Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2003

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2003

The editors are grateful for the assistance.
March 22, 2003... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Jerome Bump, Tom Cable, Jack Farrell, Neville Hoad, Ben Lindfors, James Loehlin, Carol MacKay, Joseph Malof, Michael Stapleton, and Frank Whigham. The first half of this issue comprises three...

Shakespearean prosody unbound.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In his study of prosody, Timothy Steele expresses an important concern about the relationship between verse form and content: "I worry that I may have appeared, in discussing the expressive potentials of form, to have recommended the view that...

Shakespeare's anxious epistemology: Love's Labor's Lost and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... James Shapiro has described the relationship between Shakespeare and Marlowe as one in which "Shakespeare seems to be very much aware of what Marlowe is up to and chooses to chart a parallel course" (103). (1) Such comparative trends have helped...

Protestant manliness in Arden of Faversham.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In a development familiar to scholarship on early modern drama, recent attempts to historicize Arden of Faversham have multiplied rather than clarified the possible meanings of the play-text. Many of these readings contribute substantially to our...

"Irreproachable women and patient workers": the memoirs of Victorian leading ladies.
March 22, 2003... When Victoria ascended the throne, respectable society anathematized those men, women, and children for whom the theater was both a workplace and a way of life. (1) The middle classes viewed the stage, in critic Mary Jean Corbett's words, as "the...

John Henry Newman, knowingness, and Victorian perfectionism.
March 22, 2003... The following pages have several aims, both historical and philosophical. First, I want to bring to consideration a particular character trait or disposition of our moral psychology, one I will call "knowingness," and to suggest as I do that the...

Hopkins's "bellbright bodies": the dialectics of desire in his writings.(Gerard Manley Hopkins)
March 22, 2003... The question of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sexual tendencies and their influence upon his poetry is a vexing one. At the present moment, despite long and spirited debates, Hopkins critics are still divided into two major camps, and there is little...