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Philological Quarterly articles from June 2007
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 2007
The form of formlessness.
June 22, 2007... Virtually every discussion of the new formalism, whether remonstration or encomium, mentions some variant or synonym of the word "return," which should cause us to wonder what the "new" in the "new formalism" is. Advocates of the new formalism...
Formalist cultural criticism and the post-restoration periodical.
June 22, 2007... Some will have it, that I often write to my sell and am the only punctual correspondent I have. This objection would indeed be material, were the letters I communicate to the public stuffed with my own commendations, and if, instead of...
Couplets and curls: a theory of form.
June 22, 2007... Practitioners of formalism are frequently anxious to assert the primacy of aesthetic value and its pleasures, whether that formalism is characterized as "new," "activist," or "normative." In so doing, they often register a critical fatigue...
The obligations of form: social practice in Charlotte Smith's Emmeline.
June 22, 2007... In Charlotte Smith's first novel, Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, the heroine finds herself caught between her obligations to competing forms of male "protection." Emmeline, seemingly illegitimate, has promised her uncle and guardian, Lord...
Aesthetico-constructivism: farther adventures in criticism.
June 22, 2007... CONSTRUCTIVISM AND FORMALISM
For at least a generation, most critics of the eighteenth-century novel have argued or assumed that canonical texts do not passively reflect a pre-existent reality but help to shape or construct what readers...
John Gibson, Fiction and the Weave of Life.
June 22, 2007... John Gibson, Fiction and the Weave of Life. Oxford U. Press, 2007. Pp. 201. $75.
How to assess the truth value of statements of apparent fact that occur in fictions ("Sherlock Holmes lived on Baker Street" is a favorite example) may sound...
Repossessing the Romantic Past.
June 22, 2007... Repossessing the Romantic Past edited by Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton. Cambridge U. Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 254. $90.
In the past three decades a new picture of British Romanticism has emerged in opposition to the focus on six male poets in...
Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820.
June 22, 2007... Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820 by David E. Shuttleton. Cambridge U. Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 265. $91.
The writing of this review coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the last fatal case of smallpox, which occurred...
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera.
June 22, 2007... Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes. Cambridge U. Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 313. $85.
Despite its fairly standard size for a monograph, Derek Hughes's book is a expedition of veritably epic proportions...
Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading.
June 22, 2007... Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading by Richard Deming. Stanford U. Press, 2007. Pp. 182. $50.
At the same time that we moderns learned about living in regimes of vision that include spectacle (Guy Debord, Laura...