Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 2006

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 2006

"Man hungry": reconsidering threats to colonial and patriarchal order in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest.(John Dryden and William Davenant)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... Why, in 1667, did John Dryden and William Davenant choose to revise Shakespeare's The Tempest, and what do their revisions signify for literary and cultural history? (1) Their play is usually described as an attempt to neutralize various...

Faithful likenesses: lists of similes in Milton, Shelley, and Rossetti.(Christina Rossetti, John Milton, and Percy Bysshe Shelley)
December 22, 2006... Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is full of lists, but these lists come in two distinct varieties. The first type, associated with the goblin men, is a list of objects: either of fruit ("Apples and quinces, / Lemons and oranges, / Plump...

The polis's different voices: narrating England's progress in Dickens's Bleak House.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... The first word of Charles Dickens's epic novel Bleak House (1853) is also its first sentence: "LONDON" (13). An agrammatical assemblage of capital letters, "LONDON" is a fragment, caught in verbless stasis, and it is a forceful one. London's...

"Dirty linen": legacies of empire in Wilkie Collins's the Moonstone.
December 22, 2006... Domestic, the Oxford English Dictionary informs, means "of or pertaining to one's own country or nation; not foreign, internal, inland, 'home.'" But what becomes of this definition when that which pertain[s] to one's own country or nation is...

Lewis in Wonderland: the looking-glass world of Sylvie and Bruno.(Lewis Caroll)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... Since their publication in 1889 and 1893, Lewis Carroll's two Sylvie and Bruno books have perplexed and disappointed both critics and casual readers, who have faulted them for bearing only a slight resemblance to their famous predecessors, the...