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Philological Quarterly articles from June 2004
This journal covers aspects of medieval European and modern literature and culture. The articles published incorporate physical bibliography, the sociology of knowledge, the history of reading, reception studies and other fields of inquiry.
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Philological Quarterly archives from June 2004
Secrets, gossip and gender in William Dunbar's The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... Whether shared politically as diplomacy, religiously as confession, intellectually as knowledge, or socially as gossip, secrets structured power relations in medieval society, just as they do today. (1) People who hold them can use them to gain...
The last days of Lord Peterborough: the Earl, the opera singer, and a new letter by Pope.(Alexander Pope, Anastasia Robinson)
June 22, 2004... One of the most piquant episodes in the early history of English opera concerns a secret marriage between the third Earl of Peterborough and the singer Anastasia Robinson. According to The Complete Peerage, "this appears to be the first...
Isaac Bickerstaff's copyrights--and a biographical discovery.
June 22, 2004... Isaac Bickerstaff, the most successful musical-drama librettist of the 1760s, fled London in May 1772 to escape prosecution for sodomy. Though he may have died as late as 1816, the rest of his life is virtually a blank. In the standard...
Henry James's children and the gift of friendship.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... 1
Much of the current scholarship devoted to Henry James examines his work in relation to the cultural context in which he was living and writing. In studying this milieu scholars have focused in particular on social relations, especially...
The plainsong of The Double Dream of Spring: John Ashbery, Olivier Messiaen, and rituals of the sacred.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... In all this springing up was no hint Of a tide, only a pleasant wavering of the air In which all things seemed present, whether Just past or soon to come. It was all invitation.
John Ashbery, "Scheherazade," Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirro...
William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period.(Book review)
June 22, 2004... WILLIAM ST CLAIR, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Pp. xxix + 765. 90 [pounds sterling]. $150.00.
This massive book is a daunting object for review. The author makes huge claims and...
Books received.
June 22, 2004... CLASSICS INCLUDING LATER LATIN
Cicero. Political Speeches. Trans. D. H. Berry. Oxford U. Press, 2006. Pp. xl + 345. $13.95.
Cosmopoulos, Michael B., ed. The Parthenon and its Sculptures. Cambridge U. Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 214. $75.00....