Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 1999

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 1999

Milton's Arminianism and the authorship of "De doctrina Christiana".(17th-century British poet John Milton; Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius)
June 22, 1999... "That Milton's later theology is Arminian... is not on the whole a controversial claim." (1) So Dennis Danielson wrote sixteen years ago. He was looking back four decades to the work of Maurice Kelley, who confirmed and elaborated Samuel...

The erotic Milton.(17th-century British poet John Milton)
June 22, 1999... It is a biographical commonplace universally acknowledged that the single young poet John Milton shaped and confirmed his vocational commitment around the time of his Italian journey, during the late 1630s. This emergence in his late twenties...

The importance of being easy: desire and Cibber's "The Careless Husband".(18th-century writer Colley Cibber)
June 22, 1999... Although popular with both critics and audiences throughout the eighteenth century, Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband (1704) has not been sufficiently appreciated in the twentieth century. In essence, The Careless Husband is judged good...

A man on the cusp: Sir William Jones's "philology" and "oriental studies".(18th-century scholar)
June 22, 1999... Introduction: The Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century It is often said that the last quarter of the eighteenth century was a time of transition: during this brief period, Europe witnessed the breakdown of the old regime and the rise of...

Modernist hauntology: James Joyce, Hester Dowden, and Shakespeare's ghost.(20th-century writer, spiritualist)
June 22, 1999... William Shakespeare haunts English-speaking culture like the ghost of Hamlet's father, forever accusing us, his wayward descendants, of failing to rise to his own formidable standard of literary achievement. Yet Shakespeare troubles our...