Philological Quarterly articles from March 2004

Philological Quarterly archives from March 2004

Plato's Timaeus and the Song of Roland: remarks on Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 23.
March 22, 2004... Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 23 contains two works, each copied by a different twelfth-century scribe. (1) The first part of the codex is given over to Calcidius' Latin translation of Plato's Timaeus, a learned cosmological treatise which describes...

Directed readings: paratext in a Game at Chess and The Tragedie of Philotas.
March 22, 2004... It has become a commonplace in studies of early modern reading practices to argue that seventeenth-century readers interpreted written works analogically. A. H. Tricomi best articulates this view in his 1986 article, "Philip, Earl of Pembroke,...

Representations of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins's early novels.
March 22, 2004... Illegitimacy was a prominent political, social, and literary issue throughout the nineteenth century, and is a theme that the sensation novelist Wilkie Collins repeatedly returns to in his fiction. Best remembered for his 1860 novel, The Woman...

"A gallant heart to the empire." Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures.(Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands)
March 22, 2004... 1 It seems fitting that the bi-centenary year of Mary Seacole's birth has been marked by a spate of discoveries and publications about the author of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857). In January 2005 a "lost"...

Gertrude on the block: writing, love, and fame in Stanzas in Meditation.(Gertrude Stein)
March 22, 2004... Gertrude Stein once wrote, referring to Alice B. Toklas, that she is "the air of here and there," but I would suggest that the "heir" space Toklas occupies during the composition of Stanzas in Meditation is confined to a single one of Gertrude...