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Strange Vernaculars
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied—from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period—less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the "common people" and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries—from The New Canting Dictionary to Francis...
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
This study, first published in 2000, examines the role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature.
Jack Vettriano: A Life
In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer’s son, met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame – emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland’s most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell Van Gogh, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. 'The Singing Butler', Britain's most reproduced painting, fetched a record £744,800 at auction in April 2004. Vettriano’s images have an often...
Loving Literature
One of the most common—and wounding—misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don’t love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have played a vital role in the formation of private life—that the ...
Hallelujah Trombone!
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Gumbo Ya Ya
Welcome to the 5th edition of Gumbo Ya Ya Conjure Art-zine! As with previous editions, the content of this issue covers a wide gamut of topics from Voudou possession to conjure in the barrio to goddess worship. Articles include: To Ride a Horse: The Possession of the Loa by Melony Malsom, The Goddesses of Antiquity by Denise Alvarado & Alyne Pustanio, Saints of the Greater East End by Oskar “Doc Mojo” Yetzirah, Spells and How they Sometimes Work by Carolina Dean, Nasty Workings and To Stop an Enemy by Madrina Angelique, A Goddess Formulary by Denise Alvarado and more! Be sure to check out Gumbo Ya Ya issues #3 and #4 as well!
