ELH articles from June 1993

ELH archives from June 1993

Printing the mind: the economics of authorship in 'Areopagitica.' (poem by John Milton)
June 22, 1993... 18 See Nigel Smith (note 6), who discusses Milton's appropriation of the language of certain Parliamentarians in order to appeal to Parliament. 19 Lipson (note 14), 3:359. 20 Thirsk (note 14), 239. 21 Lipson (note 14), 3:333. 22...

Holy hatred: formations of the gendered subject in English apocalyptic writing, 1625-1651.
June 22, 1993... the Civil War, ed. D. Starkey (London: Longman, 1987), 226-60; and R. Malcolm Smuts, "The Political Failure of Stuart Cultural Patronage," in Patronage in the Renaissance, ed. Guy Fitch Lytle and Stephen Orgel (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press,...

The balance of power in Marvell's "Horatian Ode." (Andrew Marvell)(poem)
June 22, 1993... I The attention of most students of Marvell's "Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland" has been directed toward questions of fairly concrete historical specificity--questions about the poet's real opinion of Cromwell, his views on the...

Thomas Shadwell's 'The Volunteers' and the rhetoric of honor and patriotism. (17th century play)
June 22, 1993... Anyone familiar with Restoration comedy will recognize a number of anomalies in the dramatis personae of Shadwell's posthumous The Volunteers, or the Stock-Jobbers (first staged in 1692). Collonel Hackwell Senior is "an old Anabaptist Collonel of...

Writing home: 'Evelina,' the epistolary novel and the paradox of property. (18th century work by Frances Burney)
June 22, 1993... On June 4, 1741, Alexander Pope filed suit against Edmund Curll, the prominent London bookseller who had just published Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence, for Twenty-Four Years, a volume comprised of letters written by Pope as well as those he...

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:' Blake's myth of Satan and its cultural matrix.
June 22, 1993... Davis, 1792-1797), 1:ix-xi. Geddes's historical perspective on the study of the Old Testament alienated the Catholic hierarchy: his "fragment hypothesis" about the composition of Genesis undermined the integrity of Scripture. For a convenient...

Publishing intimacy in 'Leaves of Grass.' (Walt Whitman's book of poems)
June 22, 1993... purely abstract mass identity which arises from an encounter with "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." Whitman can claim that, "I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence / Just as you feel when you look on the...

On "seeing" Salome. (literary representations of the biblical figure)
June 22, 1993... Is it possible to talk about seeing Salome?(1) The word "Salome" calls up a tradition of representations in the visual, verbal, and musical arts, and seeing "Salome" requires looking at this tradition, this series of repetitions which constitutes...

Wyndham Lewis: fascism, modernism, and the politics of homosexuality.
June 22, 1993... It is with a certain dismissive embarrassment that Fredric Jameson -- in his treatment of Wyndham Lewis, a writer he otherwise admires -- finally confronts the writings collected by Lewis under the title Hitler.(1) Characterizing this book as a...

Radical Donne: "Satire III." (poem by John Donne)
June 22, 1993... I Recent scholarship has rejected the bifurcation between "Jack Donne" and "Doctor Donne." In many ways this has been a progress, but in doing this, we have rejected Donne's own conception of his life, since he rather than his biographers...