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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Gerard Holmes deposited George Sand’s Consuelo, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and Pleasure-Writing on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
In spring 2020, I finished my dissertation, on nineteenth-century American literature and improvisation, and decided to read for pleasure for a while. I had time in my hands, because – thanks to COVID – there were no jobs available. I’d set aside many books and essays while writing the dissertation. Among these were George Sand’s novels Consuelo…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
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TC Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
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Gerard Holmes's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
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Gerard Holmes deposited “Emily Dickinson, Jenny Lind, and Rural Nineteenth-Century Fandom,” Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Although Emily Dickinson’s papers were preserved because of her place in literary history, not her musical knowledge, her engagement with music provides an opportunity to consider pre-twentieth-century fandom. New technologies and established social networks enabled fandom for a young rural woman. For this population more than male and urban a…[Read more]
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