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Philological Quarterly articles from September 2007
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 2007
Editorial statement.
September 22, 2007... From its inception after the end of the First World War, PQ has published contributions in many genres of literary scholarship and has opened its pages to a wide range of critical methodologies. One constant over the years, however, has been...
Caring for the dead in The Fortunes of Men.
September 22, 2007... Whether it is an effect of what was once called the "somber cast of the Teutonic mind" or of St. Benedict's dictum to "have death always before our eyes," the Old English poetic tradition seems unusually given to depictions of the indignities...
The mimesis of time in Hamlet.
September 22, 2007... Hamlet opens on intense attention to time, as the sentries "watch the minutes of this night" (1.1.30). (1) The emphasis gains thematic depth when Hamlet formulates his predicament in terms of temporal dislocation: "The time is out of joint. O...
Locating Byron: languages, voices, and displaced utterances.
September 22, 2007... Exhausted and excited after crossing the Alps and sailing on Lake Maggiore, Byron arrived in Milan on 12 October 1816 and, the following day, wrote to his half-sister Augusta with no small degree of satisfaction: "I have got to Milan." (1) He...
Translation and adaptation in Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh.
September 22, 2007... Dost thou think Alexander look'd o' this fashion i' the earth?
Hamlet, 5.1.217
Because of the special (some would say insurmountable) difficulties posed by the genre, literary translations commonly fail or succeed with critics based...
Ruskin on his sexuality: a lost source.(Notes and Documents)
September 22, 2007... Brantwood,
Coniston, Lancashire
May 15 '86
My dearest S.
How little you know me, after all! After all these years! As if I ever cared about marriages!--The moment people marry I drop them like hot coals.--Go suckle your...
Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell.
September 22, 2007... Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell by Diane Kelsey McColley. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 252. $89.95.
Halfway through his essay "Walking," H. D. Thoreau asks "Where is the literature which gives expression to...
Edmund Curll, Bookseller.
September 22, 2007... Edmund Curll, Bookseller by Paul Baines and Pat Rogers. Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. x + 388. $55.
In 1927, Ralph Straus published a biography of the eighteenth-century bookseller Edmund Curll. The Unspeakable Curll (London: Chapman and...
Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work.
September 22, 2007... Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work by Peter Simonsen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x + 216. $69.95.
This meticulously researched monograph is the latest in a...
Northern Irish Literature: The Imprint of History.
September 22, 2007... Northern Irish Literature: The Imprint of History by Michael Parker. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Volume 1, 1956-1975, pp. xx + 357. Volume 2, 1975-2006, pp. xix + 334. $125 per volume.
In a talk given in 1989, the poet Michael Longley...
Books received.
September 22, 2007... CLASSICS INCLUDING LATER LATIN
Barker, Andrew. The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece. Cambridge U. Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 481. $115.
Behr, Francesca D'Alessandro. Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion....