Background
Shires, Linda M. was born on July 29, 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Daughter of Philip and Helen Shires.
( Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteent...)
Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England reopens the question of classical perspective and its vicissitudes in aesthetic practice with a focus on texts of the 1830s to the end of the 1870s. Linda M. Shires demonstrates why and how artists and writers across media experimented with techniques of dissolution, combination, and multiple viewpoints much earlier in the century than intellectual historians generally assume. Arguing for a relationship between what she calls the disappearing “I” in poetry, a compromised omniscience, and the testing of a mastering eye in painting and photography, Shires argues that art forms themselves, rather than new technologies alone, reshaped the period by educating readers and viewers into new ways of knowing. In chapters on visual and verbal art and a waning theocentrism; D.G. Rossetti; Henry Peach Robinson and Lady Clementina Hawarden; and Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, Shires revitalizes the currently available scholarship on connections among nineteenth-century art forms. This interdisciplinary study offers nuanced, close readings in order to rebut assertions of delayed artistic responses to the decreasing influence of traditional perspective. It shows how vision is bound up with all the senses of a viewer and it supports current concepts of modernism as transitional, rather than radical.
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("Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both...)
"Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both feminist and historical which analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology and post-structuralist anthropology. The contributors negotiate the intersection between history, gender, and poststructuralist theories of language and subjectivity. They analyze the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts. Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, and the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in English literature, history, women's studies, gender studies and cultural studies.
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(Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepfl...)
Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher, edited by Linda M. Shires, offers a compelling new perspective on the long and influential publishing career and thought of Knoepflmacher, a leading critic of the novel and Victorian poetry. This volume draws together essays on nineteenth-century literature written between 1963 and 2012. An introductory essay and new scaffolding emphasize the interrelations among the essays, which together form a consistent approach to literary criticism. Knoepflmacher’s vision of texts and readers stresses the emotional knowledge afforded by reading, writing about, and teaching literary texts. Each chapter links Romantic texts to those of later writers. Shelley and Keats try to revise Wordsworth, but they are themselves recast by Browning and Hardy. Similarly, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf’s reliance on Romantic tropes are fruitfully examined. Above all, however, these chapters stress the impact of Wordsworth on his many contemporaries and successors. Knoepflmacher probes into their texts to find, as Wordsworth did, a momentary fusion of opposites. He posits a reader who is flexible—able to move in multiple directions by paying attention to spatial, verbal, and imagistic coordinates, across and down a page. Given the attention paid to the translation of affect into thought, this collection will contribute to Victorian studies as well as enhance our understanding of the affective dynamics of nineteenth-century literature. Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher, edited by Linda M. Shires, offers a compelling new perspective on the long and influential publishing career and thought of Knoepflmacher, a leading critic of the novel and Victorian poetry. This volume draws together essays on nineteenth-century literature written between 1963 and 2012. An introductory essay and new scaffolding emphasize the interrelations among the essays, which together form a consistent approach to literary criticism. Knoepflmacher’s vision of texts and readers stresses the emotional knowledge afforded by reading, writing about, and teaching literary texts. Each chapter links Romantic texts to those of later writers. Shelley and Keats try to revise Wordsworth, but they are themselves recast by Browning and Hardy. Similarly, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf’s reliance on Romantic tropes are fruitfully examined. Above all, however, these chapters stress the impact of Wordsworth on his many contemporaries and successors. Knoepflmacher probes into their texts to find, as Wordsworth did, a momentary fusion of opposites. He posits a reader who is flexible—able to move in multiple directions by paying attention to spatial, verbal, and imagistic coordinates, across and down a page. Given the attention paid to the translation of affect into thought, this collection will contribute to Victorian studies as well as enhance our understanding of the affective dynamics of nineteenth-century literature.
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Shires, Linda M. was born on July 29, 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Daughter of Philip and Helen Shires.
Bachelor in Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1972. Master of Arts in Classics, Brown University, 1973. Bachelor in English, Oxford University, England, 1977.
Master of Arts/Doctor of Philosophy in English, Princeton University, 1981.
From assistant to associate professor Syracuse (New York ) University, 1981—1988, professor English, 1996—2008, director graduate studies, 2007—2008. Professor English Stern College, Yeshiva University, 2008-2020, chair, 2009-2020. Referee presses, journals, universities, other organizations.
Member advisory board Victorians Institute Journal University, Nines, Victorian Lit and Culture.
Visiting Professor, NYU 1996-97, Princeton University, 1990—1992
( Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteent...)
(Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narr...)
("Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both...)
(Her narrative is quietly passionate, spiritual, and learn...)
(Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepfl...)
Author: British Poetry of the Second World War, 1985, Coming Home, 2003.: Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in 19th Century England, 2009.Co-author: Telling Stories, 1988, 5th edition, 2002. Editor: Rewriting the Victorians, 1992, The Trumpet Major, 1998, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2002, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 2005.
Member Alumnae Schools Committee, Princeton University, 2007; 2009-. Alumnae Committee Brown University 2007; 2009-2019; Member of Modern Language Association (elections committee 1990-1992), North America Victorian Studies Association, INCS, IAUPE, Oxford Alumni Association.
Married U. C. Knoepflmacher. child Alexander; stepchildren: Julie, Paul, Daniel