Philological Quarterly articles from September 2005

Philological Quarterly archives from September 2005

Structuring and revision in 1 Henry VI.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... In "Shakespeare and Others: The Authorship of Henry the Sixth, Part One," Gary Taylor presents the best reconstruction yet published of the genesis of the play arguably the least read and least performed of all those included by Heminge and...

All the crumbling edifices must come down: decoding Christopher Smart's Song to David.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... At the heart of Christopher Smart's Song to David lies a mystery. Seven verses in the middle of the poem each begin, for no obvious reason, with the name of a Greek letter, spelled out in English. Smart's description of these verses is not much...

Gendered cover-ups: live burial, social death, and coverture in Mary Braddon's fiction.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Over a century before Betty Friedan controversially claimed that gendered discrepancies in personal and social fulfillment were resulting in "the mass burial of American women," Mary Braddon was using this historically resonant metaphor to...

The muse writes back: Vivien Eliot's response to high modernism.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... T. S. Eliot's reputation as a critic, scholar, editor, and writer was bolstered by his role as the editor of a small literary quarterly called The Criterion. Funded initially by Lady Rothermere and later by Faber and Gwyer, the magazine, after...

Fighting to understand: violence, form, and truth-claims in Lesy, Vonnegut, and Herr.(Michael Lesy, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Herr)
September 22, 2005... In 1973, Michael Lesy published his first book, a collection of photographs, newspaper accounts, records from an insane asylum, literary excerpts, and other materials that together provide a portrait of the town of Black River Fails, Wisconsin,...