Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2001

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2001

Figuring the new woman: writers and mothers in George Egerton's early stories.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Recent critical reevaluations of fin de siecle England have catalogued the contradictory attitudes held by and about New Women: (1) they were over-sexed or asexual, championed free love or advocated stricter standards of purity, embraced eugenic...

Hannah More and the problem of poverty.
September 22, 2001... In August 1789 the abolitionist William Wilberforce paid a visit to his friend, the writer Hannah More. More and her sister Martha, known familiarly as Patty, were spending the summer at their cottage in the scenic Mendip Hills. At Patty's...

I will say the truth to the English people: 'The History of Mary Prince' and the meaning of English history.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Perhaps due to the contemporary critical concern with authorship, the first reprint of The History of Mary Prince in 1987, (1) more than a century and a half after the initial publication of the book, has occasioned articles that concentrate...

The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in 'The Woman in White'.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... The hiding of a crime, or the detection of a crime, what is it? A trial of skill between the police on one side, and the individual on the other. When the criminal is a brutal, ignorant fool, the police in nine cases out of...

Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power: Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in book five of 'The Prelude'.(William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... At the end of the Phaedrus, Socrates inveighs against writing, as against a kind of idol worship. "You know, Phaedrus," he says, that's the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly analogous to painting. The painter's products...