ELH articles from March 1994

ELH archives from March 1994

Shakespeare's Sweet Leaves: mourning, pleasure, and the triumph of thought in the Renaissance love lyric.
March 22, 1994... These are the measures destined for her soul. ("Sunday Morning," lines 23-30, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985~). Even more so in Stevens's later poems, meditation is salvation, thought its own...

"When blood is their argument": class, character, and historymaking in Shakespeare's and Branagh's Henry V.
March 22, 1994... (114-26). 68 Branagh enthusiastically celebrated the homosocial element in the play: "There's tremendous adrenaline, tremendous bonding, tremendous camaraderie" (Nightingale |note 27~, 18). 69 The Archbishop registers the scandal of Henry's...

Redeeming beggary/buggery in 'Michaelmas Term.'
March 22, 1994... Citing the work of Alan Bray, Stephen Orgel argues that in Renaissance England a sodomitical subject was inconceivable: "Charges of sodomy always occur in relation to other kinds of subversion: the activity has no independent existence in the...

"For show or useless property": necrophilia and 'The Revenger's Tragedy.'
March 22, 1994... "Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, Your tongue's like poison" The Cure The intersection of death and the erotic throughout Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy is a virtual commonplace of the genre; from Hamlet's leap into Ophelia's grave to the...

"Infelix simulacrum": the rewriting of loss in Elizabeth Jocelin's The Mothers Legacie.
March 22, 1994... The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries saw the production of a spate of conduct manuals written by English mothers to their children.(1) These texts addressed a range of public and private concerns including the vocational decisions...

Scarcity and poetic election in two sonnets of John Keats.
March 22, 1994... In Keats's sonnet "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," the speaker experiences a great opening or expansion of his resources. He has had a previous history, he tells us, of laboriously gathering wisdom piece by piece: Much have I travelled...

Sappho and the making of Tennysonian lyric. (Alfred Tennyson's 'Mariana of the South')
March 22, 1994... In 1830, on a summer tour in southern France and the Pyrenees, Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem now known as "Mariana in the South." When Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's travelling companion on that tour, sent a copy of the poem to their mutual...

Subjectivity Ltd: the discourse of liability in the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856 and Gaskell's Cranford. (Elizabeth Gaskell)
March 22, 1994... With the passage of the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856, "a sort of legal monster" was born; composed of many people, and yet legally considered "as one single person," the limited corporations allowed by the Act vexed the notions of...

Eaten alive: slavery and celebrity in Antebellum America.
March 22, 1994... 25 The notion that Foucauldian paradigms and institutional structures of modern, psychological control and punishment were prominent in antebellum culture seems to me true enough, but, at the same time, it also seems to me historically inarguable...

The myth of sovereignty: gender in the literature of Irish nationalism.
March 22, 1994... Nineteenth-century imperialism relied for much of its ideological strength upon normative tropologies of gender disjunction, exclusion and stratification. In figuring the conquerors as the exponents of a principle coded and celebrated as...