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Philological Quarterly articles from September 2000
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 September 2000
The bachelor-warrior of Exeter Book Riddle 20.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The Exeter Book riddles occupy a unique place in Old English literary history. Whereas the subject matter of most of the extant verse derives from traditions of Christian Latinity and Germanic legend, many of the riddles refer us to the social...
"Our praises are our wages": courtly exchange, social mobility, and female speech in The Winter's Tale.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... What happens when a woman speaks at court? Early modern representations of female courtly speech are notoriously fraught with contradiction. In Stefano Guazzo's The Civile Conversation, for instance, the perfect courtier Anniball Magnocavalli...
Annotating a career: from Pope's Homer to The Dunciad: from Madame Dacier to Madame Dacier by way of swift.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Pope's career has both a literary and political shape. It moves from Windsor Forest's (1713) Stuart, Bolingbrokean, Virgilian georgic optimism to the final Dunciad's (1743) Hanoverian, Walpolean, inverted epic pessimism. The benevolent,...
"An honest scar received in the service of my country": Lismahago's colonial perspective in Humphry Clinker.(Obadiah Lismahago)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... When Matthew Bramble's expedition reaches Durham, his family encounters a character introduced as "a tall, meagure figure, answering, with his horse, the description of Don Quixote mounted on Rozinante." (1) While Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago...
Romantic Improvvisatori: Coleridge, L.E.L., and the difficulties of loving.(Letitia Elizabeth Landon)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The Improvisatore, or John Anderson, My Jo, John `is a neglected work by Coleridge, little read, and held in low estimation by most of his critics. In Coleridge's Later Poetry, for instance, Morton Paley gives it a paragraph; in The Poetic...
The semiotics of fantasy in William Kennedy's fiction.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... William Kennedy's fame as a novelist grows primarily from his multi-generational tapestry of Irish-American experience in Albany. Specifically, he focuses on rebels and on the codes that define brotherhoods--be they ethnic enclaves, political...