Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 1997

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 1997

The editors.
June 22, 1997... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Andrew Cooper, Ann Cvetkovich, John Farrell, Betty Sue Flowers, and Janet Gabler-Hover on this issue. In addition, for assistance on TSLL 38:3-4, we thank Andrew Cooper and Kurt Heinzelman. In...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Apocalypse: the unraveling of poetic autonomy.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1997... I cannot thoroughly love a work of mine, Since none seems worthy of my thought and hope More highly mated. He has shot them down, My Phoebus Apollo, soul within my soul, Who judges, by the attempted, what's attained, And with the silver...

Rewriting Trollope and Yonge: Mrs. Oliphant's Phoebe Junior and the realism wars.(Phoebe Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford )(Margaret Oliphant)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1997... It is easy to think of Margaret Oliphant, once popular and now largely forgotten, as a victim of the Victorian literary marketplace. Her Autobiography and letters ring with lamentations about the difficulties of writing night and day to support...

"A line of her own": Henry James's "sturdy little doctress" and the medical woman as literary type in gilded-age America.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1997... Writing in 1893, with her own pioneering and courageous struggles behind her, Sophia Jex-Blake--one of England's first officially accredited women doctors--began an interesting and little-known essay, "Medical Women in Fiction," by remarking...

Incorporated bodies: Dracula and the rise of professionalism.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1997... The dinner was very long, and the conversation was about the aristocracy--and Blood. Mrs Waterbrook repeatedly told us that if she had a weakness, it was Blood. David Copperfield In the popular adventure fiction of the fin de siecle,...