Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2003

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2003

Nineteenth-century quartet: desire, commodity, and imperial polity.
September 22, 2003... In our first essay, Barbara Judson claims that Byron's Sardanapalus reorients the typically conservative genre of historical drama by representing post-Waterloo British imperialism not as dispassionate sublimation of virile English masculinity...

Tragicomedy, bisexuality, and byronism; or, jokes and their relation to Sardanapalus.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... For nineteenth-century readers, Byron was the embodiment of passion, aptly portrayed by Shelley as Maddalo, "a person of the most consummate genius, and capable, if he would direct his energies to such an end, of becoming the redeemer of his...

Who owns what: slavery, property, and eschatological compensation in Thomas De Quincey's opium writings.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... This essay explores what it means to be a thing at a particularly volatile moment when the consolidation of the European national subject and the racialization of colonized peoples were woven into the same historical process. Since the...

Communities in mourning: making capital out of loss in Carlyle's past and present and heroes.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Thomas Carlyle is perhaps most famous for his consistent commitment to hero worship. Heroes, Carlyle hopes, will resolve the problems of democratic and industrial modernity exemplified by the Chartist rebellion and acute economic exploitation....

Partying with the opposition: social politics in The Prime Minister.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... The critical reviews of Anthony Trollope's 1876 novel The Prime Minister resound with a single complaint. Trollope's characters have descended into the netherworld of "vulgarity." The reviewer for the Spectator, for example, sees in Trollope's...