Manlius to Peter Pindar: Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s

The issue title containing Noah Heringman's essay is: Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (May 2006).This essay examines the political satires of John Wolcot (alias Peter Pindar) in the context of the numerous patriotic attacks on their author between 1787 and 1801. Wolcot's satires on George III met with ferocious, politically motivated attacks on the poet's masculinity. These can be explained only in part with reference to the French Revolution: Wolcot's literary combats, and his influence on younger satirists such as James Gillray, also testify to the longer-term importance of sodomy, scatology, and gendered notions of the king's two bodies in English political debate. Wolcot insisted on the corporeality of the King's body and of his desires. In the 1790s these assertions were received as libel, sedition, and blasphemy, rather than as unpatriotic. In fact, Wolcot's continued success in the face of political attacks can be attributed to his stance of loyal opposition, a stance related to "patriotism" in its dominant eighteenth-century sense. The conflict surrounding Wolcot thus illuminates the massive shifts occurring since that time in the definition of patriotism and the composition of the body politic, but also reinforces the connection between patriotism and masculinity

Vetusta Monumenta [Ancient Monuments]

Project Leaders: Noah Heringman (English), Anne Myers (English), Kristen Schuster (SISLT)Final report for the 2013/2014 IIF project, "Vetusta Monumenta: A Digital Edition Project." From the original description: "... we are creating a digital edition of a rare and valuable eighteenth-century print series held in Ellis Library, Vetusta Monumenta (vol. 1-3). The edition will feature a state-of-the-art online user interface that combines interactive, high-quality scans of the pages with searchable scholarly commentary to accompany each plate, translations, and more."MU Interdisciplinary Innovations Fun

Origins, survivals, and other metahistorical fictions in Enlightenment conjectural histories of art

Review of Hans Christian Hönes, Kunst am Ursprung: Das Nachleben der Bilder und die Souveränität des Antiquars: This learned and capacious study of three antiquaries writing at the turn of the nineteenth century—Pierre-François Hugues (better known as “Baron” d’Hancarville), Richard Payne Knight, and James Christie Jr—argues for a counter-tradition of art historical writing concerned with origins and survivals, exemplified in the experimental and conjectural work of these three men. Five chronological chapters focusing on each writer’s body of work (two each on d’Hancarville and Knight and one on Christie) are followed by three chapters devoted to concepts: “De-Temporalization” [Entzeitlichung]; “Surveyability” [Übersichtlichkeit]; and “Entanglements” [Verwicklungen]. Though at times overly ambitious, this will be an engrossing book for any scholar interested in eighteenth-century antiquarianism or conjectural history

Evolutionary studies & science studies: building collaborative portals

This poster examines how facets of science studies and evolutionary studies can be used to build collaborative portals for researchers