Papers by Deanna Kreisel
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2020
Introduction to a special issue of "Victorian Literature and Culture" that explores how nineteent... more Introduction to a special issue of "Victorian Literature and Culture" that explores how nineteenth-century writers can contribute to a more open theory of ecologies and nature-culture interaction, setting this in contrast to the historical relation between concepts of ecology, organicism, and settler colonialism. We define open ecologies as:
1. Situational: rather than focusing on a single actor, species, or stratum of the environment, they are defined by the interaction of diverse inorganic as well as living components.
2. They are compositional: they are not organic units or holistic cosmologies, but instead involve multiple actants with differing interests.
3. They are non-programmatic: their forms are emergent rather than pre-defined or autotelic; their patterns and futures are unpredictable, chancy.
4. They are abnatural in the sense defined by Jesse Oak Taylor: they are characterized by uncanny interpenetrations of the manufactured and the other-than-human.
5. They are marked by uneven distributions of power; they demand that we reconceptualize modes of violence, from the environmentalism of the poor and the ecologies of race, to the reframing of toxicity, threat, and predation.
6. They are neither preconcerted harmonies nor utopias.
Teaching William Morris, 2020
From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Centur y Literature: Reclaiming the Social, 2019
Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2018
Ecological Form System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire, 2019
Victorian Studies, 2014
Analytic or Cartesian-coordinate geometry, which describes space in terms of algebraic equations,... more Analytic or Cartesian-coordinate geometry, which describes space in terms of algebraic equations, was conceived by most Victorians as a translation of the “real-world” truths of Euclidean geometry. However, other commentators were concerned that once Euclid’s axioms were translated into a purely symbolic system, there would be no guarantee that that system corresponded to reality. The epistemological crisis intensified with mathematical advances in the later decades of the century, as algebraic equations began to yield problems that seemed to require additional spatial dimensions for their resolution. Charles Howard Hinton, an important popularizer of hyperspace philosophy, argued that imperceptible higher-dimensional worlds must actually exist, since
they are conceivable mathematically. The algebraic system is no longer merely meant to represent an a priori truth (of Euclidean space); it also reveals something about that space that is not accessible through perceptual means. This paper examines the anxiety attendant upon the threat of an abstract hyperreal in the work of three imaginative hyperspace writers: Gustav Theodor Fechner, Charles Hinton, and H. G. Wells.
Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in nineteenth-Century British Culture, 2013
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, 2007
She spoke then, on being so entreated. -What did she say? -Just what she ought, of course. A lady... more She spoke then, on being so entreated. -What did she say? -Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2001
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1. Situational: rather than focusing on a single actor, species, or stratum of the environment, they are defined by the interaction of diverse inorganic as well as living components.
2. They are compositional: they are not organic units or holistic cosmologies, but instead involve multiple actants with differing interests.
3. They are non-programmatic: their forms are emergent rather than pre-defined or autotelic; their patterns and futures are unpredictable, chancy.
4. They are abnatural in the sense defined by Jesse Oak Taylor: they are characterized by uncanny interpenetrations of the manufactured and the other-than-human.
5. They are marked by uneven distributions of power; they demand that we reconceptualize modes of violence, from the environmentalism of the poor and the ecologies of race, to the reframing of toxicity, threat, and predation.
6. They are neither preconcerted harmonies nor utopias.
they are conceivable mathematically. The algebraic system is no longer merely meant to represent an a priori truth (of Euclidean space); it also reveals something about that space that is not accessible through perceptual means. This paper examines the anxiety attendant upon the threat of an abstract hyperreal in the work of three imaginative hyperspace writers: Gustav Theodor Fechner, Charles Hinton, and H. G. Wells.
Books by Deanna Kreisel
Book Reviews by Deanna Kreisel
1. Situational: rather than focusing on a single actor, species, or stratum of the environment, they are defined by the interaction of diverse inorganic as well as living components.
2. They are compositional: they are not organic units or holistic cosmologies, but instead involve multiple actants with differing interests.
3. They are non-programmatic: their forms are emergent rather than pre-defined or autotelic; their patterns and futures are unpredictable, chancy.
4. They are abnatural in the sense defined by Jesse Oak Taylor: they are characterized by uncanny interpenetrations of the manufactured and the other-than-human.
5. They are marked by uneven distributions of power; they demand that we reconceptualize modes of violence, from the environmentalism of the poor and the ecologies of race, to the reframing of toxicity, threat, and predation.
6. They are neither preconcerted harmonies nor utopias.
they are conceivable mathematically. The algebraic system is no longer merely meant to represent an a priori truth (of Euclidean space); it also reveals something about that space that is not accessible through perceptual means. This paper examines the anxiety attendant upon the threat of an abstract hyperreal in the work of three imaginative hyperspace writers: Gustav Theodor Fechner, Charles Hinton, and H. G. Wells.