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- New Sherlock Holmes Series Premieres September 27
- A New Book on U.S. Legal and Religious History
- Obama's Campaign Rhetoric
- Women's Speech
| New Sherlock Holmes Series Premieres September 27 Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:35 AM PDT CBS is launching a new Sherlock Holmes series, Elementary, on September 27 at 10 p.m. (9 Central time). The newest incarnation of Holmes and Watson is set in today's New York City and stars Johnny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) as Holmes and Lucy Liu (Ally McBeal, Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill) as Joan Watson. While CBS considers the show an adaptation (and a reboot), BBC execs seem to be somewhat miffed about elements contained in the new series. The producer of the current BBC show that stars Benedict Cumberbatch has said, "Johnny is a very fine actor, who I saw recently in the theatre when he and Benedict played alternating roles in Frankenstein. Let's hope their pilot script has stayed further away from our Sherlock than their casting choice." Mr. Miller had shared the lead in a National Theatre production of Frankenstein with Mr. Cumberbatch. More discussion in the Washington Post here. Meanwhile, the BBC's phenomenally successful reimagined Holmes series Sherlock, set in contemporary London, and now in its second season in the US, is trundling along.   |
| A New Book on U.S. Legal and Religious History Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:16 AM PDT Susan Sage Heinzelman, Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, tells us about this new publication by Nan Goodman from the University of Pennsylvania Press. The University of Pennsylvania Press is pleased to announce the release of Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England by Nan Goodman. Nan Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also teaches law.Banished investigates Puritan practices of social exclusion through the lens of seventeenth-century New England common law. |
From religious dissident Anne Hutchinson to the Deer Island Indians, cases of banishment reveal the impact of legal rhetoric on our conceptualization, past and present, of community boundaries and belonging.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT
K. C. Morrison, Timothy Fair, and Aaron Rollins, all of Mississippi State University, have published Expanding the Myth of the American Republic: The Campaign Rhetoric of Barack Obama as an NCOBPS 43rd Meeting Paper. Here is the abstract.
This research is based on the analysis of presidential campaign speeches of Barack Obama to understand how he used rhetoric to create favorable opinion in a majority white voting constituency. Our argument is that Obama used rhetoric in a way that appropriated patriotic and multicultural elements associated with the American republic to redefine the myth of national identity. Speeches are analyzed in a variety of settings from which we are able to generate a set of clear and recurring patterns that compose a refashioned mythology.The full text is not available from SSRN.
Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT
Eileen Hunt Botting, University of Notre Dame, is publishing Ascending the Rostrum: Hannah Mather Crocker and Women's Political Oratory in the Journal of Politics. Here is the abstract.
Although Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829) apparently presented a prescription against women's political oratory in her Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818), she provided philosophical and historical challenges to this conventional rule of early nineteenth-century feminine propriety elsewhere in the first American treatise on women's rights. By analyzing new archival findings of two of her oratorical works from the early 1810s — her 1813 "Fast Sermon" against the War of 1812 and her 1814 "Address" to the advisory board of the School of Industry for poor girls in Boston's North End — I argue that Crocker also provided a personal challenge to this conventional rule. In philosophically, historically, and personally redefining women's political oratory as compatible with feminine propriety — during the post-revolutionary backlash against women's rights — Crocker helped pave the way for the strategic use of the constitutional rights of speech and association in the nineteenth-century American women's rights movement and beyond.The full text is not available from SSRN.
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