Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 2000

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 2000

Hawthorne's demystification of history in "Endicott and the Red Cross".(Questions of Authority: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction in Historical Context)
December 22, 2000... Since the "return to history," one of Hawthorne's tales of Puritan history, "Endicott and the Red Cross" (1837), has received increased critical attention. Michael Colacurcio, in his study of Hawthorne's role as a moral historian in the early...

"Profound science" and "elegant literature": doctors in nineteenth-century U.S. periodical fiction.(Questions of Authority: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction in Historical Context)
December 22, 2000... In 1848 the first president of the newly formed American Medical Association (AMA) lamented the profession's declining prestige: The profession to which we belong, once venerated on account of its antiquity,--its various and profound...

"Once place me and you'll see": the matter with Milly in 'The Wings of the Dove'.(Questions of Authority: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction in Historical Context)
December 22, 2000... Close to the end of his study of his native country at the dawn of a new century, The American Scene, Henry James analyzes two social types in almost identical terms: the commercial traveler and the "the American girl." James's comparison...

Pleasurable "presences": sites, buildings, and "aliens" in James's 'American Scene'.(Questions of Authority: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction in Historical Context)(Henry James)
December 22, 2000... Henry James--particularly the late James--is not usually remembered as a great humorist. Professional students of his work tend to produce such serious or downright bleak titles as The Tragedy of Manners, The Darkest Abyss of Romance, The Expense...

Sex, race, and class in Edith Wharton.(Questions of Authority: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction in Historical Context)
December 22, 2000... I In this essay I argue that the acclamation Wharton has received in recent years, especially from feminists such as Cynthia Griffin Wolff and Elizabeth Ammons, ignores what should have been a fundamental qualification, namely her...