Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2004

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2004

Making the woman of him: Shakespeare's Man Right Fair as sonnet lady.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Hort. A will make the man mad to make the woman of him. Kate. Yong budding Virgin, faire, and fresh, & sweet, Whether away, or whether is thy aboade? Happy the Parents of so faire a childe; Happier the man whom...

Reading nascent capitalism in Part II of Thomas Heywood's If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Part II of Thomas Heywood's If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, while continuing the biography of Elizabeth begun in Part I, gives most of its attention to Sir Thomas Gresham and the founding of the Royal Exchange. The three scenes involving...

Complicated monsters: essence and metamorphosis in Milton.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Along with John Rumrich and Stephen Fallon, I have been editing Milton's complete poetry and selected prose. (1) I find that he is in certain respects a new poet for me because editors must forfeit the luxury of skipping things. That was...

Fashioning innocence: rhetorical construction of character in the Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Writing in her mid-fifties, several years after the death of her husband, seventeenth-century autobiographer Lady Anne Halkett chose as the subject of her Memoirs a dozen years out of a life that was to span most of the century (1623-99). Her...

"I wou'd be a Man-Woman": Roxana's Amazonian threat to the ideology of marriage.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Emerging in recent decades from under the shadow of its more popular siblings, Daniel Defoe's final novel, Roxana (1724), has enjoyed a noticeable rise in critical fortune, despite the tragic misfortune of its eponymous heroine. Finding in the...