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Remembering Jennie Moore
Full text linkThis chapter explores the methodological challenges and concerns connected to researching the story of Jennie Moore, who lived as a trans woman in the North East of England in the early twentieth century. We consider and address questions and challenges around how we can talk about Jennie’s life and gender non-conformity without using language that is anachronistic, or imposes contemporary ideas of identity on the past, yet still enables us to talk about her as a trans ancestor in ways that are relevant to trans lives in the present. As a research project that emerged as a collaboration with performance artist Tom Marshman, we consider the contributions of taking multidisciplinary approaches to remembrance and storytelling. We examine the ways in which language is used to construct narratives about historic gender non-conforming lives, particularly when Jennie’s voice is absent, and the only sources that are available about her life are transphobic and transmisogynistic newspaper reports or criminal records. We look at the ways these sources embody Jennie, and attempt to identify and disentangle her agency from within the materials available. We assert the importance of this necessarily messy work. We argue that we can learn from the continuities and discontinuities of trans experiences of incarceration in present struggles to dismantle harmful carceral structures
Gender nonconformity and military internment: curating the Knockaloe slides
Full text linkThis article discusses the interpretation and curation of the glass plate slides surviving from the First World War civilian internment camp at Knockaloe, Isle of Man, which show internees (all assigned male at birth) presenting as female in various situations. With reference to recent debates in heritage studies concerning the social agency of museums, and to the ways in which erasure of trans history is increasingly politically instrumentalized, it argues in favour of acknowledging the possibility that some internees’ female presentation was motivated by female gendered subjectivity. The article discusses the circumstances in which people who were assigned male at birth presented as female in military contexts; considers the specific issues at stake when curating the history of marginalized groups; and analyses the multiple possible motivations for the female presentation shown in the Knockaloe slides. Consequently, it advocates a polyvocal curatorial approach, which validates the slides’ trans possibility equally alongside other motivations. It concludes by arguing for a shift in the historiographical discourse of gender and military internment, including a more mindful approach to the use of gendered language
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Paratexts and pornographic potential in seventeenth-century anatomy books
Full text linkThis article discusses paratexts in seventeenth-century anatomy books and their relation to contemporary concerns that these books might be read erotically. Suggesting that discussions of these concerns have hitherto neglected the material object of the book, I argue for the importance of paratexts (illustrations, legends, prefaces, running titles and marginal notes) as sites of negotiation over anatomy books’ pornographic potential. I examine these paratexts both as strategies by which writers and printers carefully and collaboratively attempt to frustrate erotic reading, and as devices that might simultaneously function to facilitate this mode of reading. The centrality of these concerns to the construction of anatomy books indicates, I suggest, a need to augment our characterisation of early modern readers, incorporating wilfully thoughtless and/or excessive reading alongside active and productive reading. My discussion focuses on Helkiah Crooke’s Mikrokosmographia, and is supplemented with analysis of other English anatomy books published throughout the seventeenth century
The reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697: A literary transformation of history
Full text linkDuring his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, and having been murdered by penetration with a red-hot spit. This book provides the first account of how this reputation developed. In doing so, it provides new insights into the processes and priorities that shaped narratives of sexual transgression in medieval and early modern England; the changing vocabulary of sexual transgression in English, Latin and French; the conditions that created space for sympathetic depictions of same-sex love; the use of medieval history in early modern political polemic; and the cultural impact of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (c.1591-92). Through close reading of chronicle accounts and political pamphlets alongside poetry and drama, it demonstrates that Edward’s medieval and early modern afterlife was significantly shaped by the influence of literary texts and techniques – and makes the case for a ‘literary transformation’ of historiographical methodology, as an apposite response to the factors that shaped medieval and early modern narratives of the past
James M. Bromley. Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp 220.
No full textThis review considers Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama
James M. Bromley. Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
No full textThis review considers Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama
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