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A first look at "Who's the Murderer?" by Eleanor Sleath
No full text"Who's the Murderer?" was published in 1802 by Eleanor Sleath, who is named as an author of one of the 'horrid novels' in Northanger Abbey. This paper discusses some details of what is known about Eleanor Sleath, and discusses the editing process as well as giving a short summary of the book and some of the gothic elements, with particular reference to Sleath's principal influence, Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udulpho
A Gisha
No full textDoctor Eleanor J. Smith is an African American studies educator, musician, university system chancellor, author, and visual artist. Dr. Smith was faculty member of the University of Cincinnati’s Afro-American Studies Department and William Patterson University. After obtaining a doctorate in African American studies and becoming a university professor, Dr. Smith wrote and directed performances about the Black experience during the 1970s
Victorian Alchemy
Get PDFVictorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as ‘alchemical’. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science.
Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing, counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to this day
Dr. Eleanor J. Smith Black History Collection
No full textDoctor Eleanor J. Smith is an African American studies educator, musician, university system chancellor, author, and visual artist. Dr. Smith was faculty member of the University of Cincinnati’s Afro-American Studies Department and William Patterson University. After obtaining a doctorate in African American studies and becoming a university professor, Dr. Smith wrote and directed performances about the Black experience during the 1970s
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