In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy... more In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy that transforms “foreign” people, bodies, and objects into perceived invaders with the dangerous power to alter the social fabric of the nation and the identity of the English. Essays in the collected edition look across the cultural landscape of the nineteenth century to trace the myriad tensions that gave rise to fear and loathing of immigrants, aliens, and ethnic/racial/religious others. This volume introduces new ways of reading the fear and loathing of all that was foreign in nineteenth-century British culture, and, in doing so, it captures nuances that often fall beyond the scope of current theoretical models. “Xenophobia” not only offers a distinctive theoretical lens through which to read the nineteenth century; it also advances and enriches our understanding of other critical approaches to the study of difference. Bringing together scholarship from art history, history, literary studies, cultural studies, women’s studies, Jewish studies, and postcolonial studies, Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia seeks to open a rich and provocative dialogue on the global dimensions of xenophobia during the nineteenth century.
Understanding historical events is necessary for the study of contemporary society, culture, and ... more Understanding historical events is necessary for the study of contemporary society, culture, and politics. In this work, we focus on the event extraction task (EE) to detect event trigger words and their arguments in a novel domain of historical texts. In particular, we introduce a new EE dataset for a corpus of nineteenth-century African American newspapers. Our goal is to study the discourse of slave and non-slave African diaspora rebellions published in the periodical press in this period. Our dataset features 5 entity types, 12 event types, and 6 argument roles that concern slavery and black movements between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Historical newspapers present many challenges for existing EE systems, including the evolution of meanings of words and the extensive use of religious discourse in newspapers from this era. Our experiments with current state-ofthe-art EE systems and BERT models demonstrate their poor performance over historical texts and call for mor...
Page 1. An Uncomfortable Authority Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts Edited by Heidi Kaufman and C... more Page 1. An Uncomfortable Authority Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts Edited by Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Page 5. An Uncomfortable Authority Thi. s On< LFYQ-1PJ-U8NR Page 6. Portrait of Maria Edgeworth by Alonzo Chappel. ...
In the past 15 years, literary and textual scholars have been pushing the boundaries of literary ... more In the past 15 years, literary and textual scholars have been pushing the boundaries of literary and personal paper archives to find new modes of scholarship, whether it be reclaiming authors previously considered �unworthy� of scholarly study or using textual criticism and the materiality of the book/manuscript to discuss how a scholar pieces together different types of material and information to formulate their argument. These new assertions highlight that the literary archive is neither neatly defined nor should it be a fixed form of study. Instead, the contributors to this wonderfully articulated collection argue for flexibility both in the archive . . .
... just fifteen.'In 1823, Disraeli and his friend, Page 15. The Young Man William George Me... more ... just fifteen.'In 1823, Disraeli and his friend, Page 15. The Young Man William George Meredith, produced two copies of a reworking of the fairy tale, Rumpel Stiltskin. Meredith also became engaged to Disraeli's sister, Sarah, but ...
In Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning, David Theo Goldberg maintains that one... more In Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning, David Theo Goldberg maintains that one of the central paradoxes of modernity, “the irony perhaps,” is that “as modernity commits itself progressively to idealized principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, as it increasingly insists upon the moral irrelevance of race, there is a multiplication of racial identities and the sets of exclusions they prompt and rationalize, enable and sustain.” Central to Goldberg’s argument is that liberal culture is not just an antidote to racism, but also often acts as one means by which racist expressions persist. The essays included in Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz’s timely and illuminating collection explore this irony in great detail. Although the two ideologies—Jew hatred and Jew love— are sometimes understood to be mutually exclusive or as signs of ambivalence toward Jewish people and culture, this collection makes a compelling case for considering how these positions often complement or sanction each other. In foregrounding philosemitism as both a subject of inquiry and a critical lens through which to read expressions of antisemitism, the essays in this collection will have broad appeal. The editors note in the introduction that their approach of mixing cultures, genres, nationalities, and time periods “will allow readers to compare the rhetorical effects of diverse, even ostensibly unrelated, instances of philosemitism, and to see how philosemitism and antisemitism are never discrete manifestations of a particular cultural and/or political movement, but rather engage and interweave images, myths, and ideas whose forms and meanings transform over centuries” (9–10). The insightful, well-connected eleven essays that follow the introduction argue persuasively for the importance of reading philosemitism as a distinct subject that may interact with strident antisemitism, but nonetheless has its own ideological underpinnings.
In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy... more In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy that transforms “foreign” people, bodies, and objects into perceived invaders with the dangerous power to alter the social fabric of the nation and the identity of the English. Essays in the collected edition look across the cultural landscape of the nineteenth century to trace the myriad tensions that gave rise to fear and loathing of immigrants, aliens, and ethnic/racial/religious others. This volume introduces new ways of reading the fear and loathing of all that was foreign in nineteenth-century British culture, and, in doing so, it captures nuances that often fall beyond the scope of current theoretical models. “Xenophobia” not only offers a distinctive theoretical lens through which to read the nineteenth century; it also advances and enriches our understanding of other critical approaches to the study of difference. Bringing together scholarship from art history, history, literary studies, cultural studies, women’s studies, Jewish studies, and postcolonial studies, Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia seeks to open a rich and provocative dialogue on the global dimensions of xenophobia during the nineteenth century.
Understanding historical events is necessary for the study of contemporary society, culture, and ... more Understanding historical events is necessary for the study of contemporary society, culture, and politics. In this work, we focus on the event extraction task (EE) to detect event trigger words and their arguments in a novel domain of historical texts. In particular, we introduce a new EE dataset for a corpus of nineteenth-century African American newspapers. Our goal is to study the discourse of slave and non-slave African diaspora rebellions published in the periodical press in this period. Our dataset features 5 entity types, 12 event types, and 6 argument roles that concern slavery and black movements between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Historical newspapers present many challenges for existing EE systems, including the evolution of meanings of words and the extensive use of religious discourse in newspapers from this era. Our experiments with current state-ofthe-art EE systems and BERT models demonstrate their poor performance over historical texts and call for mor...
Page 1. An Uncomfortable Authority Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts Edited by Heidi Kaufman and C... more Page 1. An Uncomfortable Authority Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts Edited by Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Page 5. An Uncomfortable Authority Thi. s On< LFYQ-1PJ-U8NR Page 6. Portrait of Maria Edgeworth by Alonzo Chappel. ...
In the past 15 years, literary and textual scholars have been pushing the boundaries of literary ... more In the past 15 years, literary and textual scholars have been pushing the boundaries of literary and personal paper archives to find new modes of scholarship, whether it be reclaiming authors previously considered �unworthy� of scholarly study or using textual criticism and the materiality of the book/manuscript to discuss how a scholar pieces together different types of material and information to formulate their argument. These new assertions highlight that the literary archive is neither neatly defined nor should it be a fixed form of study. Instead, the contributors to this wonderfully articulated collection argue for flexibility both in the archive . . .
... just fifteen.'In 1823, Disraeli and his friend, Page 15. The Young Man William George Me... more ... just fifteen.'In 1823, Disraeli and his friend, Page 15. The Young Man William George Meredith, produced two copies of a reworking of the fairy tale, Rumpel Stiltskin. Meredith also became engaged to Disraeli's sister, Sarah, but ...
In Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning, David Theo Goldberg maintains that one... more In Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning, David Theo Goldberg maintains that one of the central paradoxes of modernity, “the irony perhaps,” is that “as modernity commits itself progressively to idealized principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, as it increasingly insists upon the moral irrelevance of race, there is a multiplication of racial identities and the sets of exclusions they prompt and rationalize, enable and sustain.” Central to Goldberg’s argument is that liberal culture is not just an antidote to racism, but also often acts as one means by which racist expressions persist. The essays included in Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz’s timely and illuminating collection explore this irony in great detail. Although the two ideologies—Jew hatred and Jew love— are sometimes understood to be mutually exclusive or as signs of ambivalence toward Jewish people and culture, this collection makes a compelling case for considering how these positions often complement or sanction each other. In foregrounding philosemitism as both a subject of inquiry and a critical lens through which to read expressions of antisemitism, the essays in this collection will have broad appeal. The editors note in the introduction that their approach of mixing cultures, genres, nationalities, and time periods “will allow readers to compare the rhetorical effects of diverse, even ostensibly unrelated, instances of philosemitism, and to see how philosemitism and antisemitism are never discrete manifestations of a particular cultural and/or political movement, but rather engage and interweave images, myths, and ideas whose forms and meanings transform over centuries” (9–10). The insightful, well-connected eleven essays that follow the introduction argue persuasively for the importance of reading philosemitism as a distinct subject that may interact with strident antisemitism, but nonetheless has its own ideological underpinnings.
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