invested in the slave trade, owned slaves, participated on both sides of the abolition debate, and wrote about slavery in a wide variety of literary and other publications. It concludes that the experience of Cornwall and the Channel Islands serves as a powerful reminder that no region or community in Britain had a special exemption from the nation’s imperial project.
Whose Memories?
Authors: Hall Catherine
Published: May 2017

This chapter explores the legacy of Edward Long, plantation owner, politician, pro-slavery activist and famed historian of eighteenth-century Jamaica. Slave-owners have until recently been for the most part ignored in the mainstream of British history, yet over centuries they made significant contributions to Britain’s wealth, politics and culture. Long, one of the most articulate protagonists of racial hierarchies, came from a family of Jamaican slave-owners who were prominent in the defence of what they saw as the rights of freeborn Englishmen, the right to hold others enslaved. His practice of disavowal, knowing and not knowing the humanity of Africans, has remained central to racial thinking into the present.
Local Roots/Global Routes
Authors: Donington Katie
Published: May 2017

This chapter uses a local lens to challenge, nuance and expand the national narrative of Britain’s involvement with both slavery and abolition. Based on research undertaken as part of a public engagement partnership between the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project and Hackney Museum and Archives, this chapter details the area’s complex and contradictory local histories of participation, abolitionism, resistance and emancipation. It explores the ways in which the different communities that make up the London Borough of Hackney, both in the past and in the present, have been shaped by their experiences of slavery and its legacies. It argues that in bringing slavery home, in telling stories about the past that connect the local to the global, we can reintegrate these histories into the national narrative creating a space to think critically about what it means and what it meant to be British.
Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow
Authors: Morris Michael
Published: May 2017

This chapter forms a case study of memory/amnesia around slavery in Glasgow and proposes that a number of high profile events in the year 2014 may prove to be a turning point in this regard. The first section peels back the overlapping layers of Atlantic, British, Scottish and Glaswegian amnesia which have prolonged the silence around slavery. The second section identifies that all twelve statues in the city’s central George Square have a connection to slavery or abolition. Borrowing from Michael Rothberg’s ‘Multi-directional Memory’ approach, it reads the statues ‘against the grain’ to demonstrate how slavery can be integrated into Glasgow’s public memory of commerce, science, militarism, politics and literature. This recovery of the memory of slavery in Glasgow comes at a dynamic period in Scotland’s history and has the potential to transform its sense of cultural history the better to forge its political future.
Collecting the Rates: Dáil Éireann Local Government and the IRA
Authors: Hughes Brian
Published: May 2017

The Dáil Éireann Local Government Department was one of the most successful established by the underground, revolutionary Dáil administration. One of the most difficult challenges it faced as it attempted to overthrown the British Local Government Board was maintaining the collection of the local poor rate, a traditionally unpopular tax that was an essential stream of revenue for local councils. At a local level, it often became necessary for the guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to carry out or facilitate the collection. The dynamics at play here between the Dáil, the IRA, and local ratepayers – who paid or refused to pay for a myriad of reasons and with a diverse set of motivations – serve as a microcosm for the wider themes of this study. It will show both the range of civilian behaviour encountered by the guerrillas and demonstrate how difficult it is to easily label or categorise this behaviour.
Civilians and Communities II: Coercion and Punishment
Authors: Hughes Brian
Published: May 2017

Having examined the often incomplete cooperation offered to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) by local civilian populations in the previous chapter, this chapter deals with the ways in which the IRA discouraged and punished acts of defiance. Punishment is divided into two main categories: non-lethal and lethal. As the vast majority of deviant acts were ‘minor’, or ‘everyday’, so was the bulk of the punishment meted out. Lethal violence was usually reserved for the more serious offence of passing information to Crown forces, except in the case of women who were almost never the victims of executions or shooting. Women were also less likely to suffer physical violence but could become the victims of ‘gender violence’, acts carried out on the basis of gender but avoiding sexual contact. Overall, punishment was usually selective, discriminate, and designed to match the perceived offence. Often, though, defiance was treated leniently or went unpunished, even in the case of alleged ‘spies and informers’. There are also notable regional variations in both lethal and non-lethal violence, as both often operated in tandem. Just as they influenced defiance, intrinsically local circumstances and dynamics were a key determinant of the nature of punishment.
A Walking Mirror
Authors: Shovlin Frank
Published: May 2017

Concentrates chiefly on how one can see the presence of Stendhal’s The Red and The Black emerging in McGahern’s The Dark, both in terms of the emergence of the bildungsroman and in precise tropes such as the use of Horace by young men to impress their peers and superiors. Concludes by suggesting that McGahern may also have bene aware of Nietzsche – in particular Human, All Too Human – and possibly uses him to structure certain aspects of The Dark.
One Lone Paperback
Authors: Shovlin Frank
Published: May 2017

Tolstoy is the one writer who McGahern directly attempted to rewrite or adapt via his play The Power of Darkness. The play was received negatively for the most part, but McGahern persisted in trying to perfect it. This chapter asks why McGahern remained so committed to Tolstoy and suggests that the two writers have in common a similar approach to the centrality of religious belief for the artist. Alongside McGahern’s one play, it focusses most on his novel The Dark and how it was influenced by Tolstoy’s last novel, Resurrection.
Instinct
Authors: Shovlin Frank
Published: May 2017

Human sexual behaviour is one of McGahern’s greatest preoccupations and this chapter looks in depth at the novel in which this interest is brought most to the fore, The Pornographer, published in 1979. As a means to enter this conversation it looks at the work of the Australian poet Douglas Stewart, and in particular at his poem ‘The Silkworms’ from which McGahern quotes in The Pornographer when describing the Dublin dance hall which the eponymous narrator cruises for women. The chapter stresses the deep seriousness with which McGahern took sex and its portrayal in fiction.
The Consolations of Nothingness
Authors: Shovlin Frank
Published: May 2017

Noticing the recurring pattern in That They May Face the Rising Sun of words like Heaven, Hell and Paradise, this chapter suggests, first, that McGahern was conscious of William Blake’s mysticism in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, but that this Blakean strain is not so much important for what it tells us of the great early English romantic, but of his influence, in turn, on W. B. Yeats. The chapter looks closely at Yeats’s early, and largely forgotten, play Where There is Nothing and suggests that McGahern’s decision to name the central character of his last novel Ruttledge is in part an homage to that play and its point of view.
Deliberate Happiness
Authors: Shovlin Frank
Published: May 2017

Taking its title from Yeats’s important dialogue poem ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’, this chapter closely examines McGahern’s final novel That They May Face the Rising Sun and suggests that, in its love for the quiet calm of rural living, it mirrors several of Yeats’s own conclusions about life, such as a the valorization of the inner over the outer man, of the immaterial over the material world. McGahern’s last story, ‘Love of the World’ takes its title from a line in ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ and has similar philosophical concerns at its core as That They May Face the Rising Sun.
Stranger in Paradise
Authors: Shovlin Frank
Published: May 2017

This chapter argues that Dante’s epic renaissance poem The Divine Comedy provides a key influence and scaffold for That They May Face the Rising Sun with Ruttledge playing the part of Dante and Jamesie that of Virgil. The chapter is also interested in McGahern’s use of Dante’s fellow Florentine Giotto and his mural ‘The Flight into Egypt’. This in turn connects to John Ruskin’s writings on Giotto and subsequently to Marcel Proust’s reverence for Ruskin as a stylist. Ultimately it is suggested that what McGahern was trying to achieve with That They May Face the Rising Sun was an ‘epic style’ and that his desire to write in such a way was influenced by Paolo Vivante’s study of Homer’s style, The Homeric Imagination.
Introduction: Cold Opens
Authors: Smith Paul Julian
Published: May 2017

The Introduction charts the audiovisual field in Spain and Mexico and sets out the empirical and theoretical context for the case studies to come. Citing Raymond Williams, the source of the book’s title, it argues that, beyond distraction and flow, quality drama satisfies in Spanish and Mexican audiences “a need for images, for representations, of what living is now like.”
Race on TV: Crónica de castas [Chronicle of Castes] (Canal 11, 2014)
Authors: Smith Paul Julian
Published: May 2017

Chapter 7 enlarges the focus on gender and sexual politics to embrace race and ethnicity. Beginning with a historical account of the complex representation of race in Mexican visual culture (painting, film, and TV), it goes on treat a unique example of a series focusing on that repressed subject. Shot and set in a working class barrio of Mexico City, this series charts the troubled consequences of ethnic mixing in Mexico, presenting little seen (and heard) indigenous characters of different kinds and enlarging its focus to embrace local Jews, Basques, and working-class transvestites. Race, gender, religion, and social class are thus cut and shuffled in this invaluable drama.
‘Civil rights, unrest, death’ (1960s)
Authors: Mulvenna Gareth
Published: May 2017

Chapter Two introduces the interviewees, all of whom were born in the early to mid-1950s. In this regard the 1960s, a dramatic period of time both globally and in Northern Ireland, are pivotal in providing a sense of what life was like for those working-class Protestant boys and teenagers who would a short time later engage in violent activities with Tartan gangs and loyalist paramilitaries. The chapter situates the autobiographical recollections of this period in domestic life, the Orange Order, education, the emergence of the UVF, the mythologising of Gusty Spence and the civil rights campaign. Ultimately, it seeks to demonstrate that the context of growing up as a working-class Protestant in Belfast amidst such uncertainty and growing violence shaped young men’s perceptions of the Catholic, nationalist and republican community as well as their own way of life as members of the wider British working class.
Conclusion
Authors: Mulvenna Gareth
Published: May 2017

This chapter brings together the main arguments in the book and highlights that the work provides a fresh and dynamic interpretation of the emergence of loyalist paramilitaries in the early 1970s. It also points to opportunities for future research on the subject.
Coda: Certain Trees
Authors: Hair Ross
Published: May 2017

‘Certain Trees’ concludes Avant-Folk by reflecting on the socio-creative implications of distribution within the small press networks examined in the previous chapters. Returning to Lorine Niedecker, the book’s Coda discusses an exhibition organised by Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn, Certain Trees, that tacitly reaffirms the extended legacy of Niedecker and Jargon Society within the broader small press milieu covered in Avant-Folk. ‘Certain Trees’ also finds an apposite analogy for the ‘happy distribution’ of small press publications in John Bevis’s artists’ books on bird song and answers the questions initially raised in the introduction regarding the possibility of a remote, ‘elsewhere community’ of poets that remain united through amity, collaboration, and the complex infrastructures of small press networks.
Virginia Woolf and the Book Society Limited
Authors: Wilson Nicola
Published: May 2017

Woolf foresaw the appeal of what would shortly become the Book Society Ltd., a mail-order book club modeled on the American Book-of-the-Month Club. Woolf worked with the Book Society and came into contact with its large, worldwide membership as both publisher and author, a perhaps unlikely relationship facilitated by her friendship with Hugh Walpole (Book Society chairman). Drawing on business correspondence in the archive of the Hogarth Press, this chapter examines the extent to which the Woolfs were willing to negotiate with the Book Society throughout the 1930s and how much impact the Book Society’s demands could have on the production schedules, prices, and occasionally upon the material production of Hogarth Press texts.
Woolf’s Imperialist Cousins: Missionary Vocations of Dorothea and Rosamond Stephen
Authors: McNees Eleanor
Published: May 2017

Now largely ignored, perhaps because Virginia Woolf mercilessly disparaged them in her diaries and letters, the two youngest daughters of James Fitzjames Stephen (Leslie Stephen’s older brother), Rosamond and Dorothea, together created a modest historical and literary legacy in their vocations and writings. Both embodied a characteristic Woolf and her father most despised—a religious missionary zeal reminiscent of the Stephen family’s strong evangelical roots in the Clapham sect of the 1830s. Dorothea’s and Rosamond’s writings reflect a desire to convert their respective audiences to a particularly English Christian perspective. Both moved to former British colonies, Dorothea to southern India where she taught in Christian religious schools, and Rosamond to Ireland where she founded the Church of Ireland-affiliated Irish Guild of Witness. In their separate endeavors they espoused and promoted their father’s beliefs in British superiority with its consequent civilizing mission. This essay reads Dorothea’s and Rosamond’s written records as examples of a revived British imperialism that Woolf inherited but strongly criticized. It suggests that Woolf’s negative reaction to her Stephen cousins who embodied that religious/imperialist ethos is more complex than has been previously acknowledged.
Mad Women: Dance, Female Sexuality, and Surveillance in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman
Authors: Coates Kimberly Engdahl
Published: May 2017

This chapter argues that Emily Holmes Coleman’s novel, The Shutter of Snow, and Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, both politicize and mobilize the dancing female body so as to perform a critique of the nationalist rhetoric circulating between WWI and WWII, which was exploiting the maternal body and subjecting the female body in general to increased surveillance. Reading dance as signifying not only in reference to aesthetic freedom but also as instantiating a revolutionary praxis, the chapter contends that the dancing female bodies within the pages of Woolf and Coleman’s novels perform a feminist politics of refusal and a complex aesthetic unraveling of dualisms that have traditionally and historically contained and restrained women. Implicitly gendering Foucault’s assessment of the gradual shift from a society premised on spectacle to an increasingly modernized society dependent on surveillance, The Shutter of Snow and The Waves discursively choreograph lines of flight and moments of suspension which, though they may not offer easy escapes (liberation or freedom from), visually and rhetorically imagine an unforeseeable future (the freedom to), where previously sanctioned modes of female embodiment might be replaced with on going gestures of becoming.
“In my mind I Saw my mother”: Virginia Woolf, Zitkala-Ša, and Autobiography
Authors: Czarnecki Kristin
Published: May 2017

This essay considers how the self becomes a subject in Virginia Woolf’s memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” written in 1939, and Dakota Sioux writer Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical essays, published in the Atlantic Monthly over several months in early 1900. I analyze how both women conceive of their nationality, social position, and politics amid competing pressures vying for their minds and bodies; how mothers and maternal loss shape their autobiographies; how physical and psychological place and displacement influence their lives and writing; and how matters of audience affect their literary self-portraits. Significant differences of course exist between Woolf, raised in an upper-middle-class family in late-Victorian England, and Zitkala-Ša, born on a Sioux reservation at the height of America’s “Indian wars” and initiatives to eradicate Native American languages, cultures, and spiritualities. Nevertheless, their autobiographical reflections on their childhood and young adulthood express comparable feminist impulses and narrative strategies.
Florence Melian Stawell and Virginia Woolf: Home-front Experience, The Price of Freedom, and Patriotism
Authors: Levenback Karen L.
Published: May 2017

An Australian by birth, Florence Melian Stawell, who was educated as a classicist at both Trinity College (Melbourne) and Newnham College (Cambridge) was a civilian living in London during the Great War. She shared this experience with Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, and many of their Bloomsbury friends. But unlike Woolf, whose life during the war has been the subject of some attention (my own Virginia Woolf and the Great War, for example), the home-front experience of Stawell and her literary output, including her anthology of poetry (The Price of Freedom) and her writings on a range of topics (patriotism, education, and the League of Nations among them), has been overlooked. This paper suggests that we may well find the Great War as a way into the life and work of this underappreciated woman, a contemporary of Virginia Woolf.
Intimations of Cosmic Indifference in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Olive Moore’s Spleen
Authors: Hagen Benjamin D.
Published: May 2017

This chapter explores a disconcerting connection between Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Olive Moore’s Spleen (1930): what Woolf elsewhere calls “a sadness at the back of life.” In the background of these novels momentary glimpses of a cosmic indifference to the plight of human and nonhuman alike attests to the ephemerality of characters, landscapes, nations, oceans, and ecosystems. The questions the chapter raises are: How might one live without mitigating or mystifying the ruthless fate that awaits this planet and its inhabitants? How might cosmic indifference become affirmed or recognized as a ground for the critique of mimesis? Of anthropocentrism? Of the many consolations which human beings fabricate to keep such indifference out of sight and mind? Lastly, what might we learn by folding this indifference into our accounts of literary modernism?
Splintered Sexualities in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “A Love Match”
Authors: Neverow Vara
Published: May 2017

Chris Baldry in Rebecca West’s debut novel The Return of the Soldier (1918), Septimus Warren Smith in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925), and the siblings Justin Tizard and Celia Tizard in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “A Love Match” (1961) all struggle with sexual attractions generated either by the trauma of direct exposure to the horrors of the Great War or by the side-effects of the war. Each of the characters discussed must cope with war-driven sexual confusion that violates the cultural restraints circumscribing sex and marriage while forbidding the transgressions of homosexuality and incest. The essay explores how the characters cope with their war-induced emotional distress and how their sufferings are offset through moments of intense love and euphoria that transcend all conventions. The essay also takes into account issues relating to censorship, particularly with regard to the timeframe of publication for Warner’s work.
“Something Intended, Complete”: Major Work on Yeats Past, Present, and Yet to Come
Authors: Chapman Wayne K.
Published: May 2017

This piece is based on a plenary lecture on the situation in Yeats scholarship delivered in 2013, updated to survey the “state of Yeats” at the sesquicentennial of his birth in 2015. It then shows how work in progress on W. B. Yeats’s Robartes-Aherne Writings recently led to an unexpected discovery of an unknown precursor to “The Phases of the Moon”—one in which Yeats followed the example of Walter Savage Landor by putting himself into an “imaginary conversation” with Aherne. Aherne is one of two creatures from his fiction of the 1890s resurrected in 1918 as spokesmen for the mystical philosophy he had begun to assemble, with his wife as medium, for A Vision (1925, 1937). As “The Phases of the Moon” figures large as an introductory movement to both editions of that book, this essay prefaces the others in this volume.
W. B. Yeats, Dream, Vision, and the Dead
Authors: Mann Neil
Published: May 2017

This essay examines the role that dream and vision play in Yeats’s creative life and thought. It considers early Theosophical influences on his approach to the nature of dreams, and how the dream-state features in Yeats’s practice of the Golden Dawn’s Hermetic cabalism, drawing extensively on the unpublished diary that Yeats kept in the “PIAL Notebook” in 1908 and 1909. Yeats held dream to offer access to otherwise unperceived aspects of reality, and as his interest in contact with the dead and spiritualism increased in the 1910s, he theorized on the possibilities offered by the dream state, and the essay considers a series of lectures he gave on the subject. It then moves on to the place of dreams in the sessions of automatic writing that he carried out with his wife, George, and the work that these gave rise to, A Vision. Throughout, it considers how these concerns and interests fed into Yeats’s creativity and art.
The Morphological Interaction of the Four Faculties in the Historical System of W. B. Yeats’s A Vision
Authors: Dampier Graham A.
Published: May 2017

William Butler Yeats’ elucidation of A Vision’s historical system in “Dove or Swan” represents the historical present as the reconciliation of past moments. The Four Faculties define history as the perpetual co-existence of historical periods and allow for a vision of historical development that always reflects on the past in order to make sense of the present. This essay argues that the interaction of the Faculties on the “line of coterminous periods” can be understood in terms of Spengler’s morphology of history as analytically analogous. The past influences the present, and can be said to constrain it, but it is the Will’s ability to reconcile the strife between the Tinctures that allows for novelty in this grand system of deterministic continuity. Previous discussions of the Yeats-Spengler connection have overlooked the importance of the Faculties and the four interacting periods of history, which this article only begins to address.
Changing notions of national identity: engaging with ethnicity
Authors: McGonagle Joseph
Published: May 2017

This chapter probes several of the ways in which ethnicity in relation to France and Frenchness has been represented visually since the 1980s across a wide variety of media and sectors, including popular and auteur cinema, photography and television. It argues that, during a time of significant political and cultural debate regarding the relationship between French national identity and ethnicity, notions of French national identity across these different media have remained far from static since the 1980s. It concludes, however, that the continuing importance of whiteness as dominant cultural norm, and its links with French republican universalism as main French political philosophy, should not be underestimated.