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Philological Quarterly articles from September 2004
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 2004
Female devotion and the Vercelli book.
September 22, 2004... The reception theories of Hans Robert Jauss provide a vocabulary with which to explore Vercelli, Archivio Capitolare manuscript 117, the Anglo-Saxon religious manuscript usually referred to as the Vercelli Book. (1) Jauss's concept of...
How naked is Juliana?
September 22, 2004... In the foreword to a recent collection on nakedness and the body in Anglo-Saxon art, literature, and society, Benjamin C. Withers poses a formidable problem for modern interpretations of medieval nakedness: he argues that the "cultural...
The prophet's conundrum: poetic soaring in Milton's "Nativity Ode" and "The Passion".(Critical essay)
September 22, 2004... Milton, it is often stressed, was a sect of one. However, to overemphasize the rebellious nature of Milton's early religious convictions is to conceal a basic biographical fact: he was raised a devout Perkinsian Calvinist, not a radical, free...
Lexicography of the feminine: Matilda Betham's Dictionary of Celebrated Women.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2004... The poet, painter, and biographer Matilda Betham (1776-1852) earned her own place in the annals of literary history chiefly through her friendships with and portraiture of famous men, most notably the British Romantic poets S. T. Coleridge and...
Oscar Wilde's "The Sphinx"--a dramatic monologue of the dandy as a young man?(Critical essay)
September 22, 2004... With the exception of The Ballad of Reading Gaol and the occasional comment on "The Harlot's House," Oscar Wilde's poetic production has now been almost completely eclipsed by the tremendous academic and popular-culture attention given to his...
Books received.
September 22, 2004... CLASSICS INCLUDING LATER LATIN
Algra, Keimpe, et al., eds. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge U. Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 916. $210.00 cloth, $48.00 paper.
Allen, Joel. Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman...