Articles Published in TOPIC
#59: Rebecca Harding Davis.
- Real Lives in the Iron-Mills; or, Differing Views of the Welsh Experience of America (Robin Cadwallader)
- Rights Claims and the Rule of Law in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron-Mills" (Mischa Renfroe)
- Rebecca Harding Davis's Bad Rapp: Realism versus Rumor in "The Harmonists" (Timothy W. Bintrim)
- "There's no place for such as you": Domesticity, Working-Class Street Children, and Rebecca Harding Davis's "The Promise of the Dawn" (Aaron J. Rovan)
- The Woman Question and Women's Highest Calling in Rebecca Harding Davis's "A Day with Doctor Sarah" (Jane E. Rose)
- "Uncouth monsters swathed in ice": Rebecca Harding Davis and the Abject Landscape of Appalachia (LeAnne Davis)
- "By the author of": Performative Publishing and the Major Biographies of Rebecca Harding Davis (Nicole Keller Day)
#58: Pirates.
- All at Sea: An Accusation of Piracy Against William Herle in 1565 (Robyn Adams)
- The Enemy Within: Staging Turkish Pirates in Bristol, 1613 (Laurence Publicover)
- Blackbeard: Creation of a Legend (Arne Bialuschewski)
- "He a cripple and I a boy": The Pirate and the Gentleman in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (Chamutal Noimann)
- Dead Man Talking: Conflicting Discourses in Pirate Charles Gibb's Criminal Narratives (Lynda Prewitt Davis)
- Howard Pyle's Pirates: Late Victorian Children's Literature and the Best Reading for Over-Refined Boys (David Head)
#57: Harry Potter and His Dark Materials: Essays on J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman.
- States of Nature in His Dark Materials and Harry Potter (Zoe Jaques)
- Of Wands and Spyglasses: Reconciling the Hero’s and Heroine’s Journeys (Valerie Estelle Frankel)
- Gender Politics and the Return of the Innocent Child in His Dark Materials (Lilijana Burcar)
- Taboo: Name and Naming in Harry Potter (Sylvia A. Pamboukian)
- The Remembrance of Things Past: Narrating Humanity in the Harry Potter Books (LuAnn McCracken Fletcher)
- Media and Isolation in the Harry Potter Series (Brandy Ball Blake)
- From Odysseus to Harry Potter: A Mythological Evolution (Dian Duchin Reed)
#56: Utopias and Dystopias.
- The Snake in the Garden: Crime and Punishment in Utopian Thought (Mark Stephen Jendrysik)
- Christine de Pizan as Utopian Artisan: The Book of the City of Ladies (Judith Anderson Stuart)
- Aryans in Utopia: Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora as an Example of the Contemporaneity of the Utopian Form (Karen A. Bruce)
- Warnings, Alternatives, and Action: The Totalistic Dystopias of the Twentieth Century in We, Brave New World, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (Peter G. Stillman)
- Come Again? The Contexts of Bryher’s Visa for Avalon (Elizabeth D. Lloyd-Kimbrel)
- Utopia and Irony in Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and Rodolfo Martínez’s El abismo te devuelve la mirada (Derek J. Thiess)
- “The metamorphosis of freedom”: Utopia and Dystopia in A. S. Byatt’s Quartet (Carmen Lara-Rallo)
- Delivering the Songs of the Sibyls in Michèle Roberts’s The Book of Mrs Noah (Sarah Falcus)
#55:
Marriage.
- William
Blakes Conception of Marriage: A Re-Vision
of Difference (Ann Fievet)
- The
Limits of Laudable Action:
Womens Marital Choice in John
Shebbeares The Marriage Act (Ann
Campbell)
- Alliance
or Love? Reflections on Marriage, Career, and
Creativity through the Life and Painting of
Pauline Auzou (John P. Lambertson)
- American
Slave-Concubines and the Labor of Assimilation:
The Examples of John Gabriel Stedmans
Joanna and Toussaint Charbonneaus Sacagawea
(Susan B. Iwanisziw)
- Feminizing
Casaubon: Gender and the Aging Husband in Middlemarch
(Esther Godfrey)
- The
Future of Marriage: Charlotte Perkins
Gilmans Herland (Chloé Avril)
- Economics
and Marital Estrangement in Alice
Childresss Mojo: A Black Love
Story and P. J. Gibsons
Konvergence (Ama S. Wattley)
- Reading
Between the Aisles: Same-Sex Marriage as a
Conflicted Symbol of Social Equity (Danielle
Mitchell)
- Growing
Pains of a Young Nation: Exploring the Roman
Catholic Churchs Stance on Polygamy in
Papua New Guinea (Daniel J. Stollenwerk)
- The
Death of the Housewife in Desperate
Housewives (Holly Randell-Moon)
- Marriage,
Divorce, Bachelorhood and Kids: A Mormon
Auto-Ethnography (Nathan Bennett)
#54:
Harry Potter.
- Children's
Literature or Adult Classic? The Harry Potter
Series and the British Novel Tradition (Paige
Byam)
- Aesthetic
Organization: The Structural Beauty of J. K.
Rowling's Harry Potter Series (Kathleen
McEvoy)
- Fantasy
and the Interpretation of Fantasy in Harry
Potter (Steven Barfield)
- Harry
Potter's Heritage: Tolkien as Rowling's
Patronus against the Critics (Miranda Maney
Yaggi)
- Tolkien
and Rowling: Reflections on Reception (DawnEllen
Jacobs)
- Questioning
Witchcraft and Wizardry as Obscenity: Harry
Potter's Potion for Regulation (Lee Ann
Diffendal)
- Disillusionment
in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(Donna C. Woodford)
- "You
Survived to Bear Witness": Trauma,
Testimony, and the Burden of Witnessing in Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Heather
Debling)
- Is
Seeing Believing? Truth and Lies in Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Marla
Harris)
- Harry
Potter and the Freedom of Information: Knowledge
and Control in Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix (Jennifer Flaherty)
- From
Books to Battle: Hermione's Quest for Knowledge
in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(Karley Kristine Adney)
#53:
A Festschrift for Professor Walter S. Sanderlin. Editor:
Thomas Mainwaring (History).
- Comecon,
the EEC, and the Cold War in Europe (Robert H.
Dodge)
- A
Tale of Two Archives (Robert H. Ferrell)
- From
St. Mihiel to Tora Bora: A Retrospective on
Patton's Inter-War Defense of the Horse Cavalry
(R. Shane Fitzpatrick)
- In
the Hands of the Saints: William Butler Yeats and
the Early Tuscan Painters (William P. Keen)
- The
Right Myths at the Right Time: Myth Making and
Hero Worship in Post-Frontier American
Society--George Edward Waddell versus Christy
Mathewson (Alan Levy)
#52:
Italian Americans in Western Pennsylvania. Guest Editor:
Nicholas P. Ciotola (Sen. John Heinz Center for Regional
History).
- Emigration
from Torino di Sangro to Two Communities in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 1890-1924:
Baggaley and Jeannette (Michael Di Virgilio)
- The
Decline of the Socialist Vote among Italian
Americans in Pittsburgh After World War 1
(Stefano Luconi)
- Dominick
Gelotte: Labor Agitator and Community Activist,
Nanty-Glo, Pennsylvania, 1919-33 (Irwin M.
Marcus)
- Italian
Americans, Catholics, and the Ku Klux Klan: A
Clash of Ethnicity and Culture in the Lilly Riot
of 1924 (Elizabeth Ricketts)
- Italian
or American? Second-Generation Ethnic Identity
Development in Pittsburgh (Domnic La Cava)
- Italian
Americans in Western Pennsylvania: A Bibliography
(Nicholas Ciotola)
#51: Religion in the Eighteenth Century. Editor: Linda Troost (English). Includes papers presented at the EC/ASECS conference at W&J College in 1999 (limited supply).
- The
Structure and Operation of the Anti-Catholic
Penal Laws in England during the Long Eighteenth
Century (Allan Nelson)
- International
Protestantism at the Beginning of the Eighteenth
Century (Brijraj Singh)
- Christianity,
Feminism, and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa:
A Platonic Menage a Trois (E. Derek Taylor)
- They
Burned Him at the Stake: The Life (and Times) of
the Archpriest Avvakum, Written by Himself (John
Mark Scott)
- Eighteenth-Century
Russian Philosophy on the Immortality of the Soul
(Tatiana V. Artemieva)
#50:
A Memorial to James Gargano, Professor Emeritus of
English. Editors: William P. Keen, Dwayne Thorpe, and
Linda Troost (English).
- Henry
James's The Americans: Balance and
Symmetry (James W. Gargano)
- The
Active Imagination: Milly Theale in Henry James's
The Wings of the Dove (James W. Gargano)
- Once
More into the Breach: Joseph Heller Gives Catch-22
a Second Act (Sanford Pinsker)
- Burke's
Ocean and Cooper's Forests: The Americanization
of the Sublime (Joseph M. DeFalco)
- Cross-Pollination:
George Herbert, R. S. Thomas, and "The
Flower" (William J. McGill)
- "Elizabeth
Stock's One Story": Kate Chopin and the
Writing Lives of Women (James M. Hutchisson)
- The
Intersection of Text and Dream: A Palimpsestic
Reading of Lockwood's Nightmare Visions in Wuthering
Heights (Elizabeth Gargano)
- Chaucer's
Imaginable Audience and the Oaths of The
Shipman's Tale (William P. Keen)
#49:
International and Regional Organizations into the 21st
Century. Editors: Shane Fitzpatrick (Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Centenary College) and Robert M.
Dodge (History).
- Regional
Integration in Europe: The Intersection of
Domestic and International Policies and Practices
(Michelle Egan)
- NATO:
A Military Alliance and a Security System for
Europe (Robert H. Dodge)
- From
the CSCE to the OSCE: The Expanding Agenda of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (Shane Fitzpatrick)
- The
Role of the League of Arab States as We Enter the
Twenty-First Century (Tansa George Massoud)
- The
Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) and the European Union (EU) (Buba
Misawa)
- The
Uruguay Round and the International Trading
System (Andrew John Tabler)
#48:
Jane Austen Goes to the Movies. Editor: Linda V. Troost
(English).
- Jane
Austen and Technology (Linda Troost)
- Mr.
Darcy's Body: Privileging the Female Gaze (Lisa
Hopkins)
- Janespotting
(John Maurice Forde)
- Catherine
Moreland: Gothic Heroine after All? (Marilyn
Roberts)
- Is
Emma Clueless? Fantasies of Class and Gender from
England to California (John R. Greenfield)
- "Piracy
is our only Option": Postfeminist
Intervention in Sense and Sensibility
(Kristin Flieger Samuelian)
- Emma
Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as
Gateway to Austen's Novel: A Pedagogical
Experiment (M. Casey Diana)
- Austenmania,
EQ, and the End of the Millennium (Jennifer
Foster)
#47:
Multicultural Education. Editor: Edward M. Greb
(Sociology).
- Multiethnic
School and Multicultural Education (Margaret A.
Gibson)
- Mathematically
Speaking, Mathematically Being (Paul. J. Longo)
- Common
Links (Patricia D. Maloney)
- The
Family--Cornerstone of Ghanaian Culture (Joseph
Zaphenat Amenowode)
- Anthropological
Perspectives in Business Education: Global and
Local Linkages (Frank J. Giannotta)
- Universities
in National Development (James Mauch)
#46:
John Keats: A Bicentennial Celebration. Editor: Kenneth
M. Mason, Jr. (English).
- At
a House in Hampstead: A Personal Account of
Keats's Place in American Culture (Andrew O.
Jones)
- Keats
and the Act of Translation: The Discovery of
Voice in "On First Looking into Chapman's
Homer" (Kenneth M. Mason, Jr)
- Mist
and Crag: The Poetry of Keats's Walking Tour
(Nick Halpern)
- Keats's
Violation of Romance: Transgression in "The
Eve of Saint Agnes" (Rhonda Ray Kercsmar)
- Poem:
Fair Youth Beneath the Spanish Steps (Sanford
Pinsker)
- Black
Border: Keats's Urn and the Displacement of Fear
(Daniel O'Hearn)
- Escape
from Slow Time: Sculpture and Tactile Temporality
in Keats's Later Poems (Terrie Aamodt)
#45:
The Whiskey Rebellion. Editor: W. Thomas Mainwaring
(History).
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