Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 1998

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 1998

The editors.(issue introduction)
March 22, 1998... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Jeffrey Barnouw, Andrew Cooper, John Farrell, Kate Frost, Barbara Harlow, Kurt Heinzelman, Fred Hoerner, Louis Mackey, Robert Twombly, and Mark Womack. The essays in this issue variously...

Numerical patterning in Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs (1584).
March 22, 1998... In sixteenth-century England, the reformed church's emphasis on prayer and each individual's responsibility to address God directly created a demand for prayers appropriate for private devotions. (1) The printing of devotional works...

Reconciling Philo and Hume: habits, caprice, and inclinations.(author David Hume)
March 22, 1998... The generation of scholars immediately following in the wake of Norman Kemp-Smith's 1935 edition of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion hailed Philo as the incontrovertible hero of the work. Kemp-Smith's attention to Hume's irony, arid...

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt and the Influence of Local Attachment.
March 22, 1998... Byron's poetic success story began at Janina in October 1809. This was the date Byron started to write Childe Harold, on a tour through the Levant. Of that poem Byron wrote, "I awoke one morning and found myself famous." (1) "The effect," wrote...

Carlyle: between biblical exegesis and romantic hermeneutics.(writer Thomas Carlyle)
March 22, 1998... In a review article of 1891, Wilhelm Dilthey describes Carlyle as "the greatest English writer of our century" (1) It is not surprising that the transitional figure between nineteenth-century romantic hermeneutics and twentieth-century...

Post-Mutiny Allegories of Empire in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books.
March 22, 1998... In Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 2830-1914 Patrick Brantlinger highlights the special status of the Indian Mutiny in the British empire's cultural legacy. Briefly documenting post-Mutiny literary production, he observes,...