Essays in Criticism articles from January 1998

Essays in Criticism archives from January 1998

Sutherland's puzzles: the case of 'Daniel Deronda.'(John Sutherland, popular academic criticism, George Eliot novel)
January 1, 1998... ACADEMIC CRITICISM is now regarded as being of little general interest, and is seldom reviewed in the 'quality' press. Should those who write it accept this situation as inevitable and resign themselves to an audience of colleagues and...

Yorkshire landscapes in 'Wuthering Heights.' (novelist Emily Bronte)
January 1, 1998... When Matthew Arnold visited Haworth in 1852 in his capacity as Inspector of Schools, his busy timetable prevented him from visiting the churchyard. As a result, his poem `Haworth Churchyard' invokes a part of the town which he had not seen,...

'Sweet Thames' and 'The Waste Land's allusions. (poem by T.S. Eliot)
January 1, 1998... In 1923, Harold Monro wrote an imaginary dialogue with T. S. Eliot, in which he questioned the author of The Waste Land about its intended audience: I have heard it suggested that you write for one hypothetical intelligent reader. --...

The misfortunes of Eva Trout. (Elizabeth Bowen's 1969 novel)
January 1, 1998... The respectful reviews given to Eva Trout on its appearance in 1969 were not endorsed by subsequent critics of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. `Elizabeth ended by parodying herself', letting 'her mannered manner run away with her'(1) was Patricia...

The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Text and the Notes, 2 vols.
January 1, 1998... It may seem strange that the Sermons are the second work to be published in The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, 12 years after the completion of the magisterial edition of Tristram Shandy, rather than the much more frequently...

Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self.
January 1, 1998... Simon Haines believes it is time for a fresh case against Shelley, and he may be right. It has been more than sixty years now since Leavis's formative attack. Shelley's critics since Leavis -- with the exception of feminists such as Anne Mellor...

Virginia Woolf.
January 1, 1998... In April 1939, while labouring over her biography of Roger Fry and uneasily aware of what she could not say as well as what she would never know, Virginia Woolf set to work to record the formative experiences of her own childhood. She alone,...