ELH articles from September 1994

ELH archives from September 1994

Newer currents in psychoanalytic criticism, and the difference "it" makes: gender and desire in the 'Miller's Tale.'
September 22, 1994... PRETEXTS: 1. La Psychanalyse, a supposer, se trouve.(1) 2. Men still have everything to say about their sexuality, and everything to write. For what they have said so far, for the most part, stems from the opposition activity/passivity from...

The theater, the market, and the subject of history.
September 22, 1994... Nothing has so consistently underwritten recent efforts to historicize the stud of Renaissance drama as a perceived correspondence between economic commodification and representation. In Worlds Apart, Jean-Christophe Agnew suggests how implicated...

Nostalgia and the not yet late queen: refusing female rule in 'Henry V.'
September 22, 1994... 44 Norman Rabkin, "Either/Or: Responding to Henry V," Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981), 33-62. Within the last decade, Henry V has assumed a surprisingly prominent place not only in Shakespeare...

Jane Barker, 'Poetical Recreations,' and the sociable text.
September 22, 1994... In Writing Women's Literary History (1993), Margaret Ezell argues forcefully fo a rethinking of the assumptions that govern feminist literary history.(1) Feminist historiography, she contends, derives its models of female authorship from...

Tom Jones and the Stuarts.
September 22, 1994... In his old age, in permanent exile in Italy, the land of his birth, Charles Edward Stuart, once known as the Young Pretender, forever romanticized as Bonni Prince Charlie, spent much of his time reading; among the works a recent biographer calls...

Lismahago's captivity: transculturation in 'Humphry Clinker.' (novel by Tobias Smollett)
September 22, 1994... England's colonial possessions seem very far away in Smollett's Humphry Clinker The novel concerns a domestic journey not only in that its path takes it across the domestic spaces of England and Scotland, but also in that it focuses on a domestic...

Songs named "Song" and the bind of self-conscious lyricism in Blake. (William Blake)
September 22, 1994... From the Greek Anthology to the present, lyric poems commonly go untitled, becoming popularly known by their first line elevated almost to a title's status. Often a lyric poem will carry only its particular formal name, like the poems simply...

The language of law and love: Anthony Trollope's 'Orley Farm.'
September 22, 1994... Language, as well as the law, emerges as a central theme in Trollope's sixth novel, Orley Farm. In fact, the law, which rests its case on the skilled use of rhetoric, is perhaps the perfect subject for the novelist preoccupied with the subtleties...

The fingerprint of the foreigner: colonizing the criminal body in 1890s detective fiction and criminal anthropology.
September 22, 1994... In December of 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle began publishing The Memoirs of Sherloc Holmes, the second in his great series of detective stories that took the reading public of England by storm during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Among...

'Absalom, Absalom!,' Haiti and labor history: reading unreadable revolutions.
September 22, 1994... 9 On Vodun, see C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (London: Allison and Busby, 1982), 85-86. 10 See William Faulkner, "Appendix Compson: 1699-1945," in The Sound and the Fury (New York: Norton, 1987), 227. 11 Frey (note 3), 235. Joel...