Philological Quarterly articles from June 2005

Philological Quarterly archives from June 2005

"The cause of everiche maladye": a new source of the Physician's Tale.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... 1 Emerson Brown, in his often cited essay on the Physician's Tale, concluded that an analysis of the narrator's misuse of sources in the tale leads overwhelmingly to the conclusion that the Physician is intellectually challenged. He does...

Corporal terror: critiques of imperialism in The Siege of Jerusalem.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... In defining the relationship between violence and justice in "The Critique of Violence," Walter Benjamin suggests that violence must be evaluated "within the sphere of means, themselves, without regard for the ends they serve." (1) As Giorgio...

Anatomizing the body politic: corporeal rhetoric in The Maid's Tragedy.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... 1 Nineteenth-century readers--Coleridge most infamously--found in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays benighted characters, prostrate before arcane political notions. The playwrights, mere sensationalists, are supposed to have been "the most...

"Business for the Lovers of Business": Sir Charles Grandison, Hardwicke's Marriage Act and the Specter of Bigamy.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... ... in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings of the Story, as well as of the heart... (1) As Samuel Richardson was publishing The History of Sir Charles Grandison, his third and final novel, in 1753 and 1754, Parliament was...

Tennyson's Balin and Balan as the reconciliation of the divided self: a new reading of the final Idylls of the King.(Alfred Tennyson)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... W. H. Auden, according to his biographer Humphrey Carpenter, apparently informed his tutor at Oxford at his first tutorial, "'I am going to be a poet.' The tutor, Neville Coghill, replied patronisingly that this was a splendid way to start...