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Faith, feeling and gender in the writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake
No full textThis thesis examines David Hartley’s Observations on Man (1749) and elucidates how Hartley’s mechanical approach to mind, his conception of emotion, and the religious status he awards the body were newly relevant after 1791. In this way it identifies a ‘Hartlean culture’ within the Romantic period and seeks to explore how such an intellectual climate influenced the radical writers William Blake (1757–1827) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). Blake and Wollstonecraft were acquainted with the famous bookseller Joseph Johnson, who republished Observations on Man in various forms and versions between 1775 and 1801. They also had an association with Johnson’s circle; the Hartlean concepts found throughout their work evidence Hartley’s latent popularity within intellectual culture, as well as the writers’ engagement with contemporary philosophical ideas. I propose that the renewed curiosity in Hartley during the 1790s reveals a specific religious and revolutionary culture wherein non-conformist views about Christianity and new ideas about the body, emotion and women flourished. Such a cultural moment renders Hartley a particularly important figure for debate since he integrated progressive values about equality and faith alongside advancing understanding of anatomy and mind. Hartley identified how God and happiness could be found physically within each person. He did this by combining a complex theory of vibrations and theory of association, where the body and mind functioned mechanically through a person’s feelings of pleasure and pain. These feelings manifested as physical vibrations and eventually led every person to desire goodness until finally, they can become ‘Godlike’ themselves. Hartley’s amalgamation of Christian and new theoretical concepts appealed to Blake and Wollstonecraft, and was much unlike the approach of Joseph Priestley who abridged Observations in 1775 to promote a wholly ‘scientific’ text. In this way, we can see resonances between Hartley, Blake and Wollstonecraft, even if they existed in different cultural contexts. In rethinking Blake and Wollstonecraft through Hartley, I offer new insights into their feminism. In particular I attend to how Hartlean culture enabled these writers to re-imagine gender and emotion: Wollstonecraft reinstates the female experience back into Hartlean concepts in order to promote women’s emotional potential and what she understands as the special power of the female-female bond. Blake responds to both Wollstonecraft and Hartley with his elevation of the feminine, one that envisions new potential for both sexes, emotionally and spiritually. In both cases, the writers share a fascination for the image of the female saviour, and they use terminology and concepts found in Hartley’s work to communicate their views. In being attentive to the shared vocabulary and ideas of these three writers’ works, this thesis highlights the importance of David Hartley and Hartlean culture for the field of Romantic Studies. It also illuminates Observations on Man as a vital contribution to the intellectual context of the 1790s
Rachel V. Billigheimer : Wheels of Eternity, a comparative study of William Blake and William Butler Yeats
No full textGenet Jacqueline. Rachel V. Billigheimer : Wheels of Eternity, a comparative study of William Blake and William Butler Yeats. In: Études irlandaises, n°15-2, 1990. pp. 239-240
Rachel V. Billigheimer : Wheels of Eternity, a comparative study of William Blake and William Butler Yeats
No full textGenet Jacqueline. Rachel V. Billigheimer : Wheels of Eternity, a comparative study of William Blake and William Butler Yeats. In: Études irlandaises, n°15-2, 1990. pp. 239-240
Interview with Jacqueline DeGroot
No full textJacqueline DeGroot, author of Climax and Worth Any Price, discusses how she came to be a writer, her writing process and sources of inspiration, and her experiences with self-publishing
Le Moyen Orient : P. Beaumont, G. H. Blake, J. M. Wagstaff, The Middle East
No full textBeaujeu-Garnier Jacqueline. Le Moyen Orient : P. Beaumont, G. H. Blake, J. M. Wagstaff, The Middle East. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 86, n°476, 1977. pp. 501-502
Jacqueline Woodson: 2023 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Jacqueline Woodson gives an acceptance speech for The World Belonged to Us, illustrated by Leo Espinosa (Penguin)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1011/thumbnail.jp
Leslie Behm interviews essayist and fantasy writer Jacqueline Carey
No full textEssayist and fantasy writer Jacqueline Carey talks about the meaning of the title of her Kushiel Trilogy, how she became an author, her work in progress. She also gives advice to aspiring authors. Carey is interviewed by Michigan State University librarian Leslie Behm. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
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Jacqueline Barnitz: 40 Years of Publications
No full textJacqueline Barnitz: 40 Years of Publications
Jacqueline Barnitz is responsible for establishing modern Latin American art as an area of concentration
within art history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught now for 25 years. She's a
major reason why UT Austin is known as the best place in the nation for studying modern Latin American
art. A notable record of publication accompanies her career as a distinguished educator. In fact, her
interest in Latin American art goes back to her tenure as an art critic in New York for the periodicals Art
Voices (1964-1965) and Arts Magazine (1964-1975). Additionally, she's been the curator of numerous art
exhibitions and, subsequently, the author of many exhibition catalogs. In 2000 UT Press published her
much-anticipated and seminal book Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, which quickly became the
textbook on the subject. We present this display of selected publications as a tribute to her outstanding
contributions to the university and to the field of art history.UT Librarie
Women reading William Blake /
No full text"Blake's works have long been objects of troubled fascination for female readers and writers. Women Read William Blake brings together the thoughts and arguments of women academic and writers redressing the under-representation of the rich heritage of Blake feminist criticism which now exists. This unique volume contains essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, and will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded- over three turbulent decades--to the art of a canonical "dead, white, male."Includes bibliographical references and index.Blake's Mary and Martha on the Mount of Olives: questions on the watercolour illustrations of the gospels / Mary Lynn Johnson -- The Trimurti meet the Zoas: 'Hindoo' strategies in the poetry of William Blake / Kathryn Sullivan Kruger -- Towards an ungendered romanticism: Blake, Robinson and Smith in 1793 / Jacqueline M. Labbe -- William Blake and romantic women poets: 'Then what have I to do with thee?' / Harriet Kramer Linkin -- 'Endless their labour': women in Blake's illuminated works and in the British workforce / Catherine L. McClenahan -- Sentiment, motherhood and the sea in Gillray and Blake / Cindy McCreery -- Framing Eve: reading Blake's illustrations / Jennifer Davis Michael -- Lucid dreaming / lucid reading: notes on sleepers in Blake's songs / Gerda S. Norvig -- Valkyries and Sibyls: old Norse voices of female authority in Blake's prophetic books / Heather O'Donoghue -- Re-deeming scripture: my William Blake revisited / Alicia Ostriker --^The gender of los(s): Blake's work in the 1790s / Tilottama Rajan -- The 'secret' and the 'gift': recovering the suppressed religious heritage of William Blake and Hilda Doolittle / Marsha Keith Schuchard -- A kabbalistic reading of Jerusalem's prose plates / Shelia A. Spector -- Brittannia counter Britannia: how Jerusalem revises patriotism / June Sturrock -- Blake: sex and selfhood / Irene Tayler -- Blake moments / Janet Warner -- Blake, sex and women revisited / Brenda Webster -- The strange difference of female 'experience' / Susan J. Wolfson -- Baillie and Blake: at the intersection of allegory and drama / Julia M. Wright.'The bread of sweet thought & the wine of delight': gender, aesthetics and Blake's dear friend Mrs Anna Flaxman' / Helen P. Bruder -- Peeking over the garden wall / Tracy Chevalier -- Blake, literary history and sexual difference / Claire Colebrook -- Transgender juvenilia: Blake's and Cristall's poetical sketches / Tristanne Connolly -- 'The right stuff in the right hands': Anne Gilchrist and the life of William Blake / Shirley Dent -- William Blake's Lavaterian women: Eleanor, Rowena and Ahania / Sibylle Erle -- Blake's golden chapel: the serpent within and those who stood without / Eugenie R. Freed -- How to nearly wreck your life by living Blake / Addie Stephen -- Aesthetic agency? enitharmon in Blake's Europe / Nancy Moore Goslee -- 'No earthly parents I confess': the clod, the pebble and Catherine Blake / Germaine Greer -- The impact of Feminism on Blake studies in Japan / Yoko Ima-Izumi --^"Blake's works have long been objects of troubled fascination for female readers and writers. Women Read William Blake brings together the thoughts and arguments of women academic and writers redressing the under-representation of the rich heritage of Blake feminist criticism which now exists. This unique volume contains essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, and will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded- over three turbulent decades--to the art of a canonical "dead, white, male.
First person – Jacqueline Weidner
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open (BiO), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jacqueline Weidner is first author on ‘Hormones as adaptive control systems in juvenile fish’, published in BiO. Jacqueline conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is now an assistant professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, investigating sexual selection and modelling of evolutionary patterns
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