Papers by Jeffrey Galbraith
Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, Jan 2, 2022
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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 2020
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Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 2018
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This essay examines Jonathan Swift’s satire An Argument against Abolishing Christianity in order ... more This essay examines Jonathan Swift’s satire An Argument against Abolishing Christianity in order to re-evaluate the conventions of sincerity. Whereas the Argument is typically recognized as satirizing insincere Christian belief, my literary-historical approach focuses on Swift’s references to public opinion and the speaker’s claim that the Gospel “is generally antiquated and exploded.” For Swift, public opinion has a distorting effect on communication, and yet he participates in the public sphere nevertheless. This performative contradiction provides an instructive addition to Christian debates concerning the moral dangers of assimilation and taking on a role.
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Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 2012
This essay examines how obedience to authority structures John Dryden's Don Sebastian, a tragic... more This essay examines how obedience to authority structures John Dryden's Don Sebastian, a tragicomedy produced after William of Orange deposed James II in the Revolution of 1688. Because Dryden resigned his position as Poet Laureate after the Revolution rather than swear an oath of allegiance to the new monarch, scholars have interpreted Don Sebastian as the work of a defeated loyalist hoping for the return of the exiled James II. The depiction of obedience in the play, however, goes beyond the question of who should possess the throne to comment more broadly on the agency available to individuals in relations of submission. Specifically, the subplot in which the rebel Dorax becomes an obedient subject shows Dryden continuing to engage with passive obedience and non-resistance, a Stuart doctrine associated with divine right ideology and the established church. Dryden affirms this extreme form of obedience, I argue, not to call for the return of absolutism but to respond to con- temporary charges that submission posed grave dangers to the self. Th rough a contextual reading, this essay shows how Dryden imbues submission with the potential for ethical transformation. Dorax receives praise for performing a "pious fraud" that both confirms his submissive will and conveys his disagreement with the sovereign. In this, Don Sebastian proves useful for engaging recent attempts to explore how individuals may demonstrate autonomy by willingly accepting limits on their freedom.
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The Cresset, 2013
Creative non-fiction essay about study abroad, imagination, and faith
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Books by Jeffrey Galbraith
Wipf&Stock, 2017
In Painstaker, Galbraith takes stock of life, building an inventory of faith, regret, travel, par... more In Painstaker, Galbraith takes stock of life, building an inventory of faith, regret, travel, parenthood, and hardship both physical and mental. These poems live in cities but remember the farm, with subjects ranging from fatherhood and machinery accidents to the uncertainties of faith. Galbraith calls on a number of absentees who are deceased, divine, distant, or too intimately known, including loved ones, lost friends, and a lobster soon to be dinner. As the title suggests, Painstaker understands that the act of paying attention to the details is no easy task, and yet therein lies the reward.
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Rock & Sling, 2018
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The Cresset, 2017
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Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith , 2017
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Yemassee, 2012
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Southern Humanities Review, 2013
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Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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The Cresset, 2012
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