In this bold and provocative book, Laura Brown explores the representation of women in English literature from Restoration to fall Walpole--a time during which an expansionist economic system was consolidated, a fertile ideology advocating benevolent progressive imperialism took root, slave trade institutionalized. period, she maintains, image female not only played leading role literary culture but also profoundly affected mercantile capitalist ideology.

The project of this collection essays, as its editors declare in their introduction, is the revision or problematization period, canon, tradition, and genre eighteenth-century literary studies (p. 14). Though no single book could altogether fulfill such an ambition, New Eighteenth Century goes a long way toward doing so. twelve essays gathered by are consistently provocative fresh, almost always strongly lucidly written, bold rereadings reassessments works (and issues raised them) writers...

Too often, students with disabilities in regular classrooms have limited access to the curriculum, and for severe disabilities, interactions are often paraprofessionals, not typical classmates. The present study is grounded action research methods that an elementary teacher authors worked together purpose of designing, implementing, evaluating interaction guidelines between her their typically developing Overall, instruction implementation peer-interaction activities working helping each...

Contemporary music classrooms include a beautiful mosaic of individual children from diverse backgrounds, who vary considerably in their capabilities, interests, and levels motivation. Some the variations we observe are related to social skills knowledge. The effects appropriate classroom behavior positive relationships on children’s success school well known. Although ideas associated with peer-assisted learning may be familiar many teachers, they take greater importance when considering...

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle social skills, including the ability to perceive emotions based on facial expressions. Research evidence suggests that many individuals ASD can emotion in music. Examining whether music be used enhance recognition of by children would inform development therapy interventions. The purpose this study was investigate influence a strong emotional valance (happy; sad) ASD's label depicted photographs, and their response time. Thirty...

Children have a natural proclivity to teach, help, cooperate, and empathize with others, these interactions can positive benefits for children’s emotional, social, cognitive development. This article is about ways music teachers design peer-assisted learning activities that will benefit everyone in the class ultimately contribute creating classroom culture of inclusion.

In this exploratory study, two music therapy (MT) and speech-language pathology (SLP) students facilitated a one-week inclusive camp for 10 school-age children (five with autism spectrum disorder) the mentorship guidance of faculty directors (one MT one SLP). Camp activities focused on integration social skills training music. Following final session, each student leader completed questionnaire about collaboration that consisted Likert-type scale items open-ended questions. Student leaders...

In the course of a busy day, it is not uncommon to think, If only 'someone else' would do this, and that, then be easier accomplish what I need today. Looking someone else leads no one getting anything done. Every teacher students with visual impairments (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) every service provider works these students--whether as an orientation mobility (OM if adult agencies such such, schools could more. Community rehabilitation providers may comment that...

This essay argues that the image of lady and lapdog, whose provenance can be traced to representation female petkeeping in eighteenth century, linked other fantasies alterity. provides a formal model for contemporary understanding encounter with difference, reveals ways which an expansionist culture imagined relationship absolutely alien other.

The unique divided tragicomedy of the early Restoration is a singularly problematic drama-an apparently chaotic, contradictory form in which irreconcilable dramatic types share same stage. Works like Etherege's Comical Revenge (1664), James Howard's All Mistaken (1667?),1 Charles Sedley's Mulberry-Garden (1668), or Dryden's Secret Love (1667) and Marriage A-la-Mode (1671)2 characteristically juxtapose two plots equivalent importance, one serious comic. These plays lack unity tone that gives...

Although intellectual historians have rejected the notion that Dryden was a skeptic, recent readings of his specific works increasingly emphasized irony and absurdity. This critical contradiction can serve as an interpretive tool: full account Dryden's poems must explain their tendency to attract imputation skepticism. In images, extended analogies, dramatic actions, structural premises, poetic share formal core characterized by disjunction, incommensurability, or failure congruence....

Rational Elephants or Hominoid Apes:Which is Early Modern? Laura Brown (bio) and Bryan Alkemeyer This perspective on the term "early modern" as it used in literary studies based two assumptions. The first one that strongly privileges modernity, either by pointing forward toward modernity behalf of culture sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, using key categories associated with to understand those earlier periods. Second, discussion here assumes concrete cultural phenomena demonstrate...

Each year, increasingly more children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are being served in schools. Many ASD included elementary music classrooms, but little is known about the experiences of these students and their teachers. For this study, we purposefully selected two teachers from participants a survey ASD. Semi-structured interviews allowed us to identify elements necessary for creating culture inclusion implementing Follow-up, in-class observations one teacher confirmed interview...

ASECS at 50:Interview with Laura Brown Ashley L. Cohen (bio) and is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English Cornell University, where she has taught since 1981. She received her Ph.D. from the University California, Berkeley, in 1977. Since then written a number path-breaking books on subjects ranging Restoration drama to animal studies, including Dramatic Form, 1660–1760: An Essay Generic History (New Haven, 1981), Alexander Pope (Oxford, 1985), Ends Empire: Women Ideology Early...

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are frequently included in regular music classrooms, yet little is known about teachers’ and students’ classroom experiences. We sent a 35-question survey to all members of the National Association for Music Education who had identified themselves as elementary teachers. received total 569 responses; we analyzed results from 441 taught United States completed entire survey. Most teachers were positive including students ASD confident teaching...