Books by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Contributors: Anthony Bogues, Marlene Daut, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, Laurent Du... more Contributors: Anthony Bogues, Marlene Daut, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, Laurent Dubois, James Alexander Dun, Duncan Faherty, Carolyn Fick, David Geggus, Kieran Murphy, Colleen O'Brien, Peter P. Reed, Siân Silyn Roberts, Cristobal Silva, Ed White, Ivy Wilson, Gretchen Woertendyke, Edlie Wong.
In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eightee... more In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of colonialism loomed large. Foremost among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom.
"In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the work... more "In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere—from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism. Placing representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere, this book links modern forms of political identity to the seemingly private images of gender displayed prominently in the developing public sphere. The 'fictions of liberalism' explored in this book are those of marriage and motherhood, sentimental domesticity, and heterosexual desire—narratives that structure the private realm upon which liberalism depends for its meaning and value. In a series of bold theoretical arguments and nuanced readings of literary texts, the author explores the political force of these private narratives with chapters on the Antinomian crisis in Puritan Massachusetts, early national models of gender and marriage in the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Hannah Webster Foster, infanticide narratives and nineteenth-century accounts of motherhood in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lydia Maria Child, and 're-arranging' marriage in the poetry of Emily Dickinson."
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Contents: The Gender of Freedom
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
1. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
2. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
3. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
4. Sociality and Sentiment
Coda: Queering Marriage—Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Papers by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Atlantic Studies, 2015
In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (... more In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA)developed at Northeastern University and available at ecdaproject. orghas created a collaborative archival project, "Obeah and the Caribbean." This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original obeah texts including a number of the primary sources that are discussed throughout the articles in this volume of Atlantic Studies. The ECDA is designed to serve not only as a repository but also as a digital commons and laboratory space for researchers and students interested in the early Caribbean: users of the site can curate, annotate, and discuss early Caribbean materials that are included in the archive. We invite readers of this issue to further engage and experiment with primary sources and to collaborate with other scholars by way of this exhibit and the digital workspace of the ECDA + CoLab. In the brief essay below, we discuss some of the core intellectual issues that inform the ECDA and our project on obeah.
In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (... more In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) – developed at Northeastern University and available at ecdaproject.org – has created a collaborative archival project, “Obeah and the Caribbean.” This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original obeah texts including a number of the primary sources that are discussed throughout the articles in this volume of Atlantic Studies. The ECDA is designed to serve not only as a repository but also as a digital commons and laboratory space for researchers and students interested in the early Caribbean: users of the site can curate, annotate, and discuss early Caribbean materials that are included in the archive. We invite readers of this issue to further engage and experiment with primary sources and to collaborate with other scholars by way of this exhibit and the digital workspace of the ECDA + CoLab. In the brief essay below, we discuss some of the core intellectual issue...
The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) – developed at Northeastern University and available a... more The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) – developed at Northeastern University and available at ecdaproject.org – has created a collaborative archival project, “Obeah and the Caribbean.” This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original Obeah texts including a number of the primary sources. The ECDA is designed to serve not only as a repository but also as a digital commons and laboratory space for researchers and students interested in the early Caribbean: users of the site can curate, annotate, and discuss early Caribbean materials that are included in the archive. We invite readers of this issue to further engage and experiment with primary sources and to collaborate with other scholars by way of this exhibit and the digital workspace of the ECDA + CoLab. In the brief essay below, we discuss some of the core intellectual issues that inform the ECDA and our project on Obeah
Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today, 2023
Representation as a keyword for understanding the history of Democracy in the United States.
History of the Present, 2022
This article argues that Freud's account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus ... more This article argues that Freud's account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century-a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation that developed in and around the first factories of the modern world, namely, the sugar plantations of the colonial Caribbean. The article links Freud's own economic and intellectual history to the production of capital and the theft of land and labor in the Caribbean by way of the central European trade in textiles and global cotton production. Examining a series of family portraits, the article locates the eclipsed yet central force of Black women's productive and socially reproductive work extracted for the creation of white, heteropatriarchal reproduction and property accumulation.
Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers seeks to develop theoret... more Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities--both textual and thematic--helped particular news stories, short fiction, and poetry "go viral" in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. Prior to copyright legislation and enforcement, literary texts as well as other non-fiction prose texts circulated promiscuously among newspapers as editors freely reprinted materials borrowed from other venues. What texts were reprinted and why? How did ideas--literary, political, scientific, economic, religious--circulate in the public sphere and achieve critical force among audiences? By employing and developing computational linguistics tools to analyze the large textual databases of nineteenth-century newspapers newly available to scholars, this project will generate new knowledge of the nineteenth-century print public sphere.
IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2014
Texts propagate through many social networks and provide evidence for their structure. We describ... more Texts propagate through many social networks and provide evidence for their structure. We describe and evaluate efficient algorithms for detecting clusters of reused passages embedded within longer documents in large collections. We apply these techniques to two case studies: analyzing the culture of free reprinting in the nineteenth-century United States and the development of bills into legislation in the U.S. Congress. Using these divergent case studies, we evaluate both the efficiency of the approximate local text reuse detection methods and the accuracy of the results. These techniques allow us to explore how ideas spread, which ideas spread, and which subgroups shared ideas.
2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2013
Texts propagate through many social networks and provide evidence for their structure. We present... more Texts propagate through many social networks and provide evidence for their structure. We present efficient algorithms for detecting clusters of reused passages embedded within longer documents in large collections. We apply these techniques to analyzing the culture of reprinting in the United States before the Civil War. Without substantial copyright enforcement, stories, poems, news, and anecdotes circulated freely among newspapers, magazines, and books. From a collection of OCR'd newspapers, we extract a new corpus of reprinted texts, explore the geographic spread and network connections of different publications, and analyze the time dynamics of different genres.
e l i z a be t h m a dd o ck di l l on Performing Conversion Sometime late in the year of 1769, J... more e l i z a be t h m a dd o ck di l l on Performing Conversion Sometime late in the year of 1769, John Marrant walked into an evangelical meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, where the famous Reverend George Whitefi eld was holding forth: Marrant's intention was to blow his French horn in the midst of the meeting in order to disrupt the sermon of the controversial Methodist preacher. Marrant, then fourteen years old, was a free black young man of tremendous musical talents who had been incited to this prank by a companion. However, as he lifted the French horn off of his shoulder, jostling for room among the throng of bodies gathered to hear Whitefi eld, Marrant was suddenly struck down by the religious exhortation of Whitefi eld: rather than lifting the horn to his lips as he had intended, he abruptly found himself lying speechless and senseless on the ground. His revival from this stupor, which occurred over the course of the next several days, unfolds as a tale of religious awakening, culminating in the moment when "the Lord was pleased to set [his] soul at perfect liberty." Th is account of Marrant's conversion, which appears in A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785), is striking for a number of rea
Early American Literature, 2006
Early American Literature, 2010
When I teach Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, students often respond with a cynical decodin... more When I teach Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, students often respond with a cynical decoding of Rowlandson's words: Rowlandson invokes a biblical phrase at every turn of her captivity, they argue, in order to justify her own selfish interests. She does not believe what she is saying, they insist; she only uses religion to make herself look good, particularly in relation to her Native American captors. At this point, I ask the students to engage in a thought experiment: imagine, for a moment, that there is no outside to religion. Rowlandson, I suggest, inhabits Puritanism as a kind of ether, outside of which she cannot conceive of existing in any coherent way. Certainly she can and does use the resources offered to her by Puritanism as a means to help herself live, but there is no alternative to Puritanism for her, only life lived through it. For students who understand religion as a choice, and a choice from which one may just as well demur altogether as not, this thought experiment has something of the fantastic about it. The strangeness of such an all-encompassing religious faith-a faith that requires little faith because it is simply a fact of life, a faith that is a great faith because it determines everything-is worth pausing over. The essays in this special issue partake in an effort to use religion as a means of making strange key premises, narratives, and methodologies in the field of early American literary studies. They marshal the force of religion as a category-disturbing category to reexamine fixed lines of scholarship in the field. In the introduction to the issue, Jordan Alexander Stein and Justine S. Murison stress the need to understand the methodological force of a focus on religion with respect to the field of early American literary studies; specifically, they argue that a focus on religion will enable new framings and new avenues of thought for the field as a whole. As such, Stein and Murison do not view religion as a subset of early American literary studies (as a content category), but as a historically determined framework that may, or may not, shift the ground of the field altogether when we look closely at it.
Early American Literature, 2008
Early American Literature, 2016
History of the present, Apr 1, 2022
This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus ... more This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation that developed in and around the first factories of the modern world, namely, the sugar plantations of the colonial Caribbean. The article links Freud’s own economic and intellectual history to the production of capital and the theft of land and labor in the Caribbean by way of the central European trade in textiles and global cotton production. Examining a series of family portraits, the article locates the eclipsed yet central force of Black women’s productive and socially reproductive work extracted for the creation of white, heteropatriarchal reproduction and property accumulation.
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2012
American Literary History, Sep 1, 2004
... In the US the 1790s mark a turn toward defining American identity in ascriptive terms, making... more ... In the US the 1790s mark a turn toward defining American identity in ascriptive terms, makingrace an increasingly important signifier of ... In this instance, the lowbrow comic character ofSebastiana drunkard and dunce among the party of Anglo-American slaves plotting the ...
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Contents: The Gender of Freedom
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
1. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
2. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
3. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
4. Sociality and Sentiment
Coda: Queering Marriage—Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Papers by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
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Contents: The Gender of Freedom
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
1. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
2. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
3. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
4. Sociality and Sentiment
Coda: Queering Marriage—Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
Notes
Works Cited
Index