Background
Hall, Donald E. was born on August 16, 1960. Son of Donald Eugene and Margie Davison Hall.
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The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history. In Fixing Patriarchy, Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political and psychological threats to patriarchy. Hall explores the metamorphic nature of Victorian definitions of masculinity and femininity through an analysis of male authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Kingsley, Thackeray, Hughes, Collins, and Trollope in dialogue with Victorian feminists and other women writers. Synthesizing historical research with pertinent queer, feminist, post-structuralist, and materialist theories, Hall locates both startling admissions of moral fallibility and violent strategies of retrenchment and containment of this perceived threat to the male social body. Fixing Patriarchytraces parallels among Victorian discourses of religion, science, economics, and aesthetics, as it explores a cultural dynamic of un-fixedness and heightened desires for fixity.
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An extremist mid-Victorian religious philosophy influencing gender, class and national identity.
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This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent, well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies, including New Criticism, Psychoanalytic Analysis, Deconstruction, Feminist Analysis, and New Historicism.
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Hall, Donald E. was born on August 16, 1960. Son of Donald Eugene and Margie Davison Hall.
Bachelor, University Alabama, 1981. Master of Arts, University Illinois, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, University Maryland, 1991.
Visiting professor English National University Rwanda, 1984-1986. Assistant professor English California State University, Northridge, 1991-1995, associate professor, 1995-1999, coordinator humanities interdisciplinary program, 1995—2002, professor, since 1999, associate chair English, 1995—2002, chair English Department, since 2002. Member advisory board Victorian Poetry, since 1995.
( The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the...)
(This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides ...)
(An extremist mid-Victorian religious philosophy influenci...)
Co-founder, board directors Institute for Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Studies, California State University, Northridge, since 1995. Member Modern Language Association (national delegate since 1997, member prose fiction executive committee since 1997), Pacific Coast Modern Language Association, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of Western United States, Phi Beta Kappa.