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Alice Raw

@aliceraw.bsky.social

Historian of medieval gender and sexuality Currently writing about pleasure and protests Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History, Pembroke College Cambridge

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Alice Raw@aliceraw.bsky.social · last yr.

Good morning to this footnote and no one else (From E. Kosofsky Sedgewick, ‘Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You’, in Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, N.C., 2004), 123-151.)

I am thinking here of Timothy Gould’s interpretation (in a personal communication, 1994) of Emily Dickinson’s poem that begins ‘‘ ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—/ That perches in the soul—’’ (116, poem no. 254). Gould suggests that the symptoms of fluttering hope are rather like those of posttraumatic stress disorder, with the difference that the apparently absent cause of perturbation lies in the future, rather than in the past.
Alice Raw@aliceraw.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking at the 15th century visitations of Norwich, and I'm utterly enchanted by Sister Anna Marten, a nun of the priory of Carrow, who complains that the Psalms are being sung too fast, and without proper observation of breaths and pauses. It was not like that when she was young! Jessopp ed. (1888)