Oscar Wilde's Un-American Tour: Aestheticism, Mormonism, and Transnational Resonance

Morgan, Benjamin

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“…What if, beyond simply tracing the migration and uptake of texts within the Victorian period, we also studied how Victorian literary texts and forms continue to shape contemporary cultures both local and global? In a recent article, Benjamin Morgan calls this kind of connection “resonance,” invoking the physical process whereby “two mutually reinforcing sounds have an afterlife because of their affinity… implying the presence of a perceiver” (15). Reading for resonance, as Morgan uses the term, requires that we imagine “the perceived affinities between cultural formations that are contiguous in space and time, but whose proximity does not seem best measured in degrees in influence” (15).…”

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That Untravell'd World: The Problem of Thinking Globally in Victorian Studies

Lecourt

2016

Literature Compass

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Over the past decade, a growing number of scholars has sought out new ways of conceptualizing literature in terms of global systems. Victorianists, despite their field's monarchial nomenclature, have experimented with several such approaches. Some have mapped out 19th‐century transatlantic literary relations; others have explored the global media infrastructure constructed by Victorian imperialism; still others have traced the cross‐period resonances of Victorian literary forms and aesthetic constructs. Such approaches promise not only to enlarge the field's geographical scope but also to allow for creative forms of presentism that can expand the field's purchase beyond the terms of the New Historicism.

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That Untravell'd World: The Problem of Thinking Globally in Victorian Studies

Lecourt

2016

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Stiles

2020

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Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.

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On Foreign Grounds: Toward an Alternative US Literary History, Archive, Methodology

Mallios¹

2017

American Literary History

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Oscar Wilde's Un-American Tour: Aestheticism, Mormonism, and Transnational Resonance

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

That Untravell'd World: The Problem of Thinking Globally in Victorian Studies

That Untravell'd World: The Problem of Thinking Globally in Victorian Studies

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

On Foreign Grounds: Toward an Alternative US Literary History, Archive, Methodology

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