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Philological Quarterly articles from March 1996
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 March 1996
Margery Kempe: spectacle and spiritual governance.
March 22, 1996... One question that readers of the Book of Margery Kempe consistently take up is just what authorizes Margery's mystic utterance and her claims to saintly status.(1) Recently Sarah Beckwith has raised the underlying issues of the late medieval...
Swift's corrected copy of 'Contests and Dissensions,' with other pamphlets from his library.(Jonathan Swift)
March 22, 1996... "Dr. Swift frequently cleaned his Library, to clear it of Rubbish," George Faulkner reported years after his death. Faulkner was explaining Swift's habit of discarding his old sermons and other manuscripts "which did not please him," but he...
Defoe and the art of war.(Daniel Defoe)
March 22, 1996... 1
Few lines in Defoe's writings are more startling to the modern sensibility than those that appear near the beginning of his "Introduction" to An Essay upon Projects where he attempted to define the nature of the "Projecting Age" in...
Hazlitt and the real language of poetry.(William Hazlitt)
March 22, 1996... In his Letter to William Gifford, Hazlitt attributes the fidelity to truth in his literary criticism to his early discovery of metaphysical truth, offering, in explication of that truth, a lengthy summary of the Essay on the Principles of...
"Vision" in "The Holy Grail": Tennyson's theistic skepticism.(Alfred Lord Tennyson)
March 22, 1996... Contexts for Interpretation
Few students of Tennyson have denied the necessity of studying his poems in their many historical contexts, if we are to make valid interpretations. We must survey the main formal elements of the poem, its...
James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare.
March 22, 1996... Recent inquiries into the elements of popular culture and politics in James Joyce's works have brought an awareness of his deep concern with matters cultural and historical. Various studies of Joyce have explored the appearance in his work of...