ELH articles from December 1994

ELH archives from December 1994

Grendel's glove.
December 22, 1994... Edda (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), 61. 36 Lokasenna, in Neckel (note 35), stanza 60. Translation from Terry (note 35), 82. I have altered Terry's translation of the last line of the Lokasenna stanza to make it echo...

'Social things': the production of popular culture in the reception of Robert Greene's 'Pandosto.'
December 22, 1994... sport, / Yet you your selves become no currish creatures" (9). The link back to Lyly seals the familiar associations between books and lapdogs, between pleasure-reading and women's leisure and desire. Wall (note 47) also reads this passage as...

'Hamlet' recycled, or the tragical history of the Prince's prints.
December 22, 1994... Hor. Ill, lo, lo, ho, ho. Mar. Ill, lo, lo, fo, ho, fo, come boy, come. (Q1, 1603) Mar. Illo, ho, ho, ho, my Lord. Ham. Hillo, ho, ho, boy come, and come. (Q2, 1604/5) Hor. Illo, ho, ho, my Lord. Ham. Hillo, ho, ho, boy; come bird, come....

Restoring Astraea: Jonson's masque for the fall of Somerset.
December 22, 1994... In the last ten years, as investigation of the social and political relationships of literature has become a central project of Renaissance studies, the politics of the Stuart masques have come under increasingly detailed scrutiny.(1) As public...

The monstrous mother: reproductive anxiety in Swift and Pope.
December 22, 1994... In the West, the image of the fecund female has often been associated with monstrosity. This characterization was established with the creation of Scylla in Homer's Odyssey: encoded as an emblem of lust, the fecund female and her yelping,...

Techniques of terror, technologies of nationality: Ann Radcliffe's 'The Italian.'
December 22, 1994... I It was said by Fletcher of Saltoun, "Let me make the ballads of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws." Might it not be said with as much propriety, Let me make the novels of a country, and let who will make the systems? Anna...

Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and the "common naturalization" of Great Britain.
December 22, 1994... Recent critics of the novel generally accept that the marriage plot of nineteenth-century fiction, in Tony Tanner's words, represents "a means by which society attempts to bring into harmonious alignment patterns of passion and patterns of...

The Victorian discourse of gambling: speculations on 'Middlemarch' and 'The Duke's Children.'
December 22, 1994... When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time. --Sir Earnest Cassel, Banker to Edward VII(1)...

Framing fears, reading designs: the homosexual art of painting in James, Wilde, and Beerbohm. (Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm)
December 22, 1994... Narcissus similarly ignore or excise Ganymede's attempted "homosexual" seduction of Narcissus. By taking himself as his own object, Narcissus therefore rejects both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Similarly, while Dorian's final rejection...

Instances of meeting: Shelley and Eliot: a study in affinity.
December 22, 1994... 10 Eliot, "Reflections on Contemporary Poetry," The Egoist (July 1919): 39-40. I quote this passage at such length because the review itself has never, to my knowledge, been reprinted. Harold Bloom does quote this particular passage in The...