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Shalyn Claggett
Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language AssociationIn Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially constructed forms of
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Shalyn Claggett
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Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 43:608-610
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Shalyn Claggett
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Journal of Narrative Theory. 46:171-195
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Shalyn Claggett
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Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 39:335-337
Evolutionary theory precipitated perhaps the most radical historical shift in humans’ attempt to come to terms with their relationship to nature, and as Alexis Harley points out in Autobiologies, i...
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Shalyn Claggett
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Prose Studies. 33:19-43
In 1864, the British Parliament passed the first Contagious Diseases Act, which allowed police officers in specified garrison towns to arrest suspected prostitutes, compel them to undergo gynecological examinations, and incarcerate those thought to b
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Shalyn Claggett
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Victorian Literature and Culture. 38:53-73
In 1840, thePhrenological Journalpublished an anonymous personal testimony of phrenological salvation titled “Remarkable Case of Change of Character and Pursuits.” The article appears in the “Cases and Facts” section of the periodical, common
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Shalyn Claggett
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The Henry James Review. 26:189-200
This psychoanalytic reading examines Henry James's short story, "The Jolly Corner," through theories of narcissism advanced by Freud and Lacan. Paralleling the protagonist, Spencer Brydon, with Ovid's Narcissus, this reading claims that James's tale
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Shalyn Claggett
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Studies in English literature. 51(4)
This essay tracks George Eliot's sustained interest in the epistemological problems surrounding the Victorian tendency to envision the future through the body's materiality. It argues that her nuanced criticism of phrenology in "The Lifted Veil" (185