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1. Temperance, Feminism, and Phrenology in Lydia Fowler’s Nora: The Lost and Redeemed 2021

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   Swenson, Kristine

   Literature And Medicine, Vol. 39, Issue 1, pp. 89 - 107.

   In both the U.S. and Britain, Dr. Lydia Fowler was a leader in women’s political and health reform organizations and temperance associations. Her publications, which targeted a popular audience of ... Read more

   In both the U.S. and Britain, Dr. Lydia Fowler was a leader in women’s political and health reform organizations and temperance associations. Her publications, which targeted a popular audience of women and children, included self-help medical lectures and guides, a book of poetry, and the temperance novel Nora: The Lost and Redeemed (1853). Nora represents the broader political fight surrounding temperance, but also the medical arguments about alcohol abuse itself. Fowler’s phrenological writings, including Nora, served as a bridge between the nineteenth-century construction of “intemperance” as a moral failing and the disease model of “alcoholism” that came to dominate medicine in the early twentieth century. With Nora, Fowler employs the power and reach of Victorian fiction to dramatize the dangers of alcohol and the hopeful remedies of feminist-driven reform. Read less

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2. Temperance, Interpretation, and “the bodie of this death” 2016

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   LEE MILLER, DAVID

   English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 46, Issue 3, pp. 376 - 400.

   This essay reinterprets the “dark conceit” of Mortdant, Amavia, and Ruddymane near the beginning of Spenser's Legend of Temperance. The argument examines the counterpoint between Paul's lament for ... Read more

   This essay reinterprets the “dark conceit” of Mortdant, Amavia, and Ruddymane near the beginning of Spenser's Legend of Temperance. The argument examines the counterpoint between Paul's lament for “the body of this death” in Romans and the death scene of Dido in the Aeneid. The essay reads key episodes of Book II as a sustained allegory of misrecognition, according to which Guyon persists in trying to do combat with forces in his own flesh as if they were opponents to be confronted by force of arms. The recognition implicitly demanded by this allegory of misrecognition is shadowed in Arthur's interpretation of Maleger as an Antaeus‐figure, and then triumphantly repudiated in Guyon's violent destruction of the Bower. [D.L.M.] Read less

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3. The Most Important Virtue? 2019

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   Pittman, Josh

   Renascence, Vol. 71, Issue 1, pp. 57 - 75.

   The narrator of the Middle English Cleanness states that God punishes sexual sin more harshly than any other sin. This essay argues that the rest of the BL Cotton Nero A.x manuscript continues to d... Read more

   The narrator of the Middle English Cleanness states that God punishes sexual sin more harshly than any other sin. This essay argues that the rest of the BL Cotton Nero A.x manuscript continues to develop the virtue of temperance, which governs sexual behavior, as a central theme. Pearl uses temperance to bring home the dreamer’s sin and God’s justice, while Patience and SGGK employ the interrelation between temperance and fortitude in ways that make temperance foundational. Interrogating the interdependence of the virtues allows the poet to challenge the traditional hierarchy of virtues, in which temperance is the lowest, thus making the case that temperance is paradoxically foundational to other virtues, like justice and fortitude. In this way, the poems not only make a case for the value of temperance, but they also expose ambiguities in orthodox accounts of the virtues. Read less

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