ELH articles from December 1993

ELH archives from December 1993

Chaucer's 'Legend of Lucrece' and the critique of ideology in fourteenth-century England. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
December 22, 1993... In the context of English literary history, Chaucer's Legend of Lucrece marks the beginning of a long lineage of literary elaborations of this narrative. As a narrative about foundation (that of Republican Rome), Chaucer's poem is itself usually...

Base trade: theater as prostitution.
December 22, 1993... subjugation by the gaze. I wish to thank Professor Hodgdon for allowing me to read an early draft of her article and for generously sharing some of her research with me. 47 For a careful reading of the issue of masculine identity in the play,...

Coming out in Shakespeare's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona.'
December 22, 1993... Though I saw the same argument lately set foorth on stage with more commendation, then I can looke for: (being there much better set forth then I have or can dooe) yet the same matter penned as it is, may serve to lyke good effect. Arthur...

'The Triumphes of Golde': economic authority in the Jacobean Lord Mayor's show.
December 22, 1993... In 1613, Thomas Middleton prefaced the published record of his Lord Mayor's Show, The Triumphs of Truth, with an attack upon a rival city poet, Anthony Munday. Middleton declared his pageant to have been "directed, written and redeem'd into...

"Not I, but Christ": allegory and the puritan self.
December 22, 1993... Christianity, however, never, even in its most reformed mode, renounces nostalgia and desire. Even as reformers preach an "experimental" understanding of the Word, their own orthodoxy insists that the Word is never fully and immediately...

Of Caleb's guilt and Godwin's truth: ideology and ethics in 'Caleb Williams.' (William Godwin)
December 22, 1993... For a moralizing solution, like any essentializing gesture, serves the ideological function of masking the more difficult cultural and ethicopolitical issues. Dominick LaCapra, History, Politics, and the Novel Despite a recent resurgence of...

Chiasmus and the making of literary tradition: the case of Wordsworth and "the days of Dryden and Pope." (William Wordsworth)
December 22, 1993... modernity in "Literary History and Literary Modernity," Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, second ed. (London: Methuen, 1983), 142-65. In his comments on chiasmus in "Tropes (Rilke)," there seems to be a...

Browning's Pygmalion and the revenge of Galatea. (Robert Browning)
December 22, 1993... in Tennyson's "The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures" (1842), in which the elderly speaker tells his auditors to view a picture of his dead lover: "Raise thy soul; / Make thine heart ready with thine eyes: the time / Is come to raise the...

Pound, Blast, and syndicalism. (Ezra Pound; early 20th century anarchist periodical)
December 22, 1993... On February 27, 1912, The Times of London printed an alarming lead story about a "conspiracy," or "at least a scheme," to place the ownership of British coal mines in union hands. The Times's account of the surfacing of an incendiary pamphlet,...

Bourdieu and the sociology of aesthetics. (Pierre Bourdieu)
December 22, 1993... relations in contemporary France" (47). This description of the book, while certainly not inaccurate, focuses on the social functioning of cultural capital rather than on Bourdieu's attempt to redescribe what aesthetics and taste are, and how...