Philological Quarterly articles from March 1993

Philological Quarterly archives from March 1993

Original sin as treason in Act 1 of the 'Mystere d'Adam.'
March 22, 1993... In 1939, Kenneth Urwin remarked on the "essentially feudal" attitudes expressed by God, Adam, and Eve in the twelfthcentury Anglo-Norman liturgical drama, the Mystere d'Adam.(1) Since then, such scholars as Calin, Hunt, Noomen, Odenkirchen,...

"I am al othir to yow than yee weene": Hoccleve, women, and the 'Series.' (Thomas Hoccleve)
March 22, 1993... In 1399, Christine de Pisan began her assault on the misogynistic writings that were so popular in late medieval Europe with her Epistre au dieu d'amours, a poem in which Cupid defends women against what Christine considered the defamation of...

Deadly letters in 'King Lear.'
March 22, 1993... King James, then King of Scotland, wrote to his cousin Queen Elizabeth, probably in 1586, annoyed that she had failed to respond to an earlier letter: "For ye know dead letters cannot answer no questions."(1) I will explore some of the letters...

Early poems by - and not by - Fielding. (Henry Fielding)
March 22, 1993... On November 1727 appeared a pair of poems, advertised as "The Coronation. A Poem. And an Ode on the Birth-day. By Mr. Fielding," printed for Benjamin Creake and sold by James Roberts. We know of this publication only from the newspaper...

Sola fide? Samuel Johnson and the Augustinian doctrine of salvation.
March 22, 1993... For over thirty years, Donald J. Greene has been championing the orthodoxy of eighteenth-century Anglicanism in response to the many scholars who have concluded that the beliefs of Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries deviate from the cardinal...

Gender construction and the 'Kunstlerroman': 'David Copperfield' and 'Aurora Leigh.'
March 22, 1993... 1 A nineteenth-century Romantic genre, the Kunstlerroman, as a kind of palimpsest, conceals the material concerns of the writer by asserting that self-making is an art. Indeed,a rewriting and erasure of the self, the Kunstlerroman's...

Tennyson's sublunary Grail. ('Idylls of the King')
March 22, 1993... Apologue, Fable, Poesy, and Parable, Are false, but may be rendered also true, By those who sow them in a land that's arable: 'T is wonderful what Fable will not do! 'T is said it makes Reality more bearable.... ...

Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic.
March 22, 1993... In this book Colomb pursues two primary goals. Firstly, he tries to provide a useful summary description of the Augustan mock-epic. Secondly, he wants to shed light on the poetics of the genre. He is especially concerned to explain how the...

Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters.
March 22, 1993... From his earliest years in London's literary circles in 1911, Richard Aldington has been a figure of controversy. As the youngest of the imagists (he was 19 when he began to edit the literary section of The Egoist in 1912, two years too young...