Philological Quarterly articles from June 2000

Philological Quarterly archives from June 2000

Authorizing the reader in Chaucer's House of Fame.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... 1 It is curious that Chaucer tends to portray himself as a "reader" rather than as an "author" in his major works. The dream-visions of The Parliament of Fowls and The Book of the Duchess are fueled by the reading material the narrator...

Circumventing Petrarch: subreading Ovid's Tristia in Spenser's Amoretti.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... By writing the Amoretti as a Petrarchan sonnet sequence that leads to the marriage celebrated in the Epithalamion, Spenser faced a structural problem: not only does Petrarch's Rime sparse not contain imagery of the kind of mutual love that...

The politics of Gender, Puritanism, and Shakespeare's Third Folio.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Nicholas Rowe and Alexander Pope were probably reluctant to see their editions of Shakespeare include six plays, now called "apocryphal." (1) Philip Chetwind first bound these plays, and Pericles, to Shakespeare's works for a second printing of...

Sexual commerce in Trollope's Phineas novels.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... 1 The full realization of a competitive market economy in the wake of the industrial revolution has left its mark on Victorian literature. The nineteenth-century realist novel, with its penchant for social commentary, provides a valuable...

Hallam, Tennyson, homosexuality and the critics.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In his introduction to Byron and Greek Love, Louis Crompton identifies a "central issue confronting gay studies"--"the friendship problem": If a novel, poem, or essay describes or expresses ardent feelings for a member of the same sex,...

Books received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2000... LANGUAGE Grote, Dale A. A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin. Newly revised for Wheelock's 6th edition. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 338. CLASSICS INCLUDING LATER LATIN Alden, Maureen. Homer Beside...