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Editorial (July 2019)
No full textThis is the editorial to volume 2, issue number 1 of The Journal of Juvenilia Studie
A New Approach to Autobiography and Juvenilia: Re-Examining Charlotte Brontë\u27s Assumption of Power in her Paracosmic Counterworld
No full textThis paper demonstrates how the two ostensibly contradictory concepts of power assumption and autobiography can co-exist simultaneously in paracosmic juvenilia, that of Charlotte Brontë in particular. Many critics assert that marginalized or isolated children use their writings as vehicles with which to assume the kind of power denied to them as minors in reality, whereas others view juvenilia as autobiographical platforms through which children can articulate their experience of the world. However, these theories are not exclusive to juvenilia, nor is the concept of a paracosm, a term which originated in the study of childhood play. Drawing on the work of such critics as Stephen MacKeith, David Cohen, and Christine Alexander, this paper examines Brontë’s Glass Town and Angrian narratives in order to demonstrate that her paracosmic world both distorts and mirrors aspects of herself and to argue accordingly that Brontë’s juvenilia is neither strictly autobiographical nor a vehicle to assume the power denied to her in reality
Reviews
Get PDFKeith Hanley and Caroline S. Hull, editors, John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings (Oxford, Legenda, 2016), reviewed by Rob Breton; Victoria Ford Smith, Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children\u27s Literature (University Press of Mississippi, 2017), reviewed by Katharine Kittridge; Leslie Robertson and Juliet McMaster, with Alexandra Allen, Jasmyn Bojakli, Adela Burke, Aaron Mazo, Nicholas Siennicki, and Heather Westhaver, editors, The Journals and Poems of Marjory Fleming (Juvenilia Press, 2018), reviewed by Peter Merchant
Reviews
Get PDFJane Austen\u27s Geographies, edited by Robert Clark, reviewed by Susan Allen Ford; William Faulkner\u27s Ole Miss Juvenilia, edited by Carvel Collins, reviewed by Sarah Gleeson-White; Patrick Branwell Brontë\u27s The Pirate, edited by Christine Alexander, Joetta Harty and Benjamin Drexler, reviewed by Patsy Stoneman
“What one sees another sees" : Synchronicity in the Juvenilia of Anna Kingsford and Richard Jefferies
Get PDFThis essay considers some of the work published by Anna Kingsford (1846-88) before she reached the age of twenty and by Richard Jefferies (1848-87) before he turned eighteen. It focuses on the year 1866, and explores some unexpected parallels between his writing and hers. What stand revealed are two oddly overlapping careers that were shaped by, but also both rose above, the not always favourable conditions under which in the later nineteenth century the young writer had to operate
The Uses of Juvenilia: Ernest Jones\u27s Effusions
No full textThe paper examines the ways in which juvenilia has been or can be "used" to help construct the image of the mature writer. Examining mostly the childhood writing of the Chartist Ernest Jones, I question the relationship between the early and mature writings, suggesting that determining this relationship should not be part of a campaign to promote an image of the mature man. In other words, the relationship between youthful writing and adult writing needs to be interpreted, not assumed
Drawing and Longing: Reading the Relics of Practice
Get PDFThis essay incorporates both images and text in order to examine how the concept of "juvenilia" applies to a visual artist. The author, a practising artist, revisits her own childhood drawings as a means of considering what it is to make images, to think and feel through picturing, and as a means of reflecting on her visual practice in relation to narrative, performance and archaeological process. Readers are offered here a paratext, that is, a text-with-image piece that draws out subject matter through pairings or clusters of text with text, image with image, or text with image
Table of Contents (July 2019)
No full textTable of contents for vol. 2, issue no. 1 (July 2019) of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies
Editorial (December 2019)
No full textThis is the editorial for vol. 2, no. 2 of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies