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MacKay, Carol Hanbery was born on July 1, 1944 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of John William and Shirley Virginia Hanbery.
( Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the...)
Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four female practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity. She opens up for inspection the lives and creative endeavors of poet-photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), activist-spiritual leader Annie Besant (1847-1933), and actress-writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952). Creative negativity grows out of either philosophical or emotional negativity; it evokes a focal point, often a place; it combines reality and illusion; it suggests a shift in magnitude, a sense of multifariousness or zooming out; it includes an altered sense of time by reaching backward, moving outside temporality, or attenuating time; and it evokes self-referentiality, an aesthetic or formal invocation in a work of art, a sense of self-consciousness in social contexts. As she explores the interacting elements of creative negativity that their work exemplifies, the author demonstrates how the artistic and performative techniques employed by the four women provide them with the rhetorical tools with which they can construct, take apart, and reconstruct themselves. This uniquely interactive response propels the women through their successful enactments of the female quest. Their creative interpretations of their life experiences point up the distinctive ways in which women’s self-expression can be reconceived as a manifestation of the female quest—a voicing of multiple stories and selves, both within themselves and others, in myriad and fantastical domains of their own creation. Overall, this book provides a working model for seeing how a covert feminism operated during a key period of history.
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MacKay, Carol Hanbery was born on July 1, 1944 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of John William and Shirley Virginia Hanbery.
Bachelor in English, Stanford University, California, 1966. Master of Arts in English Education, Stanford University, California, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University California, Los Angeles, 1979.
Teacher English Sir Francis Drake High School, San Anselmo, California, 1967—1974. Fellow University California, Los Angeles, 1974—1978. From assistant professor to professor English University Texas, Austin, Texas, 1979—2002, professor English, since 2002.
Member executive committee Dickens Project, Santa Cruz, California, 2002—2004.
( Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the...)
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Member of American Association of University Women, Modern Language Association, Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa (board directors since 2004).
Married Kirk Richard Hampton, July 1, 1979. Married Hugh Trent MacKay, August 28, 1966 (divorced January 15, 1972).