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[jstor]

For those of you who are especially excited about the ides of March 🗡️🏛️😵

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[virtue-boy]

Random JSTOR Daily articles that looked interesting

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[historybizarre]

We might share a few of these essays over the next few weeks/months, but this roundup from @jstor Daily's editors was too good not to share!

#black history month #we love jstor #jstor daily #roundup #so many good links!

[othmeralia]

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[shakespearenews]

Float on your back. Raise your hands, palms up. Part your lips as if you’re singing a sad farewell song. These were his instructions, and she followed them to a T. Millais placed oil lamps and candles beneath the tub to keep the water warm for her. But he had more art sense than common sense. It was London; it was winter. The water always cooled. On one catastrophic occasion, the lamps and candles went out completely, nearly snuffing out Siddal’s life with them.

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[brightgnosis]

Herbs & Verbs: How to Do Witchcraft for Real from JSTOR Daily

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[cupsofsilver]

10% holy shit that so many people

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[principleofplenitude]

Navigators in the Marshall Islands faced a unique challenge. The tiny islands and coral atolls they traveled between are mostly too low and small to be seen from more than ten miles away, so voyaging meant finding one’s way through a seemingly featureless expanse of open sea. If you were just a little bit off, you might completely miss your destination. Faced with this challenge, islanders developed an ingenious solution: navigating by the feeling of the waves. This uniquely proprioceptive mode of navigation required the navigator to remain constantly aware of the motions of ocean swells coming from four directions. The eastern swell was the strongest, which allowed them to orient themselves. They could detect the way a swell would change when it wrapped around an island or bounced back against a cliff, for instance. These distinctive patterns could be followed to land in the same way “the root, if you follow it, leads to the palm tree.” This is the mental model that the wave charts reflect: they show the sea as a kind of spiderweb, full of communicative tremors. Wave charts aren’t maps so much as mnemonic devices. They’re not brought on board in order to navigate; rather, the navigator makes them as a personal reference, studying them while on land and bringing that knowledge onto the sea. There were a few different kinds: rebbelib, which represented whole island chains; meddo, which showed ocean swell patterns in a smaller area; and mattang, simple teaching tools used to diagram the basic interactions between land and sea.

“Marshall Island Wave Charts” from JStor Daily

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[dryingpower]

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[thatwritererinoriordan]

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[jstor]

🎃 Halloween is just around the corner and we've got some thrilling reads for you from JSTOR Daily - where academia meets current events.

First up, ever wondered why Victorian mansions are synonymous with haunted houses? 👻 Dive into the eerie world of architectural horror and uncover how these grand structures came to embody our deepest fears in "How Victorian Mansions Became the Default Haunted House."

Next, let's stir the cauldron and delve into the mystical realm of witchcraft. 🥀 In "Herbs & Verbs: How to Do Witchcraft for Real", explore the authentic practices of witchcraft, from spell casting to potion brewing.

And lastly, join us in a poetic journey through shared imagination and the belief in the supernatural. 🕯️ "A Belief in Ghosts: Poetry and the Shared Imagination" is a captivating read that combines spectral musings with literary critique.

JSTOR Daily is your go-to source for smart, historical takes on what’s happening today, and they're offering free access to related articles this Halloween season. Check out their full Halloween roundup here.

Happy reading, and remember, things are not always as they seem... 🌙

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[lesbianaang]

something really intriguing to me as i’ve been researching queer victorian literature is the long-running thread between bram stoker and oscar wilde. although it’s not clear exactly when stoker started writing dracula, many historians place it about a month after the end of the wilde trials.

stoker never said anything explicitly about the outcome of the trials or wilde and his works himself, which is interesting as they both a.) grew up in prominent families in ireland, where their families often attended one another’s parties; b.) went to the same college at the same time, and were in some of the same clubs; c.) courted the same woman, whom stoker eventually married, although wilde continued to be a presence in her life; and d.) moved to england around the same time and became writer contemporaries, running in the same circles in the literary world, as well as in the theater world! this is especially notable as most of stoker’s closest friends DID comment on the wilde trials at the time, often expressing how upset they were with the outcome and sharing support for wilde when most of london despised him.

it’s also notable that stoker likely spent at least some time in victorian queer spaces, as there’s plenty of evidence of his deep, loving relationships with hall caine (whom dracula is dedicated to) and henry irving (the often cited inspiration for dracula himself). not to mention his love letters to walt whitman, which seem to depict stoker fighting against his own repressed emotions and his admiration for whitman’s relatively unshackled freedom with his sexuality. at the same time, however, years later stoker also published articles on the importance of censorship in fiction and stage plays, specifically citing “deviancy” and “indecency” (code for queer sexuality) as topics which should not be addressed in proper society.

i think most literature-enjoyers these days are aware of the reading of dracula/vampire literature as a metaphor for queer sexuality, but i think this specific context of the wilde trials, where wilde’s (for the time) fairly flamboyant, unabashed approach to his queer sexuality was met with public humiliation and exile, adds a lot to this context. if wilde represents the “new homosexual,” where engaging in queer acts now has implications on fundamentally WHO you are, then stoker in contrast is the queer old guard, where he is fully closeted, not drawing attention to his sexuality, and keeping the act of gay sex/attraction separate from his fundamental identity.

in other words, i think dracula the novel could be read as dracula, a monstrous creature with great powers that are relegated to the shadows and shunned by christian society, feeding upon and transforming others into demonic beings such as himself, being hunted down by ABRAHAM van helsing, who himself is widowed but with great admiration and love for the men around him. dracula, who evokes in van helsing awe of his abilities, disgust of what he does to others, and pity over who he is, is the semi-out victorian homosexual that must be eradicated from this world by the virtuous (and closeted) van helsing.

#brought to you by hours of wormhole article research on jstor #just goes to show that gay people then and now are always beefing and making art about each other #obv this is just one interpretation but it sure makes it fun! #also it seems like the new ivtv is using this same metaphor but in a more positive way #ie vampirism = accepting your sexuality/being out but contextualized differently for a modern queer audience #dracula #dracula daily #victorian literature #bram stoker #oscar wilde

[tambourgi]

from Dorothea Laksy, A Belief in Ghosts

#dorothea laksy #poetry #ghosts #hauntings #if you are not on the jstor daily train i strongly urge you to hop on

[othmeralia]

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[shakespearenews]

Your wife dies. You raise two children by yourself. You build a great career to provide for your family. You send your son off to college in another country, even though you know he’s not ready. Now the prince wants to marry your daughter—that’s not easy to navigate. Then—get this—while you’re trying to save the queen’s life, the prince murders you. Your death destroys your kids. They die tragically. And what do you get for your troubles? Centuries of Shakespeare scholars dumping on you.

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[brightgnosis]

Are Honey Bees Bad for Wild Bees? from JSTOR Daily

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