Philological Quarterly articles from September 1993

Philological Quarterly archives from September 1993

Dichotomize and conquer: "womman handlyng" in 'Handlyng Synne.'
September 22, 1993... Robert Mannyng of Brunne's Handlyng Synne, a 12,658 line poem in octosyllabic couplets, is a Middle English confessional collection of exhortations and highly moral illustrative tales. A translation, adaption, and expansion of the anonymous...

The play world and the real world: chivalry in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.'
September 22, 1993... The work of such new historicists as Stephen Greenblatt and Lee Patterson has focused the attention of literary critics on the meaning of history and the historical importance of the symbolic, the notion that man "above all makes meaning."(1)...

"A pleasant and terrible reverence": maintenance of majesty in Sidney's 'New Arcadia.' (Philip Sidney)
September 22, 1993... Launching into his most dangerous literary performance--his letter urging Elizabeth not to marry Francis, duke of Alencon--Sir Philip Sidney addresses the queen routinely, as his "Most feared and beloved, most sweet and gracious Sovereign."(1)...

The 'Champion' and the chapter on hats in 'Jonathan Wild.' (Henry Fielding)
September 22, 1993... Coleridge once exclaimed that Fielding's little chapter "Of Hats" in Jonathan Wild (2.6), "brief as it is, exceeds any thing even in Swift's Lilliput, or Tale of the Tub. How forcibly it applies to the Whigs, Tories, and Radicals of our own...

Coherence in 'Biographia Literaria': God, self, and Coleridge's "seminal principle."
September 22, 1993... Coleridge's brief discussion of imagination (primary and secondary) and fancy in Chapter 13 of Biographia Literaria has been called, "perhaps the most famous single prose passage in all of English literature, yet... also one of the most...

Byron and 'The Liberal': periodical as political posture.
September 22, 1993... On October 15, 1822, Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt published a journal that appeared in four issues between 1822 and 1823. Byron's choice of title for this periodical, The Liberal, represents one of the most significant uses of the word as a noun...

Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343.
September 22, 1993... Edited by Susan Irvine. EETS, original series, 302. Oxford U. Press, 1993. Pp. lxxviii 242. $36.00. Susan Irvine here edits literature which some might consider unglamorous: seven Old English homilies from MS Oxford, Bodleian Library,...